The Western Heritage, Review Chp 16

Front 1

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Intolerable Acts?

Back 1

Extending the boundaries of Quebec to include the Ohio River valley

Front 2

T/F Early in the eighteenth century, as many as 10,000 new Africans a year arrived in the West Indies as slaves.

Back 2

False

Front 3

The four stages of European contact discussed in the textbook could be summarized as

Back 3

exploration, mercantilism, formal empires, decolonization.

Front 4

__________ and guns allowed Europeans to dominate the globe.

Back 4

SHIPS, navy

Front 5

Frederick II, of Prussia, was also known as Frederick the Great.

Back 5

True

Front 6

The most profitable resource to be exported from the West Indies to Europe was __________.

Back 6

sugar

Front 7

Peninsulares are ....

Back 7

are persons born in Spain.

Front 8

T/F Joseph Dupleix and Robert Clive are both important names associated with the European colonization efforts in India.

Back 8

TRUE

Front 9

The reforms of Charles III had all of the following effects EXCEPT

Back 9

improving the lives of creoles (persons of European descent born in Spanish colonies).

Front 10

In response to the __________ Act, American colonists agreed to refuse to import British goods.

Back 10

STAMP

Front 11

T/F The flota system was a successful Spanish military squadron based in Caribbean ports.

Back 11

False

Front 12

The War of the American Revolution effectively concluded in 1781 when the forces of George Washington defeated the army of Lord Cornwallis at __________.

Back 12

Yorktown

Front 13

Which of the following best depicts the transatlantic economy?

Back 13

European goods were traded for slaves, who were traded for sugar in the West Indies, which was shipped to Europe.

Front 14

T/F Parliament passed a measure to restrict the power of the crown that was ultimately effective.

Back 14

FALSE

Front 15

T/F English ports did not directly profit from the Atlantic slave trade.

Back 15

FALSE

Front 16

Maria Theresa ruled the __________ Empire.

Back 16

Hapsburg

Front 17

Which of the following was not a major crop from the West Indies?

Back 17

Corn

Front 18

Besides the Americas, France and Britain also fought for economic superiority of __________.

Back 18

India

Front 19

T/F Until the nineteenth century, African warfare determined which African peoples would be sold into slavery.

Back 19

True

Front 20

(MULTIPLE CHOICE) Frederick II's invasion of Silesia in 1740

Back 20

DID ALL OF THESE!

Front 21

At the conclusion of the Seven Years' War,

Back 21

Great Britain assumed the status of a world power.

Front 22

T/F Common Sense helped turn colonial public opinion away from reconciliation and toward independence.

Back 22

TRUE

Front 23

T/F After the American Revolution, British trade with her former colonies remained about the same as it had before the conflict.

Back 23

FALSE

Front 24

Which of the following was NOT associated with mercantilism?

Back 24

There was an unlimited supply of wealth in the world.

Front 25

Because traders and merchants of one nation always wanted to break the monopoly of another, the eighteenth century was the "golden age of __________".

Back 25

Smugglers

Front 26

The Treaty of __________ replaced the Bourbons of France on the Spanish throne.

Back 26

Utrecht

Front 27

T/F Slavery began in the New World with the arrival of African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619.

Back 27

False

Front 28

T/F Slaves in plantation societies led comfortable lives, to varying degrees.

Back 28

FALSE

Front 29

The War of the Austrian Succession ended with the

Back 29

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

Front 30

The British monarch during the American Revolution was King __________.

Back 30

George III (George)