Exam 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

A) Hudson Valley farmers, landlords, and craftsmen never used enslaved people's labor in the eighteenth century.
B) Slavery was abolished after the English took the colony from the Dutch.
C) New York City passed a law banning merchants from participating in the slave trade after 1730.
D) In 1746, enslaved people made up one-fifth of the population of New York City.
E) Slaves worked exclusively as domestic workers.

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A) resulted from his publication of news stories questioning the intelligence of the king.
B) probably would not have ended in his acquittal if he had attacked the assembly rather than the governor.
C) set back freedom of the press when it ended in his conviction and imprisonment for printing the truth.
D) showed that the public was not yet ready to accept the idea of freedom of speech.
E) led to the overturning of the Licentiousness Act of 1694.

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A) centered on the belief that all people of the world have equal rights.
B) was closely identified with Protestantism and identified nearly every other nation as a slave to Catholicism, tyranny, or barbarism.
C) was a secular view of liberty that required that religion and politics be completely separate.
D) was based on the idea that all men should vote regardless of class status.
E) fueled a successful abolitionist movement in England.

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A) Republicanism viewed social inequality as innate to society, while liberalism considered inequality as solely evidence of poor governance.
B) Republicanism stressed active participation in public life, while liberalism focused on individual rights that were essentially private.
C) Republicanism emphasized the equality of property owners and non-property owners, while liberalism rejected the idea of the "social contract" and the existence of "natural rights."
D) Republicanism embraced a limited role for government, while liberalism saw the government as having a role in enforcing public morality.
E) Republicanism was the first political school of thought to oppose slavery, while liberalism considered slavery essential to the liberty of white men.

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A) Most Native American tribes did not agree with the policy.
B) The colonial assemblies wanted to avoid wars with Native Americans.
C) It involved such a large geographical area.
D) The French refused to leave forts in the Ohio Valley.
E) It involved taxes the colonists refused to pay.

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A) Property ownership was the most important qualification in colonial voting laws.
B) All thirteen colonies held the same voting requirements, indicating their sense of nationalism.
C) A far smaller portion of the population was eligible to vote when compared with the Old World.
D) Women were forbidden from voting in all colonies.
E) American birth was a voting requirement in most colonies.

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A) Whereas most Protestant churches in New England and the Middle Colonies promoted slavery, Protestant churches in the South condemned the practice.
B) Whereas New England and the Middle Colonies only had indentured servants as laborers, the South predominantly had slavery.
C) Whereas New England and the Middle Colonies had nonplantation-based slavery, slavery in the South focused on the tobacco- and rice-based plantation systems.
D) Whereas New England and the Middle Colonies only had slaves who worked in homes, the South only had slaves who worked on large plantations, not on small farms.
E) Whereas New England and the Middle Colonies had laws in place regarding slavery, the South had no laws regulating the status of slaves.

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A) Leaders saw it as a natural right.
B) Governments praised it as helping democracy.
C) After 1695 the British government required a license for printing.
D) Newspapers did not feel it was necessary.
E) Governments in both England and the colonies viewed it as dangerous.

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A) Catholicism
B) Islam
C) Judaism
D) traditional African religions
E) Protestantism

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A) occurred only after the colony's planters unsuccessfully attempted to cultivate tobacco, sugarcane, and indigo.
B) required such large capital investments that Carolina's planters never became as wealthy as those in the Chesapeake region.
C) would have proven impossible without the importation of thousands of European indentured servants to serve as a labor force.
D) led the colony to become the first mainland colony with a black majority and caused a growing divide to exist between white and black.
E) is considered by most historians to be the most important cause of the Yamasee War.

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A) textiles and guns
B) wine and gold
C) sugar and tobacco
D) lumber and fish
E) cotton and books

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A) the journey from East Africa to West Africa
B) the third leg of the triangular trade route; it primarily went to Europe
C) a voyage across the Pacific Ocean to America
D) the second leg of the trans-Atlantic trade
E) the voyage taken by indentured servants

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A) It was a new strategy for converting Indians.
B) It was an attempt to halt Russian incursions.
C) It was mining for gold and silver.
D) It involved a military strategy to weaken the Indians.
E) It called for Enlightenment ideas to be implemented.

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