History Chapter 3

Front 1

The colony founded by a leader who hoped women and blacks would be given equality along with all persons was:

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Pennsylvania

Front 2

Which was not an element in Leisler's Rebellion (1689)?

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Leisler's success meant French domination of New York.

Front 3

In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial America's leading commercial port was:

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Philadelphia.

Front 4

Prior to being taken over by the English in 1664, New York was:

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called New Netherland, and controlled by the Dutch.

Front 5

Which of the following was not a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?

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a determination to abolish slavery in Virginia

Front 6

Which was not part of the Glorious Revolution?

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It secured the Catholic succession to the throne of England.

Front 7

One significant consequence of the Glorious Revolution for the American colonies was:

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a renewed sense of entitlement to liberty, as the birthright of all English subjects.

Front 8

Which was not part of the Dominion of New England (1686-88)?

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Vermont

Front 9

Which was not a characteristic view of merchantilism?

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A country's imports should exceed its exports.

Front 10

Eric Foner writes: "The specter of a civil war among whites greatly frightened Virginia's ruling elite." Define "specter":

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a ghost

Front 11

Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?

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rice

Front 12

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

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made property ownership, not church membership, a requirement for voting in General Court elections.

Front 13

Which did not characterize free blacks (such as Anthony Johnson) in Virginia and Maryland in the 1600s?

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They could not own African slaves.

Front 14

Which of the following was not a key factor behind the introduction of black slavery in the Chesapeake?

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a fear that West Africans, if left alone, might seek to establish colonies of their own in North America, or even Europe

Front 15

Which was not part of the aftermath of King Phillip's War?

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The Iroquois, having attacked the colonists, were destroyed.

Front 16

Which were not a part of the Salem witchcraft trials?

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Many were tried on charges of witchcraft, but no one was actually convicted.

Front 17

Which of the following was not a theme of seventeenth-century British mercantilism?

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Trade should flow freely among all lands, unimpeded by government policy.

Front 18

Which of the following was not central to William Penn's vision for his Quaker colony?

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a hands-off policy toward private behavior

Front 19

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

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establishment of Dominion of New England; Glorious Revolution in England; Parliamentary Declaration of Rights

Front 20

When Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the Governor of Virginia, he called for all EXCEPT:

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the freeing of slaves, particularly enslaved Christians

Front 21

Which is not true regarding King Phillip and King Phillip's War?

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Indian tribes fought together under the unified leadership of Metacom.

Front 22

In the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692,

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almost 150 people, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft.

Front 23

Pennsylvania's Charter of Liberty:

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required persons to affirm Jesus Christ's divinity.

Front 24

Over the century between 1650 and 1750, the agricultural economies of New England, the Middle Colonies, and the backcountry grew more and more alike.

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False

Front 25

During the early- to mid-eighteenth century, consumption of manufactured goods penetrated deep into the colonial countryside.

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True

Front 26

Fourteen women and five men were hanged as witches in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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True

Front 27

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

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True

Front 28

The rise of black slavery in Virginia developed only gradually, over several generations.

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True

Front 29

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.

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False

Front 30

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.

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False

Front 31

In the 1700s, ninety percent of colonists in British North America worked farms.

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True

Front 32

Vastly more people living in the colonies had far greater opportunities--to vote, own land, worship freely--than existed in Europe.

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True

Front 33

In the Walking Purchase of 1737, the Lenni Lanape Indians of Pennsylvania lost more land than they had anticipated when Governor James Logan hired a team of runners to mark off the land "a man could walk" in thirty-six hours.

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True

Front 34

There were no banks in 1700s colonial America

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True

Front 35

The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669) ended hereditary nobility, and abolished landgraves and caciques

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False

Front 36

In the mid-1700s, per capita, the richest people in the world were most likely the (non-slave) colonists in what would later become the United States

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True

Front 37

1775, three-fifths of the English owned no land, but about two-thirds of the free male colonists in British North America owned land.

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True

Front 38

Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 was a rebellion over a tax increase on bacon

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False

Front 39

During the eighteenth century British colonies diversified along ethnic and religious lines

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True

Front 40

After 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses held that Christians could not enslave other Christians

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False

Front 41

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.

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True

Front 42

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.

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True

Front 43

Tituba, who was 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.

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True

Front 44

In 1678, when the Lords of Trade in England queried the Massachusetts government about how well it was following the Navigation Acts, the Lords received the reply from the colony that the Navigation Acts did not apply to the colony unless the colony's own government (not the British Parliament but the Massachusetts General Court) approved them.

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True

Front 45

Under British seventeenth-century Navigation Acts, certain goods produced in the colonies had to be taken in English ships and sold in ports in England.

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True

Front 46

Virginia's upper class in the 1700s was sometimes called a "cousinocracy."

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True

Front 47

In human history slaves have all been blacks

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False

Front 48

"Husbandry" is defined as the property or state of being a husband

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False

Front 49

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

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False

Front 50

By 1700, almost 2,000,000 acres of land was owned by five New York families.

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True

Front 51

The Indians' defeat in King Philip's War hastened the introduction of slavery in Carolina.

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False

Front 52

During the eighteenth century, women's work in the rural North grew less taxing and less rigidly defined

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False

Front 53

In the first half of the eighteenth century low taxes, the lack of a military draft, high wages for skilled workers, and an abundance of liberties characterized life for many whites in the British colonies of North America.

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True

Front 54

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

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False