HIUS 390 Quiz Planters
HIUS 390 Quiz: Reading — A Planters’ Patriarchy
- What was NOT a factor in determining whether a person could vote in colonial Virginia?
- What was NOT an accomplishment Alexander Spotswood had as lieutenant governor?
- What was the underlying reason the House of Burgesses attempted to pass a resolution against the Townshend Acts that asked Virginians not to import goods from England?
- Why did small planters disapprove of Lieutenant Governor Spotswood’s tobacco inspection plan, which said they had to take their crops to warehouses to be inspected and sold?
- Who uttered the famous line “…give me liberty, or give me death?” in a speech at a second Virginia convention in 1775?
- What was central to supporting the system of patriarchy in 18th-century (1700s) Virginia?
- What led to the Cherokee War in 1759?
- What were some of the aspects of society that made colonial Virginia appear to be the perfect planter’s patriarchy?
- What was the ultimate result of the French and Indian War?
- What was NOT a concern for British and American relations following the French and Indian War?
- What was Virginia governor Francis Fauquier’s reaction to the Virginia Resolves?
- Why did Virginia planters and farmers continue to rely on growing tobacco rather than diversifying their crops in the 1700s?
- What did runaway slaves illustrate about the reality of Virginia patriarchy society?
- What was a major lesson George Washington learned from the French and Indian War?
- Who were the primary leaders of the First Great Awakening in Virginia?
- What caused tensions to rise between Anglicans and religious dissenters in colonial Virginia?
- What was NOT a social or political impact Samuel Davies and other Great Awakening ministers had on America?
- In Patrick Henry’s famous Liberty or Death speech, he proclaim, “Gentlemen may cry, ‘____, ____’, but there is no _____. The war has already begun!”
- What did the Founding Fathers recognize posed a problem to their rhetoric of a God-ordained right to liberty?
- In what areas of Virginia did religious dissenters primarily settle at first, once the colony was opened to them?