Chapter 3 Quiz

A  women.

B  slaves.

C  convicts.

D  indentured servants.

E  religious dissenters.

A  had little influence on American intellectual thought.

B  emphasized the importance of religious faith.

C  challenged concepts such as “natural laws.”

D  rejected most religious thought.

E  suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives.

A  suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.

B  were officially illegal.

C  were generally well treated.

D  suffered their greatest persecution in the Carolinas.

E  made up a large minority population of most colonies.

A  Indians or slaves.

B  not members of the church.

C  indentured servants.

D  criminals.

E  women of low social position.

A  Some slaves on larger plantations learned trades and crafts.

B  Skilled slaves were at times hired out to other planters.

C  Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.

D  Field hand was the predominant occupation of both male and female slaves.

E  A few slaves were able to buy their freedom.

A  led to the death of dozens of white Virginian colonists.

B  prompted Georgia to strengthen its laws on slavery.

C  led planters to resume hiring indentured servants for their labor needs.

D  led to the banning of the slave trade in Maryland.

E  saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.

A  increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material possessions with status in the upper class.

B  the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists and the association of material possessions with personal virtue and refinement.

C  the association of material possessions with loyalty to the crown.

D  the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists

E  the quickly rising purchasing power of members of the lower classes.

A  rum

B  sugar

C  slaves

D  All these answers are correct.

E  molasses

A  deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies.

B  lowered the prices of slaves in order to increase their sale in the North American colonies.

C  stopped importing slaves directly from Africa.

D  would only ship adult African men in the slave trade.

E  sent the majority of its enslaved Africans directly to the Chesapeake colonies.

A  practices acquired from Indians.

B  evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.

C  Calvinist religious doctrine.

D  the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.

E  scientific experimentation and observation.