APUSH 2.7

“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?

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

• the teachings in colonial private schools and colonial colleges

• the spread of trans-Atlantic print culture

• colonial experiences of self-government

Read the passage and answer the question below.

“. . . from thence forward, no goods or commodities whatsoever shall be imported into or exported out of any lands. . . in any other. . . ships or . . . vessels whatsoever, but in such ships or vessels as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of England . . . or are built of and belonging to any the lands and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English.”

-Navigation Acts, September 1660

Which of the following developments in the 17th and 18th centuries best represented the continuation of the ideas expressed in the passage?

• The development of a virtual representation system gave the colonies the power to pass British laws

• The development of the encomienda system supported a racialized system of slavery

• The development of a mercantilist system enabled Britain to receive raw materials from the colonies

• The development of a globalist trade system increased trade from the British colonies to Spain and France

Read the passage and answer the question below.

“. . . (W)e must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature. . . . There [is] nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank. . . should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection. . . .”

-John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, 1690

The views expressed in the excerpt are best seen as evidence of which of the following in the British colonies?

• The influence of the Consumer Revolution, which promoted the sale of personal possessions

• The influence of the First Great Awakening, which promoted ideas of emotional connection with religion

• The influence of the Glorious Revolution, which promoted Protestant values in government

• The influence of the Enlightenment, which promoted ideas of rationalism and natural rights

“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

How did the Dominion of New England (1686) affect governments like the one described above?

• It abolished legislative assemblies and reinforced the authoritarian model of colonial rule.

• It backed the legitimacy of colonial governments.

• It chose two representatives from each colony to serve in the British Parliament.

• It created a parliamentary system in the colonies.

An image of an issue of Poor Richard’s Almanack from 1733. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons

Which of the following was the intention of pamphlets similar to the one above?

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• To advocate for political candidates in local governments

• To spread religious and political ideas between Britain and the colonies

• To motivate colonists to rise up against the Church of England

• To educate colonists on religious movements taking place in Britain

“. . . (W)e must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature. . . . There [is] nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank. . . should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection. . . .”

-John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, 1690

According to the passage, Locke advocated an approach to government that was reflected most clearly in which of the following movements?

• The First Great Awakening

• The Enlightenment

• The Great Migration

• The Consumer Revolution

“The metropolitan efforts to complete this British imperial hierarchy at the centre and to export it abroad, so as to forge ‘an entire interactive system’, were never a complete success [and] the American colonists eventually rejected the whole thing outright . . . [The British imperial] hierarchical world-view that was extended across the British empire was conservative in its ideology, and stressed the importance of tradition and unchangingness . . . the elaborate, layered social ordering of the American colonies was, at the mid eighteenth century, a relatively recent development”

-David Cannadine, historian, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, 2002

According to the passage, which of the following best explains the most important effect that British imperial stance had on colonists’ ideological resistance?

• Their resistance mirrored British imperial experiences of self-government.

• Their resistance centered on a perceived corruption in local experiences of self-government.

• Their resistance drew on Enlightenment ideas of diversity in class and social organization.

• Their resistance reflected previous notions of social ordering developed in Britain’s other imperial colonies.

An image of an issue of Poor Richard’s Almanack from 1733. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons

The pamphlet is best seen as evidence for which of the following?

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• The gradual anglicization of the colonies

• The rise of literacy rates amongst enslaved Africans

• The rise of the Second Great Awakening in the colonies

• The rise of colonial rebellion in the colonies