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Which of the following is not true about the colonial practice of indentured servitude? |
| | A) | Terms of service usually lasted four to five years. |
| | B) | Male indentures were supposed to receive clothing, tools, and land |
| | C) | Three-fourths of Chesapeake indentures were women |
| | D) | Most women indentures worked as domestic servants. |
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Which of the following did not play a role in the decline of indentured servitude in the 1670s? |
| | A) | Better economic times for England |
| | B) | Soil exhaustion in the Chesapeake tidewater regions |
| | C) | Lower English birth rate |
| | D) | Increased concern among elites about stability |
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Which of the following is not true of colonial demographics? |
| | A) | The life span of New England residents was nearly equal to those of twentieth century people. |
| | B) | The white mortality rate in the Chespeake was higher than that of blacks. |
| | C) | More than 75% of the white population in the early Chesapeake were men. |
| | D) | By 1700, the non-Indian colonial population had grown to over 250,000. |
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From whose theories of "humoralism" did most colonial medical practices derive? |
| | A) | Aristotle |
| | B) | Cotton Mather |
| | C) | Galen |
| | D) | Euclid |
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How often did the average wife in the Chesapeake become pregnant? |
| | A) | Every two years |
| | B) | Every four years |
| | C) | Every five years |
| | D) | Every seven years |
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Which of the following is not true of New England family life? |
| | A) | Few sons and daughters could choose their spouses without their parent's wishes |
| | B) | Puritanism reinforced the idea of nearly absolute male authority |
| | C) | Fewer New England women became widows |
| | D) | Women played a minor role in the agricultural economy. |
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What percentage of African slaves imported to the Americas came directly to the English mainland colonies? |
| | A) | 5% |
| | B) | 10% |
| | C) | 25% |
| | D) | 33% |
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Between 1700 and 1760, the number of Africans in the colonies ______. |
| | A) | doubled |
| | B) | tripled |
| | C) | increased fivefold |
| | D) | increased tenfold |
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Who were the most numerous free non-English immigrants to the colonies in the eighteenth century? |
| | A) | Scandinavians |
| | B) | Scotch-Irish |
| | C) | Huguenots |
| | D) | Palatinate Germans |
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Approximately how large was the non-Indian population of the colonies by 1775? |
| | A) | 500,000 |
| | B) | 1 million |
| | C) | 2 million |
| | D) | 5 million |
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What crop served as the economic staple of early South Carolina and Georgia? |
| | A) | Cotton |
| | B) | Sugar |
| | C) | Rice |
| | D) | Tobacco |
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Who was responsible for introducing indigo to the South Carolina economy? |
| | A) | Anthony Ashley Cooper |
| | B) | Eliza Lucas |
| | C) | Charles Carroll |
| | D) | Sarah Grimke |
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What was the largest industrial enterprise anywhere in the English North American colonies? |
| | A) | Saugus Ironworks |
| | B) | Hasenclever Ironworks |
| | C) | Springfield Armory |
| | D) | Franklin Ironworks |
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Which of the following was not an impediment to early colonial commerce? |
| | A) | Lack of specie |
| | B) | Lack of market information |
| | C) | Aversion to speculation |
| | D) | Extreme competition |
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Which of the following was not a central resource included in the "triangular" trade? |
| | A) | Tobacco |
| | B) | Rum |
| | C) | Sugar |
| | D) | Slaves |
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Which of the following was not a consequence of the rise of consumerism? |
| | A) | Material goods became associated with virtue or refinement |
| | B) | Commonplace luxuries soon became viewed as necessities |
| | C) | A domestic consumer goods industry thrived in the colonies |
| | D) | Colonists increasingly tended to take on debt to finance purchases |
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Which of the following is not true of slavery in the colonial era? |
| | A) | By 1750, 75% of blacks lived on plantations of at least ten slaves. |
| | B) | Whites often encouraged formal slave marriages to cement stability. |
| | C) | By the Revolution, a small free black population had emerged in southern cities. |
| | D) | African workers developed distinctive languages and a syncretic Afro-Christian religion. |
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Which of the following is not true of Puritan life? |
| | A) | Puritans followed the practice of primogeniture, passing all inherited property to the first-born son |
| | B) | Residents held yearly "town-meetings" of adult male church members to conduct affairs |
| | C) | The first step to creating a new town was getting permission to build a new church |
| | D) | A town could generally run its affairs without interference from the colonial government |
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How many residents of Salem, Massachusetts, were put to death during the famous witchcraft crisis there? |
| | A) | 8 |
| | B) | 13 |
| | C) | 19 |
| | D) | 27 |
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What was the largest city of the colonial era? |
| | A) | Boston |
| | B) | Philadelphia |
| | C) | New York |
| | D) | Charleston |
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Which of the following was not a New Light evangelist of the Great Awakening? |
| | A) | John Wesley |
| | B) | Jonathan Edwards |
| | C) | George Whitfield |
| | D) | Cotton Mather |
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Which colony passed a 1647 law requiring every town to support a public school? |
| | A) | Virginia |
| | B) | Pennsylvania |
| | C) | Massachusetts |
| | D) | Georgia |
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Which college or university became the site of the first medical school in British America in 1765? |
| | A) | Harvard |
| | B) | William and Mary |
| | C) | Princeton |
| | D) | University of Pennsylvania |
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Which of the following experimented with smallpox inoculation? |
| | A) | Benjamin Franklin |
| | B) | George Whitfield |
| | C) | Cotton Mather |
| | D) | Thomas Paine |
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Who was the defendant in the 1734-1735 New York trial which removed some restrictions on the freedom of the press? |
| | A) | Benjamin Franklin |
| | B) | John Peter Zenger |
| | C) | Charles Carroll |
| | D) | Andrew Hamilton |
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