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The Church of England was the official faith in


A) New Jersey.
B) Massachusetts.
C) Virginia.
D) Connecticut.
E) all of the colonies.

F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Seventeenth-century colonial plantations were actually relatively small estates.

A) True
B) False

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The term "middle passage" refers to the movement of enslaved Africans


A) from the coastal regions of colonies to their interiors.
B) from Africa to Europe.
C) from the Caribbean to the mainland colonies.
D) between individual North American colonies.
E) from Africa to the New World.

F) B) and D)
G) None of the above

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In the seventeenth century,most colonial families


A) owned spinning wheels or looms.
B) were self-sufficient.
C) did not own a plow.
D) grew and processed their own grain.
E) used wagons to transfer goods to market.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

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Most blacks who came to the English colonies in North America came directly from Africa.

A) True
B) False

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The most serious colonial slave revolt,called the ________,took place in South Carolina in 1739.

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In the "triangular trade," the North American colonies primarily contributed


A) manufactured goods.
B) sugar.
C) raw materials.
D) gold dust.
E) slaves.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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During a smallpox epidemic in Boston in the 1720s,Puritan theologian Cotton Mather urged the population to


A) move to the country.
B) repent their sins.
C) get inoculated.
D) quarantine the infected.
E) reject the spreading influence of the Enlightenment.

F) C) and E)
G) C) and D)

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The most outstanding Great Awakening preacher was New England Congregationalist ________.

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Enlightenment thought encouraged people to reject their religious faith.

A) True
B) False

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The first American college was


A) Columbia.
B) Harvard.
C) Yale.
D) William and Mary.
E) Princeton.

F) A) and C)
G) C) and E)

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Indentured servitude developed out of practices in England.

A) True
B) False

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In the seventeenth century,it was easy for women to enter the medical field as midwives.

A) True
B) False

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Puritanism reinforced traditional patterns of male authority.

A) True
B) False

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By the late seventeenth century,European and African immigrants outnumbered natives along the Atlantic coast.

A) True
B) False

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After the Bible,the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were


A) political pamphlets.
B) hymnals.
C) almanacs.
D) historical writings.
E) drinking songs.

F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

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Indentured servants were forbidden to marry until their term of service was over.

A) True
B) False

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In the North American colonies,mulatto children were


A) regarded as white by white society.
B) rejected by the rest of the slave community.
C) rarely produced.
D) rarely recognized by their white fathers.
E) freed at birth.

F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

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Primogeniture refers to the


A) right to vote.
B) passing of property to the firstborn son.
C) tending of a servant's indenture.
D) arrangement of authority within New England assemblies.
E) practice of granting land only to those assured of salvation.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

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Most indentured servants came to the colonies voluntarily.

A) True
B) False

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