Chapter 4 (2018)

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.

• There is no statistical data.

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

• using Indians as forced labor.

• giving land to indentured servants to get them to come to the New World.

• giving the right to acquire fifty 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.

• Pennsylvania.

• Maryland.

Seventeenth-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.

• releasing unneeded indentured servants early.

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

• Indentured servants

• African slaves

• Merchant planters

• New England colonists

• 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.

• birds of passage.

Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from

• African slaves.

• white servants.

• captured Indians.

• West Indian natives.

• prisoners of war.

Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by

• young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land and find women to marry.

• the planter class of Virginia.

• those protesting the increased importation of African slaves.

• people from Jamestown only.

• the local Indians.

As a result of Bacon's Rebellion

• African slavery was reduced.

• planters began to look for less troublesome laborers.

• Governor Berkeley was dismissed from office.

• Nathaniel Bacon was named to head the Virginia militia.

• better relations developed with local Indians.

The majority of African slaves coming to the New World

• went to English North America.

• were delivered to South America and the West Indies.

• came to New England.

• were brought by the Dutch.

• died before reaching their destination.