THE AMERICAN YAWP 4

Improvements in all of the following increased opportunities for colonists to purchase consumer goods EXCEPT

standardized currency

What was the “commodity money” used in Virginia?

Tobacco

Which of the following colonies generated the most revenue?

Barbados

What was the largest American city during the late eighteenth centry?

Philidelphia

Which colony outlawed slavery in 1750?

Slavery was legal in every North American British colony at that time

Which of these systems of slave labor offered enslaved people the greatest independence in the use of their time?

Task system

Which of the following colonies had a majority enslaved African population?

South Carolina

How did the culture of rice cultivation reach colonial Carolina?

Enslaved Americans

What portion of residents in 1700 New York City was enslaved?

15-20%

What was the first English group to turn against slavery?

Quakers

What were the major political parties in colonial America?

There were no major political parties in colonial America

What is the name for the practice whereby a married woman loses all of her political and economic rights to her husband?

Coverture

Where did the Great Awakening begin?

New England

What is the name of the prophet who inspired Pontiac’s Rebellion?

Neolin

Which of the following resulted from Pontiac’s war?

Creation of the Proclamation Line of 1763