APUSH : Ch 3-4

How did the Glorious Revolution change imperial governance of the colonies?

• By increasing centralized control

• By giving Parliament greater control over the colonies

• By granting the colonies increased self-government

• By removing all royal governors from office

What did the Chesapeake gentry begin to do by the late 1600s in order to prevent another uprising like Bacon's Rebellion?

• They started dividing their estates into small tracts, which they gave to small-scale planters

• They began to decrease taxes on yeomen

• They began to decrease taxes on yeomen

• They prohibited yeomen from investing in slaves

What was a result of the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina?

• White colonists' fears of a slave revolt increased.

• The colony loosened the slave codes to relieve unrest

• The colony of South Carolina increased its slave imports.

• Planters in South Carolina loosened their disciplinary regimes

What was an effect of the increasing importance of the maritime economy in the northern colonies?

• It raised standards of living in all classes

• It led to the end of slavery in the North.

• It created a society increasingly divided by levels of wealth.

• It led to the growth of large urban areas in the South.

How did the Iroquois nations secure their political future in 1701?

• They built a firm alliance with the French.

• They built a firm alliance with the English.

• They vowed never to form an alliance with Europeans again.

• They played French and English interests against each other.

The response in Massachusetts Bay to the Navigation Acts represents

• submission to royal governance of the colonies

• American resistance to mercantilist policies

• American opposition to occupation by English troops.

• the powerlessness of the Puritan legislature.

How did slavery in the Chesapeake differ from slavery in South Carolina?

• Slavery was not a defining principle of the social order in the Chesapeake.

• The Chesapeake slave codes allowed Christianized Africans to become free.

• Slaves in the Chesapeake were mainly skilled laborers.

• The slave population in the Chesapeake increased naturally through reproduction.

Why did Charles Townshend of the Board of Trade vow to end salutary neglect in 1749?

• The colonies were being taken advantage of by Britain

• The colonies failed to take advantage of the policy.

• British merchants were taking advantage of the crown.

• American colonial assemblies had overstepped their boundaries

Why did the South Atlantic System bring the most wealth to Britain?

• British merchants owned all ships involved in trade.

• American goods had to pass through England before being sold in Europe.

• The British possessed a monopoly on the African slave trade

• People living in Britain owned a majority of southern plantations.

What development was most responsible for the growth of the northern maritime economy?

• The success of tobacco planters in Virginia

• The Navigation Acts

• The productivity of farms in the interior of North America

• The wealth of the British sugar colonies