Give Me Liberty Chap. 3

(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

(Q076) Primogeniture meant that estates must be passed intact to the oldest daughter.

False.

(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

(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

(Q022) In the Salem witch trials of 1692,

almost 150 people, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft.

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

frustration over high taxes and diminishing availability of land

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

overwhelmingly white and European.

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

rice

(Q024) The three-race system developed in

the British Caribbean.

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

the backcountry.

(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

(Q058) In 1678, when the Lords of Trade in England queried the Massachusetts government about how well it was following the Navigation Acts, the colony replied that the Navigation Acts did not apply to the colony unless the colony's own government approved them.

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

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

True

(Q067) 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

(Q070) The Dutch eclipsed Great Britain as the leading producer and trader of inexpensive consumer goods in the eighteenth century.

False

(Q074) Despite the influx of British goods, American craftsmen did not benefit from the expanding consumer market.

False

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

False