History Chapter 3

In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial America's leading commercial port and cultural center was

Philadelphia

Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?

Rice

Along with sugar, the West Indies also produced this increasingly popular product enjoyed by both North American colonists and Indians.

Rum

Which was not part of the aftermath of King Philip's War?

The Iroquois, having attacked the colonists, were destroyed.

By 1700, almost 2 million acres of land was owned by five New York families.

True

By 1775, three-fifths of the English owned no land, but about two-thirds of the free male colonists in British North America owned land.

True

During the early to mid-eighteenth century, consumption of manufactured goods penetrated deep into the colonial countryside.

True

During the eighteenth century, British colonies diversified along ethnic and religious lines.

True

During the first half of the eighteenth century, the flow of non-English migrants to British North America was larger than that of English migrants.

True

Fourteen women and five men were hanged as witches in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

True

Great Britain eclipsed the Dutch as the leading producer and trader of inexpensive consumer goods in the eighteenth century.

True

In 1678, when the Lords of Trade in England queried the Massachusetts government about how well it was following the Navigation Acts, the Lords received the reply from the colony that the Navigation Acts did not apply to the colony unless the colony's own government (not the British Parliament, but rather the Massachusetts General Court) approved them.

True

In 1705, the House of Burgesses enacted strict slave codes.

True

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 the British colonies of North America.

True

One significant consequence of the Glorious Revolution for the American colonies was

a renewed sense of entitlement to liberty, as the birthright of all English subjects

In the prevailing theory of mercantilism, the government should

regulate economic activity to promote the nation's power.

"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

After 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses held that Christians could not enslave other Christians.

False

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

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 in General Court elections.