Hist121 chapter 3

What was one of Pennsylvania's only restrictions on religious liberty

Holding office required an oath affirming a belief in Jesus Christ, which eliminated Jews from serving

What was the impact of King Philip's War (1675-1676)

In the long run the war produced a broadening of freedom for whites in New England

In what ways did England reduce colonial autonomy during the 1680s

It created the Dominion of New England, run by a royal appointee without benefit of an elected assembly

How did the new Massachusetts charter of 1691 change that colony's government

It made Massachusetts a royal colony rather than under the control of Puritan "saints."

Before founding Pennsylvania, William Penn assisted a group of English Quakers to set up a colony in what became

New Jersey

The Glorious Revolution witnessed uprisings in colonial America, including ones in

New York and Maryland

Pennsylvania's treatment of Native Americans was unique in what way

Pennsylvania purchased Indian land that was then resold to colonists and offered refuge to tribes driven out of other colonies

What historical evidence demonstrates that blacks were being held as slaves for life by the 1640s

Property registers list white servants with the number of years they were to work, but blacks (with higher valuations) had no terms of service associated with their names

Great Britain sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the eighteenth century

Protestants from non-English and less prosperous parts of the British Isles

Which of the following is true of slave resistance in the colonial period

Some slaves were the offspring of white traders and therefore knew enough English to turn to the legal system, at least until Virginia lawmakers prevented them from doing so

Of colonists in British North America, which group was the wealthiest

South Carolina rice farmers

Which commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during the seventeenth century

Sugar

Which of the following was true of small farmers in 1670s Virginia

The lack of good land, high taxes on tobacco, and falling prices reduced their prospects

What ironic consequence did William Penn's generous policies, such as religious toleration and inexpensive land, have

They contributed to the increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on African slave labor

Which of the following was true of the colonial elite

They controlled colonial government

What role did Native Americans play in British imperial wars during the eighteenth century

They did much of the fighting in the wars

As English colonial society became more structured in the eighteenth century, what were the effects on women

Women's work became more clearly defined as tied closely to the home

To Quakers, liberty was

a universal entitlement

Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England

a woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband

The economy of the Carolina colony

originally centered on cattle-raising and trade

William Penn was a member of which religious group

quakers

The Glorious Revolution of 1688:

resulted mainly from the fears of English aristocrats that the birth of James II's son would lead to a Catholic succession.

When England took over the Dutch colony that became New York

the English ended the Dutch tradition of allowing married women to conduct business in their own names

According to the economic theory known as mercantilism

the government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power

Slavery developed more slowly in North America than in the English West Indies because

the high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to die within a short time

Bacon's Rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia

the replacing of indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia's plantations

What sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the mid-seventeenth century

the restoration of the monarchy in 1660

By the eighteenth century, colonial farm families

viewed land ownership almost as a right, a precondition of freedom

"Enumerated" goods

were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that first had to be imported to England

By the eighteenth century, consumer goods such as books and ceramic plates

were found in many colonial residents' homes

The Scottish and Scotch-Irish immigrants to the colonies

were not only poor farmers, but physicians, merchants, and teachers, too

In its early years, Carolina was the "colony of a colony" because its original settlers included many

landless sons of wealthy planters in Barbados

The English Bill of Rights of 1689

listed parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury.

Which one of the following is true of the English West Indies in the seventeenth century

By the end of the century, the African population far outnumbered the European population on most islands

Which of the following best sums up population diversity in colonial British America

Great Britain originally promoted emigration to the colonies as a means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century, opening the colonies to a more diverse group of settlers

How did English rule affect the Iroquois Confederacy

After a series of complex negotiations, both groups aided each other's imperial ambitions

Which of the following was true of agriculture in the colonies during the eighteenth century

Because New York's landlords had taken over so much land, agriculture grew more slowly in New York than in other colonies

The first English Navigation Act, adopted during the rule of Oliver Cromwell

aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch

English and Dutch merchants created a well-organized system for "redemptioners." What was this system for?

for carrying indentured German families to America where they would work off their transportation debt

According to laws in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake

free blacks had the right to sue and testify in court

Spain's Las Siete Partidas, a series of laws touching on slavery

gave slaves some opportunities to claim rights under the law in Spain's American empire

Ideas of race and racism in seventeenth-century England

had not fully developed as modern concepts

What inspired the 1715 uprising by the Yamasee and Creek peoples against English colonists in Carolina?

high debts incurred by the Yamasee and Creek in trade with the English settlers

Slave labor in the Chesapeake region increasingly supplanted indentured servitude during the last two decades of the seventeenth century, in part because

improving conditions in England reduced the number of transatlantic migrants