Chapter 3

Question 0

T or F: In the 1600s most plantations were large, well maintained estates, usually with over 100 workers

Answer 0

False

Question 1

T or F: Cotton was the South’s first successful cash crop

Answer 1

False

Question 2

T or F: New England did not develop large plantations because none of the crops that could be grown there were in great demand elsewhere

Answer 2

True

Question 3

T or F: Barrel making was a very important industry in the colonies because barrels were used to store and ship almost everything

Answer 3

True

Question 4

T or F: Mercantilists believed that a country could accumulate gold and silver up buying more goods from other countries than it sold to them

Answer 4

False

Question 5

T or F: The Dominion of New Englad was a royal province that combined New England colonies under a government appointed by King James II

Answer 5

True

Question 6

T or F: The a Toleration Act granted freedom of worship to nearly all Protestants but not to Catholic and Jews

Answer 6

True

Question 7

T or F: American colonist typically kept their families small because they didn’t have sufficient money to raise many children

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Bacon’s Rebellion convinced many wealthy planters that the best way to keep Virginian society stable was to..

Answer 8

Have land available in the back country

Question 9

The New England colonist powered sawmills with …

Answer 9

Waterfalls

Question 10

The people at the top of the colonial New England urban society were …

Answer 10

Gentry

Question 11

Few farmers of the Middle Colonies because wealthy growing wheat because …

Answer 11

Cutting and threshing wheat had to be done by hand

Question 12

Enlightenment thinkers emphasized..

Answer 12

Logic and reason

Question 13

Many indentured servants who came to the Chesapeake Bay region did not acquire their own land because …

Answer 13

They could not afford the cost of tools and livestock in addition to the deed

Question 14

The Virginia Slave code …

Answer 14

Regulated slavery

Question 15

The rise of trade in New England led to…

Answer 15

The rise if cities along the coast

Question 16

Mercantilists believed that to become wealthy and powerful, a country had to …

Answer 16

Accumulate gold and silver

Question 17

The result of the Staple Act was..

Answer 17

Higher prices of goods the colonies imported from Europe

Question 18

Philosopher John Locke asserted that all people were born with certain natural rights, including the right to…

Answer 18

Life, liberty, and property

Question 19

Why did the governor of Spanish Florida promise freedom and land to enslaved Africans?

Answer 19

To weaken South Carolina

Question 20

During the Great Awakening, ministers held …

Answer 20

Revivals

Question 21

Rice and indigo, the main cash crops of South Carolina, needed the right kind of climate and techniques to be cultivated. These requirements led to the rise of …

Answer 21

Plantations

Question 22

Many southern, backcountry farmers practiced ____ farming, growing only enough crops to feed their own families

Answer 22

Subsistence

Question 23

In the Colonial period, the ____ , a shallow region off Northeast coast of New England, teemed with fish.

Answer 23

Grand Banks

Question 24

The movement of enslaved Africans to America became known as the ___

Answer 24

Middle Passage

Question 25

King James II offended many people in England by openly practicing ____

Answer 25

Catholicism

Question 26

Philosopher John Locke argued that a monarch's right to rule came from the ___

Answer 26

People

Question 27

Used to make blue dye for cloth

Answer 27

Indigo

Question 28

Used to make candles, perfume, and buttons

Answer 28

Whales

Question 29

Required intensive manual labor to grow

Answer 29

Tobacco

Question 30

The main cash crop of the Middle Colonies

Answer 30

Wheat

Question 31

Brought prosperity to New England

Answer 31

Fish

Question 32

The South's first successful cash crop

Answer 32

Tobacco

Question 33

Dried to feed livestock during the New England winters

Answer 33

Apples

Question 34

Enslaved Africans were brought to South Carolina to cultivate a new type of the crop

Answer 34

Rice

Question 35

Unsuccessfully grown in New England because the soil was too poor

Answer 35

Wheat

Question 36

A subsistence crop for the farmers of New England and the Southern backcountry

Answer 36

Corn

Question 37

Explain the beliefs concerning government of John Locke

Answer 37

Believed government should protect people's natural rights

Question 38

Explain the beliefs concerning government of Jean Jacques Rousseau

Answer 38

Social Contract Theory

Question 39

Explain the beliefs concerning government of Baron Von Montesquieu

Answer 39

Believed government should be divided into branches