Question 1

Characterize colonial medical practices by examining their positive and negative features.

Accepted Answer

Colonial medical practices can be charac

Question 2

Immigration was the most important factor for long-term English colonial population growth.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for

Accepted Answer

A)  steel. 
B)  iron. 
C)  gold. 
D)  silver. 
E)  brass. 
A)  steel. 
B)  iron. 
C)  gold. 
D)  silver. 
E)  brass.

Question 4

"Jeremiads" were

Accepted Answer

A)  a measurement of wealth. 
B)  community experiments. 
C)  sermons. 
D)  witchcraft. 
E)  town meetings. 
A)  a measurement of wealth. 
B)  community experiments. 
C)  sermons. 
D)  witchcraft. 
E)  town meetings.

Question 5

The Enlightenment was the product of seventeenth-century scientific and intellectual discoveries.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were

Accepted Answer

A)  political pamphlets. 
B)  hymnals. 
C)  almanacs. 
D)  historical writings. 
E)  drinking songs. 
A)  political pamphlets. 
B)  hymnals. 
C)  almanacs. 
D)  historical writings. 
E)  drinking songs.

Question 7

The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the

Accepted Answer

A)  French Huguenots. 
B)  Scots-Irish. 
C)  Moravians and Mennonites. 
D)  Irish Catholics. 
E)  Palatinate Germans. 
A)  French Huguenots. 
B)  Scots-Irish. 
C)  Moravians and Mennonites. 
D)  Irish Catholics. 
E)  Palatinate Germans.

Question 8

Enlightenment thought encouraged people to reject their religious faith.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Assess the beginnings of slavery in North America (in the main text) and make an argument for which historical explanation for its origins-from the section "Debating the Past: The Origins of Slavery"-seems most accurate.

Accepted Answer

The beginnings of slavery in North Ameri

Question 10

Which statement regarding the lives of slaves in colonial North America is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Most slaves worked as house servants. 
B)  Whites rarely intruded upon the conventions of black society. 
C)  Slaves had no opportunity to develop their own society or culture. 
D)  Slave religion was a blend of Christianity and African folk tradition. 
E)  Slaves hardly ever resisted their masters. 
A)  Most slaves worked as house servants. 
B)  Whites rarely intruded upon the conventions of black society. 
C)  Slaves had no opportunity to develop their own society or culture. 
D)  Slave religion was a blend of Christianity and African folk tradition. 
E)  Slaves hardly ever resisted their masters.

Question 11

During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw

Accepted Answer

A)  women significantly outnumber men. 
B)  a life expectancy for men of just over forty years. 
C)  few single adults. 
D)  eight out of ten children dying in infancy. 
E)  an increasingly unbalanced sex ratio. 
A)  women significantly outnumber men. 
B)  a life expectancy for men of just over forty years. 
C)  few single adults. 
D)  eight out of ten children dying in infancy. 
E)  an increasingly unbalanced sex ratio.

Exam 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

Characterize colonial medical practices by examining their positive and negative features.

Immigration was the most important factor for long-term English colonial population growth.

The first significant metals industry in the colonies was developed for

"Jeremiads" were

The Enlightenment was the product of seventeenth-century scientific and intellectual discoveries.

After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were

The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the

Enlightenment thought encouraged people to reject their religious faith.

Assess the beginnings of slavery in North America (in the main text) and make an argument for which historical explanation for its origins-from the section "Debating the Past: The Origins of Slavery"-seems most accurate.

Which statement regarding the lives of slaves in colonial North America is true?

During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw

The Collision of Cultures

Transplantations and Borderlands

The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America’s Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Antebellum Culture and Reform

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

Reconstruction and the New South

The Conquest of the Far West

Industrial Supremacy

The Age of the City

From Crisis to Empire

The Progressives

America and the Great War

The “New Era”

The Great Depression

The New Deal

The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

America in a World at War

The Cold War

The Affluent Society

Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

The Crisis of Authority

From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

The Age of Globalization

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