Author Question: Benjamin Franklin's popular work, ________, next to the Bible, was the most widely read book in the ... (Read 93 times)

mspears3 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Between 1746 and 1769, six new ________ were created in British North America.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Question 2

In Massachusetts and ________, the Great Awakening split congregations into Old Lights and New Lights.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Question 3

During the latter part of the seventeenth century, King Louis XIV attempted to make ________ the most powerful nation in Europe and to expand its empire in the New World.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Question 4

Eliza Lucas Pinckney, a wealthy South Carolina planter's wife, experimented successfully in the 1740s with the cultivation of ________, a plant from which a blue dye could be extracted for use in textiles.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Question 5

Benjamin Franklin's popular work, ________, next to the Bible, was the most widely read book in the colonies, containing quips, adages, and homespun philosophy.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).