Question 1

France's interior empire in North America

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A)   had many settlements that were mixed-race communities.
B)   stressed farming more than trading, missionary work, or military efforts.
C)   created an ineffective shield against British expansion.
D)   contained no African slaves.

Question 2

The religious revival known as the Great Awakening

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A)   helped stem the tide of revolutionary thought and behavior.
B)   reaffirmed traditional sources of authority.
C)   emphasized individual responsibility for conversion.
D)   affected the colonies equally and simultaneously.

Question 3

Which of the following factors helped temper rebellion and offer comfort to colonial slaves?

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A)   religion and family life
B)   kind treatment from masters
C)   good food and healthy environments
D)   interracial liaisons and marriages

Question 4

By 1750, English colonists numbered approximately

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A)   500,000.
B)   1.2 million.
C)   3 million.
D)   4 million.

Question 5

Compare the roles and rights of women in seventeenth-century Europe with those of their counterparts on the American colonial frontier. Explain how conditions improved or worsened for American women during the eighteenth century.

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Question 6

The advent of "modern" life occurred first in the seaboard centers of colonial America, including the transition from a

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A)   contentious to a deferential politics.
B)   factory to a skilled craftsman's production of goods.
C)   social order based on achievement to one based on status.
D)   barter to a commercial economy.

Question 7

Even in the North which group was a regular part of commerce linking North American, Africa, and Europe?

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A)   skilled craftsmen and shopkeepers
B)   sons of wealthy gentry
C)   university-trained Puritans
D)   slaves and indentured servants

Question 8

Masters controlled which of the following aspects of slave life?

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A)   physical location
B)   work roles
C)   diet
D)   All of these answers are correct.

Question 9

Colonial America in the first half of the eighteenth century experienced

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A)   a narrowing of class differences.
B)   loss of local autonomy.
C)   continual declines in church membership.
D)   population growth and economic development.

Question 10

According to the entrepreneurial ethos, prosperity resulted from

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A)   regulated prices and wages.
B)   individual competition.
C)   self-denial.
D)   quality controls.

Question 11

All of the following were true about slave marriages and family life EXCEPT:

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A)   Slave marriages were rarely secure.
B)   One spouse was often sold, resulting in the breakup of the marriage.
C)   Few slaves experienced stable family lives.
D)   Black women's constant labor made them less equal to men than was the case of women in white society.

Question 12

For urban artisans in colonial America,

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A)   New England paid the highest wages.
B)   work patterns proved regular and constant.
C)   a major goal was economic independence.
D)   urban growth and economic expansion guaranteed success.

Question 13

The typical master in colonial America wished to convert the slave into a(n)

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A)   mindless drudge who obeyed every command.
B)   loving and faithful member of the plantation family.
C)   independent worker who increased profits.
D)   educated and skilled producer of goods.

Question 14

Colonial merchants of the early eighteenth century

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A)   exported luxury and manufactured goods to Europe, Africa, and the West Indies.
B)   engaged in the tasks of shipping and distributional services only.
C)   typically imported more goods than Americans desired or could use.
D)   integrated American producers and consumers in the Atlantic basin trading system.

Question 15

The vast majority of inhabitants along the coast of South Carolina by the 1760s consisted of

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A)   rice planters.
B)   Charleston tourists.
C)   black slaves.
D)   poor German and Scots-Irish immigrants.

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