History 101 - United States History to 1877 » 2019 » Chapter 3 Quiz

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Question #1
The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on
A.   practices acquired from Indians.
B.   scientific experimentation and observation.
C.   evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.
D.   the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.
E.   Calvinist religious doctrine.
Question #2
During the seventeenth century, the Royal African Company of England
A.   deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies.
B.   sent the majority of its enslaved Africans directly to the Chesapeake colonies.
C.   stopped importing slaves directly from Africa.
D.   would only ship adult African men in the slave trade.
E.   lowered the prices of slaves in order to increase their sale in the North American colonies.
Question #3
The “triangular trade” in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity?
A.   molasses
B.   slaves
C.   sugar
D.   All these answers are correct.
E.   rum
Question #4
During the eighteenth century, rising consumerism in the American colonies was encouraged by
A.   the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists and the association of material possessions with personal virtue and refinement.
B.   increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material possessions with status in the upper class.
C.   the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists
D.   the quickly rising purchasing power of members of the lower classes.
E.   the association of material possessions with loyalty to the crown.
Question #5
The Stono Rebellion
A.   led to the death of dozens of white Virginian colonists.
B.   led to the banning of the slave trade in Maryland.
C.   led planters to resume hiring indentured servants for their labor needs.
D.   prompted Georgia to strengthen its laws on slavery.
E.   saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
Question #6
Which of the following statements about slave work is FALSE?
A.   Field hand was the predominant occupation of both male and female slaves.
B.   Skilled slaves were at times hired out to other planters.
C.   Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.
D.   A few slaves were able to buy their freedom.
E.   Some slaves on larger plantations learned trades and crafts.
Question #7
In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly
A.   Indians or slaves.
B.   not members of the church.
C.   indentured servants.
D.   women of low social position.
E.   criminals.
Question #8
In the English colonies, Roman Catholics
A.   were generally well treated.
B.   were officially illegal.
C.   suffered their greatest persecution in the Carolinas.
D.   made up a large minority population of most colonies.
E.   suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.
Question #9
Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
A.   had little influence on American intellectual thought.
B.   rejected most religious thought.
C.   emphasized the importance of religious faith.
D.   suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives.
E.   challenged concepts such as “natural laws.”
Question #10
In the seventeenth century, the great majority of English immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region were,,
A.   women.
B.   convicts.
C.   slaves.
D.   indentured servants.
E.   religious dissenters.

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