Why were there so few slaves in New England during the eighteenth century quizlet?
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The American Nation, Volume 29th EditionPrentice Hall 865 solutions In 18th century America. the main sources of population growth and diversity were a. Irish and Italian immigrants b. immigration and natural increase c. Russian and English immigrants d. Eastern European and palatine German immigrants b Compared with the poor in England, the least wealthy 18th century New Englanders a. were equally poor and needy b. lived more comfortably c. were much poorer and lacked bare essentials d. did not have a class of the poor, as wealth was quite equally distributed b Colonial governors had difficulty gaining the trust and respect of influential colonists because a. their terms of office were often less than 5 years, and they had little or no access to patronage positions b. they were poorly paid and accepted bribes c. the colonists believed that they should tied to England d. they all lived in England and rarely came to the colonies a During the 18th century, colonists in America a. worked incessantly to make their society thoroughly colonial, rejecting as much of British culture and fashion as possible b. thought of themselves as British subjects and colonists c. were ready to break with England d. became remarkably homogenous given the number of immigrants b From 1700 to 1770, the black population in the South increased almost three times faster than the white population of the area; by 1770, blacks made up a. 75 percent of the southern population b. 40 percent of the southern population c. 90 percent of the southern population d. 20 percent of the southern population b The defining feature of the southern colonies in the 18th century was a. cotton farms b. slavery c. parasitic diseases due to the heat d. sugarcane farming b The increasing presence of English goods in the colonial market in the eighteenth century a. spurred competition with goods imported from continental Europe. b. improved the colonial standard of living while increasing resentment toward the British c. caused the colonists to rebel and concentrate on home manufacture of goods d. tied the colonists to the British economy while making them feel more British. d Which colony was known as "the best poor Man's Country in the World"? a. Rhode Island b. Pennsylvania c. Massachusetts d. New York b In addition to their competition for land, colonial settlers and Indians engaged in conflicts over a. fur trade b. access to British imports c. fishing rights d. French protection a A result comparatively high standard of living in rural Pennsylvania and the surrounding middle colonies between 1720 and 1770 was that a. daughters of colonists were sent to schools in england b. colonists began buying more land c. the per capita consumption of imported goods from England more than doubled d. colonists increased the size of their families c Why were there so few slaves in New England during the eighteenth century a. Slaveholding violated puritan beliefs b. New England's family farming was not suited for slave labor c. New Englanders did not have the money to buy slaves d. The slave trade was prohibited in New England b In the 18th century, the Southern slaveholding gentry dominated a. the Atlantic coastal towns b. the Supreme Court c. both the politics and the economy of the south d. the U.S. Congress c Because of the colonial New England practice of "partible inheritance" in land distribution, by the 18th century, lands could no longer be subdivided, as the plots had become too small for a family to make a living. Partible inheritance means that lands were subdivided a. about equally among all the children in a family b. among the wife and three oldest children in a family c. about equally among all the sons in a family d. between the eldest and youngest males of the family c Members of the 18th century Southern gentry typically a. were skilled with weaponry b. felt they deserved a life of idleness c. attended Presbyterian services each week. d. gambled, entertained lavishly, and cultivated a life of leisurely pursuits
d In the 18th century, the majority of immigrants coming to America were a. Scots-Irish or slaves from Africa b. Scots c. from German principalities d. English or African a Economic growth in the middle colonies, particularly in Pennsylvania, arose from a. fishing b. shipbuilding c. wheat production d. timber industry c Newly imported African slaves usually arrived alone. How did they develop kinship relationships in the existing slave communities? a. New arrivals used sign language, since they did not speak the same dialect. b. Seasoned slaves taught new arrivals the ways of the plantation and shared food with them. c. The master or plantation owner assigned new arrivals to seasoned slaves in kinship units. d. Established slave families often adopted new arrivals as "fictive" kin d A "country born" slave was one who a. was used to the ways of southern slavery after a seasoning process b. had been held in slavery for 10 years c. combined African and European languages into a distinct dialect d. was born into slavery in the colonies d The larges group of non-Christians in 18th century North America was made up of a. indentured servants b. slaves c. hurons d. southerners b In which southern colony did the black population outnumber the white population almost two to one? a. North Carolina b. South Carolina c. Virginia d. Georgia b The most important change in 18th century colonial America was a. an increase in the British population due to famine in England b. phenomenal population growth c. an especially rapid decrease in the Indian population d. more intensive land development b By 1770, the middle colonies had a uniquely diverse immigrant population; the largest number of immigrants were a. Dutch b. Catholic c. German and Scots-Irish d. Yankees c The dominant group in 18th century Philadelphia society in terms of wealth and political power was a. wheat farmers b. fisherman c. artisans d. Quaker merchants d Southern masters preferred black slaves over white indentured servants because a. indentured servants would not work as many hours as slaves b. slaves served for life and could be disciplined more harshly c. indentured servants were surly and talked back d. masters had to pay indentured servants a small sum each year b An increased supply of items such as tobacco and sugar in eighteenth-century colonial America led to a. a drop in prices and a resulting increase in the purchase of luxury goods by ordinary people. b. increased obesity and a subsequent sedentary lifestyle. c. a drop in prices, prompting slaveholders to decrease the number of slaves they bought. d. increased exports to England and increased trading with Indians to the west. a The purpose of "seasoning" slaves was to a. slowly introduce them to the slaves already on the plantations so that the slaves from differing cultures would get along. b. break them so they would obey their masters c. acclimate them to the physical and cultural environment of the southern colonies d. teach them English c Poor Richard's Almanack mirrored the beliefs of its Pennsylvania readers in its glorification of a. work and wealth b. Puritan c. the small farmer d. the slave as a "noble savage" a While New England's population grew sixfold during the eighteenth century, it lagged behind the growth in other colonists because a. wealth could be gained far more quickly in other colonies. b. the weather was too cold in New England. c. most immigrants chose other colonies due to the inhospitable Puritan orthodoxy and relatively high ratio of people to land. d. merchants of New England did not encourage more colonists to settle there. c Why did Thomas Jefferson state a "a (slave) child raised every 2 years is of more profit than the crop of the best laboring (slave) man"? a. through natural increase his slave holdings would grow to larger numbers and thus include more laboring individuals b. Children ate less than a laboring slave man did. c. the mortality rate of adult male slaves was high d. children worked harder and complained less than adult slaves. a South Carolina planters favored slaves from the Central African Congo and Angola requires because a. they were more common and thus less expensive b. they came from a region in Africa that was similar in climate to South Carolina, and thus they stayed healthier and were able to work more c. they were larger and stronger d. linguistic and cultural similarities allowed them to communicate with other African slaves from the same region, thereby easing newcomers' acculturation to slave life. d In the eighteenth century, Spanish officials decided to build forts and missions on New Spain's Northern frontier to a. block Russian access to present-day California b. disrupt competition from French fur traders. c. improve relations with Indians in the region. d. convert California Indians to Protestantism a Many Germans and Scots-Irish without passage money arrived in Philadelphia as "redemptioners", who were a. persons who redeemed their possessions with a ship's captain for passage to the colonies b. persons who agreed to work aboard ship in exchange for free passage to the colonies c. persons who had obtained money for passage from a friend or relative in the colonies or by selling as themselves as servants once they arrived. d. skilled artisans who agreed to work a year in the colonies in exchange for passage c While the eighteenth-century Southern gentry privately looked down upon poor whites, they publicly acknowledged them as a. their equals by virtue of belonging to the "superior" white race b a contemptible group of of lost souls c. having the opportunity to someday become gentry d. necessary to the growth of the Southern economy a The commercial economy of New England was dominated by a. printers b. artisans c. farmers d. merchants d Prominent colonists in the plantation South and in cites such as Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia belonged to the a. Catholic Church b. Congregational church c. Angilican Church d. Presbyterian Church c In the middle colonies of the 18th century, salves a. were not much needed on wheat farms, which operated mostly with family labor. b. grew tremendously in number due to burgeoning tobacco farms c. were mostly of Indian descent d. were frowned upon and treated more like redemptioners where they were used a Southern planters tended to buy newly arrived Africans in small groups because a. small groups of slaves ensured the newcomers could be trained by the planters' seasoned slaves b. the groups were bought jointly with another plantation owner c. they were afraid of insurrection d. they had to be very selective in order to get the best buys d The colonial economy in the eighteenth century was unique because a. the standard of living in the colonies rose by one-tenth of a percent b. almost all colonists considered themselves wealthy c. of the relatively high standard of living of the free population d. a few colonists held most of the wealth, whereas most people were very poor c As the 18th century progressed, tobacco, rice, and indigo made the southern colonies a. the richest in North America b. as rich as New England merchants c. dependent upon the West Indies for trade d. a colonial appendage of the middle and New England colonies a The Great Awakening can best be described as a(n) a. appeal to Protestants to band together as one b. movement to convert Catholics c. revival movement to convert nonbelievers and revive the piety of believers d. appeal to the head, not the heart c The Stono rebellion proved that 18th century slaves a. could neither overturn slavery nor win in the fight for freedom b. would continue to rebel until they received their freedom c. could not organize themselves against their armed masters d. were dangerous in large, organized numbers a In 18th century New England, the Congregational church a. tried to undermine the Puritan Church, which was losing membership b. was not as popular as the Anglican Church c. was supported by taxes paid by all residents d. was popular, but plurality was the norm. c By 1770, New Englanders had only one-fourth as much wealth as free colonists in the South, in large part because a. the growing season was too short b. farms did not produce huge surpluses of cash crops in quantities necessary to become wealthy c. the craggy, rocky soil could not support cash crops d. a lack of rainfall kept farm produce from growing b Most 18th century colonists went to church a. regularly b. two or three times per week c. never d. seldom or not at all d Most of the Scots-Irish who came to the colonies were farm laborers or tenant farmers who were leaving behind a. droughts, crop failures, high food prices, and/or high rents b. lush green farmland seized by the British c. small farms that had been in their families for decades d. farmlands that were flooded from the great rains of Ireland a Although the 3 regions of British North America became more distinct in the latter part of the 18th century, they still shared several unifying experiences, such as a, very similar colonial governments and a growing concern over the slavery issue. b. steadily declining opportunities to buy land and a related increase in industrial development c. growing concern over the slavery issue and the increasing importance of evangelical religion d. agricultural roots, a lessening reliance on religion, and a realization of their British colonial identity. d The huge increase in the slave population in the South during the second half or the eighteenth century can be attributed to a. slaves leaving New England to come South b. slave immigration c. natural increase and the Atlantic slave trade d. natural increase c The eighteenth-century New England economy could be characterized as a. a diversified, worldwide commercial economy b. being dominated by a network of trade with the expanding settler population inland. c. being dominated by famers with large landholdings d. a primarily agricultural society that imported most of its material goods from Asia. a In colonial America, deists a. rejected intellectual though and sough to find gods in natural phenomena b. came from the middle class and questioned the existence of God c. believed in predestination and a vengeful god. d. were usually educated and followed the ideas of European Enlightenment thinkers d An early Pennsylvania policy encouraging settlement was a. a very low property tax b. to give away land to adult white males c. to negotiate with Indian tribes to purchase land, which reduced frontier clashes. d. to pay settlers to farm Indian lands c What was the dominant feature of the eighteenthWhat was the dominant feature of the eighteenth-century New England economy? It was a diversified, worldwide commercial economy focused on the Atlantic world.
What did the Stono Rebellion prove about eighteenthThe Stono Rebellion proved that 18th-century slaves were not simply giving in to their enslavement. It also proved how slave resistance could be carried out in one of its most dramatic forms.
What was the dominant feature of the eighteenthWhat was the dominant feature of the eighteenth-century New England economy? D. It was a diversified, worldwide commercial economy focused on the Atlantic world.
What was the main reason slavery was used on plantations in the Americas quizlet?European colonists in the Americas needed cheap labor, so they began using enslaved Africans on plantations and farms.
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