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.   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.   deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies.
B.   would only ship adult African men in the slave trade.
C.   stopped importing slaves directly from Africa.
D.   lowered the prices of slaves in order to increase their sale in the North American colonies.
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.   sugar
B.   rum
C.   molasses
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 rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists and the association of material possessions with personal virtue and refinement.
B.   the association of material possessions with loyalty to the crown.
C.   the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists
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.   saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
B.   led to the banning of the slave trade in Maryland.
C.   led planters to resume hiring indentured servants for their labor needs.
D.   led to the death of dozens of white Virginian colonists.
E.   prompted Georgia to strengthen its laws on slavery.
Question #6
Which of the following statements about slave work is FALSE?
A.   Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.
B.   Field hand was the predominant occupation of both male and female slaves.
C.   A few slaves were able to buy their freedom.
D.   Skilled slaves were at times hired out to other planters.
E.   Some slaves on larger plantations learned trades and crafts.
Question #7
In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly
A.   indentured servants.
B.   criminals.
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.   were generally well treated.
B.   suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.
C.   were officially illegal.
D.   suffered their greatest persecution in the Carolinas.
E.   made up a large minority population of most colonies.
Question #9
Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
A.   emphasized the importance of religious faith.
B.   rejected most religious thought.
C.   had little influence on American intellectual 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.   slaves.
B.   convicts.
C.   religious dissenters.
D.   indentured servants.
E.   women.

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