United States History Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life Study Guide Mr. Ron McCants,
Teacher
Answers on pages 4 and 5
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. The people at the top of colonial New England’s urban society were
a. merchants.
c. gentry.
b. artisans.
d. yeomen.
2. Few farmers of the Middle Colonies became wealthy growing wheat because
a. there was little demand for wheat outside of the Middle Colonies.
b. the price of wheat remained too low for the average farmer to earn a large profit.
c. cutting and threshing wheat had to be done by hand.
d. a fungus called black rust killed off much of the harvest.
3. In the Glorious Revolution in America, the colonists
a. seized and imprisoned Sir Edmond Andros.
b. declared independence from England.
c. voted on a new charter for Massachusetts.
d. fought several bloody battles with British troops in Rhode Island.
4. Africans were welcome at ____ revivals.
a. Presbyterian
c. Methodist
b. Congregationalist
d. Baptist
5. The Virginia slave code
a. made slavery illegal.
b. described how enslaved Africans could become free.
c. defined the laws by which enslaved Africans had to live.
d. regulated slavery.
6. Select the choice that best completes the analogy.
a. sawmills
c. fishing boats
b. harbors
d. towns
7. Philosopher John Locke asserted that all people were born with certain natural rights, including the right to
a. life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
b. life, liberty, and self-government.
c. life, liberty, and property.
d. life, freedom of worship, and self-government.
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8. In what year England imports more than 30,000 pounds of tobacco?
a. 1705
c. 1715
b. 1735
d. 1725
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9. Where did the greatest number of enslaved Africans end up after their ocean voyage?
a. North American colonies
c. Spanish colonies
b. Brazil
d. the Caribbean
____ 10. Who controlled most of the land in the Southern Colonies?
a. merchants
b. artisans
c. wealthy elite
d. tenant farmers
“And besides bass, we take plenty of skate, thornback, and abundance of lobsters; and the least boy in the
plantation may both catch and eat what he will of them.” —Reverend Francis Higginson
____ 11. According to Higginson, an abundant part of the diet of New Englanders, was
a. grain
c. corn
b. seafood
d. deer
“It [American society] is not composed, as in Europe, of great lords who possess everything, and of a herd of
people who have nothing. . . . We have no princes, for whom we toil, starve, and bleed; we are the most
perfect society now existing in the world.” —Michel-Guillaumme-Jean de Crèvecoeur
____ 12. According to the quotation, Crèvecoeur believed that colonial America
a. , with its herds of people, was no match for Europe.
b. was composed of people who toiled and starved for the princes of its perfect society.
c. was better than Europe because it did not have royalty.
d. unlike Europe possessed a perfect society through religion.
“Remember that time is money. He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labor and...sits idle one-half of that
day . . . has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings. . . . ” —Benjamin Franklin
____ 13. In Franklin’s example, idleness for half of a day is the same as
a. earning ten shillings in one-half day.
b. spending five shillings.
c. throwing away five shillings.
d. laboring a day and spending five shillings.
“All Negroes or other slaves already within the province, and all Negroes and other slaves to be hereafter
imported into the province, shall serve durante vita [for the rest of their lives]. And all children born of any
Negro or other slave shall be slaves as their fathers were, for the term of their lives.” —Maryland General
Assembly
____ 14. According to the Maryland General Assembly act, how long were enslaved persons to remain enslaved?
a. until they had children
c. until their debt was paid
b. until they were too old to work
d. all their lives
“I desire to enjoy it [the Pennsylvania province] with your [Native Americans] love and consent, that we may
always live together as neighbors and friends.” —William Penn
____ 15. What did Penn desire from the Native Americans living in the Pennsylvania province?
a. war
c. gold and silver
b. land and slaves
d. cooperation and respect
Completion
Complete each statement.
16. Rice and indigo, the main cash crops of South Carolina, needed the right kind of climate and techniques to be
cultivated. These requirements led to the rise of ____________________.
17. Many Southern backcountry farmers practiced ____________________ farming, growing only enough crops
to feed their own families.
18. In the colonial period, the ____________________, a shallow region off the Northeast coast of New England,
teemed with fish.
19. The movement of enslaved Africans to America became known as the ____________________.
20. Reverend Cotton Mather, drawing on the knowledge of enslaved Africans, instructed a physician in a new
method for inoculating people against ____________________.
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement below. Some answers will be used more than once.
a. rice
e. fish
b. indigo
f. wheat
c. tobacco
g. apples
d. corn
h. whales
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used to make blue dye for cloth
required intensive manual labor to grow
the South’s first successful cash crop
enslaved Africans were brought to South Carolina to cultivate a new type of this crop
a subsistence crop for farmers of New England and the Southern backcountry
unsuccessfully grown in New England because the soil was too poor
dried to feed livestock during the New England winters
brought prosperity to New England
used to make candles, perfume, and buttons
the main cash crop of the Middle Colonies
United States History Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life Study Guide Mr. Ron McCants,
Teacher
Answer Section
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COMPLETION
16. ANS: plantations
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17. ANS: subsistence
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18. ANS: Grand Banks
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