American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 3: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICA

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
The American colonies were more like each other than like England in every way EXCEPT
A)they had to deal with a wild physical environment.
B)they had to deal with Indian tribes as neighbors.
C)they had to deal with religious disputes.
D)they had to deal with an ethnically and racially diverse population.
E)None of these answers is correct.
2
During the seventeenth century, at least three-fourths of the immigrants who came to the Chesapeake colonies came as
A)slaves.
B)artisans.
C)indentured servants.
D)convicts.
E)religious refugees.
3
The high mortality rate in the southern colonies had the effect of
A)weakening the traditional patriarchal family structure.
B)creating significant labor shortages in New England.
C)making it difficult for women to find husbands.
D)keeping the birth rate low.
E)increasing the importation of African slaves.
4
In the Puritan colonies, the principal economic and religious unit in the community was the
A)market square.
B)meeting house.
C)town meeting.
D)small farm.
E)family.
5
The mid-1690s marked a turning point in the history of the black population in America because
A)planters from Barbados came to Carolina.
B)slavery was introduced in Georgia.
C)Massachusetts and Rhode Island abolished slavery.
D)the Royal Africa Company lost its monopoly.
E)slavery was enshrined in the colonial legal systems.
6
The one factor which determined whether a person was subject to the slave codes in the British American colonies was
A)the person's country of origin.
B)the ancestry of the person's father.
C)the ancestry of the person's mother.
D)color.
E)None of these answers is correct.
7
Historian Edmund S. Morgan argued that the institutionalization of African slavery in America reflected
A)an effort by colonial governments to attract more white indentured servants by offering them a relatively high status.
B)the deep seated racism that white settlers had brought with them.
C)white fears of black resistance or even revolt.
D)economic and social needs for an easily recruited and controlled labor force.
E)a desire to civilize large numbers of African immigrants.
8
The most numerous of the non-English immigrants were the
A)Scotch-Irish.
B)Pennsylvania Dutch.
C)French Huguenots.
D)Scottish Highlanders.
E)Germans.
9
Which of the following was NOT one of the reasons that Africans were so valuable to planters along the Carolina and Georgia coasts?
A)They could be forced to do work that white laborers refused to do.
B)They often came from rice-producing regions of Africa.
C)They were more accustomed to the hot and humid climate.
D)They could be counted on to work the fields without protest.
E)They both were more accustomed to the hot and humid climate and could be counted on to work the fields without protest.
10
Conditions for agriculture were better in the middle colonies than in most of New England because of
A)cold weather and rocky soil.
B)the ease in getting crops to market.
C)the lack of a substantial commercial economy in the middle colonies.
D)the oversupply of single male workers.
E)more temperate weather.
11
The industrial activities of the northern colonies
A)included the growth of an iron industry supported by Parliament.
B)were primarily limited to local businesses and goods made for the home.
C)were strengthened by a surplus of labor in the colonies.
D)replaced crops as the major export items of the region.
E)reflected British encouragement of the metals industry.
12
A common problem in American commerce in the seventeenth century was
A)the lack of a commonly accepted currency.
B)an insufficient number of ships to carry colonial goods.
C)too many large companies in every colony.
D)a small, unprofitable coastal trade.
E)an abundance of toll roads.
13
The maze of highly diverse trade routes that involved the buying and selling of rum, slaves, and sugar was known as the
A)staple system.
B)triangular trade.
C)middle passage.
D)Atlantic highway.
E)mercantile routes.
14
During the seventeenth century, colonial plantations were
A)rough and relatively small.
B)English country estates on a smaller scale.
C)seats of an entrenched, landholding aristocracy.
D)insignificant in the colonial economy.
E)sites of political unrest.
15
African slaves in the colonial South
A)were rigidly separated from whites.
B)were widely scattered on small farms, seldom in contact with one another.
C)often participated in various forms of organized resistance.
D)began to develop a society and culture of their own.
E)were well educated.
16
The characteristic social unit in New England was the
A)isolated farm.
B)meeting house.
C)town.
D)plantation.
E)extended family.
17
In colonial New England, tensions between expectations of a cohesive, united community and the reality of an increasingly diverse and fluid one led to
A)a general economic decline.
B)the witchcraft trials.
C)a decline in piety.
D)the rise of the merchant class.
E)an increase in piety.
18
Which of the following was NOT a function of colonial American cities?
A)They were trading centers.
B)They were centers of industry.
C)They were intellectual centers.
D)They were centers of political activity.
E)They were areas of few social distinctions.
19
In matters of religion, Americans were
A)less tolerant than their English counterparts.
B)more tolerant than their English counterparts.
C)more inclined to be members of an Anglican congregation.
D)unconcerned about piety, especially in New England.
E)concerned that one religion would become more prominent than another.
20
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the decline of piety in colonial America?
A)westward migration
B)rise of towns
C)corrupt ministers
D)the importation of Enlightenment ideas
E)All these answers are correct.
21
The Great Awakening was
A)an effort to alert colonists to British efforts to control them politically.
B)the way the Enlightenment influenced American education.
C)the opening of new commercial opportunities in the West.
D)the first great religious revival in America.
E)an effort to alert colonists of a British religious plot.
22
Before the Revolution, American education
A)occurred primarily at "dame schools."
B)created a white male population more literate than those of European nations.
C)allowed most white men to attend college.
D)created a more literate female than male population.
E)stressed religious piety.
23
Which of the following offers the best historical source of information about humor in the American colonies?
A)the Bible
B)colonial newspapers
C)almanacs
D)novels
E)the published sermons of Jonathan Edwards
24
The influence of science in the colonies
A)was limited to the universities.
B)allowed for the derision of Franklin's experiment with electricity.
C)led to the controversial and dangerous programs of inoculation against smallpox.
D)was spurned by colonial religious leaders.
E)was confined to aspiring inventors.
25
During the first half of the eighteenth century, colonial legislatures were generally
A)able to act independently of Parliament.
B)controlled by the governor.
C)free from class distinctions.
D)a reflection of democracy in their respective colonies.
E)the puppets of Parliament.
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