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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
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