Question 1

Women often had a child every two or three years before menopause.

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Which of the following was an advantage for women in North America regarding an expanding population?

Question 2

an abundance of cheap land.

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Benjamin Franklin believed a major reason for colonial population growth was:

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of the dispersed nature of the American population.

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Although diseases were widespread in North America, colonists were less susceptible because:

Question 4

submission to their authority

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Throughout the colonies, husbands expected what from their wives?

Question 5

They were not accepted to work in highly skilled occupations.

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Which of the following statements about women's labor is NOT true?

Question 6

often remained confined to the domestic sphere.

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Women in the American colonies:

Question 7

was especially common in port cities.

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During the colonial period, prostitution:

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occupied a supervisory role over her male counterparts.

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Eliza Pinckney could be called a modern woman living in the colonial world for the following reasons, EXCEPT that she

Question 9

were more likely to be churchgoers than men.

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In regard to religion, women:

Question 10

tobacco.

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In the seventeenth century, the cash crop that was the basis of the economy in Virginia and Maryland was:

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the creation of irrigation systems that allowed laborers to flood and drain the fields.

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The success of rice as a perfect crop for South Carolina was helped by the development of:

Question 12

Settlers lived in very primitive houses.

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Which of the following statements about early colonial life in the Chesapeake region is true?

Question 13

It was more governed by religious concerns than were the middle and southern colonies.

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Which of the following was true of New England in the seventeenth century?

Question 14

in communities where church and state were not separate.

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Early settlers of Puritan New England typically lived:

Question 15

certain kernels of democracy in both church and state.

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The covenant theory from which the Puritans drew their ideas contained:

Question 16

Most New Englanders had well-appointed homes with glass windows.

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Which of the following is NOT true of New England home life?

Question 17

fish.

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New England's most important commodity was:

Question 18

the region's extensive forests

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Which of the following spurred shipbuilding in New England?

Question 19

religious fundamentalists.

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New England was settled by:

Question 20

adolescent girls began to exhibit strange afflictions.

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The witch craze in Salem started when:

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social division and anxieties within the village.

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The best explanation for the Salem witch craze is:

Question 22

geographically and culturally stood between New England and the southern colonies.

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The middle colonies:

Question 23

Pennsylvania.

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The largest number of German immigrants to the colonies settled in:

Question 24

Pennsylvania.

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Of the following colonies, which one most embraced religious and ethnic diversity?

Question 25

outlined the local laws that governed slave life and ownership.

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Slave codes:

Question 26

property.

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Legally speaking, slaves were:

Question 27

All slaves could expect a lifetime in bondage.

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Which of the following is NOT true of early colonial slavery?

Question 28

tightened controls on slaves.

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The Stono Rebellion:

Question 29

usually lived and worked in cities and towns.

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Slaves who lived in northern colonies:

Question 30

the Salem witch craze.

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The events surrounding a suspected slave revolt in New York City in 1741 offer parallels to:

Question 31

was Philadelphia.

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The largest city in the colonies at the end of the colonial period:

Question 32

held no more than 10 percent of the total population.

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By the end of the colonial period, American cities:

Question 33

taverns.

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By 1700, the most democratic and important social institutions were:

Question 34

that truth is a defense in libel cases.

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John Peter Zenger's trial in 1735 established:

Question 35

ability of reason to discover the laws of the universe.

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Enlightenment thinkers such as Isaac Newton stressed the:

Question 36

passion for science and experimentation.

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Benjamin Franklin emphasized the Enlightenment in his:

Question 37

usually seen as the responsibility of family and church.

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Education in the colonies was:

Question 38

need to read the scriptures.

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Puritan commitment to education is best explained by their:

Question 39

Deism and skepticism associated with the Enlightenment.

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The Great Awakening developed in reaction to the:

Question 40

Anglican.

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Which church dominated the Chesapeake region by 1700?

Question 41

further promote Enlightenment thinking.

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The religious revivals known as the Great Awakening did all of the following, EXCEPT:

Question 42

the gruesome reality of hell.

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Jonathan Edwards's famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, described:

Question 43

George Whitefield.

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The English revivalist who preached to thousands and so impressed Benjamin Franklin was:

Question 44

urge people to renounce their ministers and pursue salvation on their own.

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The Tennents did all of the following, EXCEPT:

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women who rose to speak during religious services.

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One of the most controversial elements of the Great Awakening was:

Question 46

incorporating democracy and emotionalism into faith.

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New Lights differed from Old Lights by:

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