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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America

Multiple Choice


1	The opening story in the chapter deals with the Albany Congress, at which colonial representatives:
		A)	officially declared war on all Indian tribes except the Iroquois.
		B)	approved a Plan of Union for all the colonies to create "one general government" for British North America.
		C)	hotly debated Benjamin Franklin's proposal for gradual independence.
		D)	declared a temporary truce with the French in order to focus their military force against the Iroquois.


2	During the early- and mid-1700s, immigration into the colonies:
		A)	slowed to a trickle, but the general population grew.
		B)	slowed to a trickle, and the general population leveled off.
		C)	grew tremendously, and the general population grew even more.
		D)	grew tremendously, but the general population grew only moderately.


3	Scotch-Irish and German immigrants were LEAST likely to immigrate to:
		A)	New England.
		B)	the Carolinas.
		C)	Pennsylvania.
		D)	Virginia.


4	The Paxton Boys' protest and the Regulation movements symbolized:
		A)	bitter opposition by the English colonists to German immigration.
		B)	growing conflicts between those who lived in the backcountry and those in a colony's eastern seaboard.
		C)	a rising discontent among the landless poor in seaports.
		D)	a growing concern for the plight of the Native Americans.


5	"Negro Election Day" was:
		A)	a code phrase for public auctions of African slaves.
		B)	an annual festival celebrated by African-Americans, similar to ones held in West Africa.
		C)	established in most northern colonies for free Africans to cast legitimate votes for local offices.
		D)	the date set by plantation owners for slaves to mediate grievances and disputes between themselves.


6	Among colonial women who lived in seaport towns:
		A)	. over half of them worked outside their homes as tavernkeepers, domestic servants, laundresses, etc.
		B)	even wealthy women planted their own gardens due to a lack of available servants.
		C)	widows were not allowed to manage places of business.
		D)	midwifery and dressmaking were high-paid occupations.


7	African slaves in the Chesapeake region would be more likely than those in the Carolinas to:
		A)	work on a larger plantation with more than 20 slaves.
		B)	come into daily contact with more whites.
		C)	have absentee owners who left white overseers and black drivers to run their plantations.
		D)	have been born in Africa.


8	The Stono Rebellion of 1739:
		A)	was the largest slave revolt of the colonial period.
		B)	ignited the last major Indian war in the Chesapeake.
		C)	convinced colonial governments to extend political rights to those living in the frontier regions.
		D)	was an early sign of tensions between colonists and British troops.


9	The First Great Awakening:
		A)	reflected a celebration of new rational ideas about religion promoted by the Enlightenment.
		B)	led to a more invigorated, stable religious life.
		C)	left colonial Americans more divided than ever.
		D)	came and went quickly with little lasting impact.


10	In the decades before the Seven Years' War, most American colonists could be described as:
		A)	proud to be part of the British empire.
		B)	indifferent to their place in the British empire.
		C)	unhappy with their place in the British empire, but not yet interested in independence.
		D)	very unhappy with their place in the British empire and nearly ready to revolt and form a free nation.


11	By 1750, royal governors in the British colonies:
		A)	were elected by each colony's eligible voters.
		B)	had almost dictatorial powers over the colonial assemblies.
		C)	had tremendous power in theory, but more limited power in practice.
		D)	enjoyed virtually no power, and had to accept whatever colonial assemblies dictated.


12	As another war with the French approached in the 1750s, the English politician William Pitt hoped it would result in:
		A)	limiting the French control in North America.
		B)	total British control over North America.
		C)	the colonists abandoning their talk of independence.
		D)	a new, independent country emerging.

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