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TOPIC 1 TEST
COLONIAL SETTLEMENT AND SOCIETY
1.
The first proprietary colony was:
a.
Jamestown.
b.
Carolina.
c.
Maryland.
d.
Massachusetts Bay.
e.
New Amsterdam.
2.
The Pilgrims were also known as Separatists because they:
a.
wanted to separate Plymouth from Massachusetts Bat Colony.
b.
believed in the complete separation of church and state.
c.
broke all ties with the Church of England.
d.
were the first to declare independence from Great Britain.
e.
tried to isolate the Native Americans from the white settlers.
3.
Which of the following statements about colonial politics in the eighteenth century is true:
a.
The right to vote for representatives to the colonial assemblies was severely restricted by
high property restrictions.
b.
The colonial assemblies controlled taxes and expenditures.
c.
The colonial assemblies had the right to elect governors.
d.
The governors had unlimited authority as agents of the king.
e.
The requirements for office holding were the same as those voting for the king.
4.
All of the following about indentured servitude in colonial America are true EXCEPT:
a.
Indentured servants were primarily young men.
b.
Indentured servants provided most of the tobacco cultivation in the seventeenth century.
c.
Indentured servants could not be sold as property.
d.
Indentured servants came primarily from the unemployed and lower classes.
e.
Indentured servants were replaced by black slaves in southern colonies by the eighteenth
century.
5.
Which of the following is properly considered the main purpose of the Navigation Acts?
a.
The promotion of trade among the colonies.
b.
The protection of American manufacturing from foreign competition.
c.
To guarantee that England alone would profit from trade with the colonies.
d.
To raise revenue for the British Empire.
e.
The regulation of the slave trade in the colonies.
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6.
The principal of freedom of the press in colonial America was established by the:
a.
Articles of Confederation.
b.
Bill of Rights.
c.
Virginia House of Burgesses.
d.
trial of Peter Zenger.
e.
Mayflower Compact.
7.
One of the consequences of the Great Awakening was:
a.
a closer sense of unity between England and it colonies.
b.
that the Church of England was adopted by the colonies as an officially established church.
c.
the discussion of new ideas in religion.
d.
a challenge to traditional beliefs.
e.
a growing awareness in people in the colonies of their rights as Englishmen.
8.
As a consequence of the French and Indian War:
a.
American colonists began to distrust the actions of the British government.
b.
colonists feared yet another involvement in a Franco-British conflict.
c.
Britain gave up Florida to Spain.
d.
Spain yielded Cuba to Great Britain.
e.
the Shawnee protested against British policy in the Ohio River valley.
9.
The earliest English colony in this list was:
a.
Maryland.
b.
New York.
c.
Massachusetts Bay.
d.
Georgia.
e.
Pennsylvania.
10.
In the eighteenth century, the view of American whites generally about slavery was that it:
a.
was wrong for religious and mora reasons.
b.
should not be hereditary.
c.
would soon fade as an economic practice.
d.
affected white people in political and social impact.
e.
was a dangerous practice that could bring violence and race war.
11.
The purpose of the New England Confederation was to:
a.
unite the English colonies in a common bond.
b.
organize colonial defense in New England.
c.
ease Parliament=s burden in administering colonial government.
d.
prevent the smuggling of enumerated articles.
e.
join with the Indians of the area to promote tolerance and coexistence.
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12.
The theory of mercantilism was:
a.
strongly favored by Adam Smith in his book The Wealth of Nations.
b.
a policy in which colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country, exchanging raw
materials for manufactured products.
c.
a colonial American policy favoring trade exclusively with England.
d.
a way of avoiding widespread smuggling.
e.
intended to encourage free trade among various European colonies in the Americas.
13.
European wars in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were know in the American colonies
were known in the American colonies by the names of the rulers during the time of strife. A correct
match of European war and its American version would be:
a.
War of Spanish Succession C King George=s War.
b.
War of the League of Augsburgh C King Louis= War.
c.
War of Spanish Succession C Queen Anne=s War.
d.
Seven Year=s War C Queen Mary=s War.
e.
War of Austrian Succession C King Charles= War.
14.
The main purpose of France=s North American empire was to:
a.
provide a refuge for French Huguenots from Catholic persecution.
b.
covert Native Americans to the Catholic faith.
c.
enlarge the fur trade activity with the Indians.
d.
block British expansion to the north and west.
e.
form an alliance with Spain to limit the area of Spanish control.
15.
Based on the table above, the least valuable of England=s American colonies in terms of exports
was:
a.
New England.
b.
New York.
c.
Pennsylvania.
d.
Virginia and Maryland.
e.
Carolina.
16.
In the second half of the seventeenth century the economy of the Chesapeake region:
a.
was characterized by small-scale subsistence farming.
b.
rose dramatically with the increase of tobacco prices.
c.
was linked to swings in the price of cotton.
d.
depended largely on the importation of food from Europe.
e.
created inequality in colonial society because tobacco prices were severely depressed.
17.
Which of the following was a consequence of the Glorious Revolution?
A.
Virginia became a royal colony.
b.
Georgia was created as a colony.
c.
The Dominion of New England was dissolved.
d.
France declared war on England.
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18.
e.
James reestablished his control over Parliament.
The most important result of Bacon=s Rebellion was that:
a.
wealthy planters in the Tidewater lost political power.
b.
small farmers in Virginia were given the right to vote.
c.
Native Americans were driven out the Southern colonies.
d.
planters turned to slaves as the chief source of labor.
e.
indentured servants got the length of their contracts reduced.
19.
All of the following were ways in which England tried to strengthen the Navigation Acts EXCEPT:
a.
Governors took an oath to enforce the laws.
b.
English customs officials were sent to the colonies to inspect ships for smuggled goods.
c.
The Board of Trade and Plantations was created.
d.
Admiralty Courts with judges appointed by the crown tried smuggling cases.
e.
Fewer goods were included in the enumerated articles.
20.
The most famous Enlightment figure living in colonial America was:
a.
John Locke.
b.
Voltaire.
c.
John Winthrop.
d.
Alexander Hamilton.
e.
Benjamin Franklin.
21.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the European=s greatest impact on the Americas was the:
a.
introduction of Christianity to the American Indian tribes.
b.
destruction of massive American forests to make room for farms.
c.
introduction of modern technology to American Indian tribes, allowing them compete
effectively with Europe.
d.
introduction of European diseases to America, devastating many American Indian tribes.
e.
introduction of slavery to the Americas.
22.
The primary motive of those who founded the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth
century was:
a.
desire for economic gain.
b.
desire for religious freedom.
c.
desire to create a perfect religious commonwealth as a example to the rest of the world.
d.
desire to recreate in the New World the story of feudalistic society that was fading in the Old
World.
e.
desire to increase the power and glory of Great Britain.
23.
Jonathan Edwards was:
a.
a preacher of the Great Awakening in New England.
b.
a mid-eighteenth century Pennsylvania Enlightment Philosopher.
c.
an early opponent of Parliamentary taxation of the American colonies.
d.
a transcendentalist thinker and writer.
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24.
e.
the founder of communitarian experiment in New Harmony.
Prior to 1763 the British policy of Asalutary neglect@:
a.
did not enforce the Navigation Acts.
b.
allowed royal colonies to elect their won governors.
c.
took the Royal Navy off the high seas.
d.
encouraged colonists to establish their own parliament.
e.
withdrew soldiers from North America.
25.
The Mayflower Compact could be best described as:
a.
a detailed frame f government.
b.
a complete constitution.
c.
a business contract.
d.
a foundation for self-government.
e.
an enumeration of the causes for leaving England and coming to the New World.
26.
The term AMiddle Colonies@ refers to which of the following groupings?
a.
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware.
b.
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland.
c.
New Hampshire, New York, Virginia.
d.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
e.
North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland Delaware.
27.
The purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas was:
a.
to divide the non-European world between Spain and Portugal.
b.
to specify which parts of North America should be French and which parts Spanish.
c.
to create an alliance of France, Holland, and England against Spanish designs in the New
World.
d.
to divide the New World between France and Spain.
e.
to exclude any Portugese colonization from the Western Hemisphere.
28.
The Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay Colony wanted their settlement to be primarily:
a.
a place where they can get away from persecution.
b.
an example to the rest of the world.
c.
a place where they have the opportunity to prosper from government regulation.
d.
a society that practiced a complete separation between church and state.
e.
a pluralistic society in which all would be free to practice an teach their beliefs.
29.
The chief significance of French explorer Samuel de Champlain alienation of the Iroquois Indians
was:
a.
to prevent the French from establishing a profitable fur business in Canada.
b.
to prevent Champlain from founding any permanent settlement along the St. Lawrence River.
c.
to prevent Champlain from making it back to France alive.
d.
to prevent New France from expanding southward into what is now the United States.
e.
the creation of an alliance of British and French colonists against the Iroquois.
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30.
The founding of Pennsylvania, William Penn=s main purpose was to:
a.
provide a refuge for persecuted Quakers.
b.
provide a refuge for persecuted Christians of all sects from all parts of Europe.
c.
demonstrate the possibility and practicality of establishing truly friendly relations with the
Indians.
d.
make financial profit.
e.
provide a refuge for English debtors.
31.
During the first two decades of the seventeenth century all of the following aided in the
establishment and growth of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia EXCEPT:
a.
the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
b.
the establishment of the ownership of private property.
c.
the beginning of the tobacco cultivation.
d.
good relations with the Indians.
e.
large influxes of supplies and colonists from England.
32.
In the mid-eighteenth century, the first wave of non-English speaking immigrants (other than African
slaves) arrived in the English colonies. They were ethnic:
a.
Poles.
b.
Scandinavians.
c.
Germans.
d.
Italians.
e.
Russians.
33.
The reason slavery flourished in the Southern English colonies and not in New England is:
a.
most New England farms were too small for the slaves to be economically necessary or
viable, whereas in the South the cultivation of staple crops such as rice and tobacco on large
plantations necessitated the use of large numbers of indentured servants or slaves.
b.
blacks from the tropical climate of Africa could not adapt to the harsh New England winters.
Their death rates made their use as slave laborers as unprofitable.
c.
shortage of females in the Southern English colonies led to many female Black Africans
being imported as slaves and as potential wives for white planters in the region.
d.
whereas New England religious groups such as the Puritans forbade slavery on moral
grounds, the Anglican church which dominated the Southern English colonies encouraged
the belief that blacks were inferior, thus, not deserving of equal status.
e.
the Stono uprising in 1739 convinced New Englanders that the cost of controlling slaves was
not worth their marginal economic benefits.
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34.
All of the following are true of English colonial families in mid-eighteenth century America
EXCEPT:
a.
physical punishment as the normal method of enforcing unquestioned obedience from
children.
b.
women lost virtually all of their legal rights as individuals once they married.
c.
most families bore children who lived long enough to bear children of their own.
d.
women, while subservient to their husbands, set the moral standards by which children were
raised and decided how the children would be educated and trained.
e.
more than 90 percent of families lived in rural area at about this time.
35.
By 1760, the biggest problem with the economy of the English colonies was:
a.
smuggling.
b.
a trade surplus so large that England was threatening to confiscate American assets to help
balance the English economy.
c.
a lack of demand for the vast quantities of high quality manufactured goods now being
produced, leading to high unemployment in the American colonies.
d.
a huge balance-of-trade deficit that threatened the solvency of the colonial economy.
e.
a lack of adequate deep-water ports to provide loading and unloading facilities for the large
number of ships now trying to bring goods to or carry goods from the colonies.
36.
The Dominion of New England was established by the English government in 1686 to:
a.
increase the power of the Puritans.
b.
end the Glorious Revolution and restore James II to the English throne.
c.
stimulate trade among the fledgling New England colonies.
d.
increase the effectiveness of the various New England legislatures.
e.
Increase the authority of the English government over the New England colonies.
37.
The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 provided for:
a.
the tolerance of most Christian churches.
b.
freedom of conscience for those not accepting the Trinity.
c.
an end of sex support for any church.
d.
a complete separation of church and state.
e.
the extension of the vote to Jews and non-Christians.
38.
The French and Indian War resulted in all of the following EXCEPT:
a.
new lands in the trans-Mississippi West were opened to the colonists.
b.
colonists began thinking of themselves as Americans rather than English or British.
c.
Spain gained control of Louisiana.
d.
the treaty ending the war eliminated the French from the American colonial frontier.
e.
the myth of British invincibility was shattered.
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39.
The colony established by James Oglethorpe as a refuge for honest people imprisoned for debt was:
a.
South Carolina.
b.
Georgia.
c.
Pennsylvania.
d.
North Carolina.
e.
Delaware.
40.
The headright system adopted in the Virginia colony:
a.
determined the eligibility of a settler for voting and holding office.
b.
toughened the laws applying the indentured servants.
c.
gave fifty (50) acres of land to anyone who would transport himself to the colony.
d.
encouraged the development of urban centers.
e.
prohibited the settlement of single men and women in the colony.
41.
The famous cartoon of 1754 by Benjamin Franklin offered a warning to the thirteen colonies if they
did which of the following?
a.
Refused to enter the Seven Years= War.
b.
Continued the follow the British policy of mercantilism.
c.
Did not protest the Stamp Act.
d.
Continued trading with Canada.
e.
Rejected the Albany Plan.
42.
During the colonial period, most of the attempts to abolish slavery were led by:
a.
Anglican bishops.
b.
Quakers.
c.
the yeoman farmers of the South.
d.
the free black population of New England.
e.
Methodist ministers.
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43.
All of the following provided the context of crises which led to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692
EXCEPT:
a.
the establishment of the Dominion of New England.
b.
the revocation of New England's colonial charters.
c.
war between England and France in New England.
d.
a decline in Puritan church membership.
e.
a general decline in the population in New England.
44.
In seventeenth century Puritan New England full membership in a Congregational Church required:
a.
a profession of faith and a demonstration of good works.
b.
a written recommendation by the church's minister.
c.
a conversion experience proving that the candidate was one of God's elect.
d.
the support and testimony of three current members.
e.
membership by both parents and a conversion experience.
45.
All the following were prominent religious leaders in colonial America EXCEPT:
a.
Jonathan Edwards.
b.
Henry Ward Beecher.
c.
George Whitefield.
d.
John Cotton.
e.
Increase Mather.
46.
Identify the author of the following quotation and the colony it refers:
Afor we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all
people are upon us: so that if we shall deal falsely with our god in this work
we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw his present help from us,
we shall be made a story and a byword though the world.@
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
47.
William Bradford and Plymouth.
William Penn and Pennsylvania.
John Smith and Virginia.
John Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay
Lord Baltimore and Maryland.
All of the following were diseases brought to the New World by European explorers and colonizers
EXCEPT:
a.
smallpox.
b.
measles.
c.
influenza.
d.
chicken pox.
e.
syphilis.
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48.
AWhat then is the American, this new man? He is either a European, or a descendent of a European,
hence that strange mixture of blood, which you find in no country... Here individuals of all nations
are melted into a new race of men, who labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the
world.@
This is a quotation from the works of:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
49.
Benjamin Franklin.
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur.
Alexis De Tocqueville.
Thomas Jefferson.
Emma Lazarus.
The map shown above depicts European colonization of North American between:
a.
1492 and 1607.
b.
1607 and 1713.
c.
1713 and 1763.
d.
1763 and 1783.
e.
1783 and 1800.
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50.
Anne Hutchinson threatened the established order in Massachusetts Bay by advocating:
a.
a covenant of good works.
b.
a covenant of grace.
c.
the distribution of free land to individual families.
d.
religious freedom for Jews.
e.
war with the Pequots.
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