What was the impact of King Philip's War (1675-1676)?
a. New England's tribes united against the colonists.
b. Native Americans destroyed twelve Massachusetts towns, which helped establish them in the minds of New Englanders as bloodthirsty savages.
c. Na
b. Native Americans destroyed twelve Massachusetts towns, which helped establish them in the minds of New Englanders as bloodthirsty savages.
According to the economic theory known as mercantilism:
a. merchants should control the government because they contributed more than others to national wealth.
b. the government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power.
c. the go
b. the government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power.
The first English Navigation Act, adopted during the rule of Oliver Cromwell:
a. required the Royal Navy to use only Protestant navigators on its ships.
b. aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch.
c. freed England's North American colonies fr
b. aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch.
Enumerated" goods:
a. made up the bulk of items imported into the colonies from abroad.
b. were those the English colonies could not produce under terms of the Navigation Acts.
c. created a financial drain on the English government during the seventeenth
d. were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that could only be sold initially in English ports.
What sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the midseventeenth century?
a. England's defeat of the Netherlands in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War of 1649
b. England's victory in a 1676 religious war with Spain
c. a treaty signed with the Iro
e. the restoration of the monarchy in 1660
When England took over the Dutch colony that became New York:
a. the English eliminated all of the religious freedoms that the Dutch had allowed.
b. the English ended the Dutch tradition of allowing married women to conduct business in their own names.
c.
b. the English ended the Dutch tradition of allowing married women to conduct business in their own names.
How did English rule affect the Iroquois Confederacy?
a. After a series of complex negotiations, both groups aided each other's imperial ambitions.
b. The English destroyed the Iroquois Confederacy temporarily but revived it under Sir Edmund Andros's rule
a. After a series of complex negotiations, both groups aided each other's imperial ambitions.
What was the Covenant Chain?
a. the promise James II gave Parliament that he would marry a Protestant princess
b. an agreement between the Dutch and the Mohican Nation that led to the founding of New Netherland
c. a mythical piece of priceless gold jewelr
e. an alliance made by the governor of New York and the Iroquois Confederacy
The Charter of Liberties and Privileges in New York:
a. was the work of the Dutch, who did not trust the English to protect their religious freedom.
b. resulted especially from displeasure among residents of Manhattan.
c. reflected in part an effort by th
c. reflected in part an effort by the British to exert their influence and control over the Dutch.
In its early years, Carolina was the "colony of a colony" because its original settlers included many:
a. former indentured servants from Virginia.
b. supporters of Anne Hutchinson seeking refuge from Massachusetts.
c. landless sons of wealthy planters in
c. landless sons of wealthy planters in Barbados.
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina:
a. were modeled on the governing structure of the Iroquois Confederacy.
b. banned slavery as antithetical to their goal of creating a society based on peasants working for noblemen.
c. allowed no elected assembly
e. proposed a feudal society in the New World, complete with hereditary nobility.
What inspired the 1715 uprising by the Yamasee and Creek peoples against English colonists in Carolina?
a. the colonists' refusal to trade with the Yamasee and Creek
b. an alliance of the Yamasee and Creek with the Iroquois Confederacy, which had declared
c. high debts incurred by the Yamasee and Creek in trade with the English settlers
The economy of the Carolina colony:
a. was based on plantation agriculture from the beginning.
b. immediately proved profitable because of its reliance upon rice.
c. was exactly the same as that of Barbados.
d. originally centered on cattle-raising and tr
d. originally centered on cattle-raising and trade.
Carolina grew slowly until:
a. rice as a staple crop was discovered to be extremely profitable.
b. slaves were brought into the colony.
c. an alliance with the Indians was signed.
d. cotton was introduced into the colony.
e. the king forced the English po
a. rice as a staple crop was discovered to be extremely profitable.
To Quakers, liberty was:
a. limited to white, landowning men.
b. strictly defined.
c. a universal entitlement.
d. extended to women but not to blacks.
e. limited to the spiritually inclined.
c. a universal entitlement.
What was William Penn's most fundamental principle?
a. voting rights for all adult men
b. religious freedom
c. communally owned property
d. economic liberty
e. support for women's suffrage
b. religious freedom
Of colonists in British North America, which group was the wealthiest?
a. Philadelphia merchants
b. Boston political elite
c. Virginia tobacco farmers
d. South Carolina rice planters
e. New York merchants
d. South Carolina rice planters
William Penn was a member of which religious group?
a. Puritans
b. Anglicans
c. Quakers
d. Roman Catholics
e. Presbyterians
c. Quakers
William Penn obtained the land for his Pennsylvania colony because:
a. King Charles I wanted Quakers to have a place where they could enjoy religious toleration.
b. he supported the crown during the Glorious Revolution.
c. the king wanted to cancel his de
c. the king wanted to cancel his debt to the Penn family and bolster the English presence in North America.
Before founding Pennsylvania, William Penn assisted a group of English Quakers to set up a colony in what became:
a. New Hampshire.
b. North Carolina.
c. Delaware.
d. New Jersey.
e. Ontario.
d. New Jersey.
Pennsylvania's treatment of Native Americans was unique in what way?
a. Pennsylvania was the only colony in which efforts at conversion focused on turning Native Americans into Quakers.
b. The colony bought all of the land the Native Americans occupied an
e. Pennsylvania purchased Indian land that was then resold to colonists and offered refuge to tribes driven out of other colonies.
What was one of Pennsylvania's only restrictions on religious liberty?
a. Settlers could belong to any denomination but had to sign an oath affirming that they would not to oppress Quakers.
b. Holding office required an oath affirming a belief in Jesus Ch
b. Holding office required an oath affirming a belief in Jesus Christ, which eliminated Jews from serving.
What form of behavior did William Penn ban in his Pennsylvania colony?
a. swearing
b. alcohol consumption
c. dancing in public or in private
d. laughing during religious services
e. singing outside of church
a. swearing
What ironic consequence did William Penn's generous policies, such as religious toleration and inexpensive land, have?
a. They contributed to the increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on African slave labor.
b. Now that Pennsylvania attracted so ma
a. They contributed to the increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on African slave labor.
Who in the Pennsylvania colony was eligible to vote?
a. everyone, male and female
b. a majority of the male population
c. all males
d. Quakers
e. all white people
b. a majority of the male population
Which of the following was not a factor that made African slavery appealing to English planters in the New World?
a. Since slaves' terms of service never expired, unlike those of indentured servants, Africans could create a permanent labor force.
b. Europ
e. A long English legal tradition of discriminating against dark-skinned peoples eased the legalization of slavery.
Ideas of race and racism in seventeenth-century England:
a. inspired the creation of an African slave labor force.
b. caused many Englishmen to become abolitionists when they saw that slavery was based on these ideas.
c. had not fully developed as modern
c. had not fully developed as modern concepts.
Which one of the following is true of slavery?
a. The English word "slavery" derives from "Slav," reflecting the slave trade in Slavic peoples until the fifteenth century.
b. Christians never were enslaved.
c. The Roman Empire outlawed it, but it revived,
a. The English word "slavery" derives from "Slav," reflecting the slave trade in Slavic peoples until the fifteenth century.
Unlike slavery in America, slavery in Africa:
a. declined in importance during the 1600s.
b. was more likely to be based in the household than on an agricultural plantation.
c. led to much higher death rates.
d. was entirely race-based.
e. existed only fo
b. was more likely to be based in the household than on an agricultural plantation.
What commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during the seventeenth century?
a. tobacco
b. indigo
c. silver
d. cotton
e. sugar
e. sugar
Which one of the following is true of the English West Indies in the seventeenth century?
a. By the end of the century, the African population far outnumbered the European population on most islands.
b. Mixed economies with small farms worked by indenture
a. By the end of the century, the African population far outnumbered the European population on most islands.
Slavery developed more slowly in North America than in the English West Indies because:
a. it was a longer trip from Africa to North America, making slavery less profitable.
b. planters in Virginia and Maryland agreed that indentured servants were far les
c. the high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to die within a short time.
Spain's Las Siete Partidas, a series of laws touching on slavery:
a. strongly influenced the English as they devised their own laws about slavery.
b. was strictly enforced in Mexico, Cuba, and other Spanish colonies until those areas achieved independence
d. gave slaves some opportunities to claim rights under the law in Spain's American empire.
According to laws in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake:
a. black men were not permitted to marry white women, but black women could marry white men.
b. free blacks had the right to sue and testify in court.
c. free blacks were not permitted to serve in t
b. free blacks had the right to sue and testify in court.
Which man was once a slave, only to be freed and own slaves himself?
a. William Penn
b. Anthony Johnson
c. Olaudah Equiano
d. Robert Carter
e. Nathaniel Bacon
b. Anthony Johnson
What historical evidence demonstrates that blacks were being held as slaves for life by the 1640s?
a. Property registers list white servants with the number of years they were to work, but blacks (with higher valuations) had no terms of service associated
a. Property registers list white servants with the number of years they were to work, but blacks (with higher valuations) had no terms of service associated with their names.
When the Virginia House of Burgesses decreed that religious conversion did not release a slave from bondage:
a. every other colonial assembly followed suit.
b. Governor William Berkeley vetoed the measure, which led to Bacon's Rebellion.
c. it meant that,
c. it meant that, under Virginia law, Christians could own other Christians.
Governor William Berkeley's regime:
a. corrupted Penn's plans for the Pennsylvania colony, but the democratic system that Penn created made it impossible for him to do anything about it.
b. was a corrupt alliance of the Virginia colony's wealthiest tobacc
b. was a corrupt alliance of the Virginia colony's wealthiest tobacco planters.
Which of the following was true of small farmers in 1670s Virginia?
a. The economy was doing so well that even though they made less money than large-scale planters, their problems were too small to justify their rebellion.
b. They had access to the best
e. The lack of good land, high taxes on tobacco, and falling prices reduced their prospects.
Bacon's Rebellion was a response to:
a. worsening economic conditions in Virginia.
b. increased slavery in the Carolinas.
c. Indian attacks in New England.
d. the Glorious Revolution in England.
e. the Salem witch trials.
a. worsening economic conditions in Virginia.
Nathaniel Bacon:
a. actually was socially closer to the elite than to the indentured servants who supported him.
b. had no connection to Virginia's wealthiest planters.
c. won unanimous support for his effort to reduce taxes, but his effort to remove all
a. actually was socially closer to the elite than to the indentured servants who supported him.
Bacon's Rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia?
a. a large and sustained increase in the importation of indentured servants
b. generous payments to Native Americans to encourage them to give up their lands to white farmers
c. changes
d. the replacing of indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia's plantations
Slave labor in the Chesapeake region increasingly supplanted indentured servitude during the last two decades of the seventeenth century, in part because:
a. the opening of the new colony of North Carolina attracted enough whites to make up for the loss o
c. improving conditions in England reduced the number of transatlantic migrants.
The Virginia slave code of 1705:
a. simply brought together old aspects of the laws governing slaves and slavery.
b. completely rewrote and changed the earlier slave laws.
c. embedded the principle of white supremacy in law.
d. made clear that slaves were
c. embedded the principle of white supremacy in law.
Which of the following is true of slave resistance in the colonial period?
a. Runaways were very rare because slaves knew that attempting to escape would be futile.
b. Some slaves were the offspring of white traders and therefore knew enough English to tu
b. Some slaves were the offspring of white traders and therefore knew enough English to turn to the legal system, at least until Virginia lawmakers prevented them from doing so.