US History Chapter 3
The English eclipsed the Dutch as the leading producer and trader of inexpensive consumer goods in the eighteenth century.
True
Which was not part of the Dominion of New England (1686-88)?
Vermont
Which was NOT part of the Dominion of New England (1686-88)?
Vermont (New York, New Hampshire and Plymouth were)
Which was NOT a characteristic view of mercantilism?
A country's imports should exceed its exports
Which was not a characteristic view of mercantilism?
A country's imports should exceed its exports
Which is NOT true regarding King Philip and King Philip's War?
Indian tribes fought together under the unified leadership of Metacom.
Which is not true regarding King Philip and King Philip's War?
Indian tribes fought together under the unified leadership of Metacom.
Which was NOT part of the Glorious Revolution?
It secured Catholic succession to the throne of England.
Which was not part of the Glorious Revolution?
It secured Catholic succession to the throne of England.
Which was not an element in Leisler's Rebellion (1689)?
Leisler's success meant French domination of New York.
Which of the following was NOT a significant feature of the Salem witchcraft hysteria of the early 1690s?
Many were tried on charges of witchcraft, but no one was actually convicted
Which of the following was not a significant feature of the Salem witchcraft hysteria of the early 1690s?
Many were tried on charges of witchcraft, but no one was actually convicted.
The Dutch settled primarily in
New York and New Jersey
The Dutch primarily settled in:
New York and New Jersey.
The colony founded by a leader who hoped women and blacks would be given equality along with all persons was
Pennsylvania
The colony founded by a leader who hoped women and blacks would be given equality along with all persons was:
Pennsylvania
In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial America's leading commercial port was
Philadelphia
In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial America's leading commercial port was:
Philadelphia
By 1700, almost 2 million acres of land was owned by five New York families.
T
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.
T
During the early to mid-eighteenth century, consumption of manufactured goods penetrated deep into the colonial countryside.
T
During the eighteenth century, British colonies diversified along ethnic and religious lines.
T
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.
T
Fourteen women and five men were hanged as witches in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
T
In 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses decreed that religious conversion did not release a slave from bondage.
T
The largest group of immigrants from continental Europe were the
Germans
The largest group of immigrants from continental Europe were the:
Germans
"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.
F
After 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses held that Christians could not enslave other Christians.
F
Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 was a rebellion over a tax increase on bacon.
F
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.
F
In human history, slaves have all been blacks.
F
In the late seventeenth century, the Iroquois were known for their fierce hatred and courageous fighting against British colonists.
F
Over the century between 1650 and 1750, the agricultural economies of New England, the Middle Colonies, and the backcountry grew more and more alike.
F
Slaves showed little inclination to challenge their enslavement in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Virginia.
F
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669) ended hereditary nobility, and abolished landgraves and caciques.
F
The Indians' defeat in King Philip's War hastened the introduction of slavery in Carolina.
F
During the eighteenth century, women's work in the rural North grew less taxing and less rigidly defined.
False
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.
T
In 1705, the House of Burgesses enacted strict slave codes.
T
In the 1700s, 90 percent of colonists in British North America worked farms.
T
In the English colonies as a whole, half of the wealth at mid-century was concentrated in the hands of the richest 10 percent of the population.
T
In the Walking Purchase of 1737, the Lenni Lanape Indians of Pennsylvania lost more land than they had anticipated when Governor James Logan hired a team of runners to mark off the amount of land "a man could walk" in thirty-six hours.
T
In the first half of the eighteenth century, low taxes, the lack of a military draft, high wages for skilled workers, and an abundance of liberties characterized life for many whites in the British colonies of North America.
T
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.
T
New York was named after King Charles II's brother, James, the Duke of York
T
The English eclipsed the Dutch as the leading producer and trader of inexpensive consumer goods in the eighteenth century.
T
The English word "slave" derives from the word "Slav, " that is, a people from Eastern Europe who were enslaved by other Europeans, a practice that survived into the 1400s.
T
The English word "slave" derives from the word "Slav," that is, a people from Eastern Europe who were enslaved by other Europeans into the 1400s.
T
The rise of black slavery in Virginia developed only gradually, over several generations.
T
There were no banks in 1700s colonial America.
T
Tituba, who was 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.
T
Under the seventeenth-century British Navigation Acts, certain goods produced in the colonies had to be taken in English ships and sold in ports in England.
T
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.
T
Vastly more people living in the colonies had far greater opportunities—to vote, own land, worship freely—than existed in Europe.
T
Virginia's upper class in the 1700s was sometimes called a "cousinocracy."
T
Which was NOT part of the aftermath of King Philip's War?
The Iroquois, having attacked the colonists, were destroyed
Which was not part of the aftermath of King Philip's War?
The Iroquois, having attacked the colonists, were destroyed
Which did not characterize free blacks (such as Anthony Johnson) in Virginia and Maryland in the 1600s?
They could not own African slaves
Which of the following was NOT a theme of seventeenth-century British mercantilism
Trade should flow freely among all lands, unimpeded by government policy.
Which of the following was not a theme of seventeenth-century British mercantilism?
Trade should flow freely among all lands, unimpeded by government policy.
Which of the following was NOT a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?
a determination to abolish slavery in Virginia
Which of the following was not a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?
a determination to abolish slavery in Virginia
Which of the following was not a key factor behind the introduction of black slavery in the Chesapeake?
a fear that West Africans, if left alone, might seek to establish colonies of their own in North America, or even Europe
Which of the following was NOT central to William Penn's vision for his Quaker colony? the freedom to follow one's own religious conscience the spiritual equality of all, regardless of sex or color harmonious relations between settlers and Indians
a hands-off policy toward private behavior
Which of the following was not central to William Penn's vision for his Quaker colony?
a hands-off policy towards private behavior
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 Salem witchcraft trials of 1692,
almost 150 people, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft.
Before being taken over by the English in 1664, New York was
called New Netherland, and controlled by the Dutch
Prior to being taken over by the English in 1664, New York was:
called New Netherland, and controlled by the Dutch
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
establishment of Dominion of New England; Glorious Revolution in England; Parliamentary Declaration of Rights
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.
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.
By the late 1600s, the majority of enslaved labor in the West Indies worked
on sugar plantations
Pennsylvania's Charter of Liberty
required persons to affirm Jesus Christ's divinity
Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?
rice
When Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the Governor of Virginia, he called for all of the following EXCEPT
the freeing of slaves, particularly enslaved Christians
Which of the following was an effect of Bacon's Rebellion?
the increased use of African slaves
