Question 1

Prior to being taken over by the English in 1664, New York was:

Accepted Answer

called New Netherland, and controlled by the Dutch.

Question 2

Over the century between 1650 and 1750, the agricultural economies of New England, the Middle Colonies, and the backcountry grew more and more alike.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

By 1775, three-fifths of the English owned no land, but about two-thirds of the free male colonists in British North America owned land.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Virginia\'s upper class in the 1700s was sometimes called a \"cousinocracy.\"

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Which of the following was an effect of Bacon\'s Rebellion?

Accepted Answer

the increased use of African slaves

Question 6

In 1678, when the Lords of Trade in England queried the Massachusetts government about how well it was following the Navigation Acts, the Lords received the reply from the colony that the Navigation Acts did not apply to the colony unless the colony\'s own government (not the British Parliament, but rather the Massachusetts General Court) approved them.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

The Dutch primarily settled in:

Accepted Answer

New York and New Jersey.

Question 8

Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?

Accepted Answer

Rice

Question 9

In 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses decreed that religious conversion did not release a slave from bondage.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

During the eighteenth century, women\'s work in the rural North grew less taxing and less rigidly defined.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

New York was named after King Charles II\'s brother, James, the Duke of York.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

When Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the Governor of Virginia, he called for all except:

Accepted Answer

the freeing of slaves, particularly enslaved Christians.

Question 13

Vastly more people living in the colonies had far greater opportunitiesâto vote, own land, worship freelyâthan existed in Europe.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Slaves showed little inclination to challenge their enslavement in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Virginia.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

Bacon\'s Rebellion of 1676 was a rebellion over a tax increase on bacon.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Which did not characterize free blacks (such as Anthony Johnson) in Virginia and Maryland in the 1600s?

Accepted Answer

They could not own African slaves.

Question 17

The colony founded by a leader who hoped women and blacks would be given equality along with all persons was:

Accepted Answer

Pennsylvania.

Question 18

Which of the following was not a key factor behind the introduction of black slavery in the Chesapeake?

Accepted Answer

a fear that West Africans, if left alone, might seek to establish colonies of their own in North America, or even Europe

Question 19

In 1705, the House of Burgesses enacted strict slave codes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

The rise of black slavery in Virginia developed only gradually, over several generations.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

In the late seventeenth century, the Iroquois were known for their fierce hatred and courageous fighting against British colonists.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

Fourteen women and five men were hanged as witches in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Accepted Answer

establishment of Dominion of New England| Glorious Revolution in England| Parliamentary Declaration of Rights

Question 24

Which was not part of the Dominion of New England (1686-88)?

Accepted Answer

Vermont

Question 25

In human history, slaves have all been blacks.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

During the eighteenth century, women\'s work in the rural North grew less taxing and less rigidly defined.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 27

Pennsylvania\'s Charter of Liberty:

Accepted Answer

required persons to affirm Jesus Christ\'s divinity.

Question 28

The largest group of immigrants from continental Europe were the:

Accepted Answer

Germans

Question 29

The Indians\' defeat in King Philip\'s War hastened the introduction of slavery in Carolina.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

In human history, slaves have all been blacks.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 31

In 1691, Massachusetts was transformed when a new charter, issued by the English government, absorbed Plymouth into Massachusetts, and:

Accepted Answer

made property ownership, not church membership, a requirement for voting in General Court elections.

Question 32

By 1750, colonial America had become a land of the very rich and the desperately poor| the in-between ranks of yeomen and craftsmen had all but disappeared.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

New York was named after King Charles II\'s brother, James, the Duke of York.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

By 1700, almost 2 million acres of land was owned by five New York families.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial America\'s leading commercial port was:

Accepted Answer

Philadelphia.

Question 36

Which was not part of the Glorious Revolution?

Accepted Answer

It secured Catholic succession to the throne of England.

Question 37

Under the seventeenth-century British Navigation Acts, certain goods produced in the colonies had to be taken in English ships and sold in ports in England.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Which was not part of the Dominion of New England (1686-88)?

Accepted Answer

Vermont

Question 39

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Accepted Answer

establishment of Dominion of New England| Glorious Revolution in England| Parliamentary Declaration of Rights

Question 40

Which was not an element in Leisler\'s Rebellion (1689)?

Accepted Answer

Leisler\'s success meant French domination of New York.

Question 41

In the mid-1700s, per capita, the richest people in the world were most likely the (non-slave) colonists in what would later become the United States.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

Fourteen women and five men were hanged as witches in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

\"Racism\"âthe idea that some races are inherently superior to others and entitled to rule over themâwas fully developed in seventeenth-century colonial Virginia.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

In 1678, when the Lords of Trade in England queried the Massachusetts government about how well it was following the Navigation Acts, the Lords received the reply from the colony that the Navigation Acts did not apply to the colony unless the colony\'s own government (not the British Parliament, but rather the Massachusetts General Court) approved them.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

By 1775, three-fifths of the English owned no land, but about two-thirds of the free male colonists in British North America owned land.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 46

There were no banks in 1700s colonial America.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

In the first half of the eighteenth century, low taxes, the lack of a military draft, high wages for skilled workers, and an abundance of liberties characterized life for many whites in the British colonies of North America.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

Which was not a characteristic view of mercantilism?

Accepted Answer

A country\'s imports should exceed its exports.

Question 49

In the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692,

Accepted Answer

almost 150 people, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft.

Question 50

In the 1700s, 90 percent of colonists in British North America worked farms.

Accepted Answer

True

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