Question 1

The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region

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A)   went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles.
B)   often saw production not meet demand.
C)   saw prices rise steadily throughout the period.
D)   saw planters cut back on production as a way of raising prices.
E)   was concentrated on many small farms with few slaves.

Question 2

The proportion of all blacks in the colonies living on a plantation of at least ten slaves was over

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A)   three-fourths.
B)   one-fourth.
C)   nine-tenths.
D)   one-half.
E)   one-third.

Question 3

Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought

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A)   rejected most religious thought.
B)   challenged concepts such as "natural laws."
C)   suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives.
D)   had little influence on American intellectual thought.
E)   emphasized the importance of religious faith.

Question 4

Rice production in colonial America

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

Question 5

During the seventeenth century,English colonists in the Chesapeake saw

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A)   women significantly outnumber men.
B)   an increasingly unbalanced sex ratio.
C)   eight out of ten children dying in infancy.
D)   few single adults.
E)   a life expectancy for men of just over forty years.

Question 6

By 1775,the non-Indian population of the English colonies was just over

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A)   2 million.
B)   4 million.
C)   1 million.
D)   6 million.
E)   8 million.

Question 7

The witchcraft trials in Salem

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

Question 8

A common form of resistance of enslaved Africans to their condition was

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A)   running away.
B)   destruction of crops.
C)   seizing weapons and forming an uprising.
D)   arson.
E)   poisoning food.

Question 9

The total number of Africans forcibly brought to all of the Americas as slaves is estimated to have been as many as

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A)   7 million.
B)   4 million.
C)   11 million.
D)   19 million.
E)   26 million.

Question 10

George Whitefield is associated with the

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A)   growth of American Catholicism.
B)   Enlightenment.
C)   founding of the American Baptist Church.
D)   Quakers.
E)   Great Awakening.

Question 11

Characterize colonial medical practices by examining their positive and negative features.

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Question 12

Over time,tensions in Puritan New England communities developed,primarily as a result of

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A)   calls for gender equality.
B)   population growth and calls for gender equality.
C)   population growth and the commercialization of society.
D)   religious dissent.
E)   the practices of land inheritance.

Question 13

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

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Question 14

Which statement about the economy of the northern colonies is true?

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A)   Conditions for farming were more favorable than in the southern colonies.
B)   The economy was more diverse than in the southern colonies.
C)   New England was able to develop several major export crops.
D)   Agriculture was not the dominant industry of the economy.
E)   Planters were more likely to rely on slave labor.

Question 15

The British Navigation Acts were designed to protect England from foreign competition in the colonies.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

All of the following Americans made important contributions to Enlightenment thought EXCEPT

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A)   Thomas Paine.
B)   James Madison.
C)   John Locke.
D)   Thomas Jefferson.
E)   Benjamin Franklin.

Question 17

The first large group of non-English European immigrants to British North America was the Huguenots.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Indentured servitude developed out of practices in England.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

In the English colonies,Roman Catholics

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A)   were officially illegal.
B)   were generally well treated.
C)   suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.
D)   made up a large minority population of most colonies.
E)   suffered their greatest persecution in the Carolinas.

Question 20

Most indentured servants came to the colonies voluntarily.

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A) True 
 B)False

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