Chapter 4

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Religious life in the colonies was marked by
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scarcity of trained ministers.
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Colonial America in the first half of the eighteenth century experienced
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population growth and economic development.
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The social structure of American colonial cities from 1690 to 1770 was influenced by
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an increasing gap between the wealthy and the poor.
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The religious revival known as the Great Awakening
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emphasized individual responsibility for conversion.
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All of the following were true about slave marriages and family life EXCEPT:
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Slaves easily forgot about loved ones lost to sale.
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For urban artisans in colonial America
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a major goal was economic independence.
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The vast majority of inhabitants along the coast of South Carolina by the 1760s consisted of
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black slaves.
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The advent of "modern" life occurred first in the seaboard centers of colonial America, including the transition from a
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barter to a commercial economy.
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The Chesapeake colonies of the early eighteenth century witnessed
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the emergence of a planter gentry as political and social leaders.
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By the 1740s, a growing proportion of Chesapeake slaves
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All of the above.
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Many African American slaves in South Carolina spoke
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Gullah.
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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 intermixture.
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The spiritual motives of the Spanish missionaries resulted in a greater appreciation and respect for tribal peoples than in other North American colonial empires.
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False
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Food shortages were frequent occurrences in British North America.
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False
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A shipboard mortality rate of 15 percent in the colonial era made it the most unhealthiest of all times to seek American shores.
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True
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The population of the colonies had surpassed one million people by 1750, most of whom had spread deep into the interior beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
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False
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The switch from subsistence to commercial hunting drew Native Americans into a market economy in which their trading partners gradually became trading masters.
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True
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The largest number of eighteenth-century European immigrants to colonial America were the Protestant __________ .
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Scots-Irish
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney, a wealthy South Carolina planter's wife, experimented successfully in the 1740s with the cultivation of __________ , a plant from which a blue dye could be extracted for use in textiles.
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indigo
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Benjamin Franklin's popular work, __________ , next to the Bible, was the most widely read book in the colonies, containing quips, adages, and homespun philosophy.
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Poor Richard's Almanack