Chapter 4- Life In Colonial America

Question 1

What are the dates of the colonial era?

Answer 1

1607 to 1775

Question 2

In colonial America where did most of the colonists come from?

Answer 2

England

Question 3

What name was given to groups of people who left Scotland and settled in Northern Ireland in the seventeenth century?

Answer 3

The scot-Irish

Question 4

In what colony did many German Americans choose to settle

Answer 4

Pennsylvania

Question 5

By 1760 what city in America was the largest in the colonies?

Answer 5

Philadelphia

Question 6

Name the black servant of Count Lauring of Copenhagen who encouraged Moravians to take the gospel to St. Thomas

Answer 6

Anthony Ulrich

Question 7

During the late 1700s what island became the strongest center of Christianity in the West Indies ?

Answer 7

Antigua

Question 8

What type of church was the official church of the southern colonies?

Answer 8

The Anglican Church

Question 9

The moravians followed the teachings of what reformer?

Answer 9

John Huss

Question 10

What group wrote the first book of classical music to be composed in America?

Answer 10

The Moravians

Question 11

What great Moravian leader came from Saxony and helped the moravians found Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Answer 11

Count von Zinzendorf

Question 12

For many years in New England what type of church was most numerous?

Answer 12

Congregational Churches

Question 13

What book played an important role in shaping the American character

Answer 13

The Bible

Question 14

What did nearly 90% of all colonies rely on for their livelihood

Answer 14

Farming

Question 15

What was the chief crop of New England?

Answer 15

Corn

Question 16

Which colonies were known as the bread colonies?

Answer 16

The middle colonies

Question 17

Name one of the three important crops in the southern colonies?

Answer 17

Rice, tobacco, indigo

Question 18

By the end of the colonial period about what fraction of England trading vessels were made in America?

Answer 18

1/3

Question 19

As ships sailed from New England to Europe and back around again what type of route did they follow?

Answer 19

Triangular trade route

Question 20

What economic system stressed that the colonies existed for the sole benefit of the mother country?

Answer 20

Mercantilism

Question 21

What type of homes for most typical in New England?

Answer 21

Cottages

Question 22

What area of the home was the central gathering place?

Answer 22

Fireplace

Question 23

What type of roads were used to move the mail?

Answer 23

Post roads

Question 24

What is the major difference between how classes were determined in Europe and America?

Answer 24

In America your class was determined by your wealth and in England your class was determined by your birth

Question 25

What do we call sparsely populated area in the fringe of settlement?

Answer 25

Frontier

Question 26

Who is one of the first and most famous men to lead a group of pioneers into the frontier?

Answer 26

Daniel Boone

Question 27

In the late 1760s Daniel Boone led settlers through what natural passage through the mountains near theTennessee border

Answer 27

Cumberland gap

Question 28

What name was given to the trail that they took?

Answer 28

The wilderness Road

Question 29

What group of colonist set the pace for education in colonial America?

Answer 29

The puritans

Question 30

What type of school was run by a widow or single lady?

Answer 30

Dame school

Question 31

Most Children learn to read using what book?

Answer 31

Horn book

Question 32

What was the most widely used textbook in America?

Answer 32

The new England primer

Question 33

What was the best known academy in the colonies?

Answer 33

Philadelphia academy

Question 34

What type of school was founded in the south in an abandoned tobacco field

Answer 34

Old field school

Question 35

What type of education revolves around young man serving a master craftsman in exchange for an education and learning trade.

Answer 35

Apprenticeship

Question 36

Colonial America develop the education system so children can learn to read what?

Answer 36

The Bible

Question 37

What was the first raingear Lee printed newspaper in the colonies?

Answer 37

Boston newsletter

Question 38

Who encourage the building of libraries and produce poor Richards almanac

Answer 38

Benjamin Franklin

Question 39

Who is remembered As an American patriot and experienced silversmith

Answer 39

Paul revere

Question 40

Who is remembered as the first American professional musician and also conducted singing schools

Answer 40

William billings

Question 41

Who was the first American member of the Royal Society of London?

Answer 41

John Winthrop Junior

Question 42

Who was a famous black American scientist who predicted in eclipse in 1789?

Answer 42

Benjamin Banneker

Question 43

What Puritan minister and scientist help produce smallpox and maculation to America

Answer 43

Cotton Mather

Question 44

What were the three types of colonies in America?

Answer 44

Royal colonies, proprietary colonies, and self-governing colonies

Question 45

What is a proprietary colony?

Answer 45

A proprietary colony is a colony that is granted by the king to a proprietor who can do whatever he wants to the colony with limited power

Question 46

Except for Pennsylvania, how many houses did the colonial legislatures have?

Answer 46

Two and they are called bicameral

Question 47

Who served as the chief executive of the colony?

Answer 47

The governor

Question 48

Go with the governor had tremendous power what did the legislator control that gave them some power over the governor?

Answer 48

They control the purse strings or the money or his pay

Question 49

What did English man in the colonist believe was the main role of government?

Answer 49

To protect the people and their property

Question 50

What is the basic unit of local government in New England?

Answer 50

The town

Question 51

In the southern colonies what was the basic unit of government?

Answer 51

The county

Question 52

What kind of local government did they have in the middle colonies?

Answer 52

Both towns and counties