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How did farmwives throughout the colonies in the eighteenth century contribute to their families
Wives acted as helpmates to their husbands and performed both domestic and agricultural tasks
Which of the following eighteenth-century Pennsylvania immigrant groups quickly lost its cultural identity by practicing intermarriage with other Protestants
Dutch Huguenots
Puritan minister Cotton Mather’s response to which of the following eighteenth-century crises demonstrated that Enlightenment ideas had begun to influence him?
The Boston smallpox epidemic
The French and Indian War started as a result of disputed land claims regarding
Ohio River Valley
George Grenville designed the Sugar Act of 1764 to accomplish which of the following?
Improve colonial merchants' compliance with custom laws.
Which of the following statements best describes inheritance patterns in colonial New England during the mid-1700s
A father’s duty was to provide an inheritance for his children
What did the German immigrants known as redemptioners do on their arrival in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century
Negotiated the terms for a period of servitude through which they would pay for their trip.
Influenced by Enlightenment science, which of the following religious movements believed that God had created the world but allowed it to operate in accordance with the laws of nature?
Deism
How did the British government respond to hostilities in America in 1754?
William Pitt and Lord Halifax persuaded Prime Minister Pelham to start a war in America against the French
How did British politicians respond to the American’s cry of “no taxation without representation”?
Politicians argued that the colonists already had virtual representation
In eighteenth-century New England, the notion that parents would pay grown children for their past labors in exchange for the privilege of choosing the children’s spouses was known as
marriage portion
The most numerous voluntary (nonslave) emigrants to British North America in the eighteenth century came from which of the following groups?
Scots-Irish
How did the Pietism movement of the eighteenth century differ from Puritanism?
Pietism stressed an individual’s relationship with God.
The group that came to be known as the Cajuns after the Great War for Empire were
French settlers expelled by the British from Nova Scotia and deported to Louisiana
Members of activist groups, such as the Sons of Liberty, were typically which of the following?
artisans, shopkeepers, poor laborers, and seamen
Which of the following developments created a crisis for New England Puritan society in the eighteenth century
Population growth made freehold land scarce
The political conflicts that wracked colonial Pennsylvania in the middle of the eighteenth century stemmed from which of the following sources
Rapid immigration and population growth
What made George Whitefield such a successful evangelical preacher in New England in the 1740s?
A reputation for being “almost angelical” in appearance
Which of the following was a provision of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
France lost all of her North American territory east of the Mississippi River
Which of the following factors was among those that motivated many merchants, artisans, and journeymen to protest against the Stamp Act?
Fear that their personal liberty would be undermined
In New York during the first half of the eighteenth-century, settlement of the Hudson River Valley showed which of the following patterns?
The Dutch manorial system largely remained intact, with a few wealthy and powerful Dutch and English landlords dominating poor tenant families
The English philosopher John Locke believed which of the following ideas?
People had natural rights such as life, liberty, and property.
During the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s, which of the following groups challenged the authority of ministers?
New Lights
How did Britain’s skyrocketing national debt affect its government in England and America in the 1760s?
The need for higher taxes spurred Britain to increase the size and power of its bureaucracy in England and America.
Patriots’ widely publicized use of natural rights arguments to protest British actions in the 1760s inspired which of the following?
African American slaves to petition the Massachusetts legislature for the abolition of slavery