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.   Calvinist religious doctrine.
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.   practices acquired from Indians.
Question #2
During the seventeenth century, the Royal African Company of England
A.   stopped importing slaves directly from Africa.
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.   lowered the prices of slaves in order to increase their sale in the North American colonies.
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.   slaves
B.   rum
C.   molasses
D.   All these answers are correct.
E.   sugar
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 and the association of material possessions with personal virtue and refinement.
C.   the association of material possessions with loyalty to the crown.
D.   increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material possessions with status in the upper class.
E.   the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists
Question #5
The Stono Rebellion
A.   saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
B.   led planters to resume hiring indentured servants for their labor needs.
C.   led to the banning of the slave trade in Maryland.
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.   A few slaves were able to buy their freedom.
B.   Field hand was the predominant occupation of both male and female slaves.
C.   Some slaves on larger plantations learned trades and crafts.
D.   Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.
E.   Skilled slaves were at times hired out to other planters.
Question #7
In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly
A.   women of low social position.
B.   indentured servants.
C.   not members of the church.
D.   Indians or slaves.
E.   criminals.
Question #8
In the English colonies, Roman Catholics
A.   suffered their greatest persecution in the Carolinas.
B.   were officially illegal.
C.   made up a large minority population of most colonies.
D.   suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.
E.   were generally well treated.
Question #9
Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
A.   emphasized the importance of religious faith.
B.   challenged concepts such as “natural laws.”
C.   rejected most religious thought.
D.   had little influence on American intellectual thought.
E.   suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives.
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.   women.
E.   religious dissenters.

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