Multiple Choice Chapter 04 Self-Quiz 1

. The expanding fur trade and use of the horse led Plains Indians to

decimate the bison herds.

further exploit their captives.

expand into ranching.

send trade representatives to Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.

. The Spanish attempted to establish outposts along the Gulf Coast to

expand livestock ranching into the area from central Mexico.

check French influence along the Gulf.

better facilitate the horse trade with the Blackfeet.

use it as an alternative entryway to their settlements in New Mexico.

. In the decades after the Spanish returned to New Mexico

Pueblos and Navajos allied against the interlopers.

the Pueblos and Spanish formed an uneasy alliance.

the Spanish destroyed Pueblo kivas and kachinas.

en masse, the Pueblos asked the Franciscans for forgiveness.

. After the French arrival at Biloxi, the Choctaw

allied with them.

allied with the Natchez against the newcomers.

allied with runaway French slaves against their masters.

allied with the Spanish to destroy the new settlement.

. When King Louis XV once again took control of Louisiana in 1731, he

established the Louisiana Company to turn a profit from the territory.

founded the city of New Orleans as its capital.

gave the territory to Spain, which would eventually sell it to the United States.

virtually ignored the territory.

. The Yamasee War pitted

the English and Yamasee against the French and Huron.

the Cherokee and Chickasaw against the English and Yemasee.

the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and colonists against the Yamasee and Creek.

the French and Huron against Yamasee, Cherokee, Chickasaw.

. What was generally true of African slaves in North America?

Many of them knew English from their interaction with slave traders.

They had a relatively equal sex ratio.

They spoke one of two African languages.

They honored their dead.

. All of the following were part of different colonial slave codes except:

prohibitions on interracial sex.

an annual tax of one month labor for non-Christian slaves.

forced indentures for children born to free black women.

the posting of bonds by slaveholders if they manumitted a slave.

. What caused most of the migration from Ireland during the early 1720s?

the potato famine

free passage on British naval vessels

expanded opportunities for Irish laborers

overdependence on linen and crop failures in Ulster

. The Transportation Act of 1718

exiled convicts to North America.

lowered the taxes on transatlantic passenger service.

forced improvements in the ships used in the slave trade.

taxed all traffic between British colonies and France and Spain.

. Cotton Mather's A Discourse Concerning Faith and Fervency

worried over the Islamic religious beliefs of some slaves.

contributed to the Pietist movement.

argued French colonists would go to hell for their Catholic beliefs.

led to revisions in the Massachusetts Bay laws governing religion.

. Pirates in the Indian Ocean

often launched long-range attacks on British North American shipping.

protected East India Company shipping.

sought recognition as privateers from the British.

had financial links to New York officials, mariners, and business people.

. Economic diversification in the colonies brought on

increasing reliance on slave labor in all the colonies.

increased dependecne on English imports.

an early form of factory farming.

an early form of industrialization.

. By the late 17th century, tea drinking was a sign of

poverty.

British citizenship.

rebellion.

gentility.

. By the 1730s, taverns in the British North American colonies

served as a place to share news.

were eclipsed by private clubs.

were shuttered because of temperance laws.

were heavily taxed.

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