STRAIGHTERLINE - US HISTORY 1 -
FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
The Massachusetts Bay Puritans
Select one:
a. lived as grim and joyless people.
b. took vows of poverty as evidence of their commitment to their faith.
c. created a colonial "theocracy."
d. fought with the surrounding Indians almost immediately.
e. introduced freedom of worship to the New World. - Answer-c. created a colonial
"theocracy."
The colony established by people seeking to separate from Pennsylvania was
Select one:
a. Maryland.
b. New Jersey.
c. Delaware.
d. New York.
e. Kentucky. - Answer-c. Delaware.
The Virginia Company developed the "headright system" to
Select one:
a. attract new settlers to the colony.
b. discourage poor people from moving to the colony.
c. require families to migrate together.
d. raise revenue from the sale of land.
e. cause conflict among the neighboring Indian tribes. - Answer-a. attract new settlers to
the colony.
The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the
Select one:
a. French Huguenots.
b. Scotch-Irish.
c. Moravians and Mennonites.
d. Irish Catholics.
e. Palatinate Germans. - Answer-b. Scotch-Irish.
Rice production in colonial America
,Select one:
a. was very difficult and unhealthy work.
b. relied largely on free white labor.
c. represented a new crop to most Africans.
d. was found mostly in the Chesapeake colonies.
e. mostly occurred in inland regions. - Answer-a. was very difficult and unhealthy work.
By 1700, English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery in
part because
Select one:
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.
Feedback - Answer-a. of a declining birthrate in England.
Seventeenth-century southern plantations
Select one:
a. enabled planters to control their markets.
b. tended to be rough and relatively small.
c. used many more slaves than indentured servants.
d. rarely required the landowner do any manual labor.
e. created few new wealthy landowners. - Answer-b. tended to be rough and relatively
small.
The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based
on
Select one:
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. the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily
fluids.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, medical practitioners
Select one:
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.
Feedback - Answer-b. had little or no knowledge of sterilization.
In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies
Select one:
a. flourished due to the diversity of practices brought by settlers.
b. was unmatched in any European nation.
c. was enhanced because no single religious code could be imposed on any large area.
d. grew despite laws establishing the Church of England as the official colonial religion.
e. All these answers are correct. - Answer-e. All these answers are correct.
In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those
accused were most commonly
Select one:
a. not members of the church.
b. criminals.
c. indentured servants.
d. women of low social position.
e. Indians or slaves. - Answer-d. women of low social position.
In the North American colonies, mulatto children were
Select one:
a. regarded as white by the white society.
b. rejected by the rest of the slave community.
c. rarely produced.
d. rarely recognized by their white fathers.
e. freed at birth. - Answer-d. rarely recognized by their white fathers.
Primogeniture refers to the
Select one:
a. right to vote.
b. passing of property to the firstborn son.
c. tending of a servant's indenture.
d. arrangement of authority within New England assemblies.
e. practice of granting land only to those assured of salvation. - Answer-b. passing of
property to the firstborn son.
In Puritan New England, full membership in town governance was limited to
, Select one:
a. all land-owning adults.
b. "selectmen."
c. adult males who were church members.
d. all church members.
e. land-owning males. - Answer-c. adult males who were church members.
In colonial New England Puritan communities, women
Select one:
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.
were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands and
households.
The Stono Rebellion
Select one:
a. led to the death of dozens of white Virginian colonists.
b. saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
c. led to the banning of the slave trade in Maryland.
d. prompted Georgia to strengthen its laws on slavery.
e. led planters to resume hiring indentured servants for their labor needs. - Answer-b.
saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
By 1775, the non-Indian population of the English colonies was just over
Select one:
a. 1 million.
b. 2 million.
c. 4 million.
d. 6 million.
e. 8 million. - Answer-b. 2 million.
George Whitefield is associated with the
Select one:
a. growth of American Catholicism.
b. founding of the American Baptist Church.
c. Quakers.
d. Great Awakening.
e. Enlightenment. - Answer-d. Great Awakening.
FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
The Massachusetts Bay Puritans
Select one:
a. lived as grim and joyless people.
b. took vows of poverty as evidence of their commitment to their faith.
c. created a colonial "theocracy."
d. fought with the surrounding Indians almost immediately.
e. introduced freedom of worship to the New World. - Answer-c. created a colonial
"theocracy."
The colony established by people seeking to separate from Pennsylvania was
Select one:
a. Maryland.
b. New Jersey.
c. Delaware.
d. New York.
e. Kentucky. - Answer-c. Delaware.
The Virginia Company developed the "headright system" to
Select one:
a. attract new settlers to the colony.
b. discourage poor people from moving to the colony.
c. require families to migrate together.
d. raise revenue from the sale of land.
e. cause conflict among the neighboring Indian tribes. - Answer-a. attract new settlers to
the colony.
The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the
Select one:
a. French Huguenots.
b. Scotch-Irish.
c. Moravians and Mennonites.
d. Irish Catholics.
e. Palatinate Germans. - Answer-b. Scotch-Irish.
Rice production in colonial America
,Select one:
a. was very difficult and unhealthy work.
b. relied largely on free white labor.
c. represented a new crop to most Africans.
d. was found mostly in the Chesapeake colonies.
e. mostly occurred in inland regions. - Answer-a. was very difficult and unhealthy work.
By 1700, English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery in
part because
Select one:
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.
Feedback - Answer-a. of a declining birthrate in England.
Seventeenth-century southern plantations
Select one:
a. enabled planters to control their markets.
b. tended to be rough and relatively small.
c. used many more slaves than indentured servants.
d. rarely required the landowner do any manual labor.
e. created few new wealthy landowners. - Answer-b. tended to be rough and relatively
small.
The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based
on
Select one:
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. the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily
fluids.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, medical practitioners
Select one:
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.
Feedback - Answer-b. had little or no knowledge of sterilization.
In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies
Select one:
a. flourished due to the diversity of practices brought by settlers.
b. was unmatched in any European nation.
c. was enhanced because no single religious code could be imposed on any large area.
d. grew despite laws establishing the Church of England as the official colonial religion.
e. All these answers are correct. - Answer-e. All these answers are correct.
In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those
accused were most commonly
Select one:
a. not members of the church.
b. criminals.
c. indentured servants.
d. women of low social position.
e. Indians or slaves. - Answer-d. women of low social position.
In the North American colonies, mulatto children were
Select one:
a. regarded as white by the white society.
b. rejected by the rest of the slave community.
c. rarely produced.
d. rarely recognized by their white fathers.
e. freed at birth. - Answer-d. rarely recognized by their white fathers.
Primogeniture refers to the
Select one:
a. right to vote.
b. passing of property to the firstborn son.
c. tending of a servant's indenture.
d. arrangement of authority within New England assemblies.
e. practice of granting land only to those assured of salvation. - Answer-b. passing of
property to the firstborn son.
In Puritan New England, full membership in town governance was limited to
, Select one:
a. all land-owning adults.
b. "selectmen."
c. adult males who were church members.
d. all church members.
e. land-owning males. - Answer-c. adult males who were church members.
In colonial New England Puritan communities, women
Select one:
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.
were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands and
households.
The Stono Rebellion
Select one:
a. led to the death of dozens of white Virginian colonists.
b. saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
c. led to the banning of the slave trade in Maryland.
d. prompted Georgia to strengthen its laws on slavery.
e. led planters to resume hiring indentured servants for their labor needs. - Answer-b.
saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
By 1775, the non-Indian population of the English colonies was just over
Select one:
a. 1 million.
b. 2 million.
c. 4 million.
d. 6 million.
e. 8 million. - Answer-b. 2 million.
George Whitefield is associated with the
Select one:
a. growth of American Catholicism.
b. founding of the American Baptist Church.
c. Quakers.
d. Great Awakening.
e. Enlightenment. - Answer-d. Great Awakening.
