Deck 3: Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society

Question 1

During the colonial period,most of the slaves sent to the North American colonies were supplied by the ________.

A) Dutch
B) Americans
C) Portuguese
D) Spanish
E) British

Answer 1

British

Question 2

The Navigation Acts established the principle that ________.

A) trade between the colonies of Spain and of England would be beneficial
B) Spain would have most-favored status in trading with England
C) free trade was good for all
D) the British colonies' only trading partner was England
E) North American industry should be discouraged

Answer 2

the British colonies' only trading partner was England

Question 3

In New England,women ________.

A) enjoyed rights and powers equal to those of men
B) outnumbered men in church by two to one
C) had no economic power whatsoever
D) could easily divorce their husbands
E) began to lobby for voting rights in this colonial period

Answer 3

outnumbered men in church by two to one

Question 4

British authorities based their colonial commercial policies on the theory of ________.

A) feudalism
B) laissez-faire
C) mercantilism
D) federalism
E) republicanism

Question 5

In which colony were African Americans most able to preserve their African identity?

A) New Jersey
B) South Carolina
C) Pennsylvania
D) New York
E) Virginia

Question 6

Where did the creole language,Gullah,endure longest?

A) Maryland
B) North Carolina
C) Louisiana
D) Virginia
E) the Sea Islands

Question 7

New England families differed from those of other English colonies in that they often included ________.

A) Native Americans
B) grandparents
C) polygamy
D) widows
E) extended families living in one household

Question 8

The most serious slave rebellion of the colonial period was ________.

A) the Stono Uprising
B) the Denmark Vesey Conspiracy
C) Nat Turner's Rebellion
D) the Jamestown Massacre
E) Bacon's Rebellion

Question 9

The eighteenth-century population of the lowlands of South Carolina was ________ percent black.

A) 5
B) 10
C) 40
D) 60
E) 80

Question 10

Compared to New England,Chesapeake society ________.

A) was more democratic
B) was characterized by small farms
C) had fewer families
D) was more densely populated
E) had fewer slaves

Question 11

The society created by Puritans in New England ________.

A) copied the social order they had left behind in England
B) was modeled on contemporary Dutch society
C) represented a near-total rejection of traditional English ways
D) was quite similar to that of the Chesapeake region
E) adapted to include slavery

Question 12

Puritans viewed which of the following as essential to their New England commonwealth?

A) strict adherence to personal hygiene measures
B) a flexible form of colonial administration
C) a healthy family life
D) the rapid creation of an urban society in New England
E) honest public officials

Question 13

In the early seventeenth century,Virginia's blacks ________.

A) were encouraged to marry white women
B) occasionally served in the House of Burgesses
C) sometimes became planters
D) greatly outnumbered whites
E) slowly integrated into white society

Question 14

The character of the first English settlements in the New World ________.

A) remained remarkably similar throughout the seventeenth century
B) differed from colony to colony because of government rules
C) differed substantially from colony to colony from the very beginning of colonization
D) was determined primarily by the religious preference of each colony
E) was not significantly influenced by geography

Question 15

The intention of the Navigation Acts was to ________.

A) remove the Dutch as a commercial competitor
B) promote English industrial development
C) keep the American colonies weak and dependent
D) stimulate colonial economic diversification
E) finance the British navy

Question 16

The most important reason for the difference between the New England and Chesapeake colonies was based on ________.

A) the different crops exported
B) the much higher mortality rate of the Chesapeake colonies
C) the practice of slavery in the southern colonies
D) contrasting economic systems
E) varying degrees of ethnic diversity in the populations

Question 17

Sumptuary laws ________.

A) made excessive gluttony a crime
B) established statutes that limited the wearing of fine apparel to the wealthy and prominent
C) criminalized frivolity on the Sabbath
D) provided that only "visible saints" could be buried in a church cemetery
E) made church attendance compulsory

Question 18

By the late 1600s,the gap between rich and poor in white Chesapeake society ________.

A) steadily shrank
B) steadily widened
C) remained unchanged
D) could not be estimated
E) is not mentioned by contemporary chroniclers

Question 19

The explanation for the tremendous population growth of seventeenth-century New England can be found in the ________.

A) extraordinary fertility of New England women
B) emphasis Puritans placed on having large families
C) good relations maintained with local Indians
D) long lives of New England settlers
E) agricultural richness of the New World

Question 20

Of the estimated 11 million African slaves carried to the Americas,the great majority were sent to ________.

A) Brazil and the Caribbean
B) British North America
C) Chile
D) Argentina
E) Central America

Question 21

The peaceful ousting of James II by Parliament in 1688 was known as ________.

A) King James's War
B) the Restoration
C) Parliament's Rebellion
D) the Glorious Revolution
E) the People's War

Question 22

As a result of the Salem witchcraft trials,________.

A) nineteen people were hanged
B) twenty-three people were banished
C) eight people were pressed to death with weights
D) fourteen people were burned at the stake
E) nine people were executed by firing squad

Question 23

Why did the Virginia tobacco planters oppose the Navigation Acts?

A) Trading with the Dutch made the price of tobacco decrease.
B) Virginians wanted to be able to import goods from France.
C) The planters received smaller profits due to the customs duties on tobacco.
D) They wanted tobacco to be transshipped through England first.
E) The cost of ships reduced the profits they made from tobacco.

Question 24

Which of these was true of Chesapeake families in the 1600s?

A) Stable nuclear families were the rule.
B) Most marriages did not last ten years.
C) Three-generation families commonly lived together.
D) Remarriage was uncommon after a spouse died.
E) Large families were common because of early marriage.

Question 25

Which was NOT a factor that retarded population growth in seventeenth-century Virginia and Maryland?

A) Many young women delayed marriage until their terms of service were complete.
B) Infant mortality rates were very high in both colonies.
C) Local Indians kidnapped many women and children.
D) The life expectancy was short.
E) The gender ratio was seriously unbalanced.

Question 26

Why were New England colonists more likely to maintain English customs than those who migrated to Virginia and Maryland?

A) The New England colonists came from higher social ranks than those in the other colonies and were more familiar with traditional English customs.
B) The New England colonists brought more English goods with them to America, which helped keep the traditions alive.
C) The New England colonists tended to migrate as families and thus were able to keep family and other traditions in the New World.
D) The New England colonists generally came to America as single men and women and found that preserving their English customs comforted them.
E) The New England colonists were proud to be English, while the other colonists wanted to reject their English traditions.

Question 27

One of the major causes of ________ was the disfranchisement of landless freemen by the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1670.

A) Bacon's Rebellion
B) Coode's Rebellion
C) Leisler's Rebellion
D) the Stono Uprising
E) Shays's Rebellion

Question 28

Which provides the strongest evidence that eighteenth-century slavery was based on race?

A) Slave status depended entirely on the amount of money a person had, and blacks had little money.
B) The status of a person as a slave depended on where the person was born, and being born in Africa made a person a slave.
C) The status of a person as a slave depended entirely on skin color.
D) The status of a person as a slave depended partly on skin color and partly on intelligence.
E) The status of a person as a slave depended entirely on social class.

Question 29

What role did women have in the New England colonies?

A) They generally had no independence at all from men.
B) They had the same legal rights as men but could not vote.
C) They made no decisions and simply followed the orders of men.
D) They had no legal rights, but they were able to vote and hold public office.
E) They were respected for their work but were legally inferior to men.

Question 30

Why did the population of New England rise in the seventeenth century?

A) Better overall health resulted in people living longer.
B) Puritan families tended to have many children.
C) Couples in New England married younger and tended to have more children.
D) Many more immigrants came to New England than to the other colonies.
E) Colonists from the southern colonies moved to New England in large numbers.

Question 31

The armed conflict between Native Americans and New Englanders in 1675 was led by ________.

A) Massasoit
B) Powhatan
C) Metacomet
D) Tecumseh
E) Opechancanough

Question 32

Which statement is a key assumption of mercantilism?

A) Trade benefits all trading partners equally.
B) Trade benefits only the weak nations.
C) One nation's success in commerce has no effect on other nations.
D) One nation's success in commerce is another nation's loss.
E) One nation's success in commerce benefits all nations.

Question 33

Why did Massachusetts and Connecticut feel the need to pass sumptuary laws?

A) They weren't comfortable with the idea that lower class people were taking on the trappings of the upper classes.
B) They weren't comfortable with the idea that upper class people were "slumming" and taking on the trappings of the lower classes.
C) They wanted to abolish all signs of the British social class system.
D) They wanted to establish a minimum dress code for the lower classes.
E) They wanted to limit finery for all colonial classes.

Question 34

What seems to have hindered the development of towns in the Chesapeake region?

A) hostility between different ethnic groups
B) the absence of navigable rivers
C) the absence of a vibrant middle class
D) an economy based on one crop destined for export
E) the dependence on a one-crop economy for use in the colonies

Question 35

Which of the following was true of seventeenth-century New England?

A) Most families had several servants.
B) There were wide gaps between the rich and the poor.
C) Land ownership was widespread.
D) Few colonists owned their own land.
E) All free males could vote.

Question 36

Why did colonial lawmakers create strict slave codes in the late 1600s?

A) Lawmakers wanted slaves to be treated fairly.
B) Lawmakers feared an uprising because the African population had increased greatly.
C) Lawmakers wanted to prevent an influx of additional Africans into America.
D) Lawmakers wanted African Americans to be treated the same as indentured servants.
E) Lawmakers wanted to pave the road for African slaves to eventually become citizens.

Question 37

The Staple Act of 1663 stated that ________.

A) Americans must stop raising corn and wheat
B) imports to America had to be shipped through England
C) Americans could not produce iron products
D) rum had to be manufactured in the West Indies
E) Americans could only produce staple foodstuffs

Question 38

How would late seventeenth-century Virginia best be described?

A) a plantation society, dominated by a slaveholding elite
B) a diversified society and economy, with minimal social stratification
C) a society of small farmers, committed to diversified agriculture
D) a successful commercial enterprise that returned large profits to the crown
E) a society struggling with the question of slavery

Question 39

Which of the following best characterizes the creole languages that developed among slaves in some parts of the southern colonies in the seventeenth century?

A) Creole languages were a mixture of English and different African languages.
B) Creole languages were based on African languages.
C) Creole languages were a mixture of French, English, and Dutch languages.
D) Creole languages were written versions of African languages.
E) Creole languages were informal, colloquial versions of English.

Question 40

Beginning in 1696,the ________ settled disputes that occurred at sea.

A) House of Commons
B) Lords of Trade
C) Board of Trade
D) Privy Council
E) vice-admiralty courts

Question 41

Describe the origins of slavery in the mainland English colonies.How did Africans adjust to life as slaves? What factors influenced the enactment of slave codes by colonial assemblies?

Question 42

What was the New England version of the Glorious Revolution?

A) a year-long celebration of the overthrow of James II
B) the overthrow of Governor Andros
C) a year-long celebration of the crowning of William and Mary
D) a new bill of rights for all colonists
E) a new bill of rights for land-owning colonists

Question 43

What economic factors shaped the emerging social structures of colonial America?

Question 44

Which issue led directly to Bacon's Rebellion?

A) the inability of the governor to take action against the Indians on the frontier
B) the unfair trial of colonial smugglers by British admiralty courts
C) Parliament's decision to appoint a governor rather than allow popular elections
D) the attempt to move the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg
E) the attempt of Bacon to obtain a license to engage in the fur trade

Question 45

What do we know about the sources of the witchcraft hysteria in Salem?

A) They are known to have been primarily economic.
B) They reflected the community's underlying resistance to the teachings of Calvinism.
C) They lay in the community's dislike of English authority.
D) They are likely the result of preexisting conflict.
E) They may have been related to the presence of real witches.

Question 46

Why is the Navigation Act in 1660 considered the most important piece of imperial legislation drafted before the American Revolution?

A) It allowed the development of the colonial navy into one of the most powerful in the world.
B) It greatly strengthened the English mercantile empire.
C) It allowed colonists to trade with the Dutch, which eventually caused the British to retaliate with acts that sparked the American Revolution.
D) It established France and Holland as allies of the colonies and enemies with England.
E) Its passage directly led to the Boston Tea Party, which was the first act of rebellion by the American colonists.

Question 47

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Salem witchcraft hysteria?

A) the community's history of religious discord
B) disagreements between Salem's poor people and its upper classes
C) Salem's history of engaging in occult practices
D) fear of attack by nearby Indians
E) the underlying misogyny of the entire colonial culture

Question 48

Which statement about Bacon's Rebellion is FALSE?

A) Bacon would probably have been accepted into the ruling clique had he only waited.
B) Bacon led a rebellion to prevent Governor Berkeley from waging a war against the Susquehannock Indians.
C) Bacon was perceived as a hero by the common people of Virginia.
D) Bacon and his men burned Jamestown to the ground.
E) Bacon, a member of a respectable English family, had only recently arrived in Virginia.

Question 49

During the Salem witchcraft hysteria,Increase Mather and other leading ministers ________.

A) called for execution of the accused witches
B) completely ignored the controversy
C) urged restraint and caution
D) called for colony-wide searches for accused witches
E) questioned the validity of the testimony of minors

Question 50

What did the seventeenth-century revolts of American colonial gentry represent?

A) an early rehearsal for the American Revolution
B) confrontations between ordinary people and their rulers
C) competition among local factions for control of their colonies
D) ideological struggles over colonial rights
E) a struggle between the planters and yeoman farmers

Question 51

What was a difference between the rights in marriage of women in the Chesapeake region and those of women in New England in the 1600s?

A) Women in the Chesapeake region tended to have more power because they were fewer in number and thus began from a better bargaining position.
B) Women in New England had more rights because there were more women there and they had greater strength as a community.
C) Women in New England had fewer rights because the colonists there came from more strict and traditional backgrounds.
D) Women in the Chesapeake region tended to have fewer rights because the planter class had more restrictions on the roles of women in society.
E) Women in New England had fewer rights because the women there tended to live much shorter lives than those in the Chesapeake region.

Question 52

How did mercantilism shape the economic and political relationship between England and its colonies?

Question 53

What was the cultural and economic role of the family in colonial New England?

Question 54

Consider the following statement."The elements that sparked a powerful sense of nationalism among colonists dispersed over a huge territory would not be evident for a long time." What does this statement mean?

A) The colonists tended to dislike the colonists in regions other than their own.
B) The colonies were getting very close to forming an independent country.
C) The colonies were still separate and had very little to do with each other.
D) The colonies had expanded to a huge area of the country.
E) The colonies saw themselves as English first and Americans second.