Unit 2 Study Guide
1.	All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence except

2.	One outstanding feature common to all of the eventually rebellious colonies was their

3.	As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century,

4.	The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to

5.	The average age of the American colonists in 1775 was

6.	By 1775, which of the following communities could not be considered a city in colonial America?

7.	Regarding government, the Scots-Irish colonists

8.	By 1775, the __________ were the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial America.

9.	The population of the thirteen American colonies was

10.	The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was __________, whereas __________ was the least ethnically diverse.

11.	In contrast to the seventeenth century, by 1775 colonial Americans

12.	By the mid-1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies

13.	On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility decreased, partly because

14.	During the colonial era, all of the following peoples created new societies out of diverse ethnic groups in America except

15.	All of the following conditions caused many Scots to migrate to Northern Ireland and thence to America except

16.	The Scots-Irish can best be described as

17.	When the Scots-Irish established a new community, one of the first tasks they undertook was to

18.	When it came to religion, the Scots-Irish

19.	The most honored profession in early colonial society was

20.	The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South

21.	When several colonial legislatures attempted to restrict or halt the importation of slaves, British authorities

22.	The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was

23.	One of the surest avenues to speedy wealth in the American colonies was

24.	The triangular trade of the colonial American shipping industry

25.	Of the following, the least important economic activity of colonial Americans was

26.	Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only secondary importance, they did produce which of the following?

27.	The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was

28.	Which of the following was not considered to be a naval store?

29.	One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the

30.	When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1733, it intended the act to

31.	American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain

32.	Transportation in colonial America was

33.	Colonial American taverns were all of the following except

34.	English officials tried to "establish" the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because

35.	In 1775, the __________ churches were the only two established (tax-supported) churches in colonial America.

36.	Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated.

37.	As the Revolution approached, Presbyterian and Congregational ministers in general

38.	By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was

39.	The religious doctrine of the Armenians held that

40.	Match each individual on the left with his or her talent.

41.	The "new light" preachers of the Great Awakening

42.	The Great Awakening

43.	The time-honored English ideal, which Americans accepted for some time, regarded education as

44.	In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted

45.	Colonial schools and colleges placed their main emphasis on

46.	The first American college free from determined control was

47.	Culture in colonial America

48.	The person most often called the "first civilized American" was

49.	All of the following are achievements of Benjamin Franklin except

50.	The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because

51.	One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was

52.	By 1775, most governors of American colonies were

53.	Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the power of the governors to their will because

54.	In colonial elections,

55.	By the mid-eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities except

56.	By 1775, population growth in the American colonies

57.	In 1775, most of the population in the American colonies

58.	The rebelliousness and inclination toward violence of the Scots-Irish was demonstrated by

59.	Trends that sapped the spiritual vitality from many early eighteenth-century churches included

60.	Leaders of the Great Awakening endorsed the concepts of

61.	In colonial New England, education was primarily

62.	Benjamin Franklin

63.	Colonial newspaper printer John Peter Zenger

64.	Generally, in the eighteenth-century American colonies

65.	By the mid-eighteenth century, Britain's North American colonies were similar in which of the following ways?

66.	During the seventeenth century, America established the precedent of

67.	The soldier and explorer whose leadership earned him the title "Father of New France" was

68.	France was finally able to join in the scramble for colonies in the New World as a result of the

69.	Government in New France (Canada) was

70.	Unlike the English colonies in America, in New France

71.	The one valuable resource in New France was

72.	The coureurs de bois were

73.	The population in Catholic New France grew very slowly because

74.	The primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New France was

75.	The Indians suffered from their association with the French in New France in all of the following ways except

76.	The Jesuit priests played a vital role in New France because

77.	The French wanted to control Louisiana because they

78.	French motives in the New World included the desire to

79.	The early wars between France and Britain in North America were notable for the

80.	During a generation of peace following the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, Britain provided its American colonies with

81.	The War of Jenkins's Ear was

82.	The War of Jenkins's Ear resulted in

83.	New England colonists were outraged when British diplomats returned __________ to France in 1748.

84.	The climactic clash between Britain and France for control of the North American continent sprang from their rivalry for control of

85.	A key reason France needed to control the Ohio Valley was to

86.	In his first military command in the French and Indian War, George Washington

87.	The French and Indian War was also known in Europe as

88.	In the colonial wars before 1754, Americans

89.	The immediate purpose of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to

90.	Unlike the first three Anglo-French wars, the French and Indian War

91.	Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity; (B) General Edward Braddock is defeated near Fort Duquesne; (C) British troops capture Louisbourg in their first significant victory of the French and Indian War; (D) General James Wolfe's army defeats Montcalm's on the Plains of Abraham.

92.	The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to

93.	Benjamin Franklin's plan for colonial home rule was rejected by the individual colonies because

94.	As a result of General Braddock's defeat a few miles from Fort Duquesne,

95.	The British invasion of Canada in 1756 during the French and Indian War

96.	When William Pitt became prime minister during the French and Indian War, he

97.	The 1759 Battle of Quebec

98.	In the peace arrangements that ended the French and Indian War,

99.	As a result of the French and Indian War, Great Britain

100.	For the American colonies, the French and Indian War

101.	During the French and Indian War,

102.	With the end of the French and Indian War, the disunity, jealousy, and suspicion that had long existed in the American colonies

103.	The disunity that existed in the colonies before the French and Indian War can be attributed to

104.	France had to give up its vision of a North American New France when

105.	When the Acadians left Canada, they went to

106.	The isolation of Louisiana's Cajun communities ended

107.	The primary thing that the Acadians and Quebecois believed that bound them together was their

108.	With the British and American victory in the French and Indian War,

109.	In a sense, the history of the United States began with the

110.	With the defeat of Chief Pontiac and his alliance, the British decided to

111.	Chief Pontiac decided to try to drive the British out of the Ohio Valley because

112.	The Proclamation of 1763 was issued mainly to

113.	In the wake of the Proclamation of 1763

114.	The Proclamation of 1763