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

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