Question 1

In the eighteenth century,religious toleration in the American colonies

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A)   flourished due to the diversity of practices brought by settlers.
B)   grew despite laws establishing the Church of England as the official colonial religion.
C)   was enhanced because no single religious code could be imposed on any large area.
D)   All these answers are correct.
E)   was unmatched in any European nation. D

Question 2

In the seventeenth century,most blacks who came to the English colonies in North America came directly from Africa.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

During the seventeenth century,the Royal African Company of England

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A)   lowered the prices of slaves in order to increase their sale in the North American colonies.
B)   sent the majority of its enslaved Africans directly to the Chesapeake colonies.
C)   deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies.
D)   would only ship adult African men in the slave trade.
E)   stopped importing slaves directly from Africa.

Question 4

The Salem girls who accused people of being witches never recanted their stories.

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A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 5

By 1776,what proportion of white males were literate in colonial America?

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A)   more than half
B)   less than a quarter
C)   just less than half
D)   almost all
E)   about a third A

Question 6

The term middle passage refers to the movement of enslaved Africans

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A)   from the coastal regions of colonies to their interiors.
B)   from Africa to Europe.
C)   between individual North American colonies.
D)   from Africa to the New World.
E)   from the Caribbean to the mainland colonies.

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

Fewer than five percent of African slaves imported to the Americas arrived first in the English colonies.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

English America recognized no distinctions between pure Africans and people of mixed race.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The "triangular trade" in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity?

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A)   molasses
B)   slaves
C)   rum
D)   All these answers are correct.
E)   sugar

Question 11

Compared to women in colonial Chesapeake,New England women

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A)   lost their husbands earlier in life.
B)   were more likely to become widows.
C)   were more likely to have their family remain intact.
D)   had fewer children.
E)   had much less legal authority in their marriages.

Question 12

Assess the beginnings of slavery in North America (in the main text)and make an argument for which historical explanation for its origins-from the section "Debating the Past: The Origins of Slavery"-seems most accurate.

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Question 13

The Stono Rebellion

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A)   saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
B)   led to the death of dozens of white Virginian colonists.
C)   led to the banning of the slave trade in Maryland.
D)   prompted Georgia to strengthen its laws on slavery.
E)   led planters to resume hiring indentured servants for their labor needs.

Question 14

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

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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.

Question 15

By 1700,English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery in part because

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A)   landowners in the southern colonies became less capable of paying indentured servant wages.
B)   of worsening economic conditions in England.
C)   colonial parliaments passed laws improving the status of indentured servants.
D)   the English government had come to discourage the practice of indenture.
E)   of a declining birthrate in England.

Question 16

The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the

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A)   Palatinate Germans.
B)   Irish Catholics.
C)   Moravians and Mennonites.
D)   Scotch-Irish.
E)   French Huguenots.

Question 17

In colonial New England,

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A)   strict parental control made premarital sexual relations almost nonexistent.
B)   dowries were a common feature of marriage.
C)   gender equality was reinforced by the prevailing culture.
D)   choosing a spouse independent of a parent's wishes was common.
E)   widows tended not to remarry.

Question 18

In the early seventeenth century,the legal status of slaves was ambiguous and fluid.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

As a leading figure of the Great Awakening,Jonathan Edwards preached

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

Question 20

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

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

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