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.   evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.
C.   the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.
D.   scientific experimentation and observation.
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.   would only ship adult African men in the slave trade.
C.   lowered the prices of slaves in order to increase their sale in the North American colonies.
D.   stopped importing slaves directly from Africa.
E.   sent the majority of its enslaved Africans directly to the Chesapeake colonies.
Question #3
The “triangular trade” in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity?
A.   molasses
B.   sugar
C.   rum
D.   slaves
E.   All these answers are correct.
Question #4
During the eighteenth century, rising consumerism in the American colonies was encouraged by
A.   the association of material possessions with loyalty to the crown.
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.   the quickly rising purchasing power of members of the lower classes.
E.   increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material possessions with status in the upper class.
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.   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.   Field hand was the predominant occupation of both male and female slaves.
B.   Some slaves on larger plantations learned trades and crafts.
C.   Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.
D.   A few slaves were able to buy their freedom.
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.   criminals.
B.   indentured servants.
C.   Indians or slaves.
D.   women of low social position.
E.   not members of the church.
Question #8
In the English colonies, Roman Catholics
A.   suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.
B.   were generally well treated.
C.   suffered their greatest persecution in the Carolinas.
D.   made up a large minority population of most colonies.
E.   were officially illegal.
Question #9
Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
A.   emphasized the importance of religious faith.
B.   had little influence on American intellectual thought.
C.   rejected most religious thought.
D.   challenged concepts such as “natural laws.”
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.   religious dissenters.
B.   indentured servants.
C.   convicts.
D.   slaves.
E.   women.

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