131 Chapters 3-4 Study Quiz   True/False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

131 Chapters 3-4 Study Quiz

True/False

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

____    1.   England transported more than 50,000 convicts to the North American colonies for settlement.

____    2.   In the New World, people were generally safe from disease and epidemics.

____    3.   Most colonists strongly believed in the inferiority of women.

____    4.   In British North America, black men and black women were often excluded from religious services out of the belief that Christianized slaves might seek to gain freedom.

____    5.   The most important crop in the Virginia colony was tobacco.

____    6.   By 1700, tobacco, rice, and indigo were the most important export crops of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas.

____    7.   New Englanders, more than southerners, turned to the sea for their livelihood.

____    8.   Belief in witchcraft was widespread throughout Europe in the seventeenth century.

____    9.   In 1691–1692, mass hysteria struck the town of Salem, Massachusetts, in the form of an outbreak of alleged witchcraft.

____  10.   The colony of Pennsylvania was one of the most diverse in English North America, with English, German, Scots-Irish, and a variety of smaller national and ethnic groups represented.

____  11.   Initially, in the early seventeenth century, many of the first slaves were treated like indentured servants and earned their freedom.

____  12.   During the eighteenth century, demand for slaves in the southern colonies declined slightly.

____  13.   Because traveling at night was dangerous in the colonies, taverns became important during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

____  14.   Jonathan Edwards saw emotionalism as a weakness among Christians.

____  15.   George Whitefield was a great preacher who even impressed Benjamin Franklin with his eloquence.

____  16.   Britain’s adoption of mercantilist policies set it apart from other European powers of the seventeenth century.

____  17.   The Glorious Revolution was bloodier (in terms of battle deaths) than the English Civil War.

____  18.   John Locke’s writings justified revolution in some cases.

____  19.   Through the first half of the eighteenth century, the power of the colonial assemblies generally declined.

____  20.   George Washington played a major role in the start of the French and Indian War.

____  21.   Although the Seven Years’ War has often been called a world war, there was very little international conflict.

____  22.   Like his grandfather and great-grandfather, George III cared little about England.

____  23.   George Grenville continued the policy of “salutary neglect.”

____  24.   The Stamp Act placed the first tax on the new colonial postal system.

____  25.   The Quartering Act required the colonies to provide provisions and barracks for British soldiers.

____  26.   The Gaspee incident involved the burning of a church in Boston by British soldiers.

____  27.   John and Sam Adams, the “Patriot brothers of Philadelphia,” urged their fellow colonists to reject the arguments of Common Sense.

____  28.   Thomas Jefferson was the chief author (or “draftsman”) of the Declaration of Independence.