Period 2 Quiz Review

Priority of Mercantilism

Getting the highest price for one’s good on the market

Colonists in Boston rioted against impressment in 1747. Why is this important?

Colonists would fight against those who sought to deprive them of liberty

What was the most serious slave revolt in the American colonies in September 1739?

The Stono Rebellion

What war ended with the Treaty of Utrecht

Queen Anne’s War

Why were Colonists were dissatisfied over trade?

They did not want the crown taking money from them

One continuty in the U.S is the

Economic and class tensions resulting migration into the Western Hemisphere

What convinced the English to keep supporting their colony in Virginia?

Development of a cash crop

Political thought shaped by the European intellectual exchange shaped colonial resistance to the law (T/F)

True

Why did islands with plantation systems like Barbados increasingly rely on a race-based system of slavery.

Barbadian system of labor was harsh & deadly, increase importation slaves.

What sparked most of the conflicts between Native Americans and Europeans

Land

What inspired large numbers of Scots-Irish to migrate to Pennsylvania in the 1720s and 1730s

Bad harvests and high rents back home

The first written Constitution adopted in North America

The Mayflower Compact

The establishment of the Navigation Act of 1660 would directly influence which idea?

Mercantilism

Which English settlement became the largest economic engine of the English colonization in the early 17th century?

West Indies

Which of the following factors represented Britain’s greatest challenge in the North Atlantic trade in the 17th and 18th centuries

External Competition

The continuities of racial stereotyping and categorization of American Indian Groups is (T/F)

True

Economic model based on investors purchase of shares which would raise large amounts of money quickly

Joint Stock companies

Which colony had slaves?

Chesaspeake

The first sustained war between the French and the English in North America was known as

King William’s War

In the Albany Plan of Union- the author was most likely motivated by

The British government’s relative indifference to colonial governance

What is the most common method of economic resistance by slaves in the American colonies?

Day to day resistance such as working slowly and destroying goods or tools

The years 1609-1610 killed what fraction of English settlers in Jamestown

7 out of 8

Which colonies had the most ethnic and religious diversity

Middle

What motivated the Dutch in the Americas

Economic profit

Who was eligible to vote for the government under Penn’s leadership in 17th century Pennsylvania?

Only men who owned property

Colonists were not allies with American Indian group (T/F)

False

By the mid 18th century, the activities depicted in the image above (man preaching something to followers)

contributed to resistance toward imperial control

Defined slavery as an inherited race-based system in an attempt by colonial leaders to increase their control

Slave codes

Trade alliances and intermarriage with American Indians were done to acquire products for export to Europe (T/F)

True

Which tribe was the Dutch’s trading partner to the West?

Iroquios

Which area had a longer growing season? British West Indies or New England?

British West Indies

The English immigrants who set sail on the Mayflower, originally intended to settle in

Virginia

Why did the Quakers leave England for the American Colonies

As pacifists, they fled to resist English military conscription

The Powhattan Confederacy spoke

Algonquian

The North American Colonial settlements

established like-minded, close-knit, homogenous communities

The greatest challenge England faced in placing imperial order as constraints upon North American colonies came about as

Salutary Neglect

Martin Luther and John Calvin were leaders of what religious movement

Protestantism

In South Carolina, what amount of farmers owned slaves in the early 17th century?

One in three

The Pequot War- allied Puritan and Narragansett forces launched an attack in which

they surrounded a Pequot village and burned it down

What role did the Great Awakening have in colonial American political culture?

It inspired free thinking and rebellion against authority

The French and Indian War of 1754 was significant for Great Britain because they gained land (T/F)

True

What percentage of slave traffic was Britain responsible for between 1700-1808?

40%

In some colonies men and women would populate settlements while having hostile relationships with the Natives (T/F)

True

What was a popular place in the 18th century port cities?

Coffeehouses