Chapter 3: The British Atlantic World,
1660–1750
i>Clicker Questions
1. The response in Massachusetts Bay to the Navigation Acts represents
a. submission to royal governance of the colonies.
b. American resistance to mercantilist policies.
c. American opposition to occupation by English troops.
d. the powerlessness of the Puritan legislature.
2. How did the Glorious Revolution change imperial governance of the
colonies?
a. By increasing centralized control
b. By giving Parliament greater control over the colonies
c. By granting the colonies increased self-government
d. By removing all royal governors from office
3. How did the Iroquois nations secure their political future in 1701?
a. They built a firm alliance with the French.
b. They built a firm alliance with the English.
c. They vowed never to form an alliance with Europeans again.
d. They played French and English interests against each other.
4. Why did the South Atlantic System bring the most wealth to Britain?
a. British merchants owned all ships involved in trade.
b. American goods had to pass through England before being sold in Europe.
c. The British possessed a monopoly on the African slave trade.
d. People living in Britain owned a majority of southern plantations.
5. How did slavery in the Chesapeake differ from slavery in South Carolina?
a. Slavery was not a defining principle of the social order in the Chesapeake.
b. The Chesapeake slave codes allowed Christianized Africans to become free.
c. Slaves in the Chesapeake were mainly skilled laborers.
d. The slave population in the Chesapeake increased naturally through
reproduction.
6. What was a result of the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina?
a. White colonists' fears of a slave revolt increased.
b. The colony loosened the slave codes to relieve unrest.
c. The colony of South Carolina increased its slave imports.
d. Planters in South Carolina loosened their disciplinary regimes.
7. What did the Chesapeake gentry begin to do by the late 1600s in order to
prevent another uprising like Bacon's Rebellion?
a. They started dividing their estates into small tracts, which they gave to smallscale planters.
b. They began to decrease taxes on yeomen.
c. They imposed a manorial system.
d. They prohibited yeomen from investing in slaves.
8. What development was most responsible for the growth of the northern
maritime economy?
a. The success of tobacco planters in Virginia
b. The Navigation Acts
c. The productivity of farms in the interior of North America
d. The wealth of the British sugar colonies
9. What was an effect of the increasing importance of the maritime economy in
the northern colonies?
a. It raised standards of living in all classes.
b. It led to the end of slavery in the North.
c. It created a society increasingly divided by levels of wealth.
d. It led to the growth of large urban areas in the South.
10. Why did Charles Townshend of the Board of Trade vow to end salutary
neglect in 1749?
a. The colonies were being taken advantage of by Britain.
b. The colonies failed to take advantage of the policy.
c. British merchants were taking advantage of the crown.
d. American colonial assemblies had overstepped their boundaries.
Answer Key
1. The answer is b.
2. The answer is c.
3. The answer is d.
4. The answer is b.
5. The answer is d.
6. The answer is a.
7. The answer is b.
8. The answer is d.
9. The answer is c.
10. The answer is d.