Quiz 3

In the prevailing theory of mercantilism, the government should

Primogeniture meant that estates must be passed intact to the oldest son.

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

This chief crop produced by Western Hemisphere slaves during the eighteenth century was also the first to be mass-marketed to consumers in Europe.

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

Along with sugar, the West Indies also produced this increasingly popular product enjoyed by both North American colonists and Indians.

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

Most colonies barred Catholics and Jews from voting and holding public office.

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

The Charter of Liberties and Privileges

Despite the influx of British goods, American craftsmen benefited from the expanding consumer market.

Which of the following was an effect of Bacon's Rebellion?

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.

In North America, three new and very different empires had arisen in the late seventeenth century-

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

In the 1700s, 90 percent of colonists in British North America worked farms.

At the start of the eighteenth century, the population of the colonies was

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 rather the Massachusetts General Court) approved them.

Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?

The richest group of mainland colonists were

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

Eighteenth-century British America was much less diverse than the English population.

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

There were no banks in the 1700s in colonial America.

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