APUSH Chapter 3

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

Great Britian 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

In what ways did England reduce colonial autonomy during the 16802

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

What was the impact of King Philip's War?

Native Americans destroyed twelve Massachusetts towns, which helped established them in the minds of New Englanders as bloodthirsty savages.

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 purchases Indian land that was then resold to colonist 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

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

South Carolina rice planters

According to the economic theory known as mercantilism:

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

Why did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692?

The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others

Which of the following was not a factor that made African slavery appealing to English planters in the New World?

a long English legal tradition of discriminating against dark-skinned peoples eased the legalization of slavery

Who in the Pennsylvania colony was eligible to vote

a majority of the male population

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

The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina:

proposed a feudal society in the New World, complete with hereditary nobility

William Penn was a member of which religious group?

quakers

The Charter of Liberties and Privileges in New York:

reflected in part an effort by the British to exert their influence and control over the Dutch

What was William Penn's most fundamental principle?

religious freedom

According to New England Puritans, witchcraft:

resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes

The Glorious Revolution of 1688:

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

Carolina grew slowly until:

rice as a staple crop was discovered to be extremely profitable

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

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

sugar

What form of behavior did William Penn ban in his Pennsylvania colony

swearing

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

Which of the following is true of slavery?

the English word "slavery" derives from "Slav", reflecting the slave trade in Slavic peoples until the 15th centure

Who finally ended the Salem Witch trials

the Massachusetts governor

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

William Penn obtained the land for his Pennsylvania colony because:

the king wanted to cancel his debt to the Penn family and bolster the English presence in North America

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

As accusations and executions multiplied in Salem, what was the long-term impact of the witchcraft trials there?

the number of witchcraft prosecutions in Massachusetts declined markedly

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

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

By the eighteenth century, colonial farm families:

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

Governor William Berkeley's regime:

was a corrupt alliance of the Virginia colony's wealthiest tobacco planters

The Walking Purchase of 1737

was a fraudulent deal for the Lenni Lenape Indians

Unlike slavery in America, slavery in Africa:

was more likely to be based in the household than on an agricultural plantation

Captain Jacob Leisler, the head of the rebel militia that took control of New York in 1689:

was overthrown and killed in so grisly a manner that the rivalry between his friends and foes polarized New York politics for years

"Enumerated" goods:

were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that could only be sold initially in English ports

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 often physicians, merchants, and teachers

North American crops and products:

were part of a commercial trade network that knitted together a far-flung empire

Indians in eighteenth-century British America:

were well integrated into the British imperial system

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

Bacon's Rebellion was a response to:

worsening economic conditions in Virginia

How did the colonial elite view their role in society?

it meant the power to rule- the right of those blessed with wealth and prominence to dominate others

Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691

it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders

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 German migration to the English colonies:

led to the formation of many farming communities

Which of the following was true of poverty in the colonial period?

limited supplies of land, especially for inheritance, contributed to poverty

The English Bill of Rights of 1689

listed parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury

Which of man was once a slave, only to be freed and own slaves himself?

Anthony Johnson

Nathaniel Bacon:

actually was socially closer to the elite than to the indentured servants who supported him

How did English rule affect the Iroquois Confederacy?

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

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

aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch

What was the Covenant Chain?

an alliance made by the governor of New York and the Iroquois Confederacy

During the colonial era, Philadelphia:

became home to a varied population of artisans and craftsmen

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

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

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

When the Virginia House of burgesses decreed that religious conversion did not release a slave from bondage:

it meant that, under Virginia law, Christians could own other Christians

All of the following were factors enticing migration to the British colonies EXCEPT:

cheap and safe translatlantic transportation

"Anglicization" meant all of the following EXCEPT:

colonists were determined to speak English as perfectly as those who lived in England

The Virginia slave code of 1705:

embedded the principle of white supremacy in law

The seperation of church and state

existed only in a few colonies

Elizabeth Sprigs, an indentured servant in Maryland, found her experience to be:

extremely harsh, barely better than that of a slaves

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 opporunities 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 Uamasee and Creek in trade with the English settlers

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

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