Question 1

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

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A)   There were about 25,000 slaves in the colonies.
B)   Blacks outnumbered whites in some areas.
C)   There were twice as many black men as black women.
D)   The demand for slaves led to a steady rise in the prices paid for them.
E)   Blacks were heavily concentrated in a few southern colonies.F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 2

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the English indenture system?

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A)   Most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts.
B)   Contracts for indenture generally lasted four to five years.
C)   The presence of indentured servants was a source of social unrest.
D)   Female indentured servants were typically not allowed to marry while under contract.
E)   Female indentured servants constituted one-fourth of the total arrivals.F) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

Question 3

Most of those accused of witchcraft in Salem were women of low social position.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

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

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A)   increased freedom of the press in the colonies.
B)   restricted the ability of the press to report on government affairs.
C)   resulted in the closure of several colonial newspapers.
D)   ruled that criticisms by the press, even if factually accurate, were libelous.
E)   banned all printed attacks on the king or Parliament in the colonies.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 5

Most indentured servants came to the colonies voluntarily.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

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

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A)   Virginia.
B)   New York.
C)   Maryland.
D)   Georgia.
E)   Massachusetts.F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 7

Those Puritans who could give evidence of grace,being among the elect,and were admitted to full church membership were called "________."

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Question 8

What effect did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening have on life in British North America?

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Question 9

Indentured servitude developed out of practices in England.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Founded in 1755 by a group of laymen,the Academy and College of ________ was a completely secular institution.

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Question 11

Rice production in colonial America

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A)   was very difficult and unhealthy work.
B)   relied largely on free white labor.
C)   was a new crop to most Africans.
D)   was found mostly in the Chesapeake colonies.
E)   mostly occurred in inland regions.F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 12

By the late seventeenth century,European and African immigrants outnumbered natives along the Atlantic coast.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

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

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A)   the majority of the population lived in urban areas.
B)   cities were the centers of intellectual information.
C)   rural populations had few grievances with the crown.
D)   city inhabitants tended to be rowdier than their rural counterparts.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 14

Because of their concentration on cotton,most southern plantations grew highly reliant on small towns and cities for their supplies.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

"Jeremiads" were

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A)   a measurement of wealth.
B)   community experiments.
C)   sermons.
D)   witchcraft.
E)   town meetings.F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 16

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?

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A)   George Whitefield
B)   Charles Wesley
C)   Jonathan Edwards
D)   John Locke
E)   John WinthropF) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 17

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

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A)   family.
B)   piety.
C)   community.
D)   freedom.
E)   tolerance.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 18

In the Chesapeake region,traditional patterns of male patriarchy began to experience a revival by the early eighteenth century.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,medical practitioners

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A)   became increasingly professionalized.
B)   had little or no knowledge of sterilization.
C)   grew to understand the link between bacteria and infection.
D)   were nearly all males.
E)   rejected purging and bleeding as medical techniques.F) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 20

The Enlightenment was the product of seventeenth-century scientific and intellectual discoveries.

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A) True 
 B)False

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In the Chesapeake region,traditional patterns of male patriarchy began to experience a revival by the early eighteenth century.

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Most indentured servants came to the colonies voluntarily.

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"Jeremiads" were

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

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Those Puritans who could give evidence of grace,being among the elect,and were admitted to full church membership were called "________."

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

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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?

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Most of those accused of witchcraft in Salem were women of low social position.

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Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the English indenture system?

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

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Indentured servitude developed out of practices in England.

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By the late seventeenth century,European and African immigrants outnumbered natives along the Atlantic coast.

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What effect did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening have on life in British North America?

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Founded in 1755 by a group of laymen,the Academy and College of ________ was a completely secular institution.

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Because of their concentration on cotton,most southern plantations grew highly reliant on small towns and cities for their supplies.

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,medical practitioners

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