APP Chapter 4 Study Guide
Colonial Population Trends
Spanish North America
The Pueblo Revolt
American Enlightenment
Colonial Trade and Economics in the 1700s
The Great Awakening
American Political Culture in the 1700s:
Royal Governors
Colonial Assemblies
Development of the Colonial Press
Impact of British Wars on the Colonies:
King William’s War
Queen Anne’s War
King George’s War
French and Indian War
The Albany Plan
COMPLETION
Answer the questions or complete the statement by filling in the blanks with the correct word or words.
1. was most responsible for the rapid expansion of American population during the
eighteenth century.
2. Most of the produce carried along backcountry roads of western Pennsylvania and the Shenandoah
Valley was transported in .
3. According to the principles of the Enlightenment, individuals were to make certain that public
institutions such as government were constructed or developed according to or
.
4. In the search for useful knowledge and inventions, Enlightenment scientists utilized
.
5. A major source of political information vigorously put forth, especially in New York and
Massachusetts, to exercise vigilance against the spread of "privileged power" was the
.
6. During the war known as , American colonists captured the French fortress,
Louisburg, only to have to return it to the French by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
7. The center of colonial government were the local .
8. The climax to the Seven Years' War was British General Wolfe's successful assault on
.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Circle the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Artifacts taken from northwestern Massachusetts indicate that the colonists in those parts in the
mid-eighteenth century
a. were crude frontiersmen dressed in primitive garb.
b. were culturally very similar to the English; they dressed in like fashion, and used many of the
same utensils.
c. lived very much as did the Indians who inhabited the same region.
d. had very little in common with their counterparts in Britain.
e. share many characteristics of their French neighbors in Canada.
2. Most Scotch-Irish immigrants to America settled in
a. Pennsylvania.
b. New Jersey.
c. New York.
d. Massachusetts.
e. the Carolinas.
3. The German Lutherans who settled in the Middle Colonies came to America primarily in search of
a. religious freedom.
b. improved material lives.
c. Indian converts.
d. animal furs to trap and trade.
e. non-crowded settlements.
4. The balance of trade between England and the colonies turned so much to England's favor by the
mid-eighteenth century chiefly because
a. of the decline in trade between the colonies and the West Indies.
b. the English were willing to buy greater quantities of American raw materials
c. lack of available slave labor.
d. of stricter enforcement of the Navigation Acts.
e. industrialization allowed England to sell a greater quantity of certain goods at cheaper prices to
American buyers.
5. Enlightenment philosophers claimed that
a. humans could achieve perfection in this world through the appeal to reason.
b. knowledge was of little use when confined to speculation.
c. religion was no longer to be tolerated in any form.
d. all absolutist forms of government must be replaced by representative republican governments.
e. all me were created equal.
6. As a product of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin
a. turned to organized religion for meaning and sustenance.
b. devoted himself to European ideas and sought to model American concepts after them.
c. rejected the practical pursuits of life in favor of contemplation and intellectual inquiry.
d. constantly pursued his numerous curiosities until they yielded new and practical ideas that were
quite different than many European ideas.
e. adopted many ideas that were coming out of the French Revolution.
7. Jonathan Edwards preached that
a. a combination of good deeds and steadfast faith could bring salvation.
b. salvation would come through repentance only.
c. God was omnipotent and the eternal fate of helpless individuals was determined at birth.
d. Old Light spokesmen were the only true representatives of the Almighty.
e. man was predestined.
8. Royal governors were usually
a. elected by the colonial assembly.
b. elected by popular vote within the colony.
c. appointed by the Parliamentary Board of Trade.
d. appointed by English merchants.
e. appointed by the king.
9. Members of colonial assemblies perceived their most important duty to be to
a. maintain the balance between the various branches of government.
b. strive for new privileges and powers at the expense of the governor.
c. cooperate with the governor as much as possible.
d. preserve colonial liberties against any attack or intrusion.
e. the military defense of the colony.
10. Franklin's purpose with the Albany Plan was to
a. organize a council of delegates from the separate colonies to coordinate common defense and
western expansion.
b. propose the dredging of a canal connecting Albany with Lake Erie.
c. set up a system of common taxes and tariffs throughout the colonies.
d. draft a constitution freeing the colonies from British control.
e. create a higher court that all colonies could appeal to.
11. Colonial Americans of the eighteenth century
a. still confronted the "howling wilderness" which previous generations had encountered.
b. still lived in geographic isolation as in the seventeenth century.
c. could not escape the economic and cultural influence of Britain.
d. came in search of religious freedom more so than any other reason.
e. immigrated to America primarily because of overcrowding in Europe.
12. Colonial commerce by the mid-eighteenth century
a. diminished along inter-coastal routes.
b. was hampered by a decline in credit offered from England.
c. maintained strict regional and sectional differences keeping colonists isolated and provincial.
d. expanded in all the colonies due to the African slave trade.
e. helped to "anglicize" American culture by exposing colonists to large amounts of British
product.
13. Native Americans of the middle ground
a. maintained a strong independent role in commercial exchange with European Americans.
b. sought to isolate themselves completely from European contact.
c. sought military confrontation before economic cooperation.
d. continued to war against each other rather than to establish intertribal confederacies.
e. migrated westward to avoid contact with the white Americans.
14. The Peace of Paris in 1763
a. maintained essentially the same borders of British and French holdings in North America.
b. left the French-speaking Canadians under French control.
c. gave Britain title to Canada, Florida, and all the land east of the Mississippi River.
d. provided only a temporary cease-fire between British and French forces in North America.
e. settled the European conflict between England and Spain.
15. The English constitution
a. was a cumulative body of laws, statutes, and court decisions.
b. was a formal document similar to the later U.S. Constitution.
c. gave essential sovereignty to the monarch.
d. had not been alerted since it had been first conceived during the Middle Ages.
e. created a Supreme Court as the highest judicial body.
Completion
1. Natural reproduction
2. Conestoga wagons
3. self evident, natural laws
4. practical experimentation
5. weekly journal
6. King George’s War
7. assemblies
8. Quebec
Multiple Choice
1. b
2. a
3. b
4. e
5. a
6. d
7. c
8. e
9. d
10. a
11. c
12. e
13. a
14. c
15. a