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The most outstanding Great Awakening preacher was New England Congregationalist __________________.

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The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on


A) Calvinist religious doctrine.
B) scientific experimentation and observation.
C) evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.
D) practices acquired from Indians.
E) the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.

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"Primogeniture" refers to the


A) right to vote.
B) passing of property to the firstborn son.
C) tending of a servant's indenture.
D) arrangement of authority within New England assemblies.
E) practice of granting land only to those assured of salvation.

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A leading figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached


A) highly orthodox Puritan ideas.
B) the possibility of easy salvation.
C) that women should join the ministry.
D) that the ideas of predestination were outmoded for the times.
E) salvation through good works.

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The first American college was


A) Columbia.
B) Harvard.
C) Yale.
D) William and Mary.
E) Princeton.

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Colonial agriculture in the northern colonies was more diversified than in the southern colonies.

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In the seventeenth century, white women in colonial Chesapeake


A) generally married later than in England.
B) generally had a longer life expectancy than their husbands.
C) rarely engaged in premarital sex.
D) averaged one pregnancy for every two years of marriage.
E) bore an average of four children apiece.

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


A) Most slaves worked as house servants.
B) Whites rarely intruded upon the conventions of black society.
C) Slaves had no opportunity develop their own society or culture.
D) Slave religion was a blend of Christianity and African folklore.
E) Slaves hardly ever resisted their masters.

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The exchange of rum, slaves, and sugar has been called the ___________________.

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Those Puritans who could give evidence of grace and were admitted to full church membership were called ______________________.

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In the seventeenth century, it was easy for women to enter the medical field as midwives.

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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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Immigration was the most important factor for long-term English colonial population growth.

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The first American college, established in 1636, was _______________.

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


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

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Indentured servants were forbidden to marry until their term of service was over.

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The story of the witchcraft trials in Salem


A) was unique in the history of colonial New England.
B) saw the original accusers recant their charges.
C) led to prison terms, but no executions.
D) was evidence of a decline in religious fervor.
E) almost resulted in the revocation of Massachusetts's charter.

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The first significant colonial metals industry was established in _______________.

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Discuss the differences between the demographics of the colonial South and the colonial North.

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Enlightenment thought encouraged people to reject their religious faith.

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