Chapter 4 - Section 1 & 2 Review

Question 1

True or False

For colonists that lived on farms, a large family was considered an advantage

Answer 1

true

Question 2

True or False

In Puritan New England, single people were given inexpensive lodgings by the government

Answer 2

false

Question 3

True or False

The toys that colonial children played with were usually brought over on British ships

Answer 3

false

Question 4

True or False

The gentry of colonial society were few and powerful

Answer 4

true

Question 5

In 1689, King William and Queen Mary:

a. dissolved Parliament
b. executed King Charles I
c. signed the English Bill of Rights
d. established a two-house legislature

Answer 5

c. signed the English Bill of Rights

Question 6

Who among the following had the right to vote in the English colonies:

a. white men and women who owned property
b. white men only
c. white men and freed Africans
d. white men and some Native Americans

Answer 6

b. white men only

Question 7

The Zenger case helped establish the right of:

a. freedom of the press
b. habeas corpus
c. trial by jury
d. freedom of religion

Answer 7

a. freedom of the press

Question 8

How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?

a. by supporting mercantilism
b. by selling to English merchants
c. by smuggling
d. by growing their own tobacco

Answer 8

c. by smuggling

Question 9

In colonial families, who usually handled childcare and domestic duties?

a. grandparents
b. older children
c. males
d. females

Answer 9

d. females

Question 10

In colonial times, how did a young man often learn a trade?

a. by becoming enslaved
b. by becoming an apprentice
c. by becoming an indentured servant
d. by buying his own business

Answer 10

b. by becoming an apprentice

Question 11

Unlike the poor in Europe, lower-class colonists:

a. often lived in luxury
b. had a great deal of leisure time
c. could count on a comfortable retirement
d. could hope to acquire property and move up the social scale

Answer 11

d. could hope to acquire property and move up the social scale

Question 12

Free African Americans in the colonists were allowed:

a. to vote
b. to sit on juries
c. to be slaveholders and own property
d. to become part of the gentry

Answer 12

c. to be slaveholders and own property

Question 13

The Magna Carta was the first document to:

a. place limits on the power of the wealthy landowners
b. establish a monarchy
c. place limits on an English ruler’s power
d. give greater power to an English ruler

Answer 13

c. place limits on an English ruler’s power

Question 14

The legal rights that Englishmen had led the colonists to:

a. support the Navigation Acts
b. give more power to the monarchy
c. expect a voice in their government
d. believe in the separation of powers

Answer 14

c. expect a voice in their government

Question 15

How did the Magna Carta, the English Parliament, and the English Bill of Rights impact colonial government?

a. They inspired the English colonists to create the Constitution
b. They led the English colonists to demand representative government
c. They encouraged the English colonists to give most people the right to vote
d. They supported the colonists’ demand for self-rule

Answer 15

b. They led the English colonists to demand representative government

Question 16

“Fixed gowns, spun short thread, pleated and ironed, milked cows, made brooms, scoured pewter….”

Based on her list of chores, Abigal Foote is most likely:

a. a frontier woman
b. an African American slave
c. a young girl
d. an apprentice

Answer 16

c. a young girl

Question 17

Many standard contracts of an indentured servant failed to mention the servant’s wages. Why?

a. indentured servants paid their employers in order to remain in the colonies
b. indentured servants did not collect any wages until they had worked for four years
c. indentured servants did not get paid any wages
d. none of the above

Answer 17

c. indentured servants did not get paid any wages

Question 18

The Magna Carta guaranteed the right to trial by ___.

Answer 18

jury

Question 19

In 1701, Pennsylvania colonists forced Penn and his council to give up their power to ______.

Answer 19

make laws

Question 20

The Zenger case helped establish freedom of the _____ as a basic liberty.

Answer 20

press

Question 21

The English Parliament passed a series of Navigation acts to support ____.

Answer 21

mercantilism

Question 22

This was the upper class of colonial society.

Answer 22

gentry

Question 23

A person who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the Americas

Answer 23

indentured servant

Question 24

Which groups in colonial America were allowed to vote, and which were not?

Answer 24

Between 50-75% of white males were allowed to vote.

No Women, Native Americans or Africans of any status could vote.

Question 25

How did the growth of the colonial middle class give hope to the colonial poor?

Answer 25

It encouraged the poor to hope that they could work for themselves into the middle class by acquiring property and moving up the social scale.

This differed from the class system in England and the rest of Europe, where one’s station at birth rigidly determined one’s opportunities in life.

Question 26

Whose trial helped establish freedom of the press?

a. John Locke
b. Phillis Wheatley
c. Baron de Montesquieu
d. Peter Zenger

Answer 26

d. Peter Zenger

Question 27

Most women in colonial America were expected to marry men:

a. they fell in love with
b. who were regular church goers
c. who had an honorable occupation
d. chosen by their parents

Answer 27

d. chosen by their parents

Question 28

Both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights:

a. guaranteed all men the right to vote
b. stated that physical attacks were considered “cruel and usual punishment’
c. declared that only a free man has the right to protest his arrest
d. gave people accused of a crime the right to trial by jury

Answer 28

d. gave people accused of a crime the right to trial by jury

Question 29

At around what age were colonial children expected to begin working?

a. 7
b. 15
c. 18
d. 12

Answer 29

a. 7