American Pageant Ch. 4

As the 17th-century wore on, regional differences continued to crystallize, most notably

• the use of indentured servants.
• loyalty to England.
• the breaking of the Atlanta economy.
• the importance of slave labor in the South.

The population of the Chesapeake colonies, throughout the first half of the 17th-century, was notable for its

• fast growth rate.
• scarcity of women.
• low death rate.
• stable family life.

In 1650, males in the Chesapeake area competed for the affections of the extremely scarce women, whom they outnumbered nearly

• six to one.
• ten to one.
• fifteen to one.
• twenty to one.

Which of these is NOT a true statement about life expectancy for the earliest Chesapeake settlers?

• Many of the early male settlers died soon after arriving in the Chesapeake.
• Half of those born in early Virginia and Maryland did not live past the age of twenty.
• The population grew rapidly due to new male immigrants.
• Half of the male settlers made it to age 50;  half of the female settlers to age 40.

During the 17th-century, indentured servitude solved the labor problem in many English colonies for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that

• African slaves cost too much money.
• in some areas families formed too slowly.
• Spain stopped sending slaves to its New World colonies.
• families procreated too slowly.

The headright system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of

• using Indians as forced labor.
• giving the right to acquire 50 acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.
• discouraging the importation of indentured servants to America.
• giving a father's wealth to the oldest son.

By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was

• Massachusetts.
• Virginia.
• New York.
• Maryland.

17th-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by

• selling slaves to reduce productive labor.
• selling land to reduce their volume of production.
• growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production.
• planting corn and wheat instead of tobacco.

_____ reaped the greatest benefit from the land policies of the headright system.

• Indentured servants
• African slaves
• Merchant planters
• Slave owners

English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called

• headrights.
• burgesses.
• indentured servants.
• slaves.