Period 2 MCQ Review

Period 2 MCQ Review

The pattern depicted on the graph from 1450 to 1800 best serves as evidence of which of the following?

Multiple Choice

The pattern depicted on the graph from 1450 to 1800 best serves as evidence of which of the following?

• The replacement of indigenous labor and indentured servitude by enslaved Africans in New World colonies

• The development of varied systems of racial categorization in the European colonies

• The effectiveness of the abolitionist movement in Europe and the Americas

• The susceptibility of enslaved populations to New World diseases

Anne Hutchinson, 1630s

“I conceive there lies a clear rule... that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

“If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away?”

“The power of the Holy Spirit dwelleth perfectly in every believer, and the inward revelations of her own spirit, and the conscious judgment of her own mind are of authority paramount to any word of God.”

Multiple Choice

The excerpts from Anne Hutchinson best represent which of the following developments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s?

• Growing challenges by dissenters to civil authorities

• Efforts to raise the level of education for young girls and women

• Growing disagreement over the expansion of legal rights in the colonial charter

• Efforts by colonial women to establish independent communities separate from men

Multiple Choice

Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 because she

• violated Puritan laws regarding marriage

• advocated the inclusion of American Indians in Puritan congregations

• was a Quaker who sought converts

• advocated giving women full inheritance

• challenged the religious beliefs of the colony’s leaders

Ateawanto, Abenaki Indian leader

“Brothers, We tell you that we seek not war, we ask nothing better than to be quiet, and it depends, Brothers, only on you English, to have peace with us.

“We have not yet sold the lands we inhabit, [and] we wish to keep the possession of them. Our elders have been willing to tolerate you, brothers Englishmen, on the seaboard. . . . But we will not cede one single inch of the lands we inhabit beyond what has been decided formerly by our fathers.

“[The governor of French Canada] who is here present has nothing to do with what we say to you; we speak to you of our own accord, and in the name of all our allies. . . . We are entirely free; we are allies of the King of France, from whom we have received the Faith and all sorts of assistance in our necessities; we love that Monarch, and we are strongly attached to his interests.”

Multiple Choice

Which of the following groups would have most opposed the goals of the speech?

• British settlers

• French fur traders

• The king of France

• Religious missionaries

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a main purpose of Ateawanto in his speech?

• To establish commerce between his people and the English

• To form an alliance between his people and the French

• To seek his people’s freedom from French oppression

• To protect his people’s land from English colonizers

Multiple Choice

Bacon’s Rebellion occurred because of disagreements between frontier settlers and the Virginia governor over which of the following issues?

• Relations with American Indians and restrictions on the fur trade

• An increase in taxes to subsidize the slave trade and support internal improvements

• The assignment of Anglican ministers to new settlements

• Currency disputes resulting from English demands that settlers end the use of barter

• The drafting of settlers into the English army

Multiple Choice

Which of the following happened as a result of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 ?

• Governor William Berkeley abolished Virginia’s House of Burgesses.

• Virginia passed new laws protecting workers’ rights.

• Tensions between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry were exposed.

• Indentured servants received additional free land after fulfilling their terms of service.

• The king allowed Virginia colonists to select their own governor.

Multiple Choice

By the 1750’s, the British colonies on the North American mainland were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

• disdain for British constitutional monarchy

• many religious denominations

• a society without a hereditary aristocracy

• a growing number of non-English settlers

• acceptance of slavery as a labor system

Multiple Choice

The Dutch settled New Netherland primarily to

• secure a refuge for the persecuted

• check the growth of English colonies in North America

• expand their commercial and mercantile network

• gain colonies to produce agricultural surpluses

• secure naval supplies

Multiple Choice

The difference in slave populations depicted in the graphs most directly resulted from differences in

• climate and geographic conditions for cash crop agriculture

• the degree of participation in the Atlantic economy

• colonial relationships with American Indians

• structures of British imperial control

Multiple Choice

The demographics of the lower South colonies in 1750 most directly contributed to which of the following conditions for enslaved people?

• Frequent conversion to evangelical Christianity

• Widespread opportunities for literacy

• Extensive apprenticeships in skilled trades

• Relative autonomy to preserve and adapt African traditions