Question 1

Seventeenth-century southern plantations

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

Question 2

French Calvinists were referred to as ________.

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Question 3

There were sharp social distinctions in the colonies,but the English class system did not take root in the colonies.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

How did the English colonists' attitudes toward Indians compare with their views toward Africans?

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Question 5

Assess the character and nature of religion in colonial America.

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Question 6

The British Navigation Acts were designed to protect England from foreign competition in the colonies.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Jeremiads refers to

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A)  a measurement of wealth.
B)  community experiments.
C)  sermons.
D)  witchcraft.
E)  town meetings.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 8

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The most numerous of the non-English European immigrants to British North America were the Scotch-Irish.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

In the mid-1600s,New England Puritan ministers began preaching against the decline of

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A)  family.
B)  piety.
C)  community.
D)  freedom.
E)  tolerance.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 11

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

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

Question 12

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Of those that arrived to the Chesapeake region in the seventeenth century,the great majority were

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A)  slaves.
B)  women.
C)  convicts.
D)  indentured servants.
E)  religious dissenters.F) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 14

The most commonly owned tool on colonial American farms was the plow.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought

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A)  emphasized the importance of religious faith.
B)  rejected most religious thought.
C)  had little influence on American intellectual thought.
D)  challenged concepts such as "natural laws."
E)  suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives.F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 16

New Englanders did not adopt the English system of primogeniture.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Cotton Mather promoted the use of inoculation against the disease ________.

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Question 18

The characteristic social unit in New England was the nuclear family living on a farm.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

By the mid-eighteenth century,a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence because of

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A)  the abolishment of the British Navigation Acts.
B)  the development of a substantial colonial manufacturing industry.
C)  illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire.
D)  ready access to manufactured goods.
E)  All these answers are correct.F) C) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 20

Life expectancy in New England was higher than in the rest of British North America.

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A) True 
 B)False

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

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Jeremiads refers to

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Life expectancy in New England was higher than in the rest of British North America.

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Seventeenth-century southern plantations

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Assess the character and nature of religion in colonial America.

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Of those that arrived to the Chesapeake region in the seventeenth century,the great majority were

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How did the English colonists' attitudes toward Indians compare with their views toward Africans?

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The most numerous of the non-English European immigrants to British North America were the Scotch-Irish.

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The most commonly owned tool on colonial American farms was the plow.

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New Englanders did not adopt the English system of primogeniture.

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There were sharp social distinctions in the colonies,but the English class system did not take root in the colonies.

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The characteristic social unit in New England was the nuclear family living on a farm.

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French Calvinists were referred to as ________.

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

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