Chapter 4 Reading Quiz

The leading promoter of the Great Awakening was:

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Whitfield

• Junipero Serra

• Billy Graham

British governance of colonial America during the first half of the eighteenth century was shaped by a policy of:

• social contract

• natural selection

• constitutional balance

• salutary neglect

Which of the following was not a regional pattern of colonial slavery?

• In the Chesapeake colonies slave holding was common among plantation owners and small farms

• Agriculture and other labor intensive economic activities increased the number of slaves in the British colonies

• Tobacco and other cash crops called for large numbers of African slaves

• In the northern colonies slaves could be found in a wide range of trades including urban and rural and just as numerous as slaves in the southern colonies

“Whereas some doubts have arisen whether children produced by any Englishman and a negro woman should be slave or free, be it therefore enacted and declared by this present grand assembly, that all children borne in this country shall be held bond, or free only according to the condition of the mother. And if any Christian shall commit fornication with a negro man or woman, he or she so offending shall pay double the fines imposed by the former act.”

-Source: Virginia slave law passed by the House of Burgesses in December 1662

Which of the following developments in the colonial era best represented the continuation of the ideas expressed in the slave law above?

• the idea that terms of enslavement only lasted seven years or until a person could buy their freedom

• the idea that slave owners have the right to recapture enslaved Africans if they run away

• the idea that enslaved people of African descent are not considered citizens in the eyes of the law

• the idea that the condition of slavery passed down to the child through the mother

Which of the following is not a valid comparison of the eighteenth-century ideas of “republicanism” and “liberalism”?

• each condemned material inequality as incompatible with freedom

• each regarded property as an essential element to freedom

• republicanism placed greater emphasis on public service; liberalism placed greater emphasis on individual rights

• between the two liberalism placed greater emphasis on restraining government intrusion into private life

“When I heard that Mr. Whitefield was coming to preach in Middletown, I was in my field at work. I dropped my tool and ran home to my wife and told her to hurry. My wife and I rode my horse as fast as I thought the horse could bear . . . When we got to the meeting house there were three or four thousand people assembled . . . When I saw Mr. Whitfield he looked almost angelic . . . And hearing how God was with him everywhere put me into a trembling fear. I saw that my righteousness would not save me . . .”

-Nathan Cole, a farmer from Middletown, Connecticut recounting his experience hearing George Whitefield preach in 1741.

The excerpt provided is best understood in the context of which of the following:

• A reaction against the rationalism promoted in the Enlightenment

• A rise in anti-Protestant laws throughout the colonies

• The emergence of major reform movements

• The rise of religious revivals hosted by the Old Lights

Which of the following was not an important trend in colonial politics during the first half of the 1700s?

• increased efforts by colonial elites to curtail imperial authority

• elimination of property qualifications for voting and office holding

• expanding involvement of ordinary people in public debate

• growing popular support for the principle of free expression

Which of the following was not a defining feature of the Great Awakening?

• an impassioned, emotional style of ministry

• a tendency to subject old, established doctrine to fresh consideration

• a concern that material gain was overtaking spiritual salvation as the chief pursuit of colonial america

• an insistence that ones spiritual destiny- be it salvation or damnation- could not be affected by one's actions in life

“It is ordered and unanimously agreed upon, that the Government which this [body politic] doth attend unto in this Island, and the Jurisdiction thereof, in favour of our Prince is a [democracy], or Popular Government; that is to say, It is in the [power] of the Body of Freemen orderly assembled, or the major part of them, to make or constitute Just Lawes, by which they will be regulated, and to depute from among themselves such Ministers as shall see them faithfully executed between Man and Man.”

Text III Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, 1641

Which of the following had an impact on colonial resistance to increased control by the British government?

• colonial experiences of self-government

• the rise of a cultural movement called the Second Great Awakening

• the spread of trans-Atlantic print culture

• the teachings in colonial private schools and colonial colleges