Question 1

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What were the critical differences between a southern plantation and a New England town?

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Question 3

In the North American colonies, mulatto children were

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A)   regarded as white by the white society.
B)   rejected by the rest of the slave community.
C)   rarely produced.
D)   rarely recognized by their white fathers.
E)   freed at birth.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 4

Francis Bacon and John Locke were influential in the ideas of the ________.

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Question 5

What effect did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening have on life in British North America?

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Question 6

Eighteenth-century literacy among American men was higher than in most European countries.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The case of John Peter Zenger saw the courts rule that criticisms of the government were not libelous if actually true.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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

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A)   not members of the church.
B)   criminals.
C)   indentured servants.
D)   women of low social position.
E)   Indians or slaves.F) D) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 9

The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s

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A)   began as a call for young men to become ministers.
B)   had particular appeal with women and young men.
C)   alienated traditional New England Puritans.
D)   failed to take root in southern colonies.
E)   helped to smooth differences within existing congregations.F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 10

Black workers did not become generally available in British North America until the early part of the eighteenth century.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 12

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Fewer than five percent of African slaves imported to the Americas arrived first in the English colonies.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The Church of England was the official faith of

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A)   New Jersey.
B)   Massachusetts.
C)   Virginia.
D)   Connecticut.
E)   all of the colonies.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 15

Which of the following statements about slave work is FALSE?

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A)   Field hand was the predominant occupation of both male and female slaves.
B)   Some slaves on larger plantations learned trades and crafts.
C)   Skilled slaves were at times hired out to other planters.
D)   A few slaves were able to buy their freedom.
E)   Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.F) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 16

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, medical practitioners

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A)   became increasingly professionalized.
B)   had little or no knowledge of sterilization.
C)   grew to understand the link between bacteria and infection.
D)   were nearly all males.
E)   rejected purging and bleeding as medical techniques.F) D) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 17

Puritan sermons of despair were called ________.

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The answer of Puritan sermons of despair were called ________....

Question 18

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) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 19

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

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A)   Calvinist religious doctrine.
B)   scientific experimentation and observation.
C)   evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.
D)   practices acquired from Indians.
E)   the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 20

Most of those accused of witchcraft in Salem were women of low social position.

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A) True 
 B)False

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

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What effect did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening have on life in British North America?

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A leading figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached

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The case of John Peter Zenger saw the courts rule that criticisms of the government were not libelous if actually true.

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Which of the following statements about slave work is FALSE?

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Most of those accused of witchcraft in Salem were women of low social position.

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Eighteenth-century literacy among American men was higher than in most European countries.

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

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Puritan sermons of despair were called ________.

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Black workers did not become generally available in British North America until the early part of the eighteenth century.

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Fewer than five percent of African slaves imported to the Americas arrived first in the English colonies.

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In the North American colonies, mulatto children were

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The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s

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