HIUS 390 Quiz Planters

HIUS 390 Quiz: Reading — A Planters’ Patriarchy

1. What was NOT a factor in determining whether a person could vote in colonial Virginia?
2. What was NOT an accomplishment Alexander Spotswood had as lieutenant governor?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. Who uttered the famous line “…give me liberty, or give me death?” in a speech at a second Virginia convention in 1775?
6. What was central to supporting the system of patriarchy in 18th-century (1700s) Virginia?
7. What led to the Cherokee War in 1759?
8. What were some of the aspects of society that made colonial Virginia appear to be the perfect planter’s patriarchy?
9. What was the ultimate result of the French and Indian War?
10. What was NOT a concern for British and American relations following the French and Indian War?
11. What was Virginia governor Francis Fauquier’s reaction to the Virginia Resolves?
12. Why did Virginia planters and farmers continue to rely on growing tobacco rather than diversifying their crops in the 1700s?
13. What did runaway slaves illustrate about the reality of Virginia patriarchy society?
14. What was a major lesson George Washington learned from the French and Indian War?
15. Who were the primary leaders of the First Great Awakening in Virginia?
16. What caused tensions to rise between Anglicans and religious dissenters in colonial Virginia?
17. What was NOT a social or political impact Samuel Davies and other Great Awakening ministers had on America?
18. In Patrick Henry’s famous Liberty or Death speech, he proclaim, “Gentlemen may cry, ‘____, ____’, but there is no _____. The war has already begun!”
19. What did the Founding Fathers recognize posed a problem to their rhetoric of a God-ordained right to liberty?
20. In what areas of Virginia did religious dissenters primarily settle at first, once the colony was opened to them?