Chapter Three: Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society, 1619-1692

Practice Quiz:

1. Puritans viewed which of the following as essential to their New England commonwealth?
a. a flexible form of colonial administration.
b. a healthy family life.
c. honest public officials.
d. strict adherence to personal hygiene measures.

2. In New England, women
a. enjoyed rights and powers equal to those of men
b. outnumbered men in church by two to one
c. had no economic power whatsoever
d. could easily divorce their husbands

3. Sumptuary laws
a. made excessively gluttony a crime.
b. prohibited the poor or underclass from wearing fine clothes.
c. criminalized frivolity on the Sabbath.
d. provided that only “visible saints” could be buried in a church cemetery.

4. The most important reason for the difference between the New England colonies and Chesapeake colonies was based on
a. differing environmental conditions
b. the much higher mortality rate of the Chesapeake colonies
c. the wide-spread use of plantation slavery in the New England colonies
d. contrasting economic systems

5. Compared to New England, Chesapeake society
a. was more democratic
b. possessed fewer families
c. had fewer slaves
d. was characterized by small farms

6. How would late seventeenth-century Virginia best be described?
a. a plantation society, dominated by a slaveholding aristocracy
b. a diversified society and economy, with minimal social stratification
c. a society of small farmers, committed to multicrop agriculture
d. a society struggling with the question of slavery

7. Of the estimated 11 million African slaves carried to America, the great majority were sent to
a. Brazil and the Caribbean
b. British North America
c. Argentina
d. Central America

8. Why did colonial lawmakers create strict slave codes in the late 1600s?
a. Lawmakers wanted slaves to be treated fairly
b. Lawmakers feared an uprising because the African population had increased greatly
c. Lawmakers wanted to prevent an influx of additional Africans into America
d. Lawmakers wanted to pave the road for African slaves to eventually become citizens

9. The most serious slave rebellion in the colonial period was
a. the Stono Uprising
b. the Denmark Vesey Conspiracy
c. Nat Turners Rebellion
d. Bacon’s Rebellion

10. British authorities based their colonial commercial policies on the theory of
a. feudalism
b. monopolism
c. mercantilism
d. federalism

11. The Navigation Acts established the principle that
a. certain American products could only be sold in England
b. only English or colonial merchants could engage in colonial trade
c. all colonials goods sold in England had to be shipped in English vessels
d. all of the above

12. Which statement about Bacon’s Rebellion is FALSE?
a. Bacon would probably have been accepted into the ruling class clique had he only waited
b. Bacon led a Rebellion to prevent Governor Berkeley from waging a war against the Susquehannock Indians.
c. Bacon and his men burned Jamestown to the ground
d. Bacon, a member of a respectable English family, had only recently arrived in Virginia.

13. The peaceful ousting of James II by Parliament in 1688 was known as
a. King James’ War
b. the Restoration
c. Parliament’s Rebellion
d. the Glorious Revolution

14. Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Salem Witchcraft hysteria?
a. the communities history of religious discord
b. disagreements between Salem’s poor people and its upper class
c. Salem’s history of engaging in occult practices
d. fear of attack by nearby Indians

15. As a result of the Salem witchcraft trials
a. nineteen people were hanged
b. twenty-three people were banished
c. eight people were pressed to death with weights
d. fourteen people were burned at the stake