American YAWP Chapter 4 (British North America)

Improvements in all of the following increased opportunities for colonists to purchase consumer goods EXCEPT

• Standardized currency

• Availability of credit

• Manufacturing

• Transportation

What was the “commodity money” used in Virginia?

• wampum

• barter

• tobacco

• specie

Which of the following colonies generated the most revenue?

• New York

• Barbados

• Virginia

• South Carolina

What was the largest American city during the late eighteenth century?

• New York

• Boston

• Philidelphia

• Charleston

Which colony outlawed slavery in 1750?

• Massachusetts

• New York

• Pennsylvania

• Slavery was legal in every North American British colony at that time

Which of these systems of slave labor offered enslaved people the greatest independence in the use of their time?

• Gang System

• Task System

• Plantation System

What was the first English group to turn against slavery?

• Quakers

• Baptists

• Merchants

• Episcopalians

What is the name for the practice whereby a married woman loses all of her political and economic rights to her husband?

• Jurisprudence

• Consort

• Pregnancy

• Coverture

Where did the Great Awakening begin?

• New England

• Pennsylvania

• Virginia

• South Carolina

What is the name of the prophet who inspired Pontiac’s Rebellion?

• Tecumseh

• Red Stick

• Neolin