The Colonial Period Flashcards
Which of the following were native to North America before Columbus arrived?
Maize and squash
During the Age of Exploration most super power countries in Europe searched for gold and silver in the Americas and what from Asia?
Silk and Spices correct
Which of the following is true of White women in the British North American colonies?
They were restricted in holding property and making legal contracts after marriage. correct
Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Great Awakening in the American colonies during the mid-eighteenth century?
Heightened interest in the supernatural caused the renewed persecution of people for witchcraft
In the early seventeenth century, colonists in the Chesapeake Bay area exported which of the following to England?
Tobacco
Seventeenth-century Puritans and Quakers differed primarily over the
Notion of predestination
Which of the following best describes the American Colonization Society?
It promoted the settling of free African Americans from the United States to Africa
Anne Hutchinson and her followers were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because
Hutchinson’s religious views led to her excommunication from the Puritan church
Why was it possible for England to establish successful colonies by 1700s?
Because they had crucial advantages over European rivals correct
American Mercantilism in the mid-seventeenth century was the idea of the…
British
John Winthrop told the Puritans that their society would be regarded as “a city upon a hill.” But first he explained that there would always be inequalities of wealth and power, that some people would always be in positions of authority, and that others would be dependent. His statements best illustrate the Puritans’
acceptance of the traditional belief that social order depended on a system of ranks correct
The French and Indian War led Great Britain to
impose revenue taxes on its North American colonies
All of the following were common characteristics of many colonial New England families EXCEPT?
a place that sheltered men from the workplace correct
Which of the following is a correct statement about the use of slave labor in colonial Virginia?
It spread rapidly in the late-seventeenth century, as enslaved Africans replaced European indentured
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were written to
argue against the power of Parliament to tax the colonists without representation correct
