Which of the following characterized the New England freehold society of the early eighteenth century? (a.) A small gentry elite that owned most of the land, which was farmed by tenants and other workers. Many relatively equal landowning families whose livelihoods came from agriculture and trade. How did farmwives throughout the colonies in the eighteenth century contribute to their families? (a.) The women worked within the farmhouse due to traditional notions that only men performed field work. Wives acted as helpmates to their husbands and performed both domestic and agricultural tasks. Which of the following statements describes the relationship of typical New England women to the church in the eighteenth century? (a.) Women flocked to New England churches because they were regarded as equals there. Churches were filled primarily with women but led exclusively by men. Which of the following statements best describes women's property rights in the English colonies in (a.) A widow gained control over her late husband's estate and retained it even if she remarried. When they married, women passed legal ownership of all personal property to their husbands. Which of the following statements best describes inheritance patterns in colonial New England during the mid-1700s? (a.) Typically, sons received their inheritance at age twenty-one. Fathers had a cultural duty to provide inheritances for their children. In eighteenth-century New England, the notion that parents would pay grown children for their past labors in exchange for the privilege of choosing the children's spouses was known as...? (a.) common law. the marriage portion. Which of the following statements describes rural life in the New England colonies during the eighteenth century? (a.) As the colonial elite consolidated its power, yeomen farmers tended to sink to the level of impoverished European peasants. Colonists' sense of personal worth and dignity in rural New England contrasted sharply with European peasant life. Which of the following developments created a crisis for New England Puritan society in the eighteenth century? (a.) Changes in women's status caused a declining birthrate. Population growth made freehold land scarce. Which of the following was a result of the long-practiced policy of subdividing land in New England for inheritance by the mid-1700s? (a.) The number of children conceived before marriage rose sharply. The number of children conceived before marriage rose sharply. Which of the following was an outcome of New England families' efforts to maintain the freeholder (a.) Churches consolidated their power and exercised greater control over young adults' behavior. Farmers abandoned traditional grain crops and adopted livestock agriculture instead. Which of the following statements describes the role of money and economic exchange in eighteenth-century rural New England? (a.)
Generally, no money was exchanged between relatives and neighbors, but accounts of debts were maintained and settled every few years by cash transfers. Generally, no money was exchanged between relatives and neighbors, but accounts of debts were maintained and settled every few years by cash transfers. In New York during the first half of the eighteenth-century, settlement of the Hudson River Valley showed which of the following patterns? (a.) The Dutch manorial system
largely remained intact, with a few wealthy and powerful Dutch and English landlords dominating poor tenant families. The Dutch manorial system largely remained intact, with a few wealthy and powerful Dutch and English landlords dominating poor tenant families Which of the following statements characterizes the nature of colonial Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century? (a.) Despite the Quakers' ideals, rural
colonial Pennsylvania was never a land of economic equality The growing wheat trade in the mid-eighteenth century brought an influx of poor families, which increased social divisions. Which of the following features characterized the Middle Atlantic colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century? (a.) Religious orthodoxy Cultural diversity
Which of the following 18th century Pennsylvania immigrants grounds quickly lost its cultural identity by practicing intermarriage with other Protestants? Dutch Huguenots What did the German immigrants known as redemptioners do on their arrival in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century? (a.) Found jobs as wage laborers in order to save money to bring their relatives to America. Negotiated the terms for a period of servitude through which they would pay for their trip. The most numerous voluntary (nonslave) emigrants to British North America in the eighteenth century came from which of the following groups? (a.) Scots-Irish Scots-Irish Which of the following statements characterizes eighteenth-century religious practice in Pennsylvania? (a.) Quaker congregations lacked the power to punish individuals who broke the moral code. Each religious sect enforced moral behavior among its members. The political conflicts that wracked colonial Pennsylvania in the middle of the eighteenth century stemmed from which of the following sources? (a.)
Disagreements over the importance of economic opportunity. Rapid immigration and population growth. Why was the print revolution that occurred in the colonies during the early eighteenth century significant? (a.) The
print revolution made the American Reformation possible. Printing allowed for the broad transmission of new ideas. Which of the following individuals created the foundation for Enlightenment thinking? Nicolas Copernicus The English philosopher John Locke believed which of the following ideas? People had natural rights such as life, liberty, and property The power of human reason, a world ordered by natural laws, and the progressive improvement of society are associated with which of the following movements? (a.)
The Enlightenment The Enlightenment Puritan minister Cotton Mather's response to which of the following eighteenth-century crises demonstrated that Enlightenment ideas had begun to influence him? (a.) The Salem witch trials The Boston smallpox epidemic Influenced by Enlightenment science, which of the following religious movements believed that God had created the world but allowed it to operate in accordance with the laws of nature? Deism How did the Pietism movement of the eighteenth century differ from Puritanism? (a.) The movement emphasized the use of reason and logic to understand the world. Pietism stressed an individual's relationship with God. Which of these individuals would have most likely preferred Pietism to deism in the eighteenth century? (a.) A Virginia planter A Scots-Irish migrant What made George Whitefield such a successful evangelical preacher in New England in the 1740s? (a.) A reputation for being "almost angelical" in appearance. A reputation for being "almost angelical" in appearance. Which of the following statements describes the religious controversy that emerged from the Great Awakening during the 1740s and 1750s? (a.) The Old Lights in Massachusetts and Connecticut
called for a resurgence of emotion-based religious practices. The Old Lights prohibited traveling preachers from speaking to a congregation without its minister's permission. During the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s, which of the following groups challenged the authority of ministers? (a.) Old Lights New Lights Which of the following colleges was founded in the mid-eighteenth century out of the religious enthusiasm spread by the Great Awakening? (a.) Harvard Princeton The eighteenth-century Great Awakening was the impetus for which of the following phenomena? (a.) Secular humanism, African Americans' creation of a distinctive Protestant Christianity. Which of these religious denominations successfully converted many slaves in the mid-eighteenth-century southern colonies? (a.) Presbyterians Baptists Why did the Virginia gentry fear the rise of the Baptists in the mid-eighteenth century? They threatened to undermine the gentry's position and privilege Which of the following consequences of the eighteenth-century Great Awakening made it historically significant? (a.) The declining importance of higher education in the American colonies. Americans' new freedom to challenge authority within and outside the church. Which of the following eighteenth-century movements posed a significant challenge to traditional assumptions about race, gender, and class in American society? (a.) The Enlightenment The Great Awakening The French and Indian War started as a result of disputed land claims regarding...? (a.) the Ohio River Valley. the Ohio River Valley. Hostilities between French troops and Virginians led by Colonel George Washington began in 1754 at which of the following locations? (a.) Fort Duquesne Fort Duquesne How did the British government respond to hostilities in America in 1754? (a.) William Pitt and Lord Halifax
persuaded Prime Minister Pelham to start a war in America against the French. William Pitt and Lord Halifax persuaded Prime Minister Pelham to start a war in America against the French. What made the British authorities wary of declaring war against the French in North America in 1754? (a.) Native American tribes were sure to side with the French over the British. They believed the American colonists were incapable of cooperating in their own defense. The 1754 Albany Congress was a significant event because it demonstrated that...? (a.) the colonies were ready to unite for defense under England's authority. neither the colonists nor the British found the other's plan acceptable. The group that came to be known as the Cajuns after the Great War for Empire were...? (a.) Native Americans who were among the closest allies of the French. French settlers expelled by the British from Nova Scotia and deported to Louisiana; Acadians Which of the following was part of William Pitt's strategy to mobilize the American colonists for the Great War for Empire in 1756?? (a.) Threatening that a French victory would require the colonists to become Roman Catholics. Committing to provide a fleet of British ships and 30,000 soldiers to North America. Which of the following was a provision of the Treaty of Paris of 1763? (a.) England acquired all French territory in continental North America. France lost all of her North American territory east of the Mississippi River. In the mid-1700s, which industrializing nation was the dominant commercial power in the Atlantic Ocean? (a.) Holland England Which of the following statements describes the early Industrial Revolution and its impact on the American colonies in the eighteenth century? (a.) Due to the rising anti-British sentiment, colonists boycotted British goods, so the Industrial Revolution had little impact on America. Britain's new ability to produce more and cheaper goods than ever before transformed American markets and raised most colonists' standard of living. What specific purpose did the colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia serve for the British Empire in the eighteenth century? (a.) These colonies produced most of the empire's wool and linens Their wheat crops made them the breadbasket of the Atlantic world. Which of the following developments was an outcome of the eighteenth-century consumer revolution? (a.) Transatlantic trade decreased. The colonies became more dependent on overseas credits and markets. Pontiac's uprising in Detroit in 1763 was a direct cause of which of the following events? (a.) The South Carolina Regulator movement The Royal Proclamation of 1763 Which of the following problems troubled both eastern migrants and western settlers in the American colonies in the mid-1700s? (a.) Competition for land Competition for land |
