APUSH Comprehensive Test|Study Questions with Complete solutions
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The Dominion of New England was an attempt - ANSWER To rationalize colonial policy
and consolidate it in the Crown
John Winthrop's characterization of Massachusetts Bay as a "city on a hill" implied that
- ANSWER Massachusetts Bay would be an example for England to emulate
Roughly one-fourth of...
APUSH Comprehensive Test|Study
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The Dominion of New England was an attempt - ANSWER To rationalize colonial policy
and consolidate it in the Crown
John Winthrop's characterization of Massachusetts Bay as a "city on a hill" implied that
- ANSWER Massachusetts Bay would be an example for England to emulate
Roughly one-fourth of indentures in the Chesapeake were - ANSWER Women
During the late 1600s, the system of indentured servitude became less popular because -
ANSWER The English birth rate declined
In the late 1600s, the element of society in the English colonies that caused the greatest social
unrest was - ANSWER Indentured servants
Medical care in early colonial America - ANSWER Revealed that there was little use of the
scientific method
In the 1600s, the high sex ratio of men to women in the Chesapeake meant that - ANSWER
Females had much latitude in the choice of husbands
In the 1600s, Puritan New England family structure - ANSWER Was more stable than that of
southern colonies
By the early eighteenth century, Africans in North America - ANSWER Began more commonly
to be seen as inferior by whites
,The Making of New World Slavery, by Robin Blackburn stressed a theme of - ANSWER Economic
advantages of slavery
In American Slavery, American Freedom, Edmund S. Morgan suggested that the -
ANSWER American colonies were new in creating a permanent condition of servitude
In South Carolina during the early 1740s, a new staple crop was - ANSWER Indigo
The rise of commerce in the English colonies was aided by - ANSWER A group of adventurous
entrepreneurs
In general, plantations in the American South can be described as - ANSWER Self-
contained communities
The southern agrarian economy was dominated by - ANSWER Wealthy landowners
The Great Awakening of the 1700s - ANSWER Came in response to a decline in religious piety
The American political system developed differently than the British political system because
- ANSWER Britain did little to exert its authority before 1760s
The Navigation Acts - ANSWER Helped the colonial economy by supporting shipbuilding
and protecting trade from foreign competition
Enlightenment thought influenced the colonies by - ANSWER The colonial assemblies
assuming the powers of Parliament within the colonies
Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards strayed from Puritan orthodoxy in his belief that -
ANSWER God's power was absolute, but one could work toward salvation although it
was difficult to gain
,Religious toleration developed in America because - ANSWER So many immigrants with different
religious backgrounds settled in America, it was impossible to impose a single religion
After the first few decades of settlement in British North America, - ANSWER Conflicts with
Indians continued as settlers pushed westward and settled on lands claimed by Indians
In the 1750s, the relationship between the British Empire and the American colonies
was characterized by - ANSWER Most Americans believing that the benefits of the
empire far outweigh the costs
In the mid 1770s, the relationship between the British Empire and the American colonies
was characterized by - ANSWER Most Americans becoming disillusioned with the empire
In the immediate years after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the British government -
ANSWER Eased its control over the American colonies
During the late 1600s and early 1700s, French settlement in North America was characterized
by the - ANSWER Toleration of the Indians' way of life
In his policy toward the American colonies, Prime Minister George Grenville maintained
that the colonists should be - ANSWER Compelled to pay part of the cost of administering
and defending the empire
The Proclamation of 1773 was supported by - ANSWER Indians
During the 1760s and 1770s, the political program that angered the Americans most was the
British effort to take away local control over - ANSWER Appropriating money for local
government
, Although the financial burden imposed by the Stamp Act of 1765 was small, it antagonized and
unified the colonies against the British government more so than had the Sugar Act of 1764
because - ANSWER The new tax was blatantly designed to produce revenue, and it fell on all the
colonists regardless of colony or class
Prime Minister Charles Townshend established a board of customs commissioners in
America that - ANSWER Virtually ended smuggling in Boston
Following the "Boston Massacre" of 1770, Samuel Adams stirred up public outrage and then
helped to create a committee of - ANSWER Correspondence
In response to Boston's opposition to the Tea Act of 1773, the British Parliament decided to
- ANSWER Punish all of Boston and all of Massachusetts
In response to the suspension of their colonial legislatures, many colonies convened new
assemblies, and a collective assembly met in September 1774, under the name of the -
ANSWER First Continental Congress
The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired in Massachusetts at - ANSWER Lexington
Alcohol and its consumption in the American colonies in 1770 was - ANSWER Craved by
American colonists, and drunkenness was common
The change in William Pitt's strategy that finally led to victory in the French and Indian War was
- ANSWER Devoting more financial resources and soldiers to the war in America
As a result of the French and Indian War - ANSWER The colonists resented British
interference in local affairs, and American militia noted the marked differences between
themselves and their English brethren
The declaration from the Stamp Act Congress "That the people of these colonies are not, and
from their local circumstances cannot be, represented in the House of Commons..." was
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