apush chapter 4

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the experience of slavery for women? a Female slaves made up the majority of early imports to the colonies. b Female slaves worked a much longer day than male slaves. c Women constantly sought ways to preserve their dignity under the slave system. d Slave women lived in fear of sexual violence from white masters.

Female slaves made up the majority of early imports to the colonies.

The physical and social conditions of slavery were harshest in d

South Carolina.

Which of these is NOT a true statement about life expectancy for the earliest Chesapeake settlers? a The population grew rapidly due to new male immigrants. b Half of the male settlers made it to age 50; half the female settlers to age 40. c Half of those born in early Virginia and Maryland did not live past age twenty. d It was ten years shorter for these Chesapeake colonists than it had been in England.

a The population grew rapidly due to new male immigrants.

For their labor in the colonies, indentured servants received all of the following except a headright. a suit of clothes. passage to America. at times, a small parcel of land.

a headright.

Compared with most seventeenth-century Europeans, Americans lived in c

affluent abundance.

The combination of Calvinism, soil, and climate in New England resulted in the people there possessing which of the following qualities? a Stubbornness b Self-reliance c Resourcefulness d All of these choices are correct.

all of these choices are correct

The 1662 slave codes in Virginia are significant because they a established curfews and prohibited slaves from moving freely about the colony. b restricted the number of slaves that could be imported into the colony. c established a legal difference between servants and slaves based on race. d made slaves and indentured servants of equal status under the law.

c established a legal difference between servants and slaves based on race.

During the seventeenth century, indentured servitude solved the labor problem in many English colonies for all of the following reasons except that a families procreated too slowly. b in some areas families formed too slowly. c African slaves cost too much money. d Spain had stopped sending slaves to its New World colonies.

d Spain had stopped sending slaves to its New World colonies.

The Salem witch persecutions in 1693 were characterized by all of the following except a they were ultimately opposed by the more responsible members of the New England clergy. b they were a unique phenomenon, not repeated in any other locale in the colonies. c they reflected the widening social stratification of New England. d they were unconnected to fears of many religious traditionalists that Puritan heritage was being eclipsed by Yankee commercialism.

d they were unconnected to fears of many religious traditionalists that Puritan heritage was being eclipsed by Yankee commercialism.

The impact of New England on the rest of the nation can best be described as a

extremely important.

The New England economy depended heavily on

fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce

As slavery spread in the South

gaps in the social structure widened.

The headright system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of a

giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.

Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by a

growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production.

English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called a

indentured servants.

Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American South were

landowning small farmers.

As a result of Bacon's Rebellion a

planters sought African slaves to replace discontented backcountry frontiersmen as laborers.

The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was b

the Virginia governor's refusal to retaliate against Indian attacks on frontier settlements.

For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the middle passage can be best described as a

the gruesome ocean voyage to America.

As the seventeenth century wore on, regional differences continued to crystallize, most notably a

the importance of slave labor in the South.

At the top of the social class in the South were

the merchant-planters.

Puritans refused to recognize a woman's separate property rights because

they worried that such rights would undercut the unity of married persons.

Indentured servants in the seventeenth century Chesapeake represented a

three-quarters of the population.

Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from a

white servants.