Chapter 5 Practice Questions

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• All of the following are true of Scots-Irish
  immigrants in Pennsylvania EXCEPT that
• A. they were the first to settle in the American
  west
• They were not actually of Irish descent
• Many of them united with the American
  Revolutionaries
• They brought with them the now-how for Whiskey
  distilling
• They were tolerant of local Indians

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• The population growth of the American colonies by
  1775 is attributed mostly to
• a. the natural fertility of Native Americans.
• b. white immigration from Europe.
• c. the importation of slaves from Africa.
• d. the natural fertility of all Americans.
• e. the influx of immigrants from Latin
  America.

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• The most ethnically diverse region of colonial
  America was __________, whereas __________ was
  the least ethnically diverse.
• a. the middle colonies, the South
• b. New England, the South
• c. the frontier regions, New England
• d. the middle colonies, New England
• e. the South, New England

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• The most important economic enterprise in the
  American colonies was
• a. commerce.
• b. slave trading.
• c. manufacturing.
• d. agriculture.
• e. fishing.

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• The triangular trade of the colonial American
  shipping industry
• a. saw the Spanish gaining the largest
  profits.
• b. was not that profitable.
• c. relied on the Spanish fleet for
  protection.
• d. involved America, France, and England.
• e. involved the trading of rum for African
  slaves.

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial
  America in the eighteenth century was
• a. iron making.
• b. making clothes.
• c. lumbering.
• d. rum distilling.
• e. arms and munitions production.

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Primary Sources

• What is the significance of the following Sermon
  (image on the bottom)?
• Hell is paved with the skulls of unbaptized
  babies

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Primary Sources

• The God that holds you over the pit of hell,
  much as one holds a spider or some loathsome
  insect over fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully
  provoked. His wrath toward you burns like fire
  he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but
  to be cast into the fire. Jonathan Edwards

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Artists

• Charles Wilson Peale

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Artists

• John Trumbull

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Artists

• John Singleton Copley

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Artists

• Benjamin West

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Zenger Case

• Who defended him?
• Why is this case important in colonial society?