Pre-AP US History: Chapter 4

All of the following elements characterize New England families in the eighteenth century EXCEPT

• divorce was exceedingly rare.

• children grew up in obedient, nurturing environments.

• a longer life span than their seventeenth century predecessors.

• New Englanders tended to migrate as individuals rather than as families.

Thomas Jefferson once observed that “the best school of political liberty the world ever saw” was the

• English parliament.
• Virginia House of Burgesses.
• New England town meeting.
• College of William and Mary.

The Salem witchcraft trials were

• unique to the English colonies.
• caused by ergot in the Puritans’ bread.
• the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts.
• a result of Roger Williams’s activities.

All of the following were consequences of the Half-Way Covenant EXCEPT

• women became the majority in the Puritan congregations.

• it weakened the distinction between the elect and others

• it conferred partial membership rights in the once-exclusive congregations.

• it maintained the original formula for church membership.

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

• giving land to indentured servants to get them to come to the New World.
• using Indians as forced labor.
• discouraging the importation of indentured servants to America.
• giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.

The majority of African slaves coming to the New World

• were brought by the Dutch.
• went to English North America.
• were delivered to South America and the West Indies.
• died before reaching their destination.

Which of the following was NOT a causal factor in the development of slavery in the British colonies?

• the abundance of arable land in North America

• decreasing European demand for colonial goods

• the inability of Europeans to enslave Native Americans

• the shortage of indentured servants towards the end of the 17^th century

During the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witches were

• property-owning women.
• from the ranks of poor families.
• women in their late teen years.
• from subsistence farming families.

For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the middle passage can be best described as

• the gruesome ocean voyage to America.

• the journey from American parts to their new homes.

• the trip from the interior of Africa to the coast.

• the easiest part of their journey to America.

The 1662 slave codes in Virginia are significant because they

• established curfews and prohibited slaves from moving freely about the colony.
• made slaves and indentured servants of equal status under the law.
• established a legal difference between servants and slaves based on race.
• restricted the number of slaves that could be imported into the colony.