GCCCD The Great Game of Politics Question

Name:Hist 108
Reading Questions #2
Chapter 5, pp. 72-88, stop at “The Great Game of Politics”
Point Value: 18
Due Date: Sunday October 4, 2020 by midnight
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1. Your text explains that Britain did not have just “thirteen colonies”
in North America, but in fact thirty-two by 1775 including:
A) Louisiana B) Jamaica C) Greenland D) Belize E) Maderia Islands
2. FILL IN THE NUMBER (1 point each):
a. Indicative of its rapid growth, what was the estimated population of
the thirteen colonies by 1775?
(fill in the number:
)
b. What was also the colonists’ average age?
(fill in the number:
)
c. What percentage of the colonists lived in rural areas? (fill in the
number:
)
3. TRUE or FALSE The most populous colony by 1775 was
MASSACHUSETTS.
4. TRUE or FALSE “Heavy accented” SCOT-IRISH numbered about
150,000 or 6% of the total colonial populations by 1775.
5. FILL IN THE NUMBER (1 point each)
a. “By far the largest single non-English group” by 1775, the African
population roughly constitutes one out of every five colonials or (fill in
the number:
) percent of the population within the thirteen British
colonies by 1775.
b. By the mid-1700s, the “richest (fill in the number:
) percent
of Bostonians and Philadelphians owned nearly two-thirds of the
taxable wealth in their cities.”
c. (Fill in the number:
) signers of the Declaration of
Independence were once indentured servants.
6. Within the American colonies, people often viewed which
profession as “noisy windbags” or “troublemaking rouges?”
A) physicians B) barbers C) lawyers D) newspaper printers E)
sailors
7. Write down the item(s) transported on each of the three legs of
the triangular trade system. (1 point each)
a. New England to Gold Coast of Africa:
b. Gold Coast of Africa to the West Indies:
c. West Indies to New England:
8. According to your textbook because of its atmosphere and social
nature, what establishments in colonial America represent a
“crystallizing of public opinion” and “another cradle of democracy?”
A) colleges B) churches C) taverns D) shipyards E) colonial jails
9. TRUE or FALSE Based on Table 5.2 on page 81, the vast
majority of colonial Americans were of Protestant faith. But of the
non-Protestants, there were numerically more ROMAN CATHOLICS
than JEWS in colonial America by 1775.
10. FILL IN THE NUMBER. Colonial Colleges Table 5.3 on page
86. Of the nine colonial colleges founded from 1636 to 1769, (fill in
the number:
) were geographically located within a Middle
Colony.
11. Helping to establish a basic American value, the celebrated 17341735 legal case of John Peter Zenger was a “banner achievement”
for freedom of:
A) speech B) religion C) illegal search and seizures D) press E) gun
ownership
12. Which of the following is the INCORRECTLY MATCHED colonial
figure with his or her profession or accomplishment?
A) Jonathan Edwards – religious pastor B) Benjamin Franklin –
founder of the University of Pennsylvania C) John Trumbull – painter
D) Phyllis Wheatley – poet E) George Whitefield – engineer of colonial
roads