Multiple Choice Chapter 05 Self-Quiz 2

. What contributed to the growth of slavery in northern colonies?

Southern slaveholders expanded their operations to the North.

Many runaway slaves were captured and sold into slavery there.

Northern colonies increased participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

Northern colonies increased slave raids on Indian populations to the west.

. Where did most convicts complete their sentences in America?

the New England colonies

the Carolinas

the Chesapeake colonies

in Georgia

. Germans were pushed to immigrate to North America by

the potato blight.

the demise of the monarchy.

an extended war with Austria.

a scarcity of land.

. The Walking Purchase was

an agreement by the Delaware to sell land to Pennsylvania.

when slaves were purchased at auction as they walked off the ship.

the section of the Ohio Valley owned by Virginia planters.

the forced removal of the Tuscarora from the Southeast.

. The founders of Georgia hoped to

offer sanctuary to the persecuted Protestants of Europe.

create a colony without crime or prisons.

find gold in the region.

create a slave society.

. Indigo cultivation in South Carolina was precipitated by

the boll weevil.

an unidentified fungus that attacked rice.

French introduction of the crop.

a recession that encouraged the diversification of crops.

. By the 1740s, what was true of the newspaper business?

Printers had not yet started to produce them in the southern colonies.

Printers began to offer two or three editions at different times of the day.

Printers devoted more space to North American news.

Printers enjoyed subsidies from colonial governments.

. What famous colonist was elected to the Royal Society of London?

John Bartram

John Woolman

Benjamin Franklin

James Wolfe

. What contributed to the development of a consumer society in British North America?

the repeal of the Navigation Acts

middling colonists who could now afford to take annual shopping trips to London

colonial shopkeepers who began developing a mail order business

Glasgow merchants who competed with planters for small farmers' business

. Neolin, the Native spiritual leader, preached a message of

love of all people.

tolerance of colonialism.

nativism.

Catholicism.

. New Light congregations allowed women to

discipline others for sexual misconduct.

preach when they felt God stirring within.

chose the biblical passage that would be the focus of the sermon.

own property within marriage.

. What were two things that encouraged African Americans to convert to Christianity?

Free food offered at churches and charismatic sermons.

The openness of evangelicals to black preachers and demographic changes as the number of American-born slaves grew.

Similarities to African rituals and pressure from slaveholders.

Preachers' willingness to preach in Igbo and the promise of the afterlife.

. What caused the destabilization of the balance of power in the Ohio Valley?

Iroquois engaged in a mourning war.

French officials encouraged Indians to attack British settlers.

Delawares and Shawnees were pushed into the region by colonial expansion.

Iroquois refused to negotiate with the British.

. The most significant cause of British losses during the first three years of the French and Indian War was

George Washington's poor tactical decisions.

France gained most Indian tribes as allies.

poor supply lines into the Ohio Valley backcountry.

poorly trained colonial militia.

. What did British officials do to free residents of Spanish Florida after the French and Indian War?

They deported them to Havana.

They put their children into indentured servitude.

They required them to take communion at a Protestant church.

They allowed them to stay and protected their religious freedom.

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