Question 1

The Salem girls who accused people of being witches never recanted their stories.

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

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

The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for

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

Question 5

Harvard College was created by Great Awakening ministers as a school for future ministers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Which statement regarding colonial higher education is true?

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A)   Most colleges were founded by religious groups.
B)   Colonists placed a low value on any formal education.
C)   Parliament regulated the establishment of American colleges.
D)   Most colonial colleges accepted female students.
E)   Most colonial leaders after 1700 went abroad to study.F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 7

Most indentured servants were forbidden to marry until their terms of service were over.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

A leading figure of the Great Awakening,Jonathan Edwards preached

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A)   highly orthodox Puritan ideas.
B)   the possibility of easy salvation.
C)   that women should join the ministry.
D)   that the ideas of predestination were outmoded for the times.
E)   salvation through good works.F) B) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 9

In England,a printed attack on a public official,whether true or false,was considered ________.

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Question 10

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

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A)   nothing more.
B)   religion.
C)   laboring skills.
D)   origin of birth.
E)   economic status.F) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 11

Class divisions in colonial North American cities were

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A)   sharper than in corresponding European cities.
B)   more real and visible than in rural places.
C)   essentially nonexistent.
D)   weaker in the North than in the South.
E)   smoothed over by church and social registers.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 12

Skin color was the only factor in determining whether a person was subject to slave codes.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

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

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

Question 14

The dreaded journey in which captured Africans were transported to the Americas to be sold as slaves was called the ________.

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Question 15

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The total number of Africans forcibly brought to all of the Americas as slaves is estimated to have been as many as

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A)   4 million.
B)   7 million.
C)   11 million.
D)   19 million.
E)   26 million.F) A) and D)
G) D) and E)

Question 17

Assess the beginnings of slavery in North America (in the main text)and make an argument for which historical explanation for its origins-from the section "Debating the Past: The Origins of Slavery"-seems most accurate.

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Question 18

In the seventeenth century,most blacks who came to the English colonies in North America came directly from Africa.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Assess the character and nature of religion in colonial America.

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Question 20

In colonial New England,

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A)   strict parental control made premarital sexual relations almost nonexistent.
B)   choosing a spouse independent of a parent's wishes was common.
C)   dowries were a common feature of marriage.
D)   widows tended not to remarry.
E)   gender equality was reinforced by the prevailing culture.F) All of the above
G) A) and C)

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