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.   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.   practices acquired from Indians.
E.   scientific experimentation and observation.
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.   lowered the prices of slaves in order to increase their sale in the North American colonies.
D.   would only ship adult African men in the slave trade.
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.   All these answers are correct.
B.   slaves
C.   molasses
D.   sugar
E.   rum
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 quickly rising purchasing power of members of the lower classes.
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 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 to the banning of the slave trade in Maryland.
C.   led to the death of dozens of white Virginian colonists.
D.   led planters to resume hiring indentured servants for their labor needs.
E.   prompted Georgia to strengthen its laws on slavery.
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.   Skilled slaves were at times hired out to other planters.
C.   Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.
D.   Some slaves on larger plantations learned trades and crafts.
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.   indentured servants.
B.   Indians or slaves.
C.   women of low social position.
D.   criminals.
E.   not members of the church.
Question #8
In the English colonies, Roman Catholics
A.   suffered their greatest persecution in the Carolinas.
B.   suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.
C.   made up a large minority population of most colonies.
D.   were officially illegal.
E.   were generally well treated.
Question #9
Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
A.   challenged concepts such as “natural laws.”
B.   had little influence on American intellectual thought.
C.   emphasized the importance of religious faith.
D.   rejected most religious 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.   women.
D.   convicts.
E.   religious dissenters.

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