APUSH Chapter 5 American Pageant

One outstanding feature common to all of the eventually rebellious colonies was there

• reletively equal wealth

• economic organization

• similar social structure

• rapidly growing populations

By the mid-1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies

• became greater than in all of Europe.

• had increased to the point of overpopulation.

• had begun to decline from 17th century levels.

• remained tiny compared with the number in England.

The most honored profession in early colonial society was

• medicine

• law

• the ministry

• farming

The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was

• fishing

• manufacturing

• agriculture

• slave trading

The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the 18th century was

• iron making

• lumbering

• rum distilling

• making clothes

By the 18th century, religion in colonial America was

• stronger than at any previous time.

• moving away from clerical intellectualism.

• less fervid than when the colonies were established.

• becoming less tolerant

The "new light" preachers of the Great Awakening

• delivered intensly emotional sermons

• rarely addressed themselves to the matter of individual salvation

• reinforced the established churches

• opposed the emotionalism of the revivalists

In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted

• in the South

• in New England

• on the frontier

• in those areas controlled by Spain

Colonial schools and colleges placed their main emphasis on

• math

• science

• literature

• religion

The person most often called the "first civilized American" was

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Winthrop

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin