Ch. 4

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Which of the following statements concerning immigrants to colonial America during the first half of the eighteenth century is correct?
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Most German-speaking immigrants settled in Pennsylvania
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Compared to her English counterpart, the eighteenth-century northern colonial woman...?
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Enjoyed broader legal and property rights
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Which of the following factors helped temper rebellion and offer comfort to colonial slaves?
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Religion and family life
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Masters controlled which of the following aspects of slave life?
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a. physical location b. work roles c. diet d. all of these answers are correct
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By the 1740s, a growing proportion of Chesapeake slaves...?
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a. were American-born b. had established families c. created personal lives d. all of these answers are correct
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Many African American slaves in South Carolina spoke...?
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Gullah
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In 1739 a major rebellion broke out in...?
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Stono, South Carolina
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All of the following were true about slave marriages and family life EXCEPT...?
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Black women's constant labor made them less equal to men than was the case of women in white society
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by 1750, English colonists numbered approximately...?
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1.2 million
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In 1718 in North America, France settled...?
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New Orleans
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In the Louisiana economy, slaves worked as...?
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a. rice growers b. metal workers c. indigo processors d. all of these answers are correct
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France's interior empire in North America...?
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Had many settlements that were mixed-race communities
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In contrast to conditions in the English colonies, life in New Spain was characterized by greater...?
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racial inter-mixture
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The advent of "modern" life occurred first in the seaboards centers of colonial America, including the transition from a...?
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Barter to a commercial economy
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Colonial merchants of the early eighteenth century...?
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Integrated American producers and consumers in the Atlantic basin trading system
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For urban artisans in colonial America...?
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A major goal was economic independence
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According to the entrepreneurial ethos, prosperity resulted from...?
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individual competition
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All of the following represent theories of Enlightenment thinkers EXCEPT the notion that...?
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God predetermined the contents of the human mind
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Religious life in the colonies was marked by...?
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a scarcity of trained ministers
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The religious revival known as the Great Awakening...?
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Emphasized individual responsibility for conversion