Exam 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

Most of those accused of witchcraft in Salem were women of low social position.

The Church of England was the official faith of

What were the critical differences between a southern plantation and a New England town?

Puritan sermons of despair were called ________.

What effect did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening have on life in British North America?

The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s

Eighteenth-century literacy among American men was higher than in most European countries.

Black workers did not become generally available in British North America until the early part of the eighteenth century.

In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly

The case of John Peter Zenger saw the courts rule that criticisms of the government were not libelous if actually true.

The Salem girls who accused people of being witches never recanted their stories.

In English North American colonies, the application of slave codes was based on color and

Colonial agriculture in the northern colonies was more diversified than in the southern colonies.

In the North American colonies, mulatto children were

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, medical practitioners

A leading figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached

Fewer than five percent of African slaves imported to the Americas arrived first in the English colonies.

Francis Bacon and John Locke were influential in the ideas of the ________.

Which of the following statements about slave work is FALSE?

The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on