Colonial and the Middle Colonies Test

By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

• New York

• Pennsylvania

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.

• releasing unneeded indentured servants early.

By the end of the seventeenth century, indentured servants who gained their freedom

• often gained great wealth as more land opened for settlement.

• rarely returned to work for their masters.

• almost always found high-paying jobs in the cities.

• had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages to their former masters.

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 immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was

• the Virginia governor's refusal to retaliate against Indian attacks on frontier settlements.

• the wealthy planter class losing control of the colony.

• a shortage of indentured servants.

• to halt the importation of African slaves.

As a result of Bacon's Rebellion

• the economic aspirations of discontented backcountry frontiersmen was eased considerably.

• planters sought African slaves to replace discontented backcountry fontiersmen as laborers.

• Governor Berkeley was dismissed from office.

• Nathaniel Bacon was named to head the Virginia militia.

All of the following are reasons for increased reliance on slave labor, after 1680, in colonial America except

• higher wages in England reduced the number of emigrating servants.

• planters feared the growing number of landless freemen in the colonies.

• Americans rushed to cash in on the slave trade.

• the development of wheat as a staple crop in the British colonies.

It was atypical of colonial New England adults to

• marry late and have no children.

• be unable to read and write.

• arrive in New England unmarried.

• live solitary lives.

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

• a longer life span than their seventeenth century predecessors.

• the dread of death in birthing caused many women to fear pregnancy.

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

• divorce was exceedingly rare.

The social glue that formed the basis of tightly knit New England society was

• small villages and farms.

• black slavery.

• the wealthy planter-merchant class.

• the royal charter.