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CHAPTER 3: Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What
was the impact of King Philip’s War (1675–1676)?
|
a. |
New England’s tribes united
against the colonists. |
|
b. |
In the long run, the war
produced a broadening of freedom for whites in New England. |
|
c. |
Native Americans up and
down the eastern seaboard began rebelling against colonial rule when they saw
what happened to their New England counterparts. |
|
d. |
Massachusetts banned all
Native Americans from living within its borders. |
|
e. |
Great Britain formed the
New England Confederation to protect against Native American depredations. |
ANS:
B
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 73
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Ethnicity | Introduction
MSC:
Understanding
2. Both
King Philip’s War and Bacon’s Rebellion were conflicts that:
|
a. |
Native Americans ultimately
won. |
|
b. |
led to indentured servants
gaining more rights. |
|
c. |
slaves started in hopes of
gaining their freedom. |
|
d. |
started with disputes over
Native American territory. |
|
e. |
involved the spread of
Christianity. |
ANS:
D
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 73 | pp. 83–84
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Ethnicity | Introduction | Bacon’s Rebellion:
Land and Labor in Virginia
MSC: Evaluating
3. According
to the economic theory known as mercantilism:
|
a. |
merchants should control
the government because they contributed more than others to national wealth. |
|
b. |
the government should
regulate economic activity so as to promote national power. |
|
c. |
the government should
encourage manufacturing and commerce by keeping its hands off of the economy. |
|
d. |
colonies existed as a place
for the mother country to send raw materials to be turned into manufactured
goods. |
|
e. |
England wanted the right to
sell goods in France, but only to non-Catholic buyers. |
ANS:
B
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 74
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Economic Development | The Mercantilist System
MSC: Understanding
4. In
1651 the first English Navigation Act:
|
a. |
required the Royal Navy to
use only Protestant navigators on its ships. |
|
b. |
aimed to wrest control of
world trade from the Dutch. |
|
c. |
freed England’s North
American colonies from economic regulations (to stimulate prosperity). |
|
d. |
added New Netherland to the
British empire. |
|
e. |
authorized several
mapmaking expeditions to the New World. |
ANS:
B
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 74
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Economic Development | The Mercantilist
System MSC:
Understanding
5. “Enumerated”
goods:
|
a. |
made up the bulk of items
imported into the colonies from abroad. |
|
b. |
were those the English
colonies could not produce under the terms of the Navigation Acts. |
|
c. |
created a financial drain
on the English government during the seventeenth century. |
|
d. |
were colonial products,
such as tobacco and sugar, that first had to be imported to England. |
|
e. |
were specifically exempt
from England’s mercantilist regulations. |
ANS:
D
DIF:
Difficult REF: p.
74
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Economic Development | The Mercantilist
System MSC:
Remembering
6. What
sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the mid-seventeenth
century?
|
a. |
England’s defeat of the
Netherlands in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War of 1649. |
|
b. |
England’s victory in a 1676
religious war with Spain. |
|
c. |
A treaty signed with the
Iroquois Confederacy. |
|
d. |
The incredible financial
success of the British East India Company. |
|
e. |
The restoration of the
monarchy in 1660. |
ANS:
E
DIF:
Difficult REF: p.
74
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Political History | The Conquest of New
Netherland MSC: Remembering
7. How
did the Dutch lose New Netherland to England?
|
a. |
It resulted from a treaty
in Europe. |
|
b. |
The Duke of York married
into the Dutch royal family. |
|
c. |
The Dutch traded the colony
back to Indians, who sold it to the English. |
|
d. |
The English seized it
during the Anglo-Dutch War. |
|
e. |
Puritans from New England
mounted an invasion with the idea of setting up a holy community. |
ANS:
D
DIF: Difficult
REF: p. 76
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Political History | The Conquest of New
Netherland MSC: Remembering
8. A
goal for the English in gaining New Amsterdam and New Netherland from the Dutch
was to:
|
a. |
gain slaves. |
d. |
gain more farmland. |
|
b. |
control more territory. |
e. |
spread the Protestant
faith. |
|
c. |
control trade. |
|
|
ANS:
C
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 74 | p. 76
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Political History | Changes | Economic
Development | The Conquest of New Netherland
MSC: Analyzing
9. When
England gained control of New York from the Dutch, what happened to
African-Americans?
|
a. |
They banned the institution
of slavery in their new colony. |
|
b. |
They introduced the
practice of slavery in New York. |
|
c. |
The free black population
gained more job opportunities. |
|
d. |
The English moved the free
black population to nearby New Jersey. |
|
e. |
Free blacks lost employment
opportunities in skilled jobs. |
ANS:
E
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 76
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Political History | Social History | New York
and the Rights of Englishmen and Englishwomen
MSC: Understanding
10. How
did English rule affect the Iroquois Confederacy?
|
a. |
They created an alliance in
order to aid each other’s imperial ambitions. |
|
b. |
The English destroyed the
Iroquois Confederacy temporarily but revived it under Sir Edmund Andros’s
rule after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. |
|
c. |
English oppression drove
the Iroquois to the side of the French, who eagerly sought their support. |
|
d. |
It enabled the Iroquois to
build alliances with other tribes against a common enemy. |
|
e. |
The Iroquois adopted the
English constitutional system. |
ANS:
A
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 76
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Ethnicity | New York and the
Indians
MSC: Understanding
11. What
was the Covenant Chain?
|
a. |
The promise James II gave
Parliament that he would marry a Protestant princess. |
|
b. |
An agreement between the
Dutch and the Mohican Nation that led to the founding of New Netherland. |
|
c. |
A mythical piece of
priceless gold jewelry that Europeans wished to acquire from the Iroquois. |
|
d. |
An important Puritan text
that spelled out the doctrine of predestination. |
|
e. |
An alliance made by the
governor of New York and the Iroquois Confederacy. |
ANS:
E
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 76
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Ethnicity | New York and the
Indians
MSC: Remembering
12. By
the end of the seventeenth century, who was most successful at using diplomacy
in securing rights to use land?
|
a. |
Hurons. |
d. |
Creeks. |
|
b. |
Iroquois. |
e. |
Powhatan. |
|
c. |
Wampanoags. |
|
|
ANS:
B
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 77
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Ethnicity | Political History | New York and
the Indians MSC: Analyzing
13. The
Charter of Liberties and Privileges in New York:
|
a. |
was the work of the Dutch,
who did not trust the English to protect their religious freedom. |
|
b. |
resulted especially from displeasure
among residents of Manhattan. |
|
c. |
required that elections be
held every three years. |
|
d. |
affirmed religious
toleration for all denominations. |
|
e. |
eliminated the property
requirement for voting. |
ANS:
C
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 77
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Political History | The Charter of
Liberties
MSC: Understanding
14. In
its early years, Carolina was the “colony of a colony” because its original
settlers included many:
|
a. |
former indentured servants
from Virginia. |
|
b. |
supporters of Anne
Hutchinson seeking refuge from Massachusetts. |
|
c. |
landless sons of wealthy
planters in Barbados. |
|
d. |
Protestants upset over
Catholic rule in Maryland. |
|
e. |
planters from Cuba hoping
to expand their sugarcane empires. |
ANS:
C
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 78
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Social History | The Founding of
Carolina
MSC: Remembering
15. The
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina:
|
a. |
were modeled after the
Cherokee government. |
|
b. |
permitted only members of
the Church of England to worship freely. |
|
c. |
resulted in absolute power
over slaves and indentured servants. |
|
d. |
did not allow a headright
society. |
|
e. |
wanted only a feudal
society and no assembly. |
ANS:
C
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 92
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Constitutional History | The Founding of
Carolina MSC:
Understanding
16. What
inspired the 1715 uprising by the Yamasee and Creek peoples against English
colonists in Carolina?
|
a. |
The colonists’ refusal to
trade with the Yamasee and Creek. |
|
b. |
An alliance of the Yamasee
and Creek with the Iroquois Confederacy, which had declared war against New
York colonists. |
|
c. |
High debts incurred by the
Yamasee and Creek in trade with the English settlers. |
|
d. |
The English colonists’
plans to begin capturing Native Americans to sell as slaves. |
|
e. |
A bloody rebellion by
African slaves against their masters near Charles Town. |
ANS:
C
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 92
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Ethnicity | The Founding of
Carolina
MSC: Understanding
17. Of
colonists in British North America, which group was the wealthiest?
|
a. |
Philadelphia merchants. |
d. |
South Carolina rice
planters. |
|
b. |
Boston political elite. |
e. |
New York merchants. |
|
c. |
Virginia tobacco farmers. |
|
|
ANS: D
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 78
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Economic Development | The Founding of
Carolina MSC: Remembering
18. In
Carolina, conflict with Indians occurred, but similar problems did NOT take
place in Pennsylvania because:
|
a. |
few Indians lived in
Pennsylvania. |
|
b. |
the English wiped out all
of the Indians within the first five years of the start of the colony. |
|
c. |
from the beginning, William
Penn ordered the seizure of all Indian land. |
|
d. |
William Penn did not allow
the enslavement of Indians. |
|
e. |
William Penn preferred
enslaving Africans. |
ANS:
D
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 79
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Social History | The Holy
Experiment
MSC: Understanding
19. If
Massachusetts Bay’s Jonathan Winthrop had been present at the start of the Pennsylvania
colony, he would have:
|
a. |
praised William Penn’s
Native American policy. |
|
b. |
condemned the idea of whole
families migrating to Pennsylvania. |
|
c. |
praised the diversity of
the immigrants. |
|
d. |
condemned land being used
for farming. |
|
e. |
praised the idea of
religion serving as a model for the colony. |
ANS:
E
DIF:
Difficult REF: p.
79
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Social History | The Holy
Experiment
MSC: Applying
20. To
Quakers, liberty was:
|
a. |
limited to white,
landowning men. |
|
b. |
strictly defined. |
|
c. |
a universal entitlement. |
|
d. |
extended to women but not
to blacks. |
|
e. |
limited to the spiritually inclined. |
ANS:
C
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 79
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Political History | The Holy Experiment
MSC: Remembering
21. Pennsylvania’s
treatment of Native Americans was unique in what way?
|
a. |
Pennsylvania was the only
colony in which efforts at conversion focused on turning Native Americans
into Quakers. |
|
b. |
The colony bought all of
the land the Native Americans occupied and moved them west of the
Appalachians, meaning that Indians were relocated but not decimated. |
|
c. |
Because Quakers were
pacifists, they had to bring in militias from other colonies to take over Native
American lands. |
|
d. |
Despite Quaker pacifism,
Pennsylvanians were determined to exterminate the natives. |
|
e. |
Pennsylvania purchased
Indian land that was then resold to colonists and offered refuge to tribes
driven out of other colonies. |
ANS: E
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 79
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Social History | Ethnicity | The Holy
Experiment
MSC: Understanding
22. What
was one of Pennsylvania’s only restrictions on religious liberty?
|
a. |
Settlers could belong to
any denomination but had to sign an oath affirming that they would not
oppress Quakers. |
|
b. |
Holding office required an
oath affirming a belief in Jesus Christ, which eliminated Jews from serving. |
|
c. |
Atheists were welcome as
long as they promised not to publicly attack religion. |
|
d. |
Church attendance was
mandatory, but the state did not specify which type of church. |
|
e. |
There were no restrictions. |
ANS: B
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 79
OBJ: 1. Explain how the English empire in America
expanded in the mid-seventeenth century.
TOP: Social History | The Holy
Experiment
MSC: Understanding
23. What
ironic consequence did William Penn’s generous policies, such as religious
toleration and inexpensive land, have?
|
a. |
They contributed to the
increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on African slave labor. |
|
b. |
Now that Pennsylvania
attracted so many settlers, Carolina was desperate for laborers and began a
vast Indian slave trade. |
|
c. |
They actually discouraged
suspicious Europeans from choosing Pennsylvania as a place to settle. |
|
d. |
They led the Puritan
authorities in Massachusetts to adopt religious toleration in order to
compete with Pennsylvania for colonists. |
|
e. |
They encouraged poor
residents of New York and New Jersey to move to Pennsylvania in such numbers
that Penn repealed his policies within a decade. |
ANS:
A
DIF: Difficult
REF: p. 80
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Social History | Land in
Pennsylvania
MSC: Understanding
24. Who
in the Pennsylvania colony was eligible to vote?
|
a. |
Everyone, male and female. |
d. |
Quakers. |
|
b. |
A majority of the male
population. |
e. |
All people of European
descent. |
|
c. |
All males. |
|
|
ANS:
B
DIF: Moderate
REF: pp. 79–78
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Political History | Land in
Pennsylvania
MSC: Remembering
25. What
was key to making the enslavement of Africans an enduring economic and social
institution in colonial America?
|
a. |
Slavery became perpetual,
as the children of slaves were slaves too. |
|
b. |
Africans were less likely
to run away than Native Americans. |
|
c. |
Racism had existed since
ancient times in England. |
|
d. |
Africans fell under the
purview of English common law. |
|
e. |
The word “slave” came from
several different West African languages. |
ANS:
A
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 80
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Civil Rights | Origins of American
Slavery
MSC: Analyzing
26. In
seventeenth-century England, the main lines of division focused on:
|
a. |
race. |
d. |
religion. |
|
b. |
ethnicity. |
e. |
literature. |
|
c. |
political ideals. |
|
|
ANS: A
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 80
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Social History | Englishmen and
Africans
MSC: Understanding
27. Which
of the following is true of slavery?
|
a. |
The English word “slavery”
derives from “Slav,” reflecting the slave trade in Slavic peoples until the
fifteenth century. |
|
b. |
Christians never were
enslaved. |
|
c. |
The Roman Empire outlawed
it, but it revived, thanks to Columbus. |
|
d. |
It was nonexistent in
Africa until the arrival of European slave traders. |
|
e. |
In every culture in which
it existed, it was based on the needs of large-scale agriculture. |
ANS:
A
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 81
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Social History | Slavery in History
MSC: Understanding
28. Unlike
slavery in America, slavery in Africa:
|
a. |
declined in importance
during the 1600s. |
|
b. |
was more likely to be based
in the household than on an agricultural plantation. |
|
c. |
led to much higher death
rates. |
|
d. |
was entirely race-based. |
|
e. |
existed only for women. |
ANS:
B
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 81
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Social History | Slavery in History
MSC: Understanding
29. Which
commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during
the seventeenth century?
|
a. |
Tobacco. |
d. |
Cotton. |
|
b. |
Indigo. |
e. |
Sugar. |
|
c. |
Silver. |
|
|
ANS:
E
DIF:
Easy
REF: p. 81
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Global Awareness | Slavery in the West Indies
MSC: Remembering
30. A
West African captured and sold into slavery in 1650 most likely ended up in:
|
a. |
Massachusetts. |
d. |
the Carolinas. |
|
b. |
the West Indies. |
e. |
Virginia. |
|
c. |
Mexico. |
|
|
ANS:
B
DIF: Easy
REF: pp. 81–82
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Global Awareness | Slavery in the West
Indies
MSC: Applying
31. Which
of the following is true of the English West Indies in the seventeenth century?
|
a. |
By the end of the century,
the African population far outnumbered the European population on most
islands. |
|
b. |
Mixed economies with small
farms worked by indentured servants dominated islands such as Barbados throughout
the century. |
|
c. |
Frequent uprisings by
African slaves caused the English to abandon the West Indies by the 1680s and
to relocate staple crop production to mainland North America. |
|
d. |
The free labor system of
the West Indies stood in stark contrast to the slave labor system of the
Chesapeake. |
|
e. |
Indentured servants
replaced African slaves in the West Indies once the demand for slaves in
Carolina drained away the African population of the islands. |
ANS:
A
DIF: Easy
REF: p. 82
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Global Awareness | Slavery in the West
Indies
MSC: Understanding
32. Slavery
developed more slowly in North America than in the English West Indies because:
|
a. |
it was a longer trip from
Africa to North America, making slavery less profitable. |
|
b. |
planters in Virginia and
Maryland agreed that indentured servants were far less troublesome. |
|
c. |
the high death rate among
tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave
likely to die within a short time. |
|
d. |
Parliament passed a law in
1643 that gave tax breaks to British West Indian planters who imported slaves
but not to American colonists who imported slaves. |
|
e. |
those living in the British
West Indies opposed slavery until the American colonies won their
independence in the Revolutionary War. |
ANS:
C
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 82
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Social History | Slavery in the West
Indies
MSC: Analyzing
33. According
to laws in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake:
|
a. |
black men were not
permitted to marry white women but black women could marry white men. |
|
b. |
free blacks had the right
to sue and testify in court. |
|
c. |
free blacks were not
permitted to serve in the militia unless they signed a loyalty oath. |
|
d. |
the sale of any married
slave was prohibited. |
|
e. |
the children of enslaved
women were free; the status of enslavement was not inherited. |
ANS:
B
DIF:
Difficult REF: p.
83
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Civil Rights | Slavery and the Law
MSC: Understanding
34. When
the Virginia House of Burgesses decreed that religious conversion did not
release a slave from bondage:
|
a. |
every other colonial
assembly followed suit. |
|
b. |
Governor William Berkeley
vetoed the measure, which led to Bacon’s Rebellion. |
|
c. |
it meant that, under
Virginia law, Christians could own other Christians. |
|
d. |
mass protests followed. |
|
e. |
slaves quit attending
church. |
ANS:
C
DIF:
Easy
REF: p. 83
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Civil Rights | The Rise of Chesapeake
Slavery
MSC: Understanding
35. Which
of the following was true of small farmers in 1670s Virginia?
|
a. |
The economy was doing so well
that even though they made less money than large-scale planters, their
problems were too small to justify their rebellion. |
|
b. |
They had access to the best
land, but a glut in the tobacco market left them in poverty. |
|
c. |
Their taxes were incredibly
low—the one issue with which they were pleased. |
|
d. |
They could count on the
government to help them take over Native American lands and thereby expand
their meager holdings. |
|
e. |
They lacked access to good
land for farming. |
ANS: E
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 84
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Social History | Bacon’s Rebellion: Land and
Labor in Virginia
MSC: Understanding
36. Bacon’s
Rebellion was a response to:
|
a. |
worsening economic
conditions in Virginia. |
|
b. |
increased slavery in the
Carolinas. |
|
c. |
Indian attacks in New
England. |
|
d. |
the Glorious Revolution in
England. |
|
e. |
the Salem witch trials. |
ANS:
A
DIF: Easy
REF: p. 84
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Social History | Bacon’s Rebellion: Land and
Labor in Virginia
MSC: Remembering
37. Nathaniel
Bacon:
|
a. |
actually was socially
closer to the elite than to the indentured servants who supported him. |
|
b. |
had no connection to
Virginia’s wealthiest planters. |
|
c. |
won unanimous support for
his effort to reduce taxes, but his effort to remove all Native Americans
from the colony doomed his rebellion. |
|
d. |
burned down Jamestown but
never succeeded in taking over the colony or driving out Governor Berkeley. |
|
e. |
was the first colonist to
open his own slaughterhouse. |
ANS:
A
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 84
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Social History | Bacon’s Rebellion: Land and
Labor in Virginia
MSC: Understanding
38. What
happened to Jamestown during Bacon’s Rebellion?
|
a. |
The town was impenetrable
and well fortified. |
|
b. |
The town accepted the
surrender of Bacon. |
|
c. |
The small landowners sided
with the Jamestown elite. |
|
d. |
It was invaded by the
Powhatans. |
|
e. |
It was burned to the
ground. |
ANS:
E
DIF: Easy
REF: p. 84
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Social History | Bacon’s Rebellion: Land and
Labor in Virginia
MSC: Remembering
39. Bacon’s
Rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia?
|
a. |
A large and sustained
increase in the importation of indentured servants. |
|
b. |
Generous payments to Native
Americans to encourage them to give up their lands to white farmers. |
|
c. |
Changes in the political
style of Virginia’s powerful large-scale planters, who adopted a get-tough
policy with small farmers and hired their own militia to enforce their will. |
|
d. |
The replacing of indentured
servants with African slaves on Virginia’s plantations. |
|
e. |
An order from Governor
Berkeley that Native Americans could serve in the militia. |
ANS:
D
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 86
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Social History | Bacon’s Rebellion: Land and
Labor in Virginia
MSC: Understanding
40. Slave
labor in the Chesapeake region increasingly supplanted indentured servitude
during the last two decades of the seventeenth century, in part because:
|
a. |
the opening of the new
colony of North Carolina attracted enough whites to make up for the loss of
those who would have come to the New World as indentured servants. |
|
b. |
Bacon’s Rebellion reminded
leaders of the dangers of allowing racial intermarriage. |
|
c. |
the price of imported
slaves from Africa had become less expensive. |
|
d. |
a monopoly on the slave
trade made it easier to import Africans. |
|
e. |
indentured servants began
forming associations that went on strike for better conditions. |
ANS:
C
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 85
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Economic Development | A Slave
Society
MSC: Understanding
41. The
Virginia slave code of 1705:
|
a. |
simply brought together old
aspects of the laws governing slaves and slavery. |
|
b. |
completely rewrote and
changed the earlier slave laws. |
|
c. |
embedded the principle of
white supremacy in law. |
|
d. |
made clear that slaves were
subject to the will of their masters but not to anyone who could not claim ownership
of them. |
|
e. |
was the work of Nathaniel
Bacon. |
ANS:
C
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 85
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Civil Rights | A Slave
Society MSC: Understanding
42. Which
of the following is true of slave resistance in the colonial period?
|
a. |
Runaways were very rare
because slaves knew that attempting to escape would be futile. |
|
b. |
Running away was common as
colonial newspapers ran ads from slave owners looking to recover their
property. |
|
c. |
A number of bloody
rebellions prompted a wholesale revision of slave codes. |
|
d. |
It was limited because
slaves at the time were too new to the colonies to understand the concept of
freedom. |
|
e. |
All runaways headed for
freedom in French Canada. |
ANS:
B
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 85
OBJ: 2. Explain how slavery was established in the
Western Atlantic world.
TOP: Civil Rights | A Slave
Society MSC:
Understanding
43. The Glorious
Revolution of 1688:
|
a. |
resulted mainly from the
fears of English aristocrats that the birth of James II’s son would lead to a
Catholic succession. |
|
b. |
ended parliamentary rule in
Great Britain until Queen Anne’s War in 1702. |
|
c. |
was the work of an
ambitious Danish prince out to avenge his father’s murder by a British
nobleman. |
|
d. |
had no impact on the
British colonies in America. |
|
e. |
prompted Scotland’s
secession from Great Britain and thus a reduction in Scotch-Irish immigration
to the colonies. |
ANS:
A
DIF:
Easy
REF: p. 87
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Political History | The Glorious Revolution
MSC: Understanding
44. The
English Bill of Rights of 1689:
|
a. |
was unwritten, like the
English constitution on which it was based. |
|
b. |
was King William’s finest
writing on the importance of liberty. |
|
c. |
divided power in England
between the king and Parliament. |
|
d. |
was copied word for word
into the U.S. Constitution a century later. |
|
e. |
listed such individual
rights as trial by jury. |
ANS:
E
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 87
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Political History | The Glorious Revolution
MSC: Remembering
45. In
what ways did England reduce colonial autonomy during the 1680s?
|
a. |
Charles II revoked the
charters of all colonies that had violated the Navigation Acts. |
|
b. |
It created the Dominion of
New England, run by a royal appointee without benefit of an elected assembly. |
|
c. |
Because Charles II and
James II were at least closet Catholics, the colonies no longer could
establish churches within their borders. |
|
d. |
The king started appointing
all judges. |
|
e. |
Not at all; this was the
era in which colonies achieved autonomy. |
ANS:
B
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 88
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Political History | The Glorious Revolution in America
MSC: Understanding
46. Why
did Massachusetts have its charter revoked by Charles II?
|
a. |
The Salem witch trials made
a mockery of colonial law. |
|
b. |
Massachusetts’s opposition
to the Glorious Revolution angered Parliament. |
|
c. |
The king planned on living
in Massachusetts after fleeing England. |
|
d. |
Charles did not like
Massachusetts’s violations of Navigation laws. |
|
e. |
Charles wanted to give more
colonial power to Plymouth. |
ANS:
D
DIF:
Difficult REF: p.
103
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Political History | Changes | The Glorious Revolution in America
MSC: Understanding
47. Which
colony had its charter revoked because of mismanagement, according to King
William?
|
a. |
New Hampshire. |
d. |
New York. |
|
b. |
Pennsylvania. |
e. |
Maryland. |
|
c. |
Virginia. |
|
|
ANS:
E
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 88
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Social History | The Glorious Revolution in America
MSC: Remembering
48. Captain
Jacob Leisler, the head of the rebel militia that took control of New York in
1689:
|
a. |
was a close ally of Sir
Edmund Andros, who was trying to regain control of the Dominion of New
England. |
|
b. |
was overthrown and killed
in so grisly a manner that the rivalry between his friends and foes polarized
New York politics for years. |
|
c. |
was knighted for his role
in supporting the Glorious Revolution. |
|
d. |
sought to impose Catholic
rule but was defeated by a Protestant militia in a short but bloody civil
war. |
|
e. |
slaughtered so many Native
Americans that wars between whites and the remaining tribes kept New York in
an uproar for the next two decades. |
ANS:
B
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 88
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Social History | The Glorious Revolution in America
MSC: Remembering
49. What
resulted from the disbanding of the Dominion of New England?
|
a. |
New York and New Jersey
were unified. |
|
b. |
West Jersey and East Jersey
were created. |
|
c. |
Land was returned to the
Iroquois. |
|
d. |
Massachusetts absorbed
Plymouth. |
|
e. |
Carolina was divided into
two colonies. |
ANS:
D
DIF:
Difficult REF: pp.
88–89
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
The Glorious Revolution in America
MSC: Understanding
50. Once
Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691:
|
a. |
it was required to abide by
the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders. |
|
b. |
it received the right to
have its voters elect its own governor and legislative assembly. |
|
c. |
Plymouth was split off from
Massachusetts to become its own independent colony. |
|
d. |
church membership became
the chief legal requirement for voting. |
|
e. |
social tensions generally
decreased and a relatively peaceful period ensued. |
ANS:
A
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 89
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth century.
TOP:
Political History | The Glorious Revolution in America
MSC: Understanding
51. According
to New England Puritans, witchcraft:
|
a. |
was perfectly acceptable
when it was used for proper purposes. |
|
b. |
was punishable by hanging
unless it was used to reinforce men’s standing and God’s will. |
|
c. |
resulted from pacts that
women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with
natural processes. |
|
d. |
was restricted to Salem. |
|
e. |
was due entirely to
exposure to Catholicism. |
ANS:
C
DIF:
Easy
REF: p. 89
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Social History | The Salem Witch Trials
MSC: Remembering
52. Which
of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been
accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England?
|
a. |
a single young woman whose
attractiveness meant that some saw her as a threat to Puritan values. |
|
b. |
a married woman who
normally was subservient to her husband and the community, which made her
behavior seem all the more bizarre. |
|
c. |
a widow who presumably was
too lonely or too dependent on the community to be taken seriously, but who
had to be tried and convicted to keep others from thinking similarly. |
|
d. |
a married woman who had
just lost a child. |
|
e. |
a woman beyond childbearing
age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her
husband. |
ANS: E
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 89
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Social History | The Salem Witch Trials
MSC: Evaluating
53. Why
did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692?
|
a. |
The only way to avoid
prosecution was to confess and name others. |
|
b. |
When Tituba testified, the
issue became racial and divided the town. |
|
c. |
All of the accused were children,
and Puritans were determined to force their young to accept their religious
traditions or face death. |
|
d. |
The colonial capital had
just been moved to Salem, upsetting the normally staid town. |
|
e. |
They did not; actually, the
number of accusations was average and Salem was highly overrated as a place
for charges of witchcraft. |
ANS:
A
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 90
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth century.
TOP:
Social History | The Salem Witch Trials
MSC: Understanding
54. Who
finally ended the Salem witch trials?
|
a. |
The Massachusetts governor. |
d. |
Tituba. |
|
b. |
The local pastor. |
e. |
Increase Mather. |
|
c. |
Salem’s judge. |
|
|
ANS:
A
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 90
OBJ: 3. Identify the major social and political
crises that rocked the colonies in the late seventeenth
century.
TOP:
Social History | The Salem Witch Trials
MSC: Remembering
55. Which
of the following best sums up population diversity in colonial English America?
|
a. |
From the beginning of
English settlement, the colonies were highly diverse in race and religion. |
|
b. |
England originally promoted
emigration to the colonies as a means of ridding itself of excess population
but cut back in the eighteenth century. |
|
c. |
Men and women arrived in
almost equal numbers because English officials encouraged women to leave,
believing that fewer women in the mother country would equal slower
population growth. |
|
d. |
England urged professionals
and skilled craftspeople to go to its colonies in America because it wanted
to create a model society there, but eventually it began to urge vagabonds
and “masterless men” to go instead. |
|
e. |
Germans were the only
non-British group allowed to live in the colonies. |
ANS:
B
DIF: Moderate
REF: p. 91
OBJ: 4. Describe the directions of social and
economic change in the eighteenth-century colonies.
TOP: Ethnicity | A Diverse
Population MSC: Understanding
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