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    The American Yawp

    Chapter 4 – Colonial Society

    Quiz

    1. Improvements in all of the following increased opportunities for colonists to purchase


    consumer goods EXCEPT
    a. Standardized currency
    b. Availability of credit
    c. Manufacturing
    d. Transportation

    2. What was the “commodity money” used in Virginia?


    a. Wampum
    b. Specie
    c. Tobacco
    d. Barter

    3. Which of the following colonies generated the most revenue?


    a. New York
    b. Barbados
    c. Virginia
    d. South Carolina

    4. What was the largest American city during the late eighteenth century?
    a. New York
    b. Boston
    c. Philadelphia
    d. Charleston

    5. Which colony outlawed slavery in 1750?


    a. Massachusetts
    b. New York
    c. Pennsylvania
    d. Slavery was legal in every North American British colony at that time

    6. Which of these systems of slave labor offered enslaved people the greatest independence in
    the use of their time?
    a. Gang system
    b. Task system
    c. Plantation system
    d. Mercantile system

    7. Which of the following colonies had a majority enslaved African population?


    a. South Carolina
    b. Georgia
    c. Virginia
    d. Maryland

    8. How did the culture of rice cultivation reach colonial Carolina?


    a. Enslaved Africans
    b. Indian planters
    c. Spanish traders
    d. English farmers

    9. What portion of residents in 1700 New York City was enslaved?


    a. Less than 10%
    b. 15-20%
    c. 40%
    d. over 60%

    10. What was the first English group to turn against slavery?
    a. Episcopalians
    b. Quakers
    c. Baptists
    d. Merchants

    11. What were the major political parties in colonial America?


    a. There were no major political parties in colonial America
    b. Tories and Whigs
    c. Whigs and Republicans
    d. Commonwealthmen and Royalists

    12. What is the name for the practice whereby a married woman loses all of her political and
    economic rights to her husband?
    a. Jurisprudence
    b. Coverture
    c. Pregnancy
    d. Consort

    13. Where did the Great Awakening begin?


    a. New England
    b. Pennsylvania
    c. Virginia
    d. South Carolina

    14. What is the name of the prophet who inspired Pontiac’s Rebellion?
    a. Red Stick
    b. Massasoit
    c. Neolin
    d. Tecumseh

    15. Which of the following resulted from Pontiac’s War?


    a. Execution of Pontiac
    b. Creation of the Proclamation Line of 1763
    c. Return of Quebec to France
    d. Encouraged migration west of the Appalachian Mountains

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