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Most indentured servants were forbidden to marry until their terms of service were over.

A) True
B) False

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The most commonly owned tool on colonial American farms was the plow.

A) True
B) False

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By the 1770s, the two largest port cities in colonial North America were


A) Philadelphia and New York.
B) Boston and Newport.
C) Philadelphia and Charleston.
D) New York and Boston.
E) Boston and Charleston.

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

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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) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

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George Whitefield is associated with the


A) growth of American Catholicism.
B) founding of the American Baptist Church.
C) Quakers.
D) Great Awakening.
E) Enlightenment.

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

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In the seventeenth century, white women in the colonial Chesapeake


A) generally married later than in England.
B) generally had a longer life expectancy than their husbands.
C) rarely engaged in premarital sex.
D) averaged one pregnancy for every two years of marriage.
E) bore an average of four children apiece.

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

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Why was there a late revival of patriarchy in the Chesapeake region? Compare or contrast the status of women in the Chesapeake with that of women in New England.

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Life expectancy in New England was higher than in England and in the rest of British North America.

A) True
B) False

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In the seventeenth century, most blacks who came to the English colonies in North America came directly from Africa.

A) True
B) False

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During the seventeenth century, the Royal African Company of England


A) deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies.
B) lowered the prices of slaves in order to increase their sale in the North American colonies.
C) sent the majority of its enslaved Africans directly to the Chesapeake colonies.
D) would only ship adult African men in the slave trade.
E) stopped importing slaves directly from Africa.

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

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Founded in 1755 by a group of laymen, the Academy and College of ________ was a completely secular institution.

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Those Puritans who could give evidence of grace, being among the elect, and were admitted to full church membership were called "________."

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How did immigration affect social and economic life in the colonies?

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In the 1760s, the revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because


A) the majority of the population lived in urban areas.
B) cities were the centers of intellectual information.
C) rural populations had few grievances with the crown.
D) city inhabitants tended to be rowdier than their rural counterparts.
E) All these answers are correct.

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

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The first plantations in colonial North America emerged in the tobacco-growing areas of


A) New York and New Jersey.
B) North Carolina and South Carolina.
C) Georgia and South Carolina.
D) Delaware and Pennsylvania.
E) Virginia and Maryland.

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

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In the English colonies, Jews


A) had their largest community in Rhode Island.
B) did not live in most of the colonies.
C) enjoyed considerable toleration.
D) could not practice their religion openly anywhere.
E) could not vote or hold office.

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

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Most women who entered into the medical profession did so as ________.

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The first large group of non-English European immigrants to British North America was the Huguenots.

A) True
B) False

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The most common form of resistance of enslaved Africans to their condition was


A) arson.
B) destruction of crops.
C) running away.
D) subtle defiance or evasion of their masters.
E) poisoning food.

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

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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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