Deck 3: Fashioning a New Society in the Wilderness

Question 1

In the colonial period, women could own property and sign contracts only when they

A) were married to landowners.
B) were unmarried.
C) were widowed.
D) were unmarried or widowed.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

After the Royal African Company's monopoly on slave importation was shattered in 1676, many private companies entered the lucrative slave trade. Roughly _____ slaves were imported to the colonies before the American Revolution.

A) 100,000
B) 250,000
C) 1,000,000
D) 750,000

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Protestant settlers arrived in the New World to the sanctuary of the New World because the discrimination by the Church of England and English authorities

A) excluded their children from entering English Universities.
B) limited their suffrage.
C) forced then to tithe to the Church of England.
D) All of these are correct.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Colonial Americans strove to create a utopian society of land-owing, hard-working, moral citizens. This notion served to

A) decrease child labor for children under 10.
B) create a society that promoted upward mobility and property ownership for all, including non-landowners, women, Native Americans, and African slaves.
C) create a collective denial of the fact that there were people in need.
D) motivate slave owners to set their slaves free.

Question 5

Elizabethan poor laws were widely accepted by the American colonies as the way to deal with impoverished persons.

Question 6

Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was an exemplary policy advocate supporting all of the following policies except

A) steps that led to the American temperance movement.
B) enactment of harsh penal reforms.
C) abolition of slavery.
D) establishment of a government-supported educational system.

Question 7

Medieval land was held by monarchs, noblemen, and the Catholic Church.

Question 8

Settlers that came to the New World from Europe belonged to which religious groups?

A) Protestants
B) Catholics
C) Puritans
D) All of these are correct.

Question 9

During the Presidency of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were embroiled in a bitter debate over the role of the federal government. Alexander Hamilton believed in

A) a stronger state government and a limited federal government.
B) a stronger federal government and a limited state government.
C) a stronger federal government.
D) None of these are correct.

Question 10

In medieval Europe, land was usually owned by

A) The Catholic Church, noblemen, and crusaders.
B) The Protestant Churches, noblemen, and monarchs.
C) The Catholic Church, noblemen, and monarchs.
D) The Protestant Churches, monarchs, and crusaders.

Question 11

The primary cause for the rapid decline in the Native American population in the colonial period was

A) settlers killing Native Americans.
B) intertribal battles.
C) diseases (such as smallpox, cholera, and diphtheria) carried by the settlers.
D) an inability to live off the land due to increasing settlers.

Question 12

Slavery was

A) not recognized in the Constitution.
B) regulated only by state Constitutions.
C) legitimized by the Constitution in many places.
D) All of these are correct.

Question 13

In 17th and 18th centuries, the settlers that came to the New World were from England and

A) Germany.
B) Africa.
C) The Netherlands.
D) All of these are correct.

Question 14

In the New World, the ability to access land was a powerful transforming factor establishing a new society.

Question 15

Medieval society was considered communal.

Question 16

Americans aimed to achieve freedom in their new society by developing state and federal constitutions, elaborating a Bill of Rights, ending taxation without representation, establishing freedom of religion, and expanding suffrage.

Question 17

Though people in England and America did not think in terms of social classes until well into the 19th century, they conceptualized society as a series of vertical ranks or titles that

A) descended from indentured servants and tenant farmers at the lowest ranks.
B) ascended from indentured servants and tenant farmers at the lowest ranks.
C) descended from landed aristocracy at the lowest ranks.
D) ascended from landed aristocracy at the highest ranks.

Question 18

What were the factor(s) leading up the American Revolution?

A) Taxes on a wide range of goods to offset the cost of safeguarding the English Colonies from the Native Americans
B) The creation of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776
C) Landowning colonists wanting to have greater participation in local government
D) All of these are correct.

Question 19

The most powerful transforming factor in the New World was

A) access to land.
B) political freedom.
C) religious freedom.
D) indentured servitude.

Question 20

The founders of the Constitution

A) wanted to put strict limits of the power of the federal government.
B) wanted to put strict limits of the power of the local government.
C) wanted to put strict limits of the power of the state and local governments.
D) wanted to put strict limits of the power of the federal, state and local governments.

Question 21

To secure land from Native Americans, the settlers in the New World often used the seemingly legal device of treaties to create the impression that Native Americans had voluntarily and legally ceded land to the colonists.

Question 22

During the early years of the republic, two distinct interpretations of the constitution emerged-broad powers conferred upon the federal government vs. very narrow power conferred on the federal government-a distinction which has affected American politics to this very day.

Question 23

A strong feminist movement was developed in colonial America with Abigail Adams as one of the founders.

Question 24

Once ratified in June 1788, the Constitution became the law of the land and remained unchanged thereafter.

Question 25

Both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson wanted a loose interpretation of the Constitution, but George Washington wanted a strong federal government.