APUSH Chapter 3

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

Laborers.

117. In the seventeenth century, the great majority of English immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region
were

indentured servants.

118. Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the English indenture system?

Most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts.

119. By 1700, English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery in part because

of a declining birthrate in England.

120. Regarding colonial life expectancy during the seventeenth century,

life expectancy in New England was exceptionally high.

121. During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw

a life expectancy for men of just over forty years.

122. By 1775, the non-Indian population of the English colonies was just over

2 million.

123. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, medical practitioners

had little or no knowledge of sterilization.

124. The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on

the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.

125. In the seventeenth century, white women in the colonial Chesapeake

averaged one pregnancy for every two years of marriage.

126. Compared to women in colonial Chesapeake, New England women

were more likely to have their family remain intact.

127. In colonial New England,

dowries were a common feature of marriage.

128. In colonial New England Puritan communities, women

were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands and households.

129. In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was

both highly valued and expected to be under the authority of women.

130. The term "middle passage" refers to the movement of enslaved Africans

from Africa to the New World.

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

11 million.

132. During the seventeenth century, the Royal African Company of England

deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies.

133. What statement regarding slavery in English North America in 1700 is FALSE?

There were about 25,000 slaves in the colonies.

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

nothing more.

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

higher status than pure Africans in Spanish America.

136. New England, for all its belief in community and liberty, was far from an egalitarian society. "Some must
be rich and some poor" is a statement attributed to which seventeenth-century colonial?

John Winthrop

137. The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the

Scots-Irish.

138. The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region

went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles.

139. Rice production in colonial America

was very difficult and unhealthy work.

141. The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for

Iron.

142. Industrialization in colonial America was hampered by

All these answers are correct.

143. In the seventeenth century, most colonial families

did not own a plow.

144. Commerce in early colonial America relied in large part on

Barter.

145. The "triangular trade" in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity?

All these answers are correct.

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

illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire.

147. During the eighteenth century, rising consumerism in the American colonies was encouraged by

the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists and the association of material possessions with personal virtue and refinement.

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

Virginia and Maryland.

150. The proportion of all blacks in the colonies living on a plantation of at least ten slaves was over

Three-fourths.

151. Which statement regarding the lives of slaves in colonial North America is true?

Slave religion was a blend of Christianity and African folk tradition.

152. In the North American colonies, mulatto children were

rarely recognized by their white fathers.

153. The Stono Rebellion

saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.

154. The most common form of resistance of enslaved Africans to their condition was

running away.

155. Which of the following statements about slave work is FALSE?

Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.

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

"Selectmen."

157. Primogeniture refers to the

passing of property to the firstborn son.

158. Over time, tensions in Puritan New England communities developed primarily as a result of

…

159. In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most
commonly

women of low social position.

160. The witchcraft trials in Salem

saw the original accusers recant their charges.

162. Class divisions in colonial North American cities were

…

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

…

164. In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies

flourished due to the diversity of practices brought by settlers. was unmatched in any European nation. was enhanced because no single religious code could be imposed on any large area. grew despite laws establishing the Church of England as the official colonial religion. All these answers are correct.

165. The Church of England was the official faith of

Virginia.

166. In the English colonies, Roman Catholics

suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.

167. In the English colonies, Jews

could not vote or hold office.

168. "Jeremiads" were

Sermons.

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

Piety.

170. The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s

had particular appeal with women and young men.

171. George Whitefield is associated with the

Great Awakening.

172. A leading figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached

highly orthodox Puritan ideas.

173. Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought

rejected most religious thought.

174. All of the following Americans made important contributions to Enlightenment thought EXCEPT

John Locke.

175. After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were

Almanacs.

176. By 1776, what proportion of white males were literate in colonial America?

more than half

177. The Church of England was established as the official religion in all of the following colonies EXCEPT

Massachusetts.

178. Which statement regarding colonial higher education is true?

Most colleges were founded by religious groups.

179. The first American college was

Harvard.

180. The verdict of the 1735 libel trial of New York publisher John Peter Zenger

increased freedom of the press in the colonies.