18th Century America

Choose the correct answer for each question.

1 The message of the Great Awakening directly challenged the belief that Christ was God's son sent to earth the faith in individual self-reliance and economic mobility the belief that Indians could never be integrated into colonial society the established Puritan view of a coldly rational approach to God and religion the Roman Catholic Church 2 Benjamin Franklin favored an educational system that would prepare young men for business and professional careers wanted to see young men educated in the European tradition believed in an educational system that emphasized Greek and Latin supported the idea that women should be educated in the same manner as men was a profoundly religious man who was consistently faithful to his wife 3 According to the mercantilist theory, colonies existed to provide a market for the mother country's goods open up markets to competing nations supply raw materials to the mother country 2 and 3 1 and 3 4 Which of the following statements about women in 18th century America is correct? women coul dnot inherit their parents' land. Only sons could legally inherit family estates women could not choose their own husbands. The choice was made by their parents women in rural and urban families played an important part in helping to support their households women had legal control over their dowries and other property that they brought with them into marriage women had a shorter life span than men 5 Which of the following could vote in the English colonies? women African-Americans Native Americans all of the above none of the above