Question 1

During the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witches were

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A)  property-owning women.
B)  from the ranks of poor families.
C)  primarily un-Christian.
D)  women in their late teen years.
E)  from subsistence farming families.

Question 2

By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was

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A)  Massachusetts.
B)  Virginia.
C)  New York.
D)  Pennsylvania.
E)  Maryland.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Explain the complex social structure that developed in the South during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and its implications for the evolution of indentured servitude and slavery in the South.

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During the seventeenth and eighteenth ce...

Question 4

The physical and social conditions of slavery were harshest in

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A)  Maryland.
B)  Virginia.
C)  South Carolina.
D)  Massachusetts.
E)  Pennsylvania.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Assess the validity of the following statement, "slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons, but by the end of the seventeenth century, it was clear that racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American slave system."

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The statement is valid in that slavery d...

Question 6

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-Which of the following reflected the lessening hold of Puritan piety on later generations of New Englanders?

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A)  The geographical dispersion of New England's population
B)  The Congregational church's reliance on the Half-Way Covenant to bolster church membership
C)  The erosion of the distinction between the elect and other members of society
D)  The declining participation of women in Puritan congregations
E)  The witchcraft trials

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Compare and contrast the status of women in the South with that in New England.

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In the South, women were generally expec...

Question 8

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-The great majority of Africans who left Africa as captured slaves

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A)  were taken to South American and Caribbean colonies.
B)  came to English America before 1700.
C)  died aboard slave ships before they ever reached America.
D)  came from the west coast of Africa.
E)  came from the east coast of Africa.

Question 9

Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by

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A)  young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land and find women to marry.
B)  the planter class of Virginia.
C)  those protesting the increased importation of African slaves.
D)  people from Jamestown only.
E)  the local Indians. A

Question 10

The 1662 slave codes in Virginia are significant because they

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A)  restricted the number of slaves that could be imported into the colony.
B)  established a legal difference between servants and slaves based on race.
C)  established curfews and prohibited slaves from moving freely about the colony.
D)  outlined the conditions under which slaves could obtain their freedom.
E)  made slaves and indentured servants of equal status under the law.

Question 11

The late-seventeenth-century rebellion in New York was headed by ____, whereas that in Maryland was led by ____.

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A)  Nathaniel Bacon, Catholics
B)  William Berkeley, slaves
C)  Puritans, Indians
D)  Jacob Leisler, Protestants
E)  the Dutch, Catholics

Question 12

The headright system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of

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A)  using Indians as forced labor.
B)  giving land to indentured servants to get them to come to the New World.
C)  giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.
D)  discouraging the importation of indentured servants to America.
E)  giving a father's wealth to the oldest son.

Question 13

All of the following are reasons for increased reliance on slave labor, after 1680, in colonial America except

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A)  higher wages in England reduced the number of emigrating servants.
B)  planters feared the growing number of landless freemen in the colonies.
C)  the British Royal African company lost its monopoly on the slave trade in colonial America.
D)  Americans rushed to cash in on the slave trade.
E)  the development of wheat as a staple crop in the British colonies. E

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Half-Way Covenant

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The Half-Way Covenant was a religious an...

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Write your definition of racism. Then use this definition to argue that the origin of slavery in colonial America was or was not primarily the result of white European racism.

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Racism is the belief that one race is su...

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-family stability

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Family stability is a concept that refer...

Question 17

In seventeenth-century colonial America, all of the following are true regarding women except

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A)  women could not own property under any circumstances.
B)  women could not vote.
C)  women were regarded as morally weaker than men.
D)  women dominated the profession of midwives.
E)  abusive husbands could be punished. A

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Nathaniel Bacon

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Nathaniel Bacon was a colonist of the Vi...

Question 19

As slavery spread in the South

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A)  social differences within society narrowed.
B)  the great plantation owners worked less.
C)  gaps in the social structure widened.
D)  planters tried to imitate the ways of English country gentlemen.
E)  it also increased dramatically in New England.

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Yankee ingenuity

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Yankee ingenuity refers to an American s...

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