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According to your text, the answer to the question, "What is an American?" is that Americans A) were mostly European s whose institutions easily fit American conditions. B) have shared a common religious devotion. C) came from a middle-class background. D) have had faith in democracy and freedom.
E) have an identity deeply rooted in their history, but still incomplete and evolving.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 2. Spain's northern frontier of New Mexico, Texas, and California was characterized by A) creation of a strong Hispanic colony in California by the end of the eighteenth century. B) complete domination of Plains Indians by Spain's military outposts. C) a total and effective ban on enslaving Indians. D) powerful Comanche resistance to the Spanish once the Comanche had horses and guns.
E) a lack of interference by other European powers.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 3. The map, "Spain's North American Frontier, c. 1800" shows the northern most point of Spanish settlement on the Pacific coast was at A) San Francisco B) Tuscon. C) Monterrey. D) San Diego.
E) El Paso.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 4. Until late in the eighteenth century, the Chesapeake Bay area was characterized by a A) surplus of women settlers. B) well-ordered, church-dominated society. C) remarkably high death rate. D) large number of unmarried widows.
E) healthy climate.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C
According to your text, white women in the colonial Chesapeake region A) benefited from the healthy climate and the orderly society. B) greatly outnumbered men and found it difficult to marry. C) usually lived on luxurious plantations with the most modern conveniences. D) found it easy to remarry if they were widowed.
E) had no opportunities for independent economic activities.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 6. The map, "English Colonies on the Atlantic Seaboard," shows that the present state of Vermont was at one time claimed by both A) New York and New Hampshire. B) Maine and Massachusetts. C) France and England. D) England and the Netherlands.
E) Connecticut and New Hampshire.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 7. The "headright" was commonly used in the southern colonies and some of the middle colonies to A) encourage the development of urban settlements. B) determine the eligibility of a settler for voting and holding office. C) award tracts of land to new arrivals in the colonies. D) determine the boundaries for electoral districts.
E) provide land for churches.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 8. In some colonies, landowners paid an annual tax called a ________, as a way for European nations to derive income from their colonies. A) headright B) deferential C) requerimiento D) indenture
E) quitrent
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 13. One inducement for the shift toward slave labor in the late 1600s that A) slaves were considerably cheaper than indentured servants. B) indentured servitude was prohibited by Parliament. C) whites became convinced that slavery was God's will. D) slaves proved to be immune to the diseases which afflicted white indentured servants.
E) fewer indentured servants were arriving at the same time that it became easier to
import slaves.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 14. The great staple of the Virginia colonial economy was A) cotton. B) tobacco. C) indigo. D) sugar cane.
E) cattle.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 15. The most accurate statement about tobacco during the seventeenth century is that it A) was immediately encouraged by both King James I and the London Company. B) grew on semicleared land, but required a lot of human labor. C) was introduced to America by the Dutch. D) sold so poorly that there was little interest in growing it.
E) was initially grown on large, well-manicured fields.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 16. The primary economic problem for Virginia in the late seventeenth century was A) uncontrolled urban growth. B) over-production of tobacco. C) the triangular trade. D) unemployed laborers.
E) high cost of slaves.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 17. Bacon's Rebellion occurred in A) Pennsylvania. B) Georgia. C) Massachusetts. D) South Carolina.
E) Virginia.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 18. The main supporters of Virginia's royal governor, Sir William Berkeley, during Bacon's Rebellion were the A) Virginia Regulators. B) well-established, powerful planters. C) landless freemen. D) western frontier planters.
E) free blacks.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 19. "Of this and the aforesaid articles we accuse Sir William Berkeley as guilty of each and every one of the same, and as one who hath traitorously... violated and injured his majesty's interest here, by a loss of a great part of this his colony... ." The author of the above statement was A) Samuel Parris. B) Jacob Leisler. C) William Cosby. D) Nathaniel Bacon.
E) Tom Paxton.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 20. The South Carolina cash crop of indigo
Which statement about black resistance to slavery is true? A) Organized slave rebellions were common in colonies with a large black population. B) Most runaway slaves were field hands. C) Slaves with valuable skills were treated better and were less likely to run away. D) Whites wildly exaggerated the danger of slave rebellions, depicting blacks as savage beasts.
E) Slaves that were the most valuable because of their skills were less likely to run away
because they were well-treated.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 25. The few attacks on the institution of slavery during the colonial period were usually led by A) Quakers. B) members of the Church of England. C) southern poor white farmers. D) southern merchants.
E) Puritans.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 26. "I was desirous.. .to discourage the future importation of slaves, for I saw that this trade was a great evil... ." The colonial author of this statement was most likely a A) royal governor. B) Quaker. C) northern merchant. D) Pilgrim.
E) Anglican.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 27. Formal education for average children in the southern colonies was A) almost nonexistent in their rural society. B) highly developed, with public funding of primary, secondary, and college levels. C) patterned after the village system used in New England. D) not valued, even by the wealthy planter elite.
E) restricted to girls.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A
The Anglican church was "established" in certain colonies, which meant that A) every citizen had to pay 10 percent of his or her income to the Anglican church. B) it was under close supervision by American bishops and archbishops. C) all laws had to be approved by the church. D) it had the same legal status and privilege as any other religious group.
E) its ministers were supported by public funds.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 29. James Oglethorpe received a charter to establish ________, the final English colony, as a refuge for honest people imprisoned for debt. A) Georgia B) Massachusetts C) Pennsylvania D) South Carolina
E) New Hampshire
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 30. The British government's primary concern in establishing Georgia was A) gaining commercial profit through royal monopolies. B) allowing prisoners a fresh start in life. C) placing a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida. D) promoting religious toleration of Catholics.
E) creating a base for raids on Spanish shipping.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 31. In 1771, frontier Regulators from ________, protesting their lack of representation in their colonial assembly, were defeated in a pitched battle with government troops. A) New York B) North Carolina C) Virginia D) Georgi
E) Massachusetts
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B
"Children should reverence and honor their parents... .This is one of those commandments which the great God uttered immediately with his own mouth.... And woe unto them that despise, condemn or abuse their parents....God's law made it a capital crime for any to smite father or mother." This family advice reflected the values of the A) Deists. B) Quakers. C) Anglicans. D) Baptists.
E) Puritans.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 37. Under the terms of the Halfway Covenant, A) unbaptized church members could receive communion but could not present their own children for baptism. B) only those who could give evidence of God's grace could become even halfway members of the church. C) halfway members of the church could present their children for baptism but could not receive communion. D) God was obliged to convey salvation upon any person who met Him halfway by attempting to lead a moral life.
E) churches and merchants agreed to meet each other halfway in their dispute over excess
profits.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 38. The Puritans justified laws requiring church attendance and establishing the death penalty for blaspheming a parent on the grounds that they A) followed the early Christian practices described in the New Testament. B) were based on government's role as a civil covenant designed to police and maintain social order. C) were intended to create a society which promoted individual religious liberty. D) restored laws which had existed in England before Queen Elizabeth I's corrupt reign.
E) needed to restore order because of the rampant crime in the colony.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 39.
As a result of the Glorious Revolution in 1688, ________ became a royal colony in the early 1690s. A) Georgia B) Pennsylvania C) Virginia D) New York
E) Massachusetts.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 40. The main evidence presented against the accused witches in Salem Village was the A) sudden increase in birth deformities among livestock. B) frightening total solar eclipse of that year. C) recent and devastating typhoid fever epidemic. D) raving testimony of young girls.
E) diaries containing pacts with the devil.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 41. Where and when was the following statement made? "I saw the apparition of Sarah Good, who did most grievously afflict me by pinching and pricking me... .And then she did also most grievously afflict and torture me also during the time of her examination... .Also on the day of her examination I saw the apparition of Sarah Good go and hurt and afflict the bodies of Elizabeth Parish, Abigail Williams, and Ann Putnam... ." A) Charleston, South Carolina, 1720 B) Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635 C) Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1692 D) Williamsburg, Virginia, 1675
E) Charleston, South Carolina, 1740
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 42. In 1636 the Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for the first college in America, which was later named A) Columbia. B) Yale. C) William and Mary. D) Oxford.
E) Harvard
D) French
E) Dutch
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 47. According to the map, "Ethnic Groups in Eastern North America, 1750," the group most likely to settle in the backcountry of Pennsylvania were the A) Welsh. B) French. C) Scots-Irish. D) English.
E) Dutch.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 48. Both Leisler's Rebellion and the "Paxton Boys" uprising A) successfully overthrew existing colonial governments. B) challenged the traditional authority of masters over their slaves. C) led to more women assuming public authority. D) caused violent, long-term civil wars in their respective colonies.
E) were challenges by outsiders to those who traditionally had power in colonial
governments.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 49. The New York printer whose trial for seditious libel became one of the most celebrated tests of freedom of the press in the history of journalism was A) James Franklin. B) James Hamilton. C) John Peter Zenger. D) Benjamin Franklin.
E) Jacob Leisler.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 50. The "Paxton Boys" revolt in Pennsylvania
A) revealed western dissatisfaction with England. B) was led by German tradesmen. C) revealed western dissatisfaction with the state assembly. D) was led by Benjamin Franklin.
E) replaced the existing state government with a military dictator.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C
