Chapter 4

Question 1

Improvements in all of the following increased opportunities for colonists to purchase
consumer goods EXCEPT
a. Standardized currency
b. Availability of credit
c. Manufacturing
d. Transportation

Answer 1

a. Standardized currency

Question 2

What was the “commodity money” used in Virginia?

a. Wampum
b. Specie
c. Tobacco
d. Barter

Answer 2

c. Tobacco

Question 3

Which of the following colonies generated the most revenue?

a. New York
b. Barbados
c. Virginia
d. South Carolina

Answer 3

b. Barbados

Question 4

What was the largest American city during the late eighteenth century?

a. New York
b. Boston
c. Philadelphia
d. Charleston

Answer 4

c. Philadelphia

Question 5

Which colony outlawed slavery in 1750?

a. Massachusetts
b. New York
c. Pennsylvania
d. Slavery was legal in every North American British colony at that time

Answer 5

d. Slavery was legal in every North American British colony at that time

Question 6

Which of these systems of slave labor offered enslaved people the greatest independence in
the use of their time?
a. Gang system
b. Task system
c. Plantation system
d. Mercantile system

Answer 6

b. Task system

Question 7

Which of the following colonies had a majority enslaved African population?

a. South Carolina
b. Georgia
c. Virginia
d. Maryland

Answer 7

a. South Carolina

Question 8

How did the culture of rice cultivation reach colonial Carolina?

a. Enslaved Africans
b. Indian planters
c. Spanish traders
d. English farmers

Answer 8

a. Enslaved Africans

Question 9

What portion of residents in 1700 New York City was enslaved?

a. Less than 10%
b. 15-20%
c. 40%
d. over 60%

Answer 9

c. 40%

Question 10

What was the first English group to turn against slavery?

a. Episcopalians
b. Quakers
c. Baptists
d. Merchants

Answer 10

b. Quakers

Question 11

What were the major political parties in colonial America?

a. There were no major political parties in colonial America
b. Tories and Whigs
c. Whigs and Republicans
d. Commonwealthmen and Royalists

Answer 11

a. There were no major political parties in colonial America

Question 12

What is the name for the practice whereby a married woman loses all of her political and
economic rights to her husband?
a. Jurisprudence
b. Coverture
c. Pregnancy
d. Consort

Answer 12

b. Coverture

Question 13

Where did the Great Awakening begin?

a. New England
b. Pennsylvania
c. Virginia
d. South Carolina

Answer 13

a. New England

Question 14

What is the name of the prophet who inspired Pontiac’s Rebellion?

a. Red Stick
b. Massasoit
c. Neolin
d. Tecumseh

Answer 14

c. Neolin

Question 15

Which of the following resulted from Pontiac’s War?

a. Execution of Pontiac
b. Creation of the Proclamation Line of 1763
c. Return of Quebec to France
d. Encouraged migration west of the Appalachian Mountains

Answer 15

b. Creation of the Proclamation Line of 1763