Question 1

Parliament passed the Iron Act in 1750 to encourage colonial production of this metal.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The first plantations in colonial North America emerged in the tobacco-growing areas of

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A)   North Carolina and South Carolina.
B)   Virginia and Maryland.
C)   Delaware and Pennsylvania.
D)   New York and New Jersey.
E)   Georgia and South Carolina.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 3

The verdict of the 1734-1735 libel trial of New York publisher John Peter Zenger

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A)   banned all printed attacks on the king or Parliament in the colonies.
B)   ruled that criticisms by the press, even if factually accurate, were libelous.
C)   resulted in the closure of several colonial newspapers.
D)   increased freedom of the press in the colonies.
E)   restricted the ability of the press to report on government affairs.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 4

What effect did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening have on life in British North America?

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Question 5

Seventeenth-century colonial plantations were actually relatively small estates.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

In colonial New England Puritan communities,women

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A)   were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands and households.
B)   were not highly valued.
C)   were more likely to become pregnant before marriage than in the South.
D)   were considered to be socially equal to males.
E)   could not be official members of the church.F) All of the above
G) D) and E)

Question 7

Colonial agriculture in the northern colonies was more diversified than in the southern colonies.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the English indenture system?

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A)   The presence of indentured servants was a source of social unrest.
B)   Most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts.
C)   Female indentured servants constituted one-fourth of the total arrivals.
D)   Female indentured servants were typically not allowed to marry while under contract.
E)   Contracts for indenture generally lasted four to five years.F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 9

In Puritan New England,full membership in town governance was limited to

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A)   "selectmen."
B)   adult males who were church members.
C)   all church members.
D)   land-owning males.
E)   all land-owning adults.F) B) and C)
G) All of the above

Question 10

In comparing the colonial societies of Spanish America and English America,people of mixed races had a

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A)   higher status than pure Africans in Spanish America.
B)   lower status than pure Africans in Spanish America.
C)   higher status than pure Africans in both Spanish and English America.
D)   higher status than pure Africans in English America.
E)   lower status than pure Africans in both Spanish and English America.F) All of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 11

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,medical practitioners

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A)   became increasingly professionalized.
B)   grew to understand the link between bacteria and infection.
C)   had little or no knowledge of sterilization.
D)   rejected purging and bleeding as medical techniques.
E)   were nearly all males.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

The case of John Peter Zenger saw the courts rule that criticisms of the government were not libelous if actually true.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

In the 1760s,the revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because

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A)   the majority of the population lived in urban areas.
B)   cities were the centers of intellectual information.
C)   All these answers are correct.
D)   city inhabitants tended to be rowdier than their rural counterparts.
E)   rural populations had few grievances with the crown.F) D) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 14

How did immigration affect social and economic life in the colonies?

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Question 15

The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for

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A)   silver.
B)   steel.
C)   iron.
D)   gold.
E)   brass.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 16

In English North American colonies,the application of slave codes was based on color and

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A)   origin of birth.
B)   religion.
C)   nothing more.
D)   economic status.
E)   laboring skills.F) None of the above
G) All of the above

Question 17

Most seventeenth-century English immigrants to the North American colonies were

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A)   commercial agents.
B)   landowners.
C)   laborers.
D)   aristocrats.
E)   religious dissenters.F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 18

By the 1770s,the two largest port cities in colonial North America were

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A)   Boston and Newport.
B)   New York and Boston.
C)   Philadelphia and New York.
D)   Philadelphia and Charleston.
E)   Boston and Charleston.F) C) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 19

Seventeenth-century southern plantations

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A)   created few new wealthy landowners.
B)   enabled planters to control their markets.
C)   tended to be rough and relatively small.
D)   rarely required the landowner do any manual labor.
E)   used many more slaves than indentured servants.F) C) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 20

By the late seventeenth century,European and African immigrants outnumbered natives along the Atlantic coast.

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A) True 
 B)False

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