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

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