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The English treatment of the Irish can best be described as
d. violent and unjust
England's defeat of the Spanish Armada
d. helped to ensure England's naval dominance in the North Atlantic
On the eve of its colonizing adventure, England possessed
e. all of the above (a unified national state, a measure of religious unity, a sense of nationalism, a popular monarch)
All of the following provided motives for English colonization except
e. need for a place to exploit slave labor
The guarantee that English settlers in the New World would retain the "rights of Englishmen" proved to be
d. the foundation for American liberties
The biggest disrupter of Native American life was
c. disease
After the purchases of slaves in 1619 by Jamestown settlers, additional purchases of Africans were few because
e. they were too costly
The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following except
d. diversification of the colony's economy
The summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it
c. was the first of many miniature parliaments to convene in America
Tobacco was considered a poor man's crop because
a. it could be produced easily and quickly
The colony of South Carolina prospered
a. by developing close economic ties with the British West Indies
North Carolina and Rhode Island were similar in that they
d. were the two most democratic colonies
The colony of Georgia was founded
b. as a defensive buffer for South Carolina
Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all
a. economically dependent on the export of a staple crop.
Colonists in both the North and the South established differences in all of the following areas except
e. allegiance to England
In Calvinist thought the "conversion" was
e. an intense, personal experience when God revealed an individual's heavenly destiny
The Mayflower Compact can be best described as
e. a promising step toward genuine self-government
Puritan religious beliefs allowed all of the following except
c. challenging religious authority
Among the Puritans, it was understood that
c. the purpose of government was to enforce God's laws.
Roger Williams' beliefs included all of the following except
e. demanding oaths regarding religious beliefs
As a colony, Rhode Island became known for
e. individualist and independent attitudes
Unlike other English voyagers to the New World, the Puritans
a. transplanted entire communities.
The New England Confederation
b. was designed to bolster colonial defense
The Dutch colony of New Netherland (later new York) was noted for
b. its lack of enthusiasm for democratic practices
New York and Pennsylvania were similar in that they both
c. had ethnically mixed populations
The physical growth of English New York was slowed because
d. of the monopolistic land policies of the aristocrats
All the middle colonies
c. notable for their fertile soil
The middle colonies were notable for their
b. unusual degree of democratic control
Recently, historians have increasingly viewed the colonial period as
b. one of contact and adaptation between native populations
The picture of colonial America that is emerging from new scholarship is a
e. all of the above (encounters with native people, European heritage, many intertwining roots, American heritage)
As the seventeenth century wore on, regional differences arose, most notably
c. the continuing rigidity of Puritanism
the population of the Chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable for its
b. scarcity of women
The "headright" system, which made some people very wealthy, entailed
c. giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying passage of a laborer to America
Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by
c. growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production.
For their labor in the colonies indentured servants received all of the following except
d. a headright
English yeomen would agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called
c. indentured servants
Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by
a. young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land
The majority of African slaves coming to the New World
b. were delivered to South America and the West Indies
After 1680, reliance on slave labor in colonial America rapidly increased because
e. all of the above (higher wages in England reduced the number of emigrating servants, planters feared the growing number of landless freemen in their colonies, the British Royal African company lost its monopoly on the slave trade in colonial America, Americans rushed to cash in on slave trade)
For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the "middle passage" can be best described as
d. the gruesome ocean voyage to America
The slave society that developed in North America was one of the few slave societies in history to
e. perpetuate itself by its own natural reproduction
Compared with indentured servants, African-American slaves were
d. a more manageable labor force
As slavery spread in the South,
c. gaps in the social structure widened
Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American South were
b. landowning small farmers
The New England family can best be described as
b. a very stable institution
In seventeenth century colonial America all of the following are true regarding women except
a. women had no rights as individuals
When new towns were established in New England, all of the following were true except,
e. families did not automatically receive land
Thomas Jefferson once observed that "the best school of political liberty the world ever saw" was the
c. New England town meeting.
As a result of poor soil, all of the following conditions prevailed in New England except that
d. reliance on a single, staple crop became a necessity
The New England economy depended heavily on
c. fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce
In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies, those in New England
a. had a more diversified economy
The combination of Calvinism, soil, and climate in New England resulted in the people there possessing which of the following qualities:
e. all of the above (energy, stubbornness, self-reliance, resourcefulness)
compared with most seventeenth-century Europeans, american lived in
c. affluent abundance
The early "slave codes" in colonial America
a. defined slavery as lifetime servitude
b. defined slavery as inheritable servitude
c. usually forbade whites from teaching slaves to read or write
by 1700, the colonial South generally lacked
b. reliable overland transportation
c. an urban professional class
Unlike those in the Chesapeake, New England immigrants
a. enjoyed a longer life expectancy
b. usually migrated in family units
c. were less ravaged by infectious diseases
d. had a low premarital pregnancy rate
All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence except
d. distinctive racial structures
As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century
a. a momentous shift occurred in balance of power between the colonies and the mother country
The population of the thirteen American colonies was
b. perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon
The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was whereas was the least ethnically diverse
d. the middle colonies, New England
By the mid-1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies
d. remained tiny compared with the number in England
On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility decreased, partly because
a. some merchants made huge profits as military suppliers
All of the following conditions caused many Scots to migrate to Northern Ireland and thence to America except
d. persecution for their Catholic religion
The most honored profession in early colonial society was
c. the ministry
The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South
d. were not distributed evenly among whites
The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was
d. agriculture
The triangular trade of the colonial American shipping industry
e. involved the trading of rum for African slaves
Of the following, the least important economic activity of colonial Americans was
manufacturing
Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only secondary importance, they did produce which of the following?
e. all of the above (rum, beaver hats, lumber, iron)
When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1733, it intended the act to
c. inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies
American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain
e. to make money to buy what they wanted in Britain
Colonial American taverns were all of the following except
a. frequented mainly by the lower class
English officials tried to "establish" the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because
b. the church would act as a major prop for kingly authority
The Great Awakening
e. all of the above (undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies, split colonial churches into several competing denominations, led to the founding of Princeton, Dartmouth, and Rutgers colleges, was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people.)
In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted
b. in New England
The person most often called the "first civilized American" was
Benjamin Franklin
The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer was significant because
c. it pointed the way to open public discussion
One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was
d. self-taxation through representation
In colonial election,
b. the right to vote was reserved for property holders.
By the mid-eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities except
e. complete democracy
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