Question 1

The most commonly owned tool on colonial American farms was the plow.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Parliament passed the Iron Act in 1750 to encourage colonial production of this metal.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

In Puritan New England,full membership in town governance was limited to

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A)   all land-owning adults.
B)   "selectmen."
C)   adult males who were church members.
D)   all church members.
E)   land-owning males.

Question 4

French Calvinists were referred to as ________.

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Question 5

Belief in witchcraft was not a common feature of Puritan religious life.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region

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

Question 7

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Very little slave resistance took the form of open rebellion.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The Stono Rebellion

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A)   led to the death of dozens of white Virginian colonists.
B)   saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
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 12

Seventeenth-century colonial plantations were actually relatively small estates.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

In comparing the colonial societies of Spanish America and English America,people of mixed races had a

Accepted Answer

A)   higher status than pure Africans in Spanish America.
B)   higher status than pure Africans in English America.
C)   lower status than pure Africans in Spanish America.
D)   higher status than pure Africans in both Spanish and English America.
E)   lower status than pure Africans in both Spanish and English America.

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

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

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Question 16

African slaves engaged in the cultivation of rice,but they were not very adept at it.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

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

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A)   Most slaves worked as house servants.
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)   Slaves hardly ever resisted their masters.

Question 18

In the seventeenth century,white women in the colonial Chesapeake

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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.

Question 19

How did immigration affect social and economic life in the colonies?

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Question 20

The case of John Peter Zenger saw the courts rule that criticisms of the government were not libelous if actually true.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

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French Calvinists were referred to as ________.

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The Stono Rebellion

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

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Very little slave resistance took the form of open rebellion.

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Belief in witchcraft was not a common feature of Puritan religious life.

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