Chapter 3 quiz US History
(Q032) In the mid-eighteenth-century colonies, this area of settlement was the most rapidly growing region in North America.
the backcountry
(Q010) Which of the following is true regarding the aftermath of King Philip's War?
Puritans sold Indian children from the warring tribes into slavery.
(Q033) The West Indies produced this increasingly popular product enjoyed by both North American colonists and Indians.
Rum
(Q026) This chief crop produced by Western Hemisphere slaves during the eighteenth century was also the first to be mass-marketed to consumers in Europe.
Sugar
Q016) Which of the following is true regarding free blacks (such as Anthony Johnson) in Virginia and Maryland in the 1600s?
They could sue or testify in court.
(Q047) In the mid-1700s, per capita, the richest people in the world were most likely the (non-slave) colonists in what would later become the United States.
True
(Q048) Under the seventeenth-century British Navigation Acts, certain goods produced in the colonies had to be transported in English ships and sold in ports in England.
True
(Q051) By 1700, almost 2 million acres of land was owned by five New York families.
True
(Q059) Fourteen women and five men were hanged as witches in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
True
(Q060) Tituba, one of the people accused of being a witch in Salem, was originally an Indian from the Caribbean who, in 1692, was a slave in Massachusetts.
True
(Q061) During the eighteenth century, British colonies diversified along ethnic and religious lines.
True
(Q062) In the first half of the eighteenth century, low taxes, the lack of a military draft, decent wages for skilled workers, and an abundance of liberties characterized life for many whites in British North America.
True
(Q063) In the Walking Purchase of 1737, the Lenni Lenape Indians of Pennsylvania lost more land when Governor James Logan hired a team of runners to mark off the amount of land "a man could walk" in thirty-six hours.
True
(Q009) Which statement is true regarding King Philip and King Philip's War?
Twelve New England towns were destroyed by the Indians' attacks.
(Q022) In the Salem witch trials of 1692,
almost 150 people, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft.
(Q005) A "praying Indian" was the term for
an Indian who converted to Christianity.
(Q018) The Glorious Revolution
established parliamentary supremacy once and for all.
(Q021) In 1691, Massachusetts was transformed when a new charter, issued by the English government, absorbed Plymouth into Massachusetts, and
made property ownership, not church membership, a requirement for voting.
(Q029) At the start of the eighteenth century, the population of the colonies was
overwhelmingly white and European.
(Q039) The Maryland Act Concerning Negroes and Other Slaves (1664) held that white women who married slaves had to
serve her husband's owner until the slave's death.
(Q037) Many British saw the colonists of British North America as religious dissidents, impoverished servants, and
Convicts
(Q046) By 1750, colonial America had become a land of the very rich and the desperately poor; the in-between ranks of yeomen and craftsmen had all but disappeared.
False
(Q052) "Racism"--the idea that some races are inherently superior to others and entitled to rule over them--was fully developed in seventeenth-century colonial Virginia.
False
(Q065) There were many banks in the 1700s in colonial America.
False
(Q070) The Dutch eclipsed Great Britain as the leading producer and trader of inexpensive consumer goods in the eighteenth century.
False
(Q075) The Spanish financed the slave trade between Africa and Brazil in the 1700s.
False
(Q035) In the seventeenth century, the term "Americans" tended to be used to describe
Indians
(Q036) Intermarriage with other groups in the British North American colonies was more common among Huguenots than among
Jews
(Q013) Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?
Rice
(Q055) In human history, slaves have all been blacks.
False