Most seventeenth-century English migrants to the North American colonies were
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laborers
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In the seventeenth century, the great majority of English immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region were
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indentured servants
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All of the following were characteristics of the English indenture system EXCEPT
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most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts
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By 1700, English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery because
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of a declining birthrate in England
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Regarding colonial life expectancy during the seventeenth century
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life expectancy in New England was unusually high
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, medical practitioners
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had little or no knowledge of sterilization
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The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on
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the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids
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In the seventeenth century, white women in colonial Chesapeake
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averaged one pregnancy for every two years of marriage
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Compared to women in colonial Chesapeake, New England women
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were more likely to have their family remain intact
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In colonial New England Puritan communities, women
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were expected to be major contributors to the family
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In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was
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highly valued
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The term "middle passage" refers to the movement of enslaved Africans
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from Africa to the New World
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The estimated total number of Africans forcibly brought to all of the Americas as slaves is
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eleven million
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During the seventeenth century, the Royal African Company of England
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deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies
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Which statement regarding slavery in English North America in 1700 is FALSE?
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the demand for slaves led to a steady rise in the prices paid for them
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In English North American colonies, the application of slave codes was based on race and
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nothing more
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In comparing the colonial societies of Spanish America and English America, people of mixed races
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had a higher status than pure Africans in Spanish America
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Which statement about colonial America is true?
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the diversity of the American population was its most enduring and distinctive feature
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The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the
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Scotch-Irish
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The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region
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went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles
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Rice production in colonial America
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was very difficult and unhealthy work
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Which statement about the economy of the northern colonies is true?
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Agriculture was more diverse than in the southern colonies
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The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for
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iron
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Industrialization in colonial America was hampered by
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English parliamentary regulations, a small domestic market, an inadequate labor supply, and an inadequate transportation network
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In the seventeenth century, most colonial families
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did not own a plow
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Commerce in colonial America relied in large part on
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barter
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In the "triangular trade," the North American colonies primarily contributed
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sugar
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By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence because of
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illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire
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During the eighteenth century, rising consumerism in the American colonies was encouraged by
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both increasing class distinction within a society and the association of material possessions with personal virtue and refinement
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Seventeenth-century southern plantations
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tended to be rough and relatively small
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The first plantations in colonial North America emerged in the tobacco-growing areas of
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Virginia and Maryland
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The percentage of blacks living on a plantation of at least ten slaves was approximately
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three-fourths (75%)
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Which statement regarding the lives of slaves in colonial North America is true?
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Slave religion was a blend of Christianity and African folk tradition
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The Stono Rebellion
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saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony
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The most common form of resistance by enslaved Africans to their condition was
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subtle defiance or evasion of their masters
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Which of the following statements about slave work is FALSE?
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Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts
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In Puritan New England, participation in town meetings was limited to
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adult males who were church members
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"Primogeniture" refers to the
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passing of property to the firstborn son
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Over time, tensions in Puritan New England communities developed as a result of
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both population growth and the commercialization of society
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In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked the New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly
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women of low social position
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The story of the witchcraft trials in Salem
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saw the original accusers recant their charges
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By the 1770s, the two largest port cities in colonial North America were
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Philadelphia and New York
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Class divisions in colonial North American cities were
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more real and visible than in rural places
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In the 1760s, the Revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because
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cities were the centers of intellectual information
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In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies
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flourished due to the diversity of practices brought by settlers, was unmatched in any European nation, was enhanced because so single religious code could be imposed on any large area, and grew despite laws establishing the Church of England as the official colonial religion
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The Church of England was the official faith in
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Virginia
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In the English colonies, Jews
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could not vote or hold office
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"Jeremiads" refer to
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sermons
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In the mid-1600s, New England Puritans began preaching against the decline of
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piety
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The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s
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had particular appeal with women and young men
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George Whitfield is associated with the
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Great Awakening
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A leading figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached
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highly orthodox Puritan ideas
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Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
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suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives
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All of the following Americans made important contributions to Enlightenment thought EXCEPT
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John Locke
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After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were
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almanacs
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The wide availability of reading material in colonial America was the result of
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the invention of the printing press in the early 1700s
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The Church of England was established as the official religion of all of the following colonies EXCEPT
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Massachusetts
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Which statement regarding colonial higher education is true?
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Most colleges were founded by religious grouos
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The first American college was
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Harvard
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The verdict of the 1735 libel trial of New York publisher John Peter Zenger
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increased freedom of the press in the colonies
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In the years after the Glorious Revolution, political power in England increasingly shifted toward
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Parliament
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During the first half of the eighteenth century, England's administration of the colonies
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was loose, decentralized, and inefficient
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During the first half of the eighteenth century, royal officials in America
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contributed to England's overall lax control of the colonies
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By the 1750s, American colonial assemblies
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exercised a significant degree of authority to levy taxes
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The proposed Albany Plan of 1754
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revealed the difficulties colonies had in cooperating with each other
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As a result of the Seven Years' War, in North America, England
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confirmed its commercial supremacy and increased political control of the settled regions
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The major participants in the Seven Years' War, in North America, were
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the Iroquois, the English, and the French
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During the eighteenth century, in North America, the French differed from the English in Indian relations in that the French
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were more tolerant of Indian cultures
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During the eighteenth century, in North America, the most powerful native group was the
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Iroquois
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Through the first half of the eighteenth century, the Iroquois Confederacy formed agreements and traded with
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both France and England at the same time
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