Question 1

Why did the manorial system envisioned by the proprietor of the Carolinas fail to take hold in the late seventeenth century?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Manorial

Question 2

For which of the following reasons did Britain's King James II create the Dominion of New England in 1686?

Accepted Answer

A)  He aimed to strengthen royal control of the American colonies. 
B)  James believed it was necessary to prevent further colonial revolts. 
C)  James wanted to draft New Englanders into the fight against Metacom and his people. 
D)  James wanted to consolidate colonial forces to fight the French more effectively. 
A)  He aimed to strengthen royal control of the American colonies. 
B)  James believed it was necessary to prevent further colonial revolts. 
C)  James wanted to draft New Englanders into the fight against Metacom and his people. 
D)  James wanted to consolidate colonial forces to fight the French more effectively.

Question 3

When the early eighteenth-century Anglo-French wars temporarily ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713,Britain had

Accepted Answer

A)  lost ground to the French in the struggle for North America,with the French then firmly in control of all territory north of New England and west of the Appalachians. 
B)  lost control of the Iroquois and access to the western Indian trade,although it had gained control over the mouth of the Mississippi River. 
C)  won major territorial and commercial gains,including Newfoundland,Acadia,and the Hudson's Bay region as well as access to the western Indian trade. 
D)  neither gained nor lost land because both sides were exhausted and agreed to restore all territories taken from each other since 1689. 
A)  lost ground to the French in the struggle for North America,with the French then firmly in control of all territory north of New England and west of the Appalachians. 
B)  lost control of the Iroquois and access to the western Indian trade,although it had gained control over the mouth of the Mississippi River. 
C)  won major territorial and commercial gains,including Newfoundland,Acadia,and the Hudson's Bay region as well as access to the western Indian trade. 
D)  neither gained nor lost land because both sides were exhausted and agreed to restore all territories taken from each other since 1689.

Question 4

The Molasses Act of 1733 primarily targeted the colonists' molasses trade with what country?

Accepted Answer

A)  Portugal 
B)  Spain 
C)  France 
D)  Britain 
A)  Portugal 
B)  Spain 
C)  France 
D)  Britain

Question 5

In Maryland,the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution was characterized by

Accepted Answer

A)  an uprising that became a decade-long war. 
B)  the loss of power of the planter elite to yeomen farmers. 
C)  the establishment of the Church of England as the official church. 
D)  the abolition of indentured servitude. 
A)  an uprising that became a decade-long war. 
B)  the loss of power of the planter elite to yeomen farmers. 
C)  the establishment of the Church of England as the official church. 
D)  the abolition of indentured servitude.

Question 6

Answer the following  questions :
-Glorious Revolution

Accepted Answer

A) A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control. 
B) Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans. 
C) English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen. 
D) A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne. 
E) A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves. 
A) A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control. 
B) Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans. 
C) English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen. 
D) A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne. 
E) A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 7

What was the British policy of salutary neglect? Why did the British follow this policy? What consequences did it have for the British colonies in North America?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Salutary

Question 8

How did South Carolina planters respond in the aftermath of the Stono Rebellion in 1739?

Accepted Answer

A)  They improved the working conditions of their slaves. 
B)  They shipped most of their slaves to the West Indies. 
C)  The planters decided to import fewer Africans. 
D)  They hanged about 20 percent of the black population. 
A)  They improved the working conditions of their slaves. 
B)  They shipped most of their slaves to the West Indies. 
C)  The planters decided to import fewer Africans. 
D)  They hanged about 20 percent of the black population.

Question 9

What method did Chesapeake planters use in the early eighteenth century to prevent slave revolts?

Accepted Answer

A)  They provided incentives such as holiday feasts for compliant slaves. 
B)  They bought slaves of different ethnic backgrounds to limit their ability to organize. 
C)  Planters paid slaves for extra work and permitted them to buy their own freedom. 
D)  Planters provided basic education to which free blacks had no access. 
A)  They provided incentives such as holiday feasts for compliant slaves. 
B)  They bought slaves of different ethnic backgrounds to limit their ability to organize. 
C)  Planters paid slaves for extra work and permitted them to buy their own freedom. 
D)  Planters provided basic education to which free blacks had no access.

Question 10

Which of the following changes occurred in white society in the Chesapeake colonies at the same time that slavery was being forced on Africans?

Accepted Answer

A)  The importation of white indentured servants,especially females,increased rapidly at the same time. 
B)  A rising mortality rate among white males was increasing the incentives for their widows to buy slaves to work the land. 
C)  A more rigid class structure with a well-defined and highly visible economic and political elite began to emerge. 
D)  Small planters found it easier to prosper by purchasing slaves,making white society more egalitarian. 
A)  The importation of white indentured servants,especially females,increased rapidly at the same time. 
B)  A rising mortality rate among white males was increasing the incentives for their widows to buy slaves to work the land. 
C)  A more rigid class structure with a well-defined and highly visible economic and political elite began to emerge. 
D)  Small planters found it easier to prosper by purchasing slaves,making white society more egalitarian.

Question 11

Which of the following was true of the Restoration Colonies of New York,Pennsylvania,New Jersey,and the Carolinas in the 1660s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Their constitutions re-created Europe's manorial system in America. 
B)  They were created by Charles II as he expanded English power in America. 
C)  Their rulers envisioned a traditional Anglican social order lead by a gentry class. 
D)  They were all founded by wealthy investors looking for riches in the New World. 
A)  Their constitutions re-created Europe's manorial system in America. 
B)  They were created by Charles II as he expanded English power in America. 
C)  Their rulers envisioned a traditional Anglican social order lead by a gentry class. 
D)  They were all founded by wealthy investors looking for riches in the New World.

Question 12

The term Middle Passage refers to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  The social mobility of freed slaves as they acclimated to life off the plantation 
B)  Life on sugar plantations,where slaves were treated as neither humans nor animals 
C)  African slaves' perilous transatlantic journey to the Americas 
D)  The assimilation process endured by Africans who lived in the Americas 
A)  The social mobility of freed slaves as they acclimated to life off the plantation 
B)  Life on sugar plantations,where slaves were treated as neither humans nor animals 
C)  African slaves' perilous transatlantic journey to the Americas 
D)  The assimilation process endured by Africans who lived in the Americas

Question 13

Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the slave trade on Africa?

Accepted Answer

A)  Profits from the slave trade boosted most African economies. 
B)  The slave trade,which shrank Africa's population,reduced its larger states to loose tribal confederations. 
C)  The slave trade hardened African class divisions and changed gender relations. 
D)  Slavery within Africa disappeared after its leaders began to export slaves to the Americas. 
A)  Profits from the slave trade boosted most African economies. 
B)  The slave trade,which shrank Africa's population,reduced its larger states to loose tribal confederations. 
C)  The slave trade hardened African class divisions and changed gender relations. 
D)  Slavery within Africa disappeared after its leaders began to export slaves to the Americas.

Question 14

Which of the following statements is true of the Quaker religion in the 1660s?

Accepted Answer

A)  It taught that God imbued all men and women with an "inner light" of grace. 
B)  Quakerism was the American version of the Church of England. 
C)  Quakers held beliefs that were very similar to those of Puritans. 
D)  The Quaker clergy were among the best educated in the colonies. 
A)  It taught that God imbued all men and women with an "inner light" of grace. 
B)  Quakerism was the American version of the Church of England. 
C)  Quakers held beliefs that were very similar to those of Puritans. 
D)  The Quaker clergy were among the best educated in the colonies.

Question 15

Which of the following statements describes the change in English economic philosophy toward the colonies beginning in the 1650s?

Accepted Answer

A)  No longer content with a favorable balance of trade with European countries,the English government controlled trade with the colonies. 
B)  To increase efficiency,Americans were required to ship their goods to England on the first available vessel,whatever its nation of registry. 
C)  Confident in the colonies' solvency,the royal government no longer required payment of American colonial debts in gold or silver coins. 
D)  The English required Dutch ships to carry sugar and tobacco from America to England before delivering them elsewhere. 
A)  No longer content with a favorable balance of trade with European countries,the English government controlled trade with the colonies. 
B)  To increase efficiency,Americans were required to ship their goods to England on the first available vessel,whatever its nation of registry. 
C)  Confident in the colonies' solvency,the royal government no longer required payment of American colonial debts in gold or silver coins. 
D)  The English required Dutch ships to carry sugar and tobacco from America to England before delivering them elsewhere.

Question 16

Answer the following  questions :
-proprietorship

Accepted Answer

A) A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control. 
B) Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans. 
C) English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen. 
D) A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne. 
E) A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves. 
A) A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control. 
B) Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans. 
C) English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen. 
D) A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne. 
E) A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 17

The Navigation Acts,implemented in the American colonies by Britain in the mid-seventeenth century,were originally intended to

Accepted Answer

A)  increase royal revenue by taxing colonial shipping. 
B)  cut the Dutch and French out of the colonial trade. 
C)  allow the colonies to be more self-sufficient. 
D)  build up the colonial shipbuilding industry. 
A)  increase royal revenue by taxing colonial shipping. 
B)  cut the Dutch and French out of the colonial trade. 
C)  allow the colonies to be more self-sufficient. 
D)  build up the colonial shipbuilding industry.

Question 18

Which of the following describes the character of Britain's empire in America before 1660?

Accepted Answer

A)  Royal bureaucrats imposed colonial order harshly and consistently. 
B)  Involved in its own situations at home,England took no interest in any of its colonies. 
C)  Angered by strict imperial rule,the colonists demanded their rights as Englishmen. 
D)  The British ruled their American colonies in a haphazard and lax manner. 
A)  Royal bureaucrats imposed colonial order harshly and consistently. 
B)  Involved in its own situations at home,England took no interest in any of its colonies. 
C)  Angered by strict imperial rule,the colonists demanded their rights as Englishmen. 
D)  The British ruled their American colonies in a haphazard and lax manner.

Question 19

People from which of the following groups modeled themselves after the English aristocracy in the first half of the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Chesapeake landowners 
B)  New York yeomen 
C)  Massachusetts farmers 
D)  Philadelphia artisans 
A)  Chesapeake landowners 
B)  New York yeomen 
C)  Massachusetts farmers 
D)  Philadelphia artisans

Question 20

Which of the following occurred as a consequence of the "tobacco revolution" in Virginia and Maryland in the late seventeenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Increased enslavement of Indians 
B)  Much harsher working conditions for slaves 
C)  Diminishing profits for planters 
D)  The creation of a slave-based plantation economy 
A)  Increased enslavement of Indians 
B)  Much harsher working conditions for slaves 
C)  Diminishing profits for planters 
D)  The creation of a slave-based plantation economy

Exam 3: The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Why did the manorial system envisioned by the proprietor of the Carolinas fail to take hold in the late seventeenth century?

For which of the following reasons did Britain's King James II create the Dominion of New England in 1686?

When the early eighteenth-century Anglo-French wars temporarily ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713,Britain had

The Molasses Act of 1733 primarily targeted the colonists' molasses trade with what country?

In Maryland,the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution was characterized by

Answer the following questions : -Glorious Revolution

What was the British policy of salutary neglect? Why did the British follow this policy? What consequences did it have for the British colonies in North America?

How did South Carolina planters respond in the aftermath of the Stono Rebellion in 1739?

What method did Chesapeake planters use in the early eighteenth century to prevent slave revolts?

Which of the following changes occurred in white society in the Chesapeake colonies at the same time that slavery was being forced on Africans?

Which of the following was true of the Restoration Colonies of New York,Pennsylvania,New Jersey,and the Carolinas in the 1660s?

The term Middle Passage refers to which of the following?

Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the slave trade on Africa?

Which of the following statements is true of the Quaker religion in the 1660s?

Which of the following statements describes the change in English economic philosophy toward the colonies beginning in the 1650s?

Answer the following questions : -proprietorship

The Navigation Acts,implemented in the American colonies by Britain in the mid-seventeenth century,were originally intended to

Which of the following describes the character of Britain's empire in America before 1660?

People from which of the following groups modeled themselves after the English aristocracy in the first half of the eighteenth century?

Which of the following occurred as a consequence of the "tobacco revolution" in Virginia and Maryland in the late seventeenth century?

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