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Question 1

During the eighteenth century, rising consumerism in the American colonies was encouraged by
 
  A. the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists.
 
  B. the quickly rising purchasing power of members of the lower classes.
 
  C. increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material possessions with status in the upper class.
 
  D. the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists and the association of material possessions with personal virtue and refinement.
 
  E. the association of material possessions with loyalty to the crown.

Question 2

The triangular trade in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity?
 
  A. molasses
 
  B. slaves
 
  C. rum
 
  D. All these answers are correct.
 
  E. sugar

Question 3

Seventeenth-century southern plantations
 
  A. created few new wealthy landowners.
 
  B. enabled planters to control their markets.
 
  C. tended to be rough and relatively small.
 
  D. rarely required the landowner do any manual labor.
 
  E. used many more slaves than indentured servants.

Question 4

By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence, in part because of
 
  A. the development of a substantial colonial manufacturing industry.
 
  B. illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire.
 
  C. All these answers are correct.
 
  D. the abolishment of the British Navigation Acts.
 
  E. new access by non-British ships to the colonial carrying trade.



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Reply 2 on: Sep 21, 2019
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