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(Q020) Which of the following statements is true regarding Leisler's Rebellion (1689)?

Following his defeat, Leisler's body was decapitated and cut into four parts.

(Q009) Which statement is true regarding King Philip and King Philip's War?

Twelve New England towns were destroyed by the Indians' attacks.

(Q043) Over the century between 1650 and 1750, the agricultural economies of New England, the Middle Colonies, and the backcountry grew more and more alike.

false

(Q049) In the late seventeenth century, the Iroquois were known for their fierce hatred and courageous fighting against British colonists.

false

(Q053) The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669) ended hereditary nobility and abolished landgraves and caciques.

false

(Q064) In the 1700s, 10 percent of colonists in British North America worked farms.

false

(Q065) There were many banks in the 1700s in colonial America.

false

(Q072) In the eighteenth century, British America was much less diverse than England.

false

(Q073) Most colonies allowed Catholics and Jews to vote and hold public office.

false

(Q075) The Spanish financed the slave trade between Africa and Brazil in the 1700s.

false

(Q008) Huguenots who settled in the American colonies came from

france

(Q006) Which of the following was a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?

frustration over high taxes and diminishing availability of land

(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 a)

jews

(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

(Q066) Virginia's upper class in the 1700s was sometimes called a "cousinocracy."

true

(Q068) Vastly more people living in the colonies had far greater opportunities--to vote, own land, and worship freely--than existed in Europe.

true

(Q069) In 1705, the House of Burgesses enacted strict slave codes.

true

(Q071) In the mid-eighteenth century, half of the wealth in the English colonies was concentrated in the hands of the richest 10 percent of the population.

true

(Q038) Benjamin Franklin was particularly disturbed by the immigration of German people into

Pennsylvania.

(Q028) In North America, three new and very different empires had arisen in the late seventeenth century:

Spanish, French, and English.

(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.

(Q002) One significant consequence of the Glorious Revolution for the American colonies was

a renewed sense of entitlement to political liberty for Anglican Protestants.

(Q029) At the start of the eighteenth century, the population of the colonies was

overwhelmingly white and European.

(Q014) The colony founded by a leader who hoped women and blacks would be given equality along with all persons was

pennsylvania

(Q031) Another name for indentured families was

redemtioners

(Q013) Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?

rice

(Q033) The West Indies produced this increasingly popular product enjoyed by both North American colonists and Indians.

rum

(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.

(Q032) In the mid-eighteenth-century colonies, this area of settlement was the most rapidly growing region in North America. a)

the back country

(Q024) The three-race system developed in

the british caribbean

(Q023) Which of the following was an effect of Bacon's Rebellion?

the increased use of African slaves

(Q040) The rise of black slavery in Virginia developed only gradually and over several generations.

true

(Q042) 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

(Q044) During the early to mid-eighteenth century, consumption of manufactured goods penetrated deep into the colonial countryside.

true

(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

(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


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