American History Chapter 3 Questions

The law that caused the greatest change to the legal status of Africans in North America involved which of the following?

the declaration of slavery as a hereditary condition

Which of the following statements accurately describes Bacon's Rebellion?

It brought indentured servants and small farmers together against the colony's rich planters and political leaders.

Why did European colonists choose to replace the slave labor of native peoples with that of West Africans?

Native Americans were not able to resist diseases carried by Europeans

What was the principal cause of the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico?

The Spanish had attempted to keep the Pueblos from practicing their native religion

What evidence suggests that the American colonies' declaration of independence against Great Britain was bound to happen decades before it did?

The colonies had developed their own economic structures independently from Great Britain

How were the Quakers different from other Protestant groups?

They were pacifists who were against fighting wars

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Middle Passage?

Widespread racist beliefs that viewed Africans as "beasts of burden" rather than human beings helped bring about and perpetuate the transatlantic voyage known as the Middle Passage

In 1688, during what became known as the Glorious Revolution, King James II was forced from the throne and replaced by his daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange. Why did Parliament prefer William and Mary to Charles II?

William and Mary were Protestant

The colony of Pennsylvania was

open to all religious believers

The English Civil War affected the American colonies by

permitting the colonies to essentially govern themselves