HIST 458 Quiz Sheet Questions & Answers
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○ Which colony had a system of manorial estates that limited pos...
○ which colony had a system of manorial estates that limited possibilities for yeomen and former indentured servants to obtain productive farmland
■ the abolition of gender inequalitie
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HIST 458 Quiz Sheet Questions & Answers
***Exams are at the bottom… They are relatively easy and the question are most
likely from the quizzes but if you have problems the question and answers are at
the bottom
● Quiz 1
○ Which colony had a system of manorial estates that limited
possibilities for yeomen and former indentured servants to
obtain productive farmland?
■ New York
○ In which society did women supposedly have decision-making
authority to declare war?
■ Iroquois
○ Which of the following was NOT a feature of early New England
society?
■ Gender equality within the church
○ Which factor was NOT a major trend in sixteenth- and
seventeenth- century England?
■ The abolition of gender inequalities
○ Which selection best describes the views of the Protestant
Reformation toward work, especially the ideas articulated by
Protestant theologians Martin Luther and John Calvin?
■ Work was a calling by God and a service to God
○ Native American societies had cooperative or communal
economies. Many of these societies encountered European
and European American fur trappers and traders who came
from Western societies that were transforming into mercantilist
and capitalist economies. With their vast knowledge and
experience, Native American fur trappers proved crucial
intermediaries between Native American and Western
economic ways of life. Nonetheless, the higher levels of
economic production of Western economies undermined
different aspects of social relations within Native American
economies. Which group within certain Native American
societies felt the greatest change in their status?
■ Native American women whose overall status decreased
because their economic contributions lost equal footing
with men’s economic contributions that the fur trade
enhanced
,○ Which of the following was NOT a geographical variant of
slavery in colonial America?
■ Many more black slaves than free whites lived in the
less agriculturally productive backcountry
○ Which factor was a significant reason that made women in many
preindustrial societies worldwide specialized in work in and
around the house or homestead or village?
■ Infant Care
○ Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of slave life
in colonial America?
■ Slaves held on large plantations had more day-to-day
autonomy from whites than those held on small farms or
in towns
○ Which of the following was NOT an integral part of William Penn’s
vision
for his Quaker colony?
■ A live-and-let-live approach to private behavior
○ Some scholars have argued that women lost social status during
the early stages of the Industrial Revolution in the Western
World. Which selection best describes the reason for the loss of
women’s social status?
■ The Industrial Revolution practically stripped all forms
of economic production from the household
○ Which group of workers had their rhythms of work measured by
traditions
rooted in pre-modern and preindustrial practices in English-
speaking colonial North America?
■ Wage-earning agricultural laborers
○ Which reason was NOT a driving force behind European
colonization in the New World?
■ A fascination with Native American culture
■ The quest for material wealth
■ An interest in the religious uplift or conversion of indigenous
people
○ Which of the following was NOT an element of British
mercantilism?
■ Government should play no part in regulating the flow
of commerce
■ England brought in considerable revenue by imposing
duties on
colonial trade
■ The colonies performed the primary role of supplying raw
,materials to and buying manufactured goods from the
mother country
, ○ Which one of the following was NOT an element of the
collective bargaining “accord” between large unions and
major employers in the postwar era?
■ Union workers would refrain from “wildcat strikes” and
other forms of unofficial, shop-floor militancy
○ A key goal of early English colonists in North America was
■ Attainment of land and, thus, of personal independence
○ Which concept was present in North American Native American
societies in 1700?
■ Communal land ownership
○ What was Gottlieb Mittelberger’s Warning in the primary source
document, “Packed Densely, Like Herrings”
■ The warning was about the disease, death, and horrors that german
indentured servants encountered during sea voyages from Europe
to the english north american countries
○ Which occupational status allowed people to gain their freedom
and
become independent persons?
■ Indentured servants
○ Which of the following was NOT a distinctive quality of
the Great Awakening?
■ A conclusion that one’s prospects for spiritual salvation were
set at birth, and nothing one did on this Earth would make
any difference
○ Which selection best describes mainstream attitudes toward work
in the
Western world after 1700?
■ Work has intrinsic value for its own sake
○ Which attitude toward work did Protestant theologian
Martin Luther promote?
■ A person's vocation, including manual labor, was his
calling, but all callings were of equal spiritual dignity
○ Which occupation was common in colonial America?
■ Tanners
○ Which of the following was NOT a noteworthy aspect of
indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?
■ For most of the century, indentured servants
greatly outnumbered slaves
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