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

William Penn was a member of which religious group?

Quakers

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 planters

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

sugar

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.

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.

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.

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