Deck 3: Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society, 1619 - 1692

Question 1

In the early seventeenth century, Virginia's blacks________ .

A) were encouraged to marry white women
B) occasionally served in the House of Burgesses
C) were sometimes indentured servants
D) greatly outnumbered whites
E) slowly integrated into white society

Answer 1

were sometimes indentured servants

Question 2

Gullah, a Creole language, was spoken on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia until the ------------

A) beginning of the Civil War
B) end of the twentieth century
C) inhabitants were killed during the Civil War
D) middle of the twentieth century
E) end of the nineteenth century

Answer 2

end of the nineteenth century

Question 3

The Navigation Acts established the principle that________ .

A) certain American products could be sold only in England or in English colonies
B) only English merchants could engage in colonial trade
C) all colonial goods sold in England had to be shipped in American vessels
D) only colonial merchants could engage in colonial trade
E) goods imported to the colonies could not be transshipped through England

Answer 3

certain American products could be sold only in England or in English colonies

Question 4

Beginning in 1696, the________ monitored colonial affairs closely.

A) House of Commons
B) Lords of Trade
C) Board of Trade
D) Privy Council
E) vice-admiralty courts

Question 5

Families in the Chesapeake were usually confined to two generations, primarily because________ .

A) of the short life span in the region
B) most colonists returned to England after a few years
C) colonists generally moved to neighboring colonies as soon as possible
D) so many families moved into the region
E) fertility rates were low

Question 6

Population growth in seventeenth-century Virginia and Maryland was retarded by________ .

A) many young women who chose to remain single to ensure their property rights
B) emigration to Bermuda
C) the kidnapping of many women and children by local Indians
D) a high life expectancy rate for women but not for men
E) a gender ratio that was seriously unbalanced

Question 7

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 successful commercial enterprise that returned large profits to the crown
E) a society struggling with the question of slavery

Question 8

Nathaniel Bacon________ .

A) resented the elite leaders of Jamestown because he knew he would never be accepted into their ruling clique
B) started a rebellion to prevent Governor Berkeley from waging a war against the Susquehannock Indians
C) was perceived as a hero by the common people of Virginia
D) was executed by the forces of Charles II for his rebellion
E) was a former indentured servant who was denied farming land in the Virginia Colony

Question 9

What happened to Bacon's Rebellion after Bacon died of fever?

A) It collapsed entirely.
B) It went "underground" but returned during the American Revolution.
C) It was ended by Berkeley's charitable pardoning of rebel leaders.
D) It was ended by a royal commission and investigation.
E) It was carried on by his first lieutenant.

Question 10

What was one of the main causes of the Salem witchcraft hysteria?

A) a recent influx of immigrants from England
B) disagreements between Salem's poor people and its upper classes
C) Salem's history of engaging in occult practices.
D) the reduced piety of the young people of Salem
E) a lack of understanding of spectral evidence