chapter 3 Flashcards
most seventeenth english migrants to the North American colonies were ___
laborers
in the seventeenth century, the great majority of english immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region were ____
indentured servants
which was NOT a characteristic of the english indentured system
most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts
by 1700, english colonial landowners began to rely heavily on African slavery in part because ____
of a declining birth rate in England
regarding colonial life expectancy during the seventeenth century, ____
life expectancy in new england was exceptionally high
during the seventeenth century, english colonists in the chesapeake saw ______
a life expectancy of men just over forty years
by 1775, the non Indian population of the english colonies was just over ____
2 million
in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, medical practitioners ______
had little or no knowledge of sterilization
the seventeenth century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on _______
the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids
in the seventeenth century, white woman in the chesapeake region _____
averaged one pregnancy for every two years of marriage
compared to women in the chesapeake region, new england women _____
were more likely to keep their family intact
in colonial new england, _____
dowries were a common feature of marriage.
In colonial New England Puritan communities, women ______
were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands
In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was
highly valued.
The term “middle passage” refers to the movement of enslaved Africans
from Africa to the New World.
The total number of Africans forcibly brought to all of the Americas as slaves is estimated to
have been as many as
11 million
During the seventeenth century, the Royal African Company of England
deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies.
What statement regarding slavery in English North America in 1700 is FALSE?
The demand for slaves led to a steady rise in the prices paid for them.
In English North American colonies, the application of slave codes was based on color and
nothing more.
In comparing the colonial societies of Spanish America and English America, people of
mixed races had a
higher status than pure Africans in Spanish America.
New England, for all its belief in community and liberty, was far from an egalitarian society.
“Some must be rich and some poor” is a statement attributed to which seventeenth-century
colonial?
John Winthrop
The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the
Scots-Irish
The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region
went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles.
Rice production in colonial America
was very difficult and unhealthy work.
Which statement about the economy of the northern colonies is true?
The economy was more diverse than in the southern colonies.
The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for
iron
Industrialization in colonial America was hampered by
English parliamentary regulations, a small domestic market, an inadequate labor supply, an inadequate transportation network.
In the seventeenth century, most colonial families
did not own a plow.
Commerce in early colonial America relied in large part on
barter
The “triangular trade” in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity?
rum, sugar, slaves, molasses
By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence in part because of
illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire.
During the eighteenth century, rising consumerism in the American colonies was encouraged by
increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material possessions with
status in the upper class.
Seventeenth-century southern plantations
tended to be rough and relatively small.
The first plantations in colonial North America emerged in the tobacco-growing areas of
Virginia and Maryland.
The proportion of all blacks in the colonies living on a plantation of at least ten slaves was
over
three-fourths.
Which statement regarding the lives of slaves in colonial North America is true?
Slave religion was a blend of Christianity and African folk tradition.
In the North American colonies, mulatto children were
rarely recognized by their white fathers.
The Stono Rebellion
saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
The most common form of resistance of enslaved Africans to their condition was
running away.
Which of the following statements about slave work is FALSE?
Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.
In Puritan New England, full membership in town governance was limited to
adult males who were church members.
Primogeniture refers to the
passing of property to the firstborn son.
Over time, tensions in Puritan New England communities developed primarily as a result of
population growth and the commercialization of society.
In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly
women of low social position.
The witchcraft trials in Salem
saw the original accusers recant their charges.
By the 1770s, the two largest port cities in colonial North America were
Philadelphia and New York.
Class divisions in colonial North American cities were
more real and visible than in rural places.
In the 1760s, the revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because
cities were the centers of intellectual information.
In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies
flourished due to the diversity of practices brought by settlers, was unmatched in any European nation, was enhanced because no single religious code could be imposed on any large area, grew despite laws
establishing the Church of England as the official colonial religion.
The Church of England was the official faith of
Virginia.
In the English colonies, Roman Catholics
suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.
In the English colonies, Jews
could not vote or hold office
“Jeremiads” were
sermons
In the mid-1600s, New England Puritan ministers began preaching against the decline of
piety
The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s
had particular appeal with women and young men.
George Whitefield is associated with the
Great Awakening.
A leading figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached
highly orthodox Puritan ideas.
Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives.
All of the following Americans made important contributions to Enlightenment thought
John Locke.
After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were
almanacs.
By 1776, what proportion of white males were literate in colonial America?
more than half
The Church of England was established as the official religion in all of the following
colonies EXCEPT
Massachusetts.
Which statement regarding colonial higher education is true?
Most colleges were founded by religious groups.
the first American college was
Harvard
The verdict of the 1735 libel trial of New York publisher John Peter Zenger
increased freedom of the press in the colonies.
