Chapter Ten: Maritime Society, 1760-1815

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Question 1
The Planters were
a. black Loyalists who fought for the British cause to win freedom.
b. Loyalist Massachusetts farmers.
c. New England fishers and farmers who immigrated to Nova Scotia.
d. immigrants from the Thirteen Colonies to Nova Scotia and Quebec who were fleeing persecution.

Question 2
What did Jonathan Eddy try to do?
a. impose new taxes in Nova Scotia
b. defeat Governor Legge’s conscription law
c. convince Nova Scotians that their colony had become the new centre of Christendom
d. take Fort Cumberland

Question 3
What political cause did Nova Scotia’s "New Light" communities support?
a. They supported Britain.
b. They sought neutrality.
c. They supported the American cause, but refused to fight for it.
d. The populations of these communities were torn, to the point of acute internal conflict.

Question 4
Why did many religious minorities and recent immigrants from Europe remain loyal to Britain?
a. They feared that increased American power would result in a loss of freedoms.
b. They were indoctrinated upon arrival.
c. They believed that there would be greater social mobility under British rule.
d. They saw the Church of England as a lesser evil than the multitude of competing churches in the Thirteen Colonies.

Question 5
Approximately how many people left the United States as a result of the American Revolution?
a. 70,000
b. 45,000
c. 125,000
d. 98,000

Question 6
What was the motivation for black Americans to become Loyalists?
a. opportunity to return to Africa
b. financial rewards
c. the promise of equality
d. escape from slavery

Question 7
After Loyalist settlers on Prince Edward Island cleared lands and erected buildings, the proprietors of those lands
a. demanded high rental fees.
b. forced them to leave.
c. denied them written title deeds.
d. had no choice but to give them those lands.

Question 8
Which group outnumbered all others combined on Cape Breton Island by the middle of the nineteenth century?
a. the Mi’kmaq
b. the French
c. the Loyalists
d. the Scots

Question 9
What led to a lumber boom in New Brunswick?
a. The tariff preferences placed by the imperial government on timber from British America.
b. Britain’s high demand for ship building materials.
c. The outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars.
d. All of the above.

Question 10
What effect did the American embargo acts have on the Maritimes?
a. The Maritime population slowly came to support the American cause.
b. Maritime harbours and towns became very prosperous.
c. The economy of the Maritimes suffered greatly.
d. The embargo acts resulted in great shortages of food in the major urban centres of the Maritimes.

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