Midterm Chapter 3

(Q025) The largest group of immigrants from continental Europe were the

Germans

(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

Jews

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

Twelve New England towns were destroyed by the Indians' attacks

(Q027) Lord Baltimore's sudden voting restriction based on land accumulation resulted in

a Protestant uprising calling for his removal from office.

(Q041) Slaves showed little inclination to challenge their enslavement in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Virginia.

false

(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

(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

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

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

(Q055) In human history, slaves have all been blacks.

false

(Q056) After 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses held that Christians could not enslave other Christians.

false

(Q057) Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 was a brief conflict between Indians and white colonists.

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

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

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

(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

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

false

(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

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

frustration over high taxes and diminishing availability of land

(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

(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

(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

(Q061) During the eighteenth century, British colonies diversified along ethnic and religious lines.

true

(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

(Q001) In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial America's leading commercial port and cultural center was

Philadelphia

(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

(Q034) The richest group of mainland colonists were

South Carolina planters

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

Spanish, French, and English.

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

a renewed sense of entitlement to political liberty for Anglican Protestants

(Q011) The Charter of Liberties and Privileges

allowed for a trial by jury and the security of property

(Q005) A "praying Indian" was the term for

an Indian who converted to Christianity.

(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.

(Q003) Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

establishment of Dominion of New England; Glorious Revolution in England; English Toleration Act

(Q021) In 1691, Massachusetts was transformed when a new charter, issued by the English government, absorbed Plymouth into Massachusetts, and

made property ownership, not church membership, a requirement for voting

(Q007) Which of the following was a significant feature of the Salem witchcraft hysteria of the early 1690s?

many inhabitants accused others of witchcraft in order to deflect suspicion from themselves

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

overwhelmingly White and European

(Q031) Another name for indentured families was

redemptioners

(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

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

the increased use of African slaves

(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

(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

(Q050) New York was named after King Charles II's brother, James, the Duke of York.

true

(Q054) The English word "slave" derives from the word Slav; that is, a people from Eastern Europe who were enslaved by other Europeans into the 1400s.

true

(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