Question 1

Characterize colonial medical practices by examining their positive and negative features.

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Question 2

Immigration was the most important factor for long-term English colonial population growth.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for

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A)  steel. 
B)  iron. 
C)  gold. 
D)  silver. 
E)  brass.

Question 4

"Jeremiads" were

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A)  a measurement of wealth. 
B)  community experiments. 
C)  sermons. 
D)  witchcraft. 
E)  town meetings.

Question 5

The Enlightenment was the product of seventeenth-century scientific and intellectual discoveries.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were

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A)  political pamphlets. 
B)  hymnals. 
C)  almanacs. 
D)  historical writings. 
E)  drinking songs.

Question 7

The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the

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A)  French Huguenots. 
B)  Scots-Irish. 
C)  Moravians and Mennonites. 
D)  Irish Catholics. 
E)  Palatinate Germans.

Question 8

Enlightenment thought encouraged people to reject their religious faith.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Assess the beginnings of slavery in North America (in the main text) and make an argument for which historical explanation for its origins-from the section "Debating the Past: The Origins of Slavery"-seems most accurate.

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Question 10

Which statement regarding the lives of slaves in colonial North America is true?

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A)  Most slaves worked as house servants. 
B)  Whites rarely intruded upon the conventions of black society. 
C)  Slaves had no opportunity to develop their own society or culture. 
D)  Slave religion was a blend of Christianity and African folk tradition. 
E)  Slaves hardly ever resisted their masters.

Question 11

During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw

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A)  women significantly outnumber men. 
B)  a life expectancy for men of just over forty years. 
C)  few single adults. 
D)  eight out of ten children dying in infancy. 
E)  an increasingly unbalanced sex ratio.

Exam 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

Characterize colonial medical practices by examining their positive and negative features.

Immigration was the most important factor for long-term English colonial population growth.

The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for

"Jeremiads" were

The Enlightenment was the product of seventeenth-century scientific and intellectual discoveries.

After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were

The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the

Enlightenment thought encouraged people to reject their religious faith.

Assess the beginnings of slavery in North America (in the main text) and make an argument for which historical explanation for its origins-from the section "Debating the Past: The Origins of Slavery"-seems most accurate.

Which statement regarding the lives of slaves in colonial North America is true?

During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw