Question 1

In colonial New England Puritan communities,women

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A)   were not highly valued.
B)   were considered to be socially equal to males.
C)   were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands and households.
D)   could not be official members of the church.
E)   were more likely to become pregnant before marriage than in the South.

Question 2

Puritan sermons of despair were called ________.

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Question 3

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

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Question 4

In the seventeenth century,the great majority of English immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region were

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A)   slaves.
B)   women.
C)   convicts.
D)   indentured servants.
E)   religious dissenters.

Question 5

The characteristic social unit in New England was the nuclear family living on a farm.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

In the seventeenth century,most colonial families

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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.

Question 7

In the English colonies,Roman Catholics

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A)   suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.
B)   made up a large minority population of most colonies.
C)   were officially illegal.
D)   were generally well treated.
E)   suffered their greatest persecution in the Carolinas.

Question 8

Discuss the differences between the demographics of the colonial South and those of the colonial North.

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Question 9

By the mid-eighteenth century,a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence in part because of

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A)   the abolishment of the British Navigation Acts.
B)   the development of a substantial colonial manufacturing industry.
C)   illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire.
D)   new access by non-British ships to the colonial carrying trade.
E)   All these answers are correct.

Question 10

The revival that was the Great Awakening was rooted in a desire to reinvigorate family life.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Cotton Mather promoted the use of inoculation against the disease ________.

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Question 12

Medical evidence suggests that bleeding a patient could assist in recovery from an illness.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The most numerous of the non-English European immigrants to British North America were the Scots-Irish.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

English America recognized no distinctions between pure Africans and people of mixed race.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought

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A)   emphasized the importance of religious faith.
B)   rejected most religious thought.
C)   had little influence on American intellectual thought.
D)   challenged concepts such as "natural laws."
E)   suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives.

Question 16

George Whitefield is associated with the

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

Question 17

Black workers did not become generally available in British North America until the early part of the eighteenth century.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Compared to women in colonial Chesapeake,New England women

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A)   were more likely to become widows.
B)   were more likely to have their family remain intact.
C)   had fewer children.
D)   had much less legal authority in their marriages.
E)   lost their husbands earlier in life.

Question 19

What were the critical differences between a southern plantation and a New England town?

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Question 20

Regarding colonial life expectancy during the seventeenth century,

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A)   backcountry settlers had a similar life expectancy to that of settlers in coastal areas.
B)   life expectancy was highest in the southern colonies.
C)   one in two white children in the Chesapeake died in infancy.
D)   men had a shorter life expectancy than women.
E)   life expectancy in New England was exceptionally high.

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Cotton Mather promoted the use of inoculation against the disease ________.

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Discuss the differences between the demographics of the colonial South and those of the colonial North.

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Puritan sermons of despair were called ________.

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Black workers did not become generally available in British North America until the early part of the eighteenth century.

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The characteristic social unit in New England was the nuclear family living on a farm.

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The most numerous of the non-English European immigrants to British North America were the Scots-Irish.

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