chapter 3

Question 1

most seventeenth english migrants to the North American colonies were ___

Answer 1

laborers

Question 2

in the seventeenth century, the great majority of english immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region were ____

Answer 2

indentured servants

Question 3

which was NOT a characteristic of the english indentured system

Answer 3

most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts

Question 4

by 1700, english colonial landowners began to rely heavily on African slavery in part because ____

Answer 4

of a declining birth rate in England

Question 5

regarding colonial life expectancy during the seventeenth century, ____

Answer 5

life expectancy in new england was exceptionally high

Question 6

during the seventeenth century, english colonists in the chesapeake saw ______

Answer 6

a life expectancy of men just over forty years

Question 7

by 1775, the non Indian population of the english colonies was just over ____

Answer 7

2 million

Question 8

in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, medical practitioners ______

Answer 8

had little or no knowledge of sterilization

Question 9

the seventeenth century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on _______

Answer 9

the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids

Question 10

in the seventeenth century, white woman in the chesapeake region _____

Answer 10

averaged one pregnancy for every two years of marriage

Question 11

compared to women in the chesapeake region, new england women _____

Answer 11

were more likely to keep their family intact

Question 12

in colonial new england, _____

Answer 12

dowries were a common feature of marriage.

Question 13

In colonial New England Puritan communities, women ______

Answer 13

were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands

Question 14

In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was

Answer 14

highly valued.

Question 15

The term “middle passage” refers to the movement of enslaved Africans

Answer 15

from Africa to the New World.

Question 16

The total number of Africans forcibly brought to all of the Americas as slaves is estimated to
have been as many as

Answer 16

11 million

Question 17

During the seventeenth century, the Royal African Company of England

Answer 17

deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies.

Question 18

What statement regarding slavery in English North America in 1700 is FALSE?

Answer 18

The demand for slaves led to a steady rise in the prices paid for them.

Question 19

In English North American colonies, the application of slave codes was based on color and

Answer 19

nothing more.

Question 20

In comparing the colonial societies of Spanish America and English America, people of
mixed races had a

Answer 20

higher status than pure Africans in Spanish America.

Question 21

New England, for all its belief in community and liberty, was far from an egalitarian society.
“Some must be rich and some poor” is a statement attributed to which seventeenth-century
colonial?

Answer 21

John Winthrop

Question 22

The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the

Answer 22

Scots-Irish

Question 23

The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region

Answer 23

went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles.

Question 24

Rice production in colonial America

Answer 24

was very difficult and unhealthy work.

Question 25

Which statement about the economy of the northern colonies is true?

Answer 25

The economy was more diverse than in the southern colonies.

Question 26

The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for

Answer 26

iron

Question 27

Industrialization in colonial America was hampered by

Answer 27

English parliamentary regulations, a small domestic market, an inadequate labor supply, an inadequate transportation network.

Question 28

In the seventeenth century, most colonial families

Answer 28

did not own a plow.

Question 29

Commerce in early colonial America relied in large part on

Answer 29

barter

Question 30

The “triangular trade” in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity?

Answer 30

rum, sugar, slaves, molasses

Question 31

By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence in part because of

Answer 31

illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire.

Question 32

During the eighteenth century, rising consumerism in the American colonies was encouraged by

Answer 32

increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material possessions with status in the upper class.

Question 33

Seventeenth-century southern plantations

Answer 33

tended to be rough and relatively small.

Question 34

The first plantations in colonial North America emerged in the tobacco-growing areas of

Answer 34

Virginia and Maryland.

Question 35

The proportion of all blacks in the colonies living on a plantation of at least ten slaves was over

Answer 35

three-fourths.

Question 36

Which statement regarding the lives of slaves in colonial North America is true?

Answer 36

Slave religion was a blend of Christianity and African folk tradition.

Question 37

In the North American colonies, mulatto children were

Answer 37

rarely recognized by their white fathers.

Question 38

The Stono Rebellion

Answer 38

saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.

Question 39

The most common form of resistance of enslaved Africans to their condition was

Answer 39

running away.

Question 40

Which of the following statements about slave work is FALSE?

Answer 40

Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.

Question 41

In Puritan New England, full membership in town governance was limited to

Answer 41

adult males who were church members.

Question 42

Primogeniture refers to the

Answer 42

passing of property to the firstborn son.

Question 43

Over time, tensions in Puritan New England communities developed primarily as a result of

Answer 43

population growth and the commercialization of society.

Question 44

In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly

Answer 44

women of low social position.

Question 45

The witchcraft trials in Salem

Answer 45

saw the original accusers recant their charges.

Question 46

By the 1770s, the two largest port cities in colonial North America were

Answer 46

Philadelphia and New York.

Question 47

Class divisions in colonial North American cities were

Answer 47

more real and visible than in rural places.

Question 48

In the 1760s, the revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because

Answer 48

cities were the centers of intellectual information.

Question 49

In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies

Answer 49

flourished due to the diversity of practices brought by settlers, was unmatched in any European nation, was enhanced because no single religious code could be imposed on any large area, grew despite laws establishing the Church of England as the official colonial religion.

Question 50

The Church of England was the official faith of

Answer 50

Virginia.

Question 51

In the English colonies, Roman Catholics

Answer 51

suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.

Question 52

In the English colonies, Jews

Answer 52

could not vote or hold office

Question 53

“Jeremiads” were

Answer 53

sermons

Question 54

In the mid-1600s, New England Puritan ministers began preaching against the decline of

Answer 54

piety

Question 55

The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s

Answer 55

had particular appeal with women and young men.

Question 56

George Whitefield is associated with the

Answer 56

Great Awakening.

Question 57

A leading figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached

Answer 57

highly orthodox Puritan ideas.

Question 58

Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought

Answer 58

suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives.

Question 59

All of the following Americans made important contributions to Enlightenment thought

Answer 59

John Locke.

Question 60

After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were

Answer 60

almanacs.

Question 61

By 1776, what proportion of white males were literate in colonial America?

Answer 61

more than half

Question 62

The Church of England was established as the official religion in all of the following colonies EXCEPT

Answer 62

Massachusetts.

Question 63

Which statement regarding colonial higher education is true?

Answer 63

Most colleges were founded by religious groups.

Question 64

the first American college was

Answer 64

Harvard

Question 65

The verdict of the 1735 libel trial of New York publisher John Peter Zenger

Answer 65

increased freedom of the press in the colonies.