Chapter 3 Quiz

A  convicts.

B  slaves.

C  religious dissenters.

D  women.

E  indentured servants.

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

B  had little influence on American intellectual thought.

C  emphasized the importance of religious faith.

D  challenged concepts such as “natural laws.”

E  rejected most religious thought.

A  were generally well treated.

B  suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.

C  were officially illegal.

D  made up a large minority population of most colonies.

E  suffered their greatest persecution in the Carolinas.

A  Indians or slaves.

B  women of low social position.

C  indentured servants.

D  criminals.

E  not members of the church.

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  A few slaves were able to buy their freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

E  prompted Georgia to strengthen its laws on slavery.

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

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

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

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  molasses

C  All these answers are correct.

D  sugar

E  slaves

A  stopped importing slaves directly from Africa.

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

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

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

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

A  Calvinist religious doctrine.

B  evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.

C  practices acquired from Indians.

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

E  scientific experimentation and observation.