By the beginning of the eighteenth century, some Americans were growing troubled by
a. the lack of fertile soil in the Middle Colonies
b. a huge increase in Catholic immigration from Ireland
c. an apparent decline in religious piety in their society
d. the overwhelming amount of new taxes imposed by Britain
e. a decline in the colonial population that reduced the labor pool
Answer: C
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APUSH Chapter 3
- Seaports became important centers in Colonial America for all of the following reasons except
- After the first few decades of settlement in British North America
- The 1692 witchcraft crisis in Salem illustrates
- Religious toleration developed in America because
- Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards strayed from Puritan orthodoxy in his belief that
- "New lights" during the Great Awakening
- Enlightenment thought influenced the colonies by
- Slavery in the plantation system
- Which of the following regions is correctly matched with the products that region was known to produce?
- The Navigation Acts
- The colonial population changed during the first half of the eighteenth century for all of the following reasons except
- The labor force in colonial America included which of the following over the course of the early eighteenth century?
- America's most famous almanac, Poor Richard's Almanac, was published by
- The most popular nonreligious literature in early America was
- The American political system developed differently than the British political system because
- The Puritan theologian Cotton Mather (after advice from his slave) came to believe that smallpox could be defeated by
- The increasing value of scientific knowledge in the American colonies was reflected in all of the following developments except
- One of the first American colleges to have no theological faculty was
- In the English colonies of North America, the group that had the least access to education was
- The American who least subscribed to the ideas of the Enlightenment was
- The Enlightenment encouraged people to seek guidance in their lives and to shape society by looking to
- The Great Awakening of the 1700s
- In religious matters, each of the colonies
- Colonial cities displayed all of the following characteristics except