Chapter 4 Reading Quiz

1. To entice new laborers to their colony, the Virginia Company established the "headright" system to: a. pay the Indians for their services b. import African slaves c. grant land to current and prospective settlers d. promise the colonists the full rights of Englishmen e. encourage young families to have more children 2. Which of the following accurately describes a problem faced by Virginia in the last decades of the 17th century? a. A decline in tobacco production b. Frequent slave uprisings c. The lowering of wages caused by an influx of immigrants d. Political control by small farmers in the House of Burgesses e. Conflict between large plantation owners and settlers on Virginia’s western frontier 3. Which of the following happened as a result of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676? a. Governor William Berkley abolished Virginia’s House of Burgesses. b. Virginia passed new laws respecting workers rights c. Indentured servants received additional free land after completing their service. d. The King allowed Virginia colonists to select their own governor. e. Tensions between backwater farmers and tidewater gentry were exposed. 4. Which of the following is a correct statement about the use of slave labor in colonial Virginia? a. It was forced on reluctant white Virginians by profit-minded English merchants and the mercantilist officials of the Crown. b. It was the first case in which Europeans enslaved Blacks. c. It fulfilled the original plans of the Virginia Company. d. It first occurred after the invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, which greatly stimulated the demand for low-cost labor. e. It spread rapidly in the late seventeenth century, as blacks displaced white indentured servants in the tobacco fields. 5. Which pair of colonies had the greatest degree of religious toleration? a. New York and Virginia b. Maryland and Rhode Island c. Massachusetts and Connecticut d. New Jersey and Delaware e. Pennsylvania and Georgia 6. A central theme of the Puritan Ethic is its emphasis on: a. world economic dependency on the institution of slavery b. the mobility of America's class structure c. the damaging effects of slavery on the South's economy d. patriotism and the glorification of the American nation e. hard work, thrift, and sobriety as signs of election 7. New England Puritans founded Harvard University in 1636 and passed of The Massachusetts School Law of 1647 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:: a. To protect children from “the old deluder, Satan” b. To teach children survival skills of growing crops and sailing ships c. To instill lessons of social duty and Christian faith in their children d. To assure that all children could read the Bible e. To train young men for the ministry in the Puritan Church 8. The climate of New England affected life in New England in all of the following ways EXCEPT: a. Increased life expectancy because of clean water and cool temperatures b. Limited ethnic diversity because immigrants weren’t attracted to it c. Led to a diversified economy that included agriculture AND industry d. Forced them to resort to slave labor to endure the extreme seasons e. Discouraged the growth of large cash crop plantations 9. The primary justification for New Englanders to take land from Native Americans: a. Indians are savage inferiors to European settlers b. They viewed Indians with a very egalitarian attitude c. Indians were guilty of underutilizing the land d. New Englanders disagreed with the Indians farming techniques e. They wanted to take over the fur trade from the Indians 10.Which of the following represents the proper order of the Southern social structure from top to bottom? a. Planters, Small farmers, slaves, indentured servants, landless whites b. Planters, Indentured servants, small farmers, landless whites, slaves c. Slaves, indentured servants, landless whites, small farmers, Planters d. Planters, small farmers, landless whites, indentured servants, slaves e. Slaves, landless whites, indentured servants, small farmers, Planters

11.The ______reflected a declining emphasis on religion in second generation Puritans (children of the original settlers) 12.The immediate cause of ______in Virginia was the failure of the House of Burgesses to protect frontier settlers from Indian raids. 13. The ______reflected an intense fear that the Puritan way of life was being replaced by growing commercialization. 14.The ______resulted in African Americans and their children becoming the permanent property of their slave masters, and made it against the law to teach a slave to read or write. 15.The ______was the event that established the precedent for the policy of extermination of American Indians. A. Pequot War B. Half-Way Covenant C. Bacon’s Rebellion D. Salem Witch Trials E. Virginia Slave Codes