Chapter 3. Imperial Connections, 1660 - 1748

What prompted some Virginians to settle in modern-day North Carolina?

Hopes of landownership without a landlord

What did the Carolina plantations of the early seventeenth century have in common with the colony of Barbados?

Wealthy planters did not live on the plantations.

What drove quick immigration into Pennsylvania after the late seventeenth century?

Religious tolerance

What made New Jersey a more attractive colony than New York in the 1660s?

Settlers in New Jersey could elect an assembly.

What did English merchants want from their government in the second half of the seventeenth century?

Extensive intervention

Who in the British royal bureaucracy was in charge of enforcing the Navigation Acts?

The Board of Trade

The Staple Act of 1663

Eequired all foreign goods to the colonies to be shipped via England first.

How did prominent Boston ministers respond to the suggestion that unforeseen events were the workings of the devil or witches?

They scoffed at this pagan belief system

Which of the following documents published in the 1680s eloquently justified the Glorious Revolution?

John Locke's Two Treatises of Government

What did Eliza Lucas use mulberry trees for?

Feeding silkworms

What changed in the political order of the colony of New York in 1686?

The English king abolished the colony's assembly.

By what chief selection criterion did Charles II select proprietors for new colonies in North America after 1660?

They had to come from his inner circle.

What party in the English parliamentary system of the eighteenth century helped colonists articulate their grievances with their governors?

Country

Which of the following was crucial for the proliferation of the ideas of the Enlightenment in the middle of the eighteenth century?

The printing press

Which of the following was one of the fundamental insights of the era of the Enlightenment?

Humans had the capacity to investigate and understand natural phenomena.