Question 1

By midcentury,the traditional strategies that New England's farming families had relied on to provide marriage portions for children and security in old age for parents had become problematic.Why? How did farming households respond?

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Question 2

Answer the following  questions :
-competency

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A) The rental of property.To attract renters in New York's Hudson River Valley,Dutch and English manorial lords granted long leases,with the right to sell improvements - houses and barns,for example - to the next renter. 
B) The ability of a family to keep a household solvent and independent and to pass that ability on to the next generation. 
C) A principle in English law that placed wives under the protection and authority of their husbands,so that they did not have independent legal standing. 
D) The system of exchanging goods and labor that helped eighteenth-century New England freeholders survive on ever-shrinking farms as available land became more scarce. 
E) Someone who settles on land he or she does not own or rent.Many eighteenth-century settlers established themselves on land before it was surveyed and entered for sale,requesting the first right to purchase the land when sales began.
F)A common type of indentured servant in the Middle colonies in the eighteenth century.Unlike other indentured servants,these workers did not sign a contract before leaving Europe.Instead,they found employers after arriving in America.
G)An eighteenth-century philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to reevaluate previously accepted doctrines and traditions and the power of reason to understand and shape the world.
H)A Christian revival moment characterized by Bible study,the conversion experience,and the individual's personal relationship with God.It began as an effort to reform the German Lutheran Church in the mid-seventeenth century and became widely influential in Britain and its colonies in the eighteenth century.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)The Enlightenment-influenced belief that the Christian God created the universe and then left it to run according to natural laws.
K)A renewal of religious enthusiasm in a Christian congregation.In the eighteenth century,these spiritual renewals were often inspired by evangelical preachers who urged their listeners to experience a rebirth.
L)Conservative ministers opposed to the passion displayed by evangelical preachers;they preferred to emphasize the importance of cultivating a virtuous Christian life.
M)Evangelical preachers,many of them influenced by John Wesley,the founder of English Methodism,and George Whitefield,the charismatic itinerant preacher who brought his message to Britain's American colonies.They decried a Christian faith that was merely intellectual and emphasized the importance of a spiritual rebirth.
N)An increase in consumption in English manufactures in Britain and the British colonies fueled by the Industrial Revolution.Although this movement raised living standards,it landed many consumers - and the colonies as a whole - in debt.
O)Landowning protestors who organized in North and South Carolina in the 1760s and 1770s to demand that the eastern-controlled government provide western districts with more courts,fairer taxation,and greater representation in the assembly.

Question 3

Puritan minister Cotton Mather's response to which of the following eighteenth-century crises demonstrated that Enlightenment ideas had begun to influence him?

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A)  The Salem witch trials 
B)  The Boston smallpox epidemic 
C)  Harvard University's decision to reject Puritanism 
D)  Andover's resolution to exempt churches from taxation

Question 4

Which of the following problems troubled both eastern migrants and western settlers in the American colonies in the mid-1700s?

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A)  Competition for land 
B)  Rampant inflation 
C)  A lack of markets for their products 
D)  Shortages of English consumer goods

Question 5

For this question,refer to the following painting,George Whitefield Preaching,by John Collet.  The painting above best serves as evidence of

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A)  the British government's indifference to colonial governance. 
B)  the political thought of the Enlightenment. 
C)  the colonists' belief in the superiority of republican self-government. 
D)  colonial religious fervor and diversity.

Question 6

What was the Albany Congress? Who organized it? Who participated? What were its outcomes?

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Question 7

Answer the following  questions :
-natural rights

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A) The rental of property.To attract renters in New York's Hudson River Valley,Dutch and English manorial lords granted long leases,with the right to sell improvements - houses and barns,for example - to the next renter. 
B) The ability of a family to keep a household solvent and independent and to pass that ability on to the next generation. 
C) A principle in English law that placed wives under the protection and authority of their husbands,so that they did not have independent legal standing. 
D) The system of exchanging goods and labor that helped eighteenth-century New England freeholders survive on ever-shrinking farms as available land became more scarce. 
E) Someone who settles on land he or she does not own or rent.Many eighteenth-century settlers established themselves on land before it was surveyed and entered for sale,requesting the first right to purchase the land when sales began.
F)A common type of indentured servant in the Middle colonies in the eighteenth century.Unlike other indentured servants,these workers did not sign a contract before leaving Europe.Instead,they found employers after arriving in America.
G)An eighteenth-century philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to reevaluate previously accepted doctrines and traditions and the power of reason to understand and shape the world.
H)A Christian revival moment characterized by Bible study,the conversion experience,and the individual's personal relationship with God.It began as an effort to reform the German Lutheran Church in the mid-seventeenth century and became widely influential in Britain and its colonies in the eighteenth century.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)The Enlightenment-influenced belief that the Christian God created the universe and then left it to run according to natural laws.
K)A renewal of religious enthusiasm in a Christian congregation.In the eighteenth century,these spiritual renewals were often inspired by evangelical preachers who urged their listeners to experience a rebirth.
L)Conservative ministers opposed to the passion displayed by evangelical preachers;they preferred to emphasize the importance of cultivating a virtuous Christian life.
M)Evangelical preachers,many of them influenced by John Wesley,the founder of English Methodism,and George Whitefield,the charismatic itinerant preacher who brought his message to Britain's American colonies.They decried a Christian faith that was merely intellectual and emphasized the importance of a spiritual rebirth.
N)An increase in consumption in English manufactures in Britain and the British colonies fueled by the Industrial Revolution.Although this movement raised living standards,it landed many consumers - and the colonies as a whole - in debt.
O)Landowning protestors who organized in North and South Carolina in the 1760s and 1770s to demand that the eastern-controlled government provide western districts with more courts,fairer taxation,and greater representation in the assembly.

Question 8

How did white women's roles in colonial America change between 1700 and 1776?

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Question 9

How did the British government respond to hostilities in America in 1754?

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A)  William Pitt and Lord Halifax persuaded Prime Minister Pelham to start a war in America against the French. 
B)  Prime Minister Henry Pelham called for a massive troop buildup to conquer French Canada. 
C)  Parliament voted to adopt a Plan of Union for the colonies. 
D)  Parliament shifted responsibility for military defense to a colonial assembly to be convened at Albany.

Question 10

Which of the following was a provision of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?

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A)  England acquired all French territory in continental North America. 
B)  Spain acquired Louisiana and all of France's territory in Canada. 
C)  England received both of the French sugar islands in the West Indies. 
D)  France lost all of her North American territory east of the Mississippi River.

Question 11

How was Great Britain,with a depleted treasury,able to defeat the French in the Great War for Empire after having failed to achieve success against them in previous colonial wars?

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Question 12

In the mid-1700s,which industrializing nation was the dominant commercial power in the Atlantic Ocean?

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A)  Holland 
B)  England 
C)  France 
D)  Germany

Question 13

Answer the following  questions :
-squatters

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A) The rental of property.To attract renters in New York's Hudson River Valley,Dutch and English manorial lords granted long leases,with the right to sell improvements - houses and barns,for example - to the next renter. 
B) The ability of a family to keep a household solvent and independent and to pass that ability on to the next generation. 
C) A principle in English law that placed wives under the protection and authority of their husbands,so that they did not have independent legal standing. 
D) The system of exchanging goods and labor that helped eighteenth-century New England freeholders survive on ever-shrinking farms as available land became more scarce. 
E) Someone who settles on land he or she does not own or rent.Many eighteenth-century settlers established themselves on land before it was surveyed and entered for sale,requesting the first right to purchase the land when sales began.
F)A common type of indentured servant in the Middle colonies in the eighteenth century.Unlike other indentured servants,these workers did not sign a contract before leaving Europe.Instead,they found employers after arriving in America.
G)An eighteenth-century philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to reevaluate previously accepted doctrines and traditions and the power of reason to understand and shape the world.
H)A Christian revival moment characterized by Bible study,the conversion experience,and the individual's personal relationship with God.It began as an effort to reform the German Lutheran Church in the mid-seventeenth century and became widely influential in Britain and its colonies in the eighteenth century.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)The Enlightenment-influenced belief that the Christian God created the universe and then left it to run according to natural laws.
K)A renewal of religious enthusiasm in a Christian congregation.In the eighteenth century,these spiritual renewals were often inspired by evangelical preachers who urged their listeners to experience a rebirth.
L)Conservative ministers opposed to the passion displayed by evangelical preachers;they preferred to emphasize the importance of cultivating a virtuous Christian life.
M)Evangelical preachers,many of them influenced by John Wesley,the founder of English Methodism,and George Whitefield,the charismatic itinerant preacher who brought his message to Britain's American colonies.They decried a Christian faith that was merely intellectual and emphasized the importance of a spiritual rebirth.
N)An increase in consumption in English manufactures in Britain and the British colonies fueled by the Industrial Revolution.Although this movement raised living standards,it landed many consumers - and the colonies as a whole - in debt.
O)Landowning protestors who organized in North and South Carolina in the 1760s and 1770s to demand that the eastern-controlled government provide western districts with more courts,fairer taxation,and greater representation in the assembly.

Question 14

Which of the following statements characterizes eighteenth-century religious practice in Pennsylvania?

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A)  Quaker congregations lacked the power to punish individuals who broke the moral code. 
B)  Quakers increasingly married outside their faith. 
C)  Each religious sect enforced moral behavior among its members. 
D)  Most members of religious congregations faithfully observed the Sabbath.

Question 15

How did farmwives throughout the colonies in the eighteenth century contribute to their families?

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A)  The women worked within the farmhouse due to traditional notions that only men performed field work. 
B)  Mothers assembled manufactured goods in their homes while caring for children. 
C)  They exercised strict control over the family's finances and economic decisions. 
D)  Wives acted as helpmates to their husbands and performed both domestic and agricultural tasks.

Question 16

Answer the following  questions :
-coverture

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A) The rental of property.To attract renters in New York's Hudson River Valley,Dutch and English manorial lords granted long leases,with the right to sell improvements - houses and barns,for example - to the next renter. 
B) The ability of a family to keep a household solvent and independent and to pass that ability on to the next generation. 
C) A principle in English law that placed wives under the protection and authority of their husbands,so that they did not have independent legal standing. 
D) The system of exchanging goods and labor that helped eighteenth-century New England freeholders survive on ever-shrinking farms as available land became more scarce. 
E) Someone who settles on land he or she does not own or rent.Many eighteenth-century settlers established themselves on land before it was surveyed and entered for sale,requesting the first right to purchase the land when sales began.
F)A common type of indentured servant in the Middle colonies in the eighteenth century.Unlike other indentured servants,these workers did not sign a contract before leaving Europe.Instead,they found employers after arriving in America.
G)An eighteenth-century philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to reevaluate previously accepted doctrines and traditions and the power of reason to understand and shape the world.
H)A Christian revival moment characterized by Bible study,the conversion experience,and the individual's personal relationship with God.It began as an effort to reform the German Lutheran Church in the mid-seventeenth century and became widely influential in Britain and its colonies in the eighteenth century.
I)The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690),political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J)The Enlightenment-influenced belief that the Christian God created the universe and then left it to run according to natural laws.
K)A renewal of religious enthusiasm in a Christian congregation.In the eighteenth century,these spiritual renewals were often inspired by evangelical preachers who urged their listeners to experience a rebirth.
L)Conservative ministers opposed to the passion displayed by evangelical preachers;they preferred to emphasize the importance of cultivating a virtuous Christian life.
M)Evangelical preachers,many of them influenced by John Wesley,the founder of English Methodism,and George Whitefield,the charismatic itinerant preacher who brought his message to Britain's American colonies.They decried a Christian faith that was merely intellectual and emphasized the importance of a spiritual rebirth.
N)An increase in consumption in English manufactures in Britain and the British colonies fueled by the Industrial Revolution.Although this movement raised living standards,it landed many consumers - and the colonies as a whole - in debt.
O)Landowning protestors who organized in North and South Carolina in the 1760s and 1770s to demand that the eastern-controlled government provide western districts with more courts,fairer taxation,and greater representation in the assembly.

Question 17

In what ways did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening prompt Americans to challenge traditional sources of authority?

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Question 18

How did the Baptist insurgency in Virginia challenge conventional assumptions about race,gender,and class in the colony?

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Question 19

For this question,refer to the following quotation. "I Shall disclose several Principles of Natural Knowledge;plainly discovering the Law of Nature;or the true sentiments of Natural Reason,with Respect to Mans Being and Government....I shall consider Man in a state of Natural Being,as a Free-Born Subject under the Crown of Heaven,and owing Homage to none but God himself.It is certain Civil Government in General,is ...an Incomparable Benefit to Mankind,yet ...needs be acknowledged to be the Effect of Humane Free-Compacts and not of Divine Institution;it is the Produce of Mans Reason,of Humane and Rational Combinations,and not from any direct Orders of Infinite Wisdom....
The Prime Immunity in Mans State,is that he is most properly the Subject of the Law of Nature.He is the Favourite Animal on Earth;in that this Part of Gods Image,viz.Reason is Congenate with his Nature,wherein by a Law Immutable,Instampt upon his Frame,God has provided a Rule for Men in all their Actions;obliging each one to the performance of that which is Right,not only as to Justice,but likewise as to all other Moral Vertues,which is nothing but the Dictate of Right Reason founded in the Soul of Man....
The Second Great Immunity of Man is an Original Liberty Instampt upon his Rational Nature.He that intrudes upon this Liberty,Violates the Law of Nature....
The Third Capital Immunity belonging to Mans Nature,is an equality amongst Men;Which is not to be denyed by the Law of Nature,till Man has Resigned himself with all his Rights for the sake of a Civil State;and then his Personal Liberty and Equality is to be cherished,and preserved to the highest degree."
John Wise,A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches,1717
The belief expressed in the excerpt above has the most in common with which of the following?

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A)  Republican motherhood 
B)  The Second Great Awakening 
C)  Manifest Destiny 
D)  The Dred Scott decision

Question 20

Which of the following was a result of the long-practiced policy of subdividing land in New England for inheritance by the mid-1700s?

Accepted Answer

A)  The number of children conceived before marriage rose sharply. 
B)  Parents helped their children get established on their own prosperous farm. 
C)  The freehold system in the American colonies became unsustainable. 
D)  Speculators bought up small parcels of land,combined them,and sold them off at a large profit.

Exam 4: Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763