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- Changing Labor Systems in Colonial America | 3 of 3Which of the following BEST describes the slavery system found in the colonies in the 1700s?AAfrican slaves and indentured servants occupied a similar position in society.BColonial laws tightly regulated the social status of enslaved people.CNative Americans were enslaved at equal rates to Africans.DSlavery was limited to areas between Maryland and Georgia.
- Cotton Mather | 3 of 3Which future political trend does the excerpt above MOST clearly foreshadow?ARestriction of civil liberties during World War I.BCold War paranoia of the Second Red Scare.CPersecution of enemy aliens during the early Republic.DImprisonment of draft dodgers during the Vietnam conflict.
- Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)
- Americans capture British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point
- Colonial Cultural Change | 3 of 4Which of the following was a major proponent of the movement described in the passage?AJonathan EdwardsBJohn WinthropCThomas JeffersonDThomas Paine
- King George III proclaims colonies in "open and avowed rebellion"
- Imperial Economic System | 2 of 4The laws were passed in the context of which of the following?AThe threat of slave rebellions in England's sugar colonies.BIncreased economic competition between European powers.CPolitical instability resulting from the English Civil War.DEncroachments on European shipping by American Indians.
- Phillis Wheatley's Poem on Tyranny and Slavery | 1 of 3Which 19th-century development regarding African-Americans BEST parallels the ideas expressed in the excerpt?ASuccessful armed rebellions led by enslaved people.BA constitutional ban on the African slave trade in 1808.CThe efforts among reformers to purchase the freedom of enslaved people.DThe publication of first-hand narratives of enslaved people among abolitionist circles.
- Colonial Cultural Change | 2 of 4The excerpt most directly responds to which of the following historical developments?AAttempts of Parliament to control religion through the Toleration Act of 1689.BThe growth of religious dissenters like Roger Williams, who challenged Puritan ideas.CThe liberalizing influence of Enlightenment ideas.DThe fear of Catholic missionaries from French Canada.
- The First Great Awakening | 3 of 4Historians regard the First Great Awakening as a watershed event in the history of the English colonies in America for all of the following reasons EXCEPTAThe evangelical movement played a key role in the development of a revolutionary mindset among colonists.BThe religious revival experience was shared by all of the colonies up and down Atlantic seaboard.CRoman Catholics experienced more toleration from their Protestant brethren.DThe notion that the authority of the State should be dependent on a contract with the people became more popular.
- Colonial Cultural Change | 4 of 4All of the following were effects of the movement described in the excerpt EXCEPT:AIt was the first time that enslaved Africans were converted to Christianity in large numbers.BIt contributed to a sense of American national consciousness and identity.CIt solidified a single, unified form of Christianity throughout the colonies.DIt further developed the notions of equality that contributed to the American Revolution.
- Imperial Economic System | 3 of 4What effect did the above laws have on the economy of the colonies?AThe restrictions created unemployment in major trading port cities.BThese laws forced the colonies to develop their own vast manufacturing sector.CExports of tobacco from the Chesapeake declined.DThese laws led to a growth in the New England shipbuilding industry.
- The First Great Awakening | 2 of 4Sermons delivered during the First Great Awakening stressed which of the following?AThe importance of tithing.BPersonal conversion.CThe poor deferring to the rich.DSubmission to religious authority.
- Colonial African Population Trends | 2 of 3What is the most important reason for the marked change in the African population in the Southern British mainland colonies beginning in 1680?AThe growth in importance and profitability of cotton made possible by the invention of the cotton gin.BBacon's Rebellion led plantation owners to search out a source of labor that could be more easily controlled.CVirginia's Slave Laws made it punishable for a master to unfairly beat or kill a slave.DRunaway slaves established thriving maroon communities in remote areas.
- Phillis Wheatley's Poem on Tyranny and Slavery | 3 of 3Which of the following groups in 1772 would have been most likely to have sympathized with the sentiments of the poem above?AIndentured servants in Virginia.BQuakers in Pennsylvania.CPuritans in Massachusetts.DCaptains of ships carrying enslaved people.
- Colonial African Population Trends | 3 of 3What accounts for the low percentage of Africans in the Northern British mainland colonies?AAlthough slavery was legal, there was a strong abolitionist movement in New England and Pennsylvania that prevented the growth of the institution.BAfricans died at a much higher rate in the inhospitable climate of New England.CCompared to the large plantations in the South, New England farms were mostly small, family-run farms that lacked a need for slave labor.DBecause of pervasive racist attitudes in New England, Africans were prohibited in those colonies.
- Imperial Economic System | 4 of 4The goals of the above acts can be most directly compared to the goals of which of the following?AThe Tariff of 1816.BThe Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.CThe U.S. Banking Act of 1933.DThe Marshall Plan of 1948.
- The First Great Awakening | 4 of 4The occurrence of the First Great Awakening in America can be attributed to the perceived lack of piety displayed by mid-eighteenth century English colonists who had immersed themselves in more worldly pursuits. Which of the following religious developments in U.S. history shortly followed The First Great Awakening?AThe Social Gospel movement and the sexual revolution.BChristian Fundamentalism and World War I.CDeism and Enlightenment philosophy.DThe Second Great Awakening and the theory of evolution.
- Colonial African Population Trends | 1 of 3What accounts for the trend in African population in the British Caribbean colonies illustrated by the chart?AThe successful slave revolt on St. Domingue (Haiti) led to an African-dominated society.BLife expectancy among slaves was higher in the Caribbean than in other British colonies.CA large migration of the white population from the Caribbean to the Carolinas led Africans to become more dominant in the population.DA long growing season and growth of sugar plantations created a high demand for enslaved labor.
- Colonial Cultural Change | 1 of 4The event described in the passage was part of which movement?AThe Social GospelBTranscendentalismCThe Temperance MovementDThe Great Awakening