Question 1

Whether slave or free,North or South,which of the following was universally true about men and women?

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Question 2

Which of the following reflected the lessening hold of Puritan piety on later generations of New Englanders?

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Question 3

Assess the validity of the following statement,"slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,but by the end of the seventeenth century,it was clear that racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American slave system."

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Question 4

Unlike those in the Chesapeake,New England immigrants

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Question 5

Describe what you think town life contributed to the lifestyle of New Englanders; then consider what the consequence was of the absence of towns in the colonial South.

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Question 6

Explain the complex social structure that developed in the South during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Question 7

Why did colonial masters first adopt the institution of indentured servitude rather than Indian or black slavery to meet their demands for labor? Why,then,did black slavery replace indentured servitude?

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Question 8

Compare and contrast the economies,geography and climate,mortality rates,sex ratios,and family relationships of New England and the southern colonies.In which of the two regions would you have preferred to live? Why?

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Question 9

Assess the validity of the following statement,"democracy in church government led logically to democracy in political government."

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Question 10

Assess the extent to which distinctions of wealth and status were widening or narrowing as the seventeenth century drew to a close? Why?

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Question 11

By 1700,the colonial South generally lacked

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The colonial South lacked reliable overland transportation and an urban professional class by 1700. The region was primarily rural and agrarian, with limited infrastructure and few urban centers to support a professional class.

Question 12

Compare and contrast the status of women in the South with that in New England.

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Question 13

To what extent is the following statement,by Thomas Jefferson,true; "the town meeting was the best school of political liberty the world ever saw."

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Question 14

Write your definition of racism.Then use this definition to argue that the origin of slavery in colonial America was or was not primarily the result of English racism.

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Question 15

Slaves in colonial America

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Question 16

Write your definition of mass hysteria.Then use this definition to argue that the Salem witchcraft episode was or was not a simple case of mass hysteria.

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Question 17

Explain the following statement,"the story of New England was largely written by rocks."

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Question 18

Argue either that an American way of life had emerged by the end of the seventeenth century or that two wholly distinct ways of life,one New England and the other southern,had emerged by the end of the seventeenth century.

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Question 19

Identify the main cause of Bacon's Rebellion: resentment felt by backcountry farmers,Governor Berkeley's Indian policies,or the pressure of the tobacco economy? Justify your choice.

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Quiz 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century,1607-1692