Quiz 3

In the prevailing theory of mercantilism, the government should

leave the trade regulations to the colonies so they will learn to self-govern.

regulate economic activity to promote the nation's power.

discourage manufacturing and focus solely on agricultural products.

reduce the amount of gold that entered England.

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

True

False

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

True

False

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

Tobacco

Sugar

Rice

Wheat

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

Jacob Leisler took control of New York as head of a Committee of Safety.

Leisler's success meant French domination of New York.

Rebels sacked the homes of wealthy New Yorkers.

Following his defeat, Leisler's body was decapitated and cut into four parts.

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

Bread

Rum

Whiskey

Tobacco

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

True

False

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

True

False

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

unsettled by Europeans, and the English bought it from the Indians.

called New France and controlled by the French king.

called New Netherland and controlled by the Dutch.

unsettled by Europeans and first purchased by the French.

The Charter of Liberties and Privileges

allowed for a trial by jury and the security of property.

revoked traditional English rights in favor of new, colonial rights.

required elections be held every four years among male property owners of New York.

allowed for religious toleration for all Catholics.

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

True

False

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

the increased use of African slaves

the increased use of the headright system

the increased use of indentured servants

the increased use of Native American slaves

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.

True

False

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?

The Iroquois, having attacked the colonists, were destroyed.

Metacom was captured and executed.

Puritans sold Indian children from the warring tribes into slavery.

The image of Indians as bloodthirsty savages became entrenched in the view of New England colonists.

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

True

False

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

Overwhelmingly white

Overwhelmingly non white

relatively equal in proportion white to non-white ratio.

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.

True

False

Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?

Rice

Indigo

Cotton

Tobacco

The richest group of mainland colonists were

New York merchants

South Carolina panthers

Pennsylvania cragtsman

New jersey shipbuilders

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

Pennsylvania

Rhode island

Connecticut

There was no such British colonial leader

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

True

False

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

True

False

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

True

False

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