Deck 4: The Maturing of Colonial Society

Question 1

Compared to her English counterpart, the eighteenth-century northern colonial woman

A) received fewer chances to marry if divorced or widowed.
B) pursued a daily routine less likely to overlap that of her husband's.
C) enjoyed broader legal and property rights.
D) married at an older age and bore fewer children.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In 1712, a major slave rebellion occurred in

A) Charleston, South Carolina.
B) New York, New York.
C) Boston, Massachusetts.
D) Baltimore, Maryland.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

In 1718 in North America, France settled

A) St. Augustine.
B) New Orleans.
C) Charleston.
D) Canada.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Many African American slaves in South Carolina spoke

A) French.
B) Dutch.
C) Gullah.
D) Spanish.

Question 5

All of the following were true about slave marriages and family life EXCEPT:

A) Slave marriages were rarely secure.
B) One spouse was often sold, resulting in the breakup of the marriage.
C) Few slaves experienced stable family lives.
D) Black women's constant labor made them less equal to men than was the case of women in white society.

Question 6

The typical master in colonial America wished to convert the slave into a(n)

A) mindless drudge who obeyed every command.
B) loving and faithful member of the plantation family.
C) independent worker who increased profits.
D) educated and skilled producer of goods.

Question 7

By 1750, English colonists numbered approximately

A) 500,000.
B) 1.2 million.
C) 3 million.
D) 4 million.

Question 8

In 1739 a major slave rebellion broke out in

A) Stono, South Carolina.
B) Roanoke, Virginia.
C) Richmond, Virginia.
D) Boston, Massachusetts.

Question 9

Which of the following statements concerning immigrants to colonial America during the first half of the eighteenth century is correct?

A) Most German-speaking immigrants settled in Pennsylvania.
B) Newly arrived immigrants usually settled in New England.
C) Slave imports fell.
D) Virginia experienced the greatest influx of new settlers.

Question 10

Even in the North which group was a regular part of commerce linking North American, Africa, and Europe?

A) skilled craftsmen and shopkeepers
B) sons of wealthy gentry
C) university-trained Puritans
D) slaves and indentured servants

Question 11

By the 1740s, a growing proportion of Chesapeake slaves

A) were American-born.
B) had established families.
C) created personal lives.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 12

Which of the following factors helped temper rebellion and offer comfort to colonial slaves?

A) religion and family life
B) kind treatment from masters
C) good food and healthy environments
D) interracial liaisons and marriages

Question 13

France's interior empire in North America

A) had many settlements that were mixed-race communities.
B) stressed farming more than trading, missionary work, or military efforts.
C) created an ineffective shield against British expansion.
D) contained no African slaves.

Question 14

The Chesapeake colonies of the early eighteenth century witnessed

A) increasing profitability of, and thus reliance upon, tobacco cultivation.
B) the emergence of a planter gentry as political and social leaders.
C) steady replacement of slave laborers by indentured servants.
D) virtual universal ownership of land and slaves.

Question 15

The vast majority of inhabitants along the coast of South Carolina by the 1760s consisted of

A) rice planters.
B) Charleston tourists.
C) black slaves.
D) poor German and Scots-Irish immigrants.

Question 16

New Englanders opted for more of a mixed economy than settlers in the middle or southern colonies because in New England

A) Native Americans had already cleared and used the land.
B) Puritans forbade the buying of slaves.
C) availability and productivity of land was limited.
D) cultivation of cereal crops was too labor-intensive.

Question 17

In the Louisiana economy, slaves worked as

A) rice growers.
B) metal workers.
C) indigo processors.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 18

Colonial America in the first half of the eighteenth century experienced

A) a narrowing of class differences.
B) loss of local autonomy.
C) continual declines in church membership.
D) population growth and economic development.

Question 19

In contrast to conditions in the English colonies, life in New Spain was characterized by greater

A) sharing of profits with natives.
B) social barriers.
C) racial intermixture.
D) political independence.

Question 20

Masters controlled which of the following aspects of slave life?

A) physical location
B) work roles
C) diet
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 21

Compare the roles and rights of women in seventeenth-century Europe with those of their counterparts on the American colonial frontier. Explain how conditions improved or worsened for American women during the eighteenth century.

Question 22

Discuss the factors that contributed to a population explosion in North America from 1680 to 1750. How and why did immigrants of the eighteenth century differ from those of the previous century? Did America prove to be their land of opportunity?

Question 23

Colonial merchants of the early eighteenth century

A) exported luxury and manufactured goods to Europe, Africa, and the West Indies.
B) engaged in the tasks of shipping and distributional services only.
C) typically imported more goods than Americans desired or could use.
D) integrated American producers and consumers in the Atlantic basin trading system.

Question 24

The social structure of American colonial cities from 1690 to 1770 was influenced by

A) an absence of urban poverty.
B) an increasing gap between the wealthy and the poor.
C) steadily declining property values and taxes.
D) the end of colonial warfare.

Question 25

The religious revival known as the Great Awakening

A) helped stem the tide of revolutionary thought and behavior.
B) reaffirmed traditional sources of authority.
C) emphasized individual responsibility for conversion.
D) affected the colonies equally and simultaneously.

Question 26

What changes transformed life in the southern colonies from 1680 to 1750? What similarities or differences existed between the tobacco coast, the rice coast, and the backcountry?

Question 27

Analyze the ways in which contact with the French, Spanish, and English transformed life for Native Americans during the first half of the eighteenth century.

Question 28

Compare the development of agriculture in the New England, mid-Atlantic, and southern colonies. How did different types of farming contribute to the formation of different types of societies in the three regions?

Question 29

According to the entrepreneurial ethos, prosperity resulted from

A) regulated prices and wages.
B) individual competition.
C) self-denial.
D) quality controls.

Question 30

The author maintains that for urban artisans in eighteenth-century America, fortuitous circumstances rather than hard work or frugal living were often the critical factors in achieving success. Would the same argument be more or less true for urban workers today?

Question 31

All of the following represent theories of Enlightenment thinkers EXCEPT the notion that

A) scientific laws might be applied to human institutions in order to improve society.
B) systematic investigation would unlock the secrets of the physical universe.
C) God predetermined the contents of the human mind.
D) man could use his reason and thus acquire knowledge.

Question 32

The advent of "modern" life occurred first in the seaboard centers of colonial America, including the transition from a

A) contentious to a deferential politics.
B) factory to a skilled craftsman's production of goods.
C) social order based on achievement to one based on status.
D) barter to a commercial economy.

Question 33

For urban artisans in colonial America,

A) New England paid the highest wages.
B) work patterns proved regular and constant.
C) a major goal was economic independence.
D) urban growth and economic expansion guaranteed success.

Question 34

As a result of extensive contact with European colonizers during the early eighteenth century, Native American tribes of the interior

A) held onto many of their cultural traditions.
B) adopted the white man's culture and religion.
C) benefited from commercial trade and development.
D) abandoned hunting for subsistence agriculture.

Question 35

Religious life in the colonies was marked by

A) tightly organized and disciplined congregations.
B) government compulsion to attend services.
C) a scarcity of trained ministers.
D) discrimination against Anglicans.