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Question 1
The indentured servants who came to the colonies:
• a. were mainly convicts shipped over as part of their sentence
• b. were essentially the same as slaves
• Selected:c. were sometimes stolen and placed aboard a seagoing vessel without their knowledgeThis answer is correct.
• d. provided mainly household labor
• e. arose in several major rebellions
Correct! Indentured servants were sometimes kidnapped and sold.
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Question 2
Indentured servants:
• a. occupied “a middle rank between slaves and free men”
• b. could own property of their own
• c. could not engage in trade
• d. could be whipped for transgressions
• Selected:e. all of the above are true statementsThis answer is correct.
Correct! Indentured servants were in the middle but did not have rights yet.
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Question 3
Legally speaking, slaves were:
• a. contracted workers.
• Selected:b. property.This answer is correct.
• c. unfree laborers.
• d. necessary for economic success.
• e. largely Christian.
Correct! Slaves were considered legal property with no rights or will of their own
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Question 4
Bacon’s Rebellion:
• Selected:a. brought indentured servants and small farmers together against the colony’s rich planters and political leadersThis answer is correct.
• b. had the support of nearby Indian tribes
• c. resulted from changes in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina that discriminated against Puritans
• d. forced Governor Berkeley to abandon the colony and return to England
• e. sought to make Virginia independent of England
Correct! Nathaniel Bacon organized the indentured servants and small farmers against the wealthy planters and political leaders.
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Question 5
All of the following were true of the status of women in the colonial period EXCEPT:
• a. because of a shortage of women, they were more valued in North America than in Europe
• b. Puritans passed laws protecting them from domestic violence and permitted divorce
• Selected:c. enjoyed the right to vote in local elections in the middle Atlantic coloniesThis answer is correct.
• d. had some rights over property that they had brought into a marriage
• e. could manage their property upon the death of their husbands
Correct! Women were not given the right to vote until the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919.
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Question 6
Of all the slaves brought to the New World from Africa, how many came to the colonies of British North America?
• Selected:a. about 5 percentThis answer is correct.
• b. about 33 percent
• c. about 50 percent
• d. about 90 percent
• e. about 25 percent
Correct! Most slaves brought to the New World went to South America and the Caribbean Islands.
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Question 7
Slaves who lived in northern colonies:
• Selected:a. usually lived and worked under the same roof as their masters.This answer is correct.
• b. were agricultural laborers like those in the South.
• c. enjoyed more humane treatment than those in the Chesapeake.
• d. usually possessed a trade or special skill.
• e. were forced to become Puritans.
Correct! Most masters and slaves who lived in the northern colonies lived in the same household.
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Question 8
The stockholders who invested in the Virginia Company were motivated primarily by:
• a. religion
• b. a spirit of adventure
• c. curiosity about the New World
• d. personal loyalty to James I
• Selected:e. financial profitThis answer is correct.
Correct! Each colony had its own reason for being established; some had religious purposes, while others had financial reasons.
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Question 9
Which of the following best describes the Middle Passage?
• a. was the route from the African interior to the coastline that slave traders followed.
• b. was a book authored in defense of slavery in the English colonies.
• c. proved to be a safe way to transport slaves to the New World.
• d. was often conducted by fellow Africans.
• Selected:e. resulted in the deaths of one in six slaves.This answer is correct.
Correct! Death rate for slaves on the Middle Passage was approximately 30%.
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Question 10
The Mayflower Compact:
• a. completely separated civil and church governments
• b. was developed by settlers in Massachusetts Bay
• Selected:c. provided the original government for the Plymouth colonyThis answer is correct.
• d. called for total religious toleration
• e. originated in the House of Commons
Correct! The Mayflower Compact was the original government for the Plymouth Colony.