Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
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 Colonists arriving in the New World found that Indians:a. regularly burned forests to promote new growth b. supported themselves strictly through hunting c. maintained large herds of horses and cattle d. had no concept of a supreme being e. had left the landscape virtually unchanged | a |
| Benjamin Franklin believed a major reason for colonial population growth was: a. rapid advances in medical science b. couples marrying later than in Europe c. government bounties for large families d. an abundance of cheap land e. English immunity to contagious diseases | d |
| In the first century of colonization, mortality rates among settlers were highest in which region? a. New England b. the middle colonies c. the western frontier d. the South e. Canada | d |
| Throughout the colonies, husbands expected from their wives: a. romantic love as the basis of marriage b. an equal partnership managing the household c. submission to their authority d. toleration of sex outside of marriage e. instruction in religion and morality | c |
| Women in the American colonies: a. lived lives of quiet and leisure b. could vote and hold office c. were not likely to find eligible men to marry d. generally had a lower status in society than did women in Europe e. often remained confined to the domestic sphere | e |
| During the colonial period, prostitution: a. was legal in official red light districts b. was especially common in port cities c. was legal d. was practically unknown e. resulted in equal punishment for men and women | b |
| In the seventeenth century, the staple crop that was the basis of the economy in Virginia and Maryland was: a. cotton b. tobacco c. indigo d. rice e. barley | b |
| The indentured servants who came to the colonies: a. arose in several major rebellions b. were mainly convicts shipped over as part of their sentence c. provided mainly household labor d. usually worked four to seven years to pay off their debt e. were essentially the same as slaves | d |
| Which is NOT true of early colonial slavery? a. Far more slaves went to the West Indies than to North America. b. Slavery was present in all the English colonies. c. No colony had a majority slave population. d. Slaves had higher survival rates in North America than in the West Indies. e. Slaves could expect a lifetime in bondage. | c |
| Of all the slaves brought to the New World from Africa, how many came to the colonies of British North America? a. about 33 percent b. about 25 percent c. about 5 percent d. about 90 percent e. about 50 percent | c |
| The "Middle Passage" referred to: a. Puritan belief in moderation in all things b. the transportation of slaves to the West Indies c. the Anglican belief in entire sanctification d. social customs in Pennsylvania e. certain features of domestic architecture in the southern colonies | b |
| By 1750, the smallest percentage of slaves lived in: a. the West Indies b. New England c. Virginia and Maryland d. the Carolinas e. the middle colonies | b |
| The events surrounding a suspected slave revolt in New York City in 1741 offer parallels to: a. the American Revolution b. the Great Awakening c. Bacon's Rebellion d. the Salem witch craze e. the English Civil War | d |
| A major theme of slave Christianity was: a. deliverance in heaven b. the evil of drinking and dancing c. submission to the authority of slave masters d. the wickedness of white people e. depression over the condition of bondage | a |
| Which church dominated the Chesapeake region by 1700? a. Presbyterian b. Anglican c. Baptist d. Quaker e. Puritan | b |
| Early settlers of Puritan New England typically lived: a. in log cabins b. on isolated farmsteads c. in towns modeled on English villages d. in large seaports e. on plantations | c |
| New England's most important commodity for export was: a. molasses b. fish c. rum d. turkeys e. corn | b |
| Which of the following did NOT spur shipbuilding in New England? a. the region's extensive forests b. the variety of jobs and businesses it created c. the abundance of fish and whales off its coast d. British purchase of American-made ships e. southern purchases of New England-made ships | e |
| One chronic problem facing colonial trade was: a. a way to pay for goods imported from the mother country b. the French blockade of the Atlantic coast c. the lack of foreign markets for American products d. an absence of rich soil for agricultural products e. an oversupply of hard currency, which caused rampant inflation | a |
| New England was settled by: a. religious fundamentalists b. a joint-stock company c. the king and his family d. ex-convicts and debtors e. military officers | a |
| New England's Puritans did all of the following EXCEPT: a. tolerate adultery b. sue each other c. drink alcoholic beverages d. have sex e. regularly read the Bible | a |
| The "half-way covenant" adopted in 1662 was a Puritan attempt to address the problem of: a. declining church membership b. eligibility of ministers to hold public office c. economic hardship and growing social inequality d. whether to interpret the Bible or follow it literally e. increasing materialism | a |
| The witch craze in Salem started when: a. several people died of a mysterious illness b. the town minister was caught in a sex scandal c. adolescent girls began to exhibit strange afflictions d. Indians attacked and looted the village e. a slave named Tituba cursed the village minister | c |
| The best explanation for the Salem witch craze is: a. natural hallucinogens in the local water supply b. social division and anxieties within the village c. the play-acting and false accusations of teenage girls d. the presence of real witches in Salem village e. the low rate of literacy among the villagers | b |
| The largest number of German immigrants to the colonies settled in: a. Delaware b. South Carolina c. Pennsylvania d. New York e. Rhode Island | c |
| The Pennsylvania Dutch: a. migrated to Virginia and North Carolina in the late seventeenth century to escape religious persecution b. were a mixture of Mennonites, Lutherans, Moravians, Dunkers, and others c. were almost wiped out because of a genetic intolerance to New World viruses d. were immigrants from Holland who settled in the backcountry of New York and Pennsylvania e. built windmills and dikes as they had done in their native country | b |
| The Scotch-Irish: a. were mainly Irish Catholics b. were mainly Presbyterians c. settled largely in New England d. were associated mainly with coastal areas e. were actually neither Scottish nor Irish | b |
| By 1790, second only to the English in their percentage of the white population were the: a. Irish b. French c. Scottish or Scotch-Irish d. Dutch e. Germans | c |
| The largest city in the colonies at the end of the colonial period: a. was Boston b. had a population of about 2,000 c. had a population of about 1,000,000 d. was Philadelphia e. had as many people as London | d |
| By the end of the colonial period, American cities: a. were cleaner, safer, and healthier than rural environments b. were characterized by increasing social and economic equality c. held no more than 10 percent of the total population d. had majority non-English populations e. were limited to the middle colonies | c |
| By 1700, the most democratic and important social institutions were: a. taverns b. coffee houses c. churches d. theaters e. colleges | a |
| John Peter Zenger's trial in 1735 established: a. absolute freedom of the press b. the legal difference between libel and slander c. the right to send newspapers through the mail d. private ownership of newspapers e. that truth is a defense in libel cases | e |
| The Enlightenment: a. was based mainly on the writings of Martin Luther b. started in America and spread to Europe c. led most educated men to become atheists d. increased church attendance e. encouraged the idea that God was like a master clockmaker who planned the universe and set it in motion | e |
| Enlightenment thinkers such as Isaac Newton stressed: a. the value of traditional religion b. the ability of reason to discover the laws of the universe c. the virtue of divine right monarchy d. the presence of God in nature e. the superiority of art over science | b |
| Education in the colonies was: a. primarily intended for young women b. usually seen as the responsibility of family and church c. hampered in New England by the Puritans' anti-intellectual tradition d. most advanced in frontier regions e. most advanced in the South | b |
| Puritan commitment to education is best explained by their: a. need to read the Scriptures b. innate love of learning c. prior exposure to schools in England d. commitment to Enlightenment principles e. need for a literate workforce | a |
| The Great Awakening developed in reaction to the: a. tendency of the Enlightenment to place great emphasis on formal religion b. attempt of British officials to regulate colonial churches c. increasing role of emotionalism in religion d. Deism and skepticism associated with the Enlightenment e. increasing education and sophistication of backwoods settlers | d |
| The religious revivals known as the Great Awakening did all the following EXCEPT: a. further promote Enlightenment thinking b. feature traveling ministers c. split a number of churches d. emphasize an emotional style of preaching e. affect all thirteen colonies | a |
| Jonathan Edwards's famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" described: a. the possibility of universal salvation b. the gruesome reality of Hell c. God's desire that Americans economically prosper d. the beauty of God's creation e. a distant and uncaring God | b |
| One result of the Great Awakening was that it spurred an increase in the number of: a. colleges b. slave rebellions c. witch crazes d. marriages e. suicides | a |
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