IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the one
best answer for each of the following questions.
4. As a result of Bacon’s Rebellion,
[A] Governor Berkeley was dismissed from office.
1. The Half-Way Covenant
[B] African slavery was reduced.
[A] brought an end to the Jeremiads of Puritan
ministers.
[C] better relations developed with local Indians.
[B] allowed full communion for all nonconverted
members.
[D] Nathaniel Bacon was named to head the
Virginia militia.
[C] admitted to baptism but not full membership the
unconverted children of existing members.
[E] planters began to look for less troublesome
laborers.
[D] strengthened the distinction between the “elect”
and all others.
5. English yeomen who agreed to exchange their
labor temporarily in return for payment of their
passage to an American colony were called
[E] resulted in a decrease in church members.
[A] burgesses.
2. As a result of poor soil, all of the following
conditions prevailed in New England except that
[B] slaves.
[A] frugality became essential to economic survival.
[C] indentured servants.
[B] diversification in agriculture and industry were
encouraged.
[D] birds of passage.
[E] headrights.
[C] reliance on a single, staple crop became a
necessity.
IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the
one best answer for each of the following questions.
[D] hard work was required to make a living.
[E] the area was less ethnically mixed than its
southern neighbors.
6. Most immigrants to the Chesapeake colonies in
the seventeenth century came as
[A] urban artisans.
3. The slave society that developed in North
America was one of the few slave societies in
history to
[B] refugees from civil war in Europe.
[C] indentured servants.
[A] rebel against its masters.
[D] slaves from Africa.
[B] reduce their numbers by suicide.
[E] yeomen farmers.
[C] produce a new culture based entirely on African
heritage.
[D] develop its own techniques of growing corn and
wheat.
[E] perpetuate itself by its own natural reproduction.
7. The slave culture that developed in America
[A] was a uniquely New World creation.
[B] contained many Western elements that
remained thoroughly European.
[C] was Muslim in its religious teachings.
11. It was typical of colonial New England adults to
[D] was derived exclusively from African roots.
[A] be unable to read and write.
[E] rejected Christianity.
[B] live alone.
8. As the seventeenth century wore on, regional
differences arose, most notably
[C] die before becoming grandparents.
[D] marry early and have several children.
[A] slave labor.
[E] arrive in New England unmarried.
[B] the continuing rigidity of Puritanism.
[C] the breaking of the Atlanta economy.
12. By 1700, the most populous colony in English
America was
[D] loyalty to England.
[A] New York.
[E] the use of indentured servants.
[B] Massachusetts.
9. In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies, those in
New England
[C] Virginia.
[D] Pennsylvania.
[A] followed the land use pattern established by the
local Indians.
[E] Maryland.
[B] had a more diversified economy.
13. Bacon’s Rebellion was supported mainly by
[C] had a more ethnically mixed population.
[A] young men frustrated by their inability to
acquire land.
[D] were more oriented toward the individual than
toward community interests.
[B] the local Indians.
[E] expanded westward in a less orderly fashion.
[C] the planter class of Virginia.
10. Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth
century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of
the labor they needed from
[D] those protesting the increased importation of
African slaves.
[E] people from Jamestown only.
[A] African slaves.
14. The expansion of New England society
[B] captured Indians.
[C] white servants.
[D] prisoners of war.
[A] took place without the approval of the colonial
legislature.
[B] was undertaken by lone-wolf farmers on their
own initiative.
[E] West Indian natives.
[C] was a rather haphazard process.
IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the
one best answer for each of the following questions.
[D] led to little concern about the community as a
whole.
[E] proceeded in an orderly fashion.
[A] energy.
15. Compared with most seventeenth-century
Europeans, Americans lived in
[B] self-reliance.
[C] stubbornness.
[A] a more rigid class system.
[D] resourcefulness.
[B] affluent abundance.
[E] all of these.
[C] more primitive circumstances.
[D] relative poverty.
19. The English justified taking land from the native
inhabitants on the grounds that the Indians
[E] larger cities.
[A] burned woodlands.
IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the
one best answer for each of the following questions.
[B] refused to sell it.
[C] were not Christians.
16. Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers
usually responded to depressed prices for their crop
by
[D] wasted the earth by underutilizing its bounty.
[E] all of these.
[A] selling land to reduce their volume of
production.
[B] releasing unneeded indentured servants early.
20. The Salem “witch hunt” in 1692
[A] was ultimately of little consequence for those
who were accused of witchcraft.
[C] planting corn and wheat instead of tobacco.
[B] was the largest “witch hunt” in recorded history.
[D] growing more tobacco to increase their volume
of production.
[C] did not see anyone put to death.
[E] selling slaves to reduce productive labor.
[D] was the first in the English American colonies.
17. Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American
South were
[E] was opposed by the more responsible members
of the clergy.
[A] black slaves.
IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the
one best answer for each of the following questions.
[B] landless farm laborers.
[C] merchant planters.
21. In seventeenth century colonial America all of
the following are true regarding women except
[D] native Americans.
[A] abusive husbands were punished.
[E] landowning small farmers.
[B] women had no rights as individuals.
18. The combination of Calvinism, soil, and climate
in New England resulted in the people there
possessing which of the following qualities:
[C] a husband’s power over his wife was not
absolute.
[D] women were regarded as morally weaker than
men.
[A] race was rarely an issue in relations between
blacks and whites.
[E] women could not vote.
[B] profit soon played a very small role.
22. Thomas Jefferson once observed that “the best
school of political liberty the world ever saw” was
the
[C] racial discrimination also powerfully molded
the American slave system.
[A] Chesapeake plantation system.
[D] Europe profited most from the institution.
[B] New England town meeting.
[E] it soon became clear by 1700 that profits were
down.
[C] College of William and Mary.
[D] the English parliament.
[E] Virginia House of Burgesses.
IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the
one best answer for each of the following questions.
26. By 1775, the __________ were the largest
non-English ethnic group in colonial America.
23. The New England economy depended heavily
on
[A] Africans
[A] slave labor.
[B] Germans
[B] fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce.
[C] Scots-Irish
[C] tobacco.
[D] Irish
[D] the production of many staple crops.
[E] West Indians
[E] all of these.
27. The most important economic enterprise in the
American colonies was
24. The “headright” system, which made some
people very wealthy, entailed
[A] manufacturing.
[A] giving a father’s wealth to the oldest son.
[B] fishing.
[B] giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to
the person paying the passage of a laborer to
America.
[C] agriculture.
[C] using Indians as forced labor.
[E] slave trading.
[D] giving land to indentured servants to get them
to come to the New World.
28. The triangular trade of the colonial American
shipping industry
[E] discouraging the importation of indentured
servants to America.
[A] saw the Spanish gaining the largest profits.
[D] commerce.
[B] involved America, France, and England.
25. While slavery might have begun in America for
economic reasons,
[C] was not that profitable.
[A] of the religious impact of the Puritans.
[D] involved the trading of rum for African slaves.
[B] of peacetime economic developments.
[E] relied on the Spanish fleet for protection.
29. The population growth of the American colonies
by 1775 is attributed mostly to
[C] fewer yeoman farmers were arriving from
Europe.
[A] the natural fertility of Native Americans.
[D] some merchants made huge profits as military
suppliers.
[B] the influx of immigrants from Latin America.
[E] of the increase in the slave trade.
[C] white immigration from Europe.
33. In colonial elections,
[D] the natural fertility of all Americans.
[A] the right to vote was reserved for property
holders.
[E] the importation of slaves from Africa.
[B] average citizens were usually elected to office.
30. The average age of the American colonists in
1775 was
[C] most eligible voters zealously exercised their
right to vote.
[A] 16.
[D] true democracy had arrived.
[B] 30.
[E] only a small landed elite had the right to vote.
[C] 25.
[D] 20.
34. By 1775, most governors of American colonies
were
[E] 40.
[A] appointed by the British Parliament.
IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the
one best answer for each of the following questions.
[B] appointed by the king.
[C] elected by popular vote.
31. The most ethnically diverse region of colonial
America was __________, whereas __________
was the least ethnically diverse.
[D] appointed by colonial proprietors.
[E] elected by the vote of colonial legislatures.
[A] the middle colonies, New England
[B] the middle colonies, the South
35. In 1775, the __________ churches were the
only two established (tax-supported) churches in
colonial America.
[C] the frontier regions, New England
[A] Quaker and Catholic
[D] the South, New England
[B] Congregational and Anglican
[E] New England, the South
[C] Presbyterian and Anglican
32. On the eve of the American Revolution, social
and economic mobility decreased, partly because
[D] Presbyterian and Congregational
[E] Methodist and Anglican
IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the
one best answer for each of the following questions.
[A] such an action brought in more money to
England.
[B] the American colonists supported such a move.
36. One outstanding feature common to all of the
eventually rebellious colonies was their
[C] they were concerned about the eternal souls of
the colonists.
[A] support of religious freedom.
[B] economic organization.
[C] rapidly growing populations.
[D] such an action would restore enthusiasm for
religion.
[E] the church would act as a major prop for kingly
authority.
[D] relatively equal wealth.
[E] similar social structures.
37. In colonial America, education was most
zealously promoted
IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the
one best answer for each of the following questions.
40. The time-honored English ideal, which
Americans accepted for some time, regarded
education as
[A] in the South.
[A] reserved for the aristocratic few.
[B] on the frontier.
[B] unimportant for leaders.
[C] in New England.
[C] essential training for citizenship.
[D] in those areas controlled by Spain.
[D] designed for men and women.
[E] in the middle colonies.
[E] designed for rich and poor alike.
38. As a result of the rapid population growth in
colonial America during the eighteenth century,
41. The most honored profession in early colonial
society was
[A] the need for slave labor declined.
[A] medicine.
[B] a momentous shift occurred in the balance of
power between the colonies and the mother country.
[C] the colonists became more dependent on Britain
for the goods that they needed to survive.
[B] the ministry.
[C] farming.
[D] merchants.
[D] the British government was pleased that more
workers would be available to fill an increasing
need for laborers in Britain.
[E] the British government granted greater
autonomy to colonial governments.
39. English officials tried to “establish” the Church
of England in as many colonies as possible because
[E] law.
42. When several colonial legislatures attempted to
restrict or halt the importation of slaves, British
authorities
[A] viewed such colonial actions as morally callous.
[B] allowed only South Carolina’s legislation to
stand.
[D] perhaps the most diverse in the world, although
it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon.
[C] did nothing.
[E] none of these.
[D] vetoed such efforts.
[E] applauded the efforts.
46. When the Scots-Irish established a new
community, one of the first tasks they undertook
was to
43. During the colonial era, all of the following
peoples created new societies out of diverse ethnic
groups in America except
[A] establish a court.
[B] make peace with local Indians.
[A] Asians.
[C] institute a theocracy.
[B] English.
[D] build a tavern.
[C] Africans.
[E] erect a church.
[D] French.
[E] Indians.
44. The religious doctrine of the Armenians held
that
47. Colonial American taverns were all of the
following except
[A] another cradle of democracy.
[B] frequented mainly by the lower class.
[A] Calvin’s ideas should be followed without
question.
[C] important in crystallizing public opinion.
[B] predestination determined a person’s eternal
fate.
[D] hotbeds of agitation for the Revolutionary
movement.
[C] good works could get you into heaven.
[E] places providing amusements.
[D] individual free will determined a person’s
eternal fate.
48. The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial
America in the eighteenth century was
[E] emotion had no place in religion.
[A] making clothes.
IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the
one best answer for each of the following questions.
[B] arms and munitions production.
[C] rum distilling.
45. The population of the thirteen American
colonies was
[D] iron making.
[A] most ethnically mixed in New England.
[E] lumbering.
[B] about one-half non-English.
49. American colonists sought trade with countries
other than Great Britain
[C] about evenly divided among Anglo-Saxons,
French, Scots-Irish, and Germans.
[A] to make money to buy what they wanted in
Britain.
[B] to help strengthen the French.
[C] to anger Parliament.
[D] mainly to anger the king.
[E] in order to gain their independence.
IV. Single-Answer Multiple Choice. Mark the
one best answer for each of the following questions.
50. Which of the following was not considered to be
a naval store?
[A] rosin
[B] tar
[C] turpentine
[D] glass
[E] pitch