Chapter 3
(Q022) In the Salem witch trials of 1692,
(Q022) In the Salem witch trials of 1692,
(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
(Q056) After 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses held that Christians could not enslave other Christians.
False
(Q034) The richest group of mainland colonists were
South Carolina planters.
(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.
(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
(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
(Q002) One significant consequence of the Glorious Revolution for the American colonies was
a renewed sense of entitlement to political liberty for Anglican Protestants.
(Q008) Huguenots who settled in the American colonies came from
France.
(Q014) The colony founded by a leader who hoped women and blacks would be given equality along with all persons was
Pennsylvania.
(Q038) Benjamin Franklin was particularly disturbed by the immigration of German people into
Pennsylvania.
(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
(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
(Q006) Which of the following was a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?
frustration over high taxes and diminishing availability of land
(Q005) A "praying Indian" was the term for
an Indian who converted to Christianity.
(Q030) Eighteenth-century migrants included Scottish and Scotch-Irish, who were mostly
Presbyterians.
(Q010) Which of the following is true regarding the aftermath of King Philip's War?
Puritans sold Indian children from the warring tribes into slavery.
(Q001) In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial America's leading commercial port and cultural center was
Philadelphia
(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
(Q023) Which of the following was an effect of Bacon's Rebellion?
the increased use of African slaves
(Q049) In the late seventeenth century, the Iroquois were known for their fierce hatred and courageous fighting against British colonists.
False
(Q073) Most colonies allowed Catholics and Jews to vote and hold public office.
False
(Q012) Prior to being taken over by the English in 1664, New York was
called New Netherland and controlled by the Dutch empire.
(Q037) Many British saw the colonists of British North America as religious dissidents, impoverished servants, and
convicts.
(Q018) The Glorious Revolution
established parliamentary supremacy once and for all.
(Q004) In the prevailing theory of mercantilism, the government should
regulate economic activity to promote the nation's power.
(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
(Q026) This chief crop produced by Western Hemisphere slaves during the eighteenth century was also the first to be mass-marketed to consumers in Europe.
sugar
(Q032) In the mid-eighteenth-century colonies, this area of settlement was the most rapidly growing region in North America.
the backcountry
