Chapters 4-6, No stimulus

The Sons of liberty initiated the Boston Tea Party in direct response to 

British efforts to protect the East India Company from bankruptcy

The primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763

avoid conflict with the trans-Appalachian Indians

All of the following groups of no-English colonists migrated into the British North American colonists in large numbers throughout the eighteenth century EXCEPT

Russians

A major consequence of the French and Indian War of 1754-1763 was the

imposition of new taxes on the British North American colonies

The First Great Awakening led to all of the following except

the renewed persecution of witches

The Proclamation 1763 sought to

prevent conflicts with American Indians on the colonial frontier

In which of the following British North American colonies was slavery legally established by the early 1700s

All of the colonies

Which of the following was true of the first Great Awakening

It resulted in divisions within both the Congregational and Presbyterian churches.

Which of the following is ture of the slave system in the eighteenth century British North America-

Slave Owners gained increased legal power over their slaves.

The argument between Great Britain and its american colonies during the 1760s and 1770s over
“virtual representation” concerned

Parliament’s ability to reflect colonial interests

Colonial cities functioned primarily as

mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods

Which of the following groups was LEAST likely to respond with enthusiasm roto the religious fervor of the great awakening in the 1730s and 1740s?

Established merchants in cities like Boston and Philadelphia

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense attacked which of the following

The king of England and the principle of monarchy

The stono rebellion and the New York conspiracy trials of 1741 revealed which of the following

Resistance to slavery

By the 1750’s, the British colonies on the North American mainland were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

disdain for British constitutional monarchy

Which of the following most appropriately characterizes the violence exhibited in such episodes as Bacon’s Rebellion, the Boston Tea Party, Shays’ RebelWhichlion, and the Whiskey Rebellion?

Violence was directed at “outsiders” or representatives of distant authority.

Which of the following best describes Deism

The belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature

By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican government, sovereignty was located in

The people

The stono rebellion of 1739 in South Carolina was a

slave insurrection

The Great Awakening in the 1740s led to

splits among existing religious denominations and the rise of new churches

The Stamp Act crisis was important in the coming of the American Revolution for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

The British maintained that the colonies had no right to independence form parliamentary authority.

The First continental Congress called for the Continenatal Association to

enforce an economic boycott of British goods

In 1735 the New York City trial of editor John Peter Zenger helped establish the principle that

an editor could not be punished for seditious libel if the editor’s words were accurate

British colonists in North America objected to the stamp act primarily because it

Taxed them without their consent

The Proclamation Line of 1763 was designed to 

Limit western expansion of colonial settlement 

The American colonists’ slogan “no taxation without representation” was a rejection of

Virtual representation

“[God’s] wrath towards you burns like fire; He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire . . . you are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes, as the most hateful and venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended Him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince. And yet, it is nothing but His hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.”

The quote above is an example of the rhetoric from the

Great Awakening of the 1730s

The first continental congress called for the Continental Association to

Enforce an economic boycott of British goods

In 1735 the New York City trival of editor John Peter Zenger helped establish the principal that

An editor could not be punished for seditious libel if the editor’s words were accurate

The “Great Awakening” refers to the

Wave of religious revivals that swept the colonies in the 1740s

In the eighteenth century, British colonists wishing to settle west of the Appalachians were principally motivated by

The low price and availability of land

The primary purpose of the Stamp Act was to 

Raise revenues to support British troops stationed in America

The declaration of Independence did all of the following EXCEPT.

Call for the abolition of the slave trade 

By the lathe 1600s, slavery in North America became instiuttionalized in part because of the

Decline of indentured labor

In the period 1650-1750 all of the following contributed to the British North American colonists sense of identity as British subjects EXCEPT the

Expansion of the colonies into western frontier regions

The Proclamation of 1763 did which of the following?

Set a boundary along the crest of the Appalachians beyond which the English colonists were forbidden to settle

Which of the following most profoundly transformed the lives of slaves in the South in the mid-1700s 

The growth of a native-born African American population

The dissatisfaction of Virginia farmers with the colonial governer who failed to protct them against American Indian raids led to

Bacon’s Rebellion

After the French and Indian war, British political leaders were determined to

Require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empire’s administrative expenses

The slaves who participated in the Stono rebellion in South Carolina in 1739 hoped to

Flee to Florida where the Spanish offered freedom