Question 1

Which of the following characterized tobacco,rice,and sugar production in eighteenth-century America?

Accepted Answer

A)  Each drove the expansion of the slave trade for a time. 
B)  These crops all originated in the colony of Virginia. 
C)  Each saved its respective production colonies from extinction. 
D)  Each led the American colonies to a greater dependence on England. 
A)  Each drove the expansion of the slave trade for a time. 
B)  These crops all originated in the colony of Virginia. 
C)  Each saved its respective production colonies from extinction. 
D)  Each led the American colonies to a greater dependence on England.

Question 2

For which of the following reasons did the 1686 Dominion of New England anger American colonists?

Accepted Answer

A)  It combined the colonial legislatures into one body. 
B)  The plan banned the Puritans' religious practices. 
C)  It invalidated the Massachusetts Bay colony's original land titles. 
D)  The plan threatened to prohibit slavery in the colonies. 
A)  It combined the colonial legislatures into one body. 
B)  The plan banned the Puritans' religious practices. 
C)  It invalidated the Massachusetts Bay colony's original land titles. 
D)  The plan threatened to prohibit slavery in the colonies.

Question 3

Where did the first colonists who settled South Carolina and introduced racial slavery in the 1660s come from?

Accepted Answer

A)  England 
B)  Brazil 
C)  Barbados 
D)  Virginia 
A)  England 
B)  Brazil 
C)  Barbados 
D)  Virginia

Question 4

Which agricultural product served as the foundation for the South Atlantic System in the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Sugar 
B)  Tobacco 
C)  Rice 
D)  Indigo 
A)  Sugar 
B)  Tobacco 
C)  Rice 
D)  Indigo

Question 5

Which of the following statements describes slaves' lives in the North American colonies in the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Slaves continued the ritual scarring practices that originated in many African tribes. 
B)  Traditional musical instruments and forms persisted in most African American cultures. 
C)  Slaves worked conscientiously to adopt the cultural styles and values of American whites. 
D)  Planters' control made it impossible for slaves to create or maintain strong families. 
A)  Slaves continued the ritual scarring practices that originated in many African tribes. 
B)  Traditional musical instruments and forms persisted in most African American cultures. 
C)  Slaves worked conscientiously to adopt the cultural styles and values of American whites. 
D)  Planters' control made it impossible for slaves to create or maintain strong families.

Question 6

For this question,refer to the following map,"The Growing Power of the American Merchant,1750."   This map would be most useful to historians analyzing

Accepted Answer

A)  the differences in imperial goals in the various European models of colonization. 
B)  the growing mistrust between colonial settlers and European leaders. 
C)  mercantilist aims and priorities of Britain in the Atlantic world. 
D)  the growth of ideas on race in this Atlantic System. 
A)  the differences in imperial goals in the various European models of colonization. 
B)  the growing mistrust between colonial settlers and European leaders. 
C)  mercantilist aims and priorities of Britain in the Atlantic world. 
D)  the growth of ideas on race in this Atlantic System.

Question 7

During the period between 1676 and 1750,how did the Virginia gentry try to reduce social discontent?

Accepted Answer

A)  The gentry urged even the smallest landholders to purchase slaves and thus support the slavery system. 
B)  They raised the annual poll tax from five to forty-five pounds of tobacco a year. 
C)  They disenfranchised poorer whites by increasing the amount of land a man had to own in order to vote. 
D)  Virginia gentry enacted legislation that favored medium-scale farmers at the expense of both the richest and the poorest farmers. 
A)  The gentry urged even the smallest landholders to purchase slaves and thus support the slavery system. 
B)  They raised the annual poll tax from five to forty-five pounds of tobacco a year. 
C)  They disenfranchised poorer whites by increasing the amount of land a man had to own in order to vote. 
D)  Virginia gentry enacted legislation that favored medium-scale farmers at the expense of both the richest and the poorest farmers.

Question 8

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. "At last to my new master's house I came,
At the town of Wicocc[o]moco call'd by name,
Where my Europian clothes were took from me,
Which never after I again could see.
A canvas shirt and trowsers then they gave,
With a hop-sack frock in which I was to slave:
No shoes nor stockings had I for to wear,
Nor hat,nor cap,both head and feet were bare.
Thus dress'd into the Field I nex[t] must go,
Amongst tobacco plants all day to hoe,
At day break in the morn our work began,
And so held to the setting of the Sun.
My fellow slaves were just five Transports more,
With eighteen Negroes,which is twenty four ...
We and the Negroes both alike did fare,
Of work and food we had an equal share...."
Poem by indentured servant James Revel,c.1680
This source most likely originated in which colonial region?

Accepted Answer

A)  In one of the New England colonies 
B)  In a French colony just after the emergence of the Atlantic slave trade 
C)  In a Spanish colony just prior to the Pueblo Revolt 
D)  In a colony in the Chesapeake 
A)  In one of the New England colonies 
B)  In a French colony just after the emergence of the Atlantic slave trade 
C)  In a Spanish colony just prior to the Pueblo Revolt 
D)  In a colony in the Chesapeake

Question 9

The Americans' major objection to the Navigation Acts related to which of the following stipulations?

Accepted Answer

A)  The requirement that Americans maintain a favorable balance of trade with England 
B)  Americans' obligation to export all tobacco to England,unless there was a surplus 
C)  The prohibition on fur trading west of the Appalachian Mountains 
D)  A ban on the building of oceangoing ships in the North American colonies 
A)  The requirement that Americans maintain a favorable balance of trade with England 
B)  Americans' obligation to export all tobacco to England,unless there was a surplus 
C)  The prohibition on fur trading west of the Appalachian Mountains 
D)  A ban on the building of oceangoing ships in the North American colonies

Question 10

The Navigation Acts of the mid-seventeenth century included which of the following stipulations?

Accepted Answer

A)  Americans had to transport goods on English,not colonial,ships. 
B)  American colonists were required to trade with the French West Indies. 
C)  European goods imported to the colonies had to go through English ports. 
D)  Massachusetts shippers could not refuse to participate in the slave trade. 
A)  Americans had to transport goods on English,not colonial,ships. 
B)  American colonists were required to trade with the French West Indies. 
C)  European goods imported to the colonies had to go through English ports. 
D)  Massachusetts shippers could not refuse to participate in the slave trade.

Question 11

Did the American colonials benefit economically from their participation in the South Atlantic trade system?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Benefits

Question 12

Which of the following occurred in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688?

Accepted Answer

A)  Plymouth,Maine,and Massachusetts Bay were joined to create a new royal colony. 
B)  Catholic Ireland came under the control of the English government. 
C)  The king appointed Sir Edmund Andros as governor of New England. 
D)  New York and New Jersey sought independence from the crown. 
A)  Plymouth,Maine,and Massachusetts Bay were joined to create a new royal colony. 
B)  Catholic Ireland came under the control of the English government. 
C)  The king appointed Sir Edmund Andros as governor of New England. 
D)  New York and New Jersey sought independence from the crown.

Question 13

What were some of the causes of rising friction between the colonials and the British in the first half of the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Colonial

Question 14

Answer the following  questions :
-gentility

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 15

For this question,refer to the following map,"The Growing Power of the American Merchant,1750."   The process of transactions depicted on the map above most directly led to controversies over

Accepted Answer

A)  regional distinctiveness among the British colonies. 
B)  colonial resistance to perceived corruption in the imperial system. 
C)  accommodation with some aspects of American Indian culture. 
D)  Protestant evangelism and religious toleration. 
A)  regional distinctiveness among the British colonies. 
B)  colonial resistance to perceived corruption in the imperial system. 
C)  accommodation with some aspects of American Indian culture. 
D)  Protestant evangelism and religious toleration.

Question 16

Which of the following describes the significance of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England and America?

Accepted Answer

A)  It had little impact on either England or North America apart from overthrowing James II. 
B)  The event led to a period of lax British rule of its American colonies,with few new laws or taxes. 
C)  It created democratic governments in Massachusetts,New York,and Maryland,but not in England. 
D)  The change represented a major step toward democracy in both England and the North American colonies. 
A)  It had little impact on either England or North America apart from overthrowing James II. 
B)  The event led to a period of lax British rule of its American colonies,with few new laws or taxes. 
C)  It created democratic governments in Massachusetts,New York,and Maryland,but not in England. 
D)  The change represented a major step toward democracy in both England and the North American colonies.

Question 17

Explain the causes and the results of the Glorious Revolution in England and America.

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Causes:

Question 18

Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the War for Spanish Succession (1702-1713)in the American Southeast?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Creek nation used the European war to expand its power into northern Florida and North Carolina. 
B)  With the help of the Iroquois,the Spanish captured and burned Charleston,South Carolina. 
C)  The Choctaw tribal peoples used the European war to expand their power into Georgia and northern Florida. 
D)  White Carolinians refused to aid or ally with Native American troops for fear that those tribes would attack frontier English settlements. 
A)  The Creek nation used the European war to expand its power into northern Florida and North Carolina. 
B)  With the help of the Iroquois,the Spanish captured and burned Charleston,South Carolina. 
C)  The Choctaw tribal peoples used the European war to expand their power into Georgia and northern Florida. 
D)  White Carolinians refused to aid or ally with Native American troops for fear that those tribes would attack frontier English settlements.

Question 19

Which of the following statements describes the dominant approach to settlement in North Carolina in its early years?

Accepted Answer

A)  Independent yeoman farm families were recruited to settle both colonies. 
B)  The proprietors planned to set up a manorial system,but this plan failed. 
C)  To attract settlers,the proprietors advertised heavily in Europe. 
D)  The proprietors were successful in creating a manorial system and a large class of serfs. 
A)  Independent yeoman farm families were recruited to settle both colonies. 
B)  The proprietors planned to set up a manorial system,but this plan failed. 
C)  To attract settlers,the proprietors advertised heavily in Europe. 
D)  The proprietors were successful in creating a manorial system and a large class of serfs.

Question 20

The British colonists in eighteenth-century North America enjoyed a significant degree of autonomy over their royal governors mainly due to

Accepted Answer

A)  the practice of salutary neglect. 
B)  their control over governors' salaries. 
C)  democratic election processes. 
D)  their ability to recall unpopular officials. 
A)  the practice of salutary neglect. 
B)  their control over governors' salaries. 
C)  democratic election processes. 
D)  their ability to recall unpopular officials.

Exam 3: The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Which of the following characterized tobacco,rice,and sugar production in eighteenth-century America?

For which of the following reasons did the 1686 Dominion of New England anger American colonists?

Where did the first colonists who settled South Carolina and introduced racial slavery in the 1660s come from?

Which agricultural product served as the foundation for the South Atlantic System in the eighteenth century?

Which of the following statements describes slaves' lives in the North American colonies in the eighteenth century?

For this question,refer to the following map,"The Growing Power of the American Merchant,1750." This map would be most useful to historians analyzing

During the period between 1676 and 1750,how did the Virginia gentry try to reduce social discontent?

The Americans' major objection to the Navigation Acts related to which of the following stipulations?

The Navigation Acts of the mid-seventeenth century included which of the following stipulations?

Did the American colonials benefit economically from their participation in the South Atlantic trade system?

Which of the following occurred in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688?

What were some of the causes of rising friction between the colonials and the British in the first half of the eighteenth century?

Answer the following questions : -gentility

For this question,refer to the following map,"The Growing Power of the American Merchant,1750." The process of transactions depicted on the map above most directly led to controversies over

Which of the following describes the significance of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England and America?

Explain the causes and the results of the Glorious Revolution in England and America.

Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the War for Spanish Succession (1702-1713)in the American Southeast?

Which of the following statements describes the dominant approach to settlement in North Carolina in its early years?

The British colonists in eighteenth-century North America enjoyed a significant degree of autonomy over their royal governors mainly due to

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