Test Bank For American History Connecting with the Past 15 Th Edition By Alan Brinkley
Chapter 3 Society and Culture in Provincial America
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Most seventeenth-century English migrants to the North American colonies were
A. aristocrats.
B. religious dissenters.
C. laborers.
D. commercial agents.
E. landowners.
Answer: C
Page: 66
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
2. In the seventeenth century, the great majority of English immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region were
A. slaves.
B. women.
C. convicts.
D. indentured servants.
E. religious dissenters.
Answer: D
Page: 68
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
3. Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the English indenture system?
A. Most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts.
B. Contracts for indenture generally lasted four to five years.
C. The presence of indentured servants was a source of social unrest.
D. Female indentured servants were typically not allowed to marry while under contract.
E. Female indentured servants constituted one-fourth of the total arrivals.
Answer: A
Page: 66-67, 70
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
4. By 1700, English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery in part because
A. of a declining birthrate in England.
B. of worsening economic conditions in England.
C. landowners in the southern colonies became less capable of paying indentured servant wages.
D. the English government had come to discourage the practice of indenture.
E. colonial parliaments passed laws improving the status of indentured servants.
Answer: A
Page: 68
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
5. Regarding colonial life expectancy during the seventeenth century,
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.
Answer: E
Page: 68
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
6. During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw
A. women significantly outnumber men.
B. a life expectancy for men of just over forty years.
C. few single adults.
D. eight out of ten children dying in infancy.
E. an increasingly unbalanced sex ratio.
Answer: B
Page: 69
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
7. By 1775, the non-Indian population of the English colonies was just over
A. 1 million.
B. 2 million.
C. 4 million.
D. 6 million.
E. 8 million.
Answer: B
Page: 76
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
8. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, medical practitioners
A. became increasingly professionalized.
B. had little or no knowledge of sterilization.
C. grew to understand the link between bacteria and infection.
D. were nearly all males.
E. rejected purging and bleeding as medical techniques.
Answer: B
Page: 69
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
9. The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on
A. Calvinist religious doctrine.
B. scientific experimentation and observation.
C. evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.
D. practices acquired from Indians.
E. the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.
Answer: E
Page: 69
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
10. 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.
Answer: D
Page: 70
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
11. Compared to women in colonial Chesapeake, New England women
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.
Answer: B
Page: 71
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
12. In colonial New England,
A. strict parental control made premarital sexual relations almost nonexistent.
B. choosing a spouse independent of a parent’s wishes was common.
C. dowries were a common feature of marriage.
D. widows tended not to remarry.
E. gender equality was reinforced by the prevailing culture.
Answer: C
Page: 71
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
13. In colonial New England Puritan communities, women
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.
Answer: C
Page: 71
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
14. In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was
A. highly valued.
B. expected to be under the authority of women.
C. marked by relatively loose parental supervision.
D. both highly valued and expected to be under the authority of women.
E. neither highly valued nor expected to be under the authority of women.
Answer: A
Page: 71
Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life
15. 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.
Answer: E
Page: 71
Topic: The Changing Lives of Slaves
16. The total number of Africans forcibly brought to all of the Americas as slaves is estimated to have been as many as
A. 4 million.
B. 7 million.
C. 11 million.
D. 19 million.
E. 26 million.
Answer: C
Page: 71
Topic: The Changing Lives of Slaves
17. 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.
Answer: A
Page: 72
Topic: The Changing Lives of Slaves
18. What statement regarding slavery in English North America in 1700 is FALSE?
A. There were about 25,000 slaves in the colonies.
B. Blacks outnumbered whites in some areas.
C. There were twice as many black men as black women.
D. The demand for slaves led to a steady rise in the prices paid for them.
E. Blacks were heavily concentrated in a few southern colonies.
Answer: D
Page: 72
Topic: The Changing Lives of Slaves
19. In English North American colonies, the application of slave codes was based on color and
A. nothing more.
B. religion.
C. laboring skills.
D. origin of birth.
E. economic status.
Answer: A
Page: 74
Topic: The Changing Lives of Slaves
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