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

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