Chapter 4: American Life In The Seventeenth Century
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- 1.What kind of diseases took 10 years off the life expectancy of new comers in the Chesapeake?
- A.
Dysentery,malaria,typhoid
- B.
Syphillis, smallpox, flu
- C.
Common cold, H1N1, HIV
- 2.True or False? Men outnumbered Women.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.How many years did marriage last about?
- A.
9
- B.
40
- C.
7
- 4.Why was population growing steady in the 18th century in the Chesapeake?
- A.
Floods every year that provided rich soil for agriculture
- B.
Immunities
- C.
A surplus of food being imported
- 5.True or False? The Chesapeake Region was excellent for tobacco cultivation.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.What initiated attacks by Indians by the Chesapeake?
- A.
Expanding farms
- B.
Territories being taken over
- C.
New technology being stolen from the Indians
- 7.True of False? Indentured servants had to work their entire life time.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.What was the enclosure movement?
- A.
When farmers lost all their cattle because of disobeying Purtian beliefs
- B.
When large landowners gave a portion of their land to small farmers
- C.
When large landowners closed off their land in England and small farmers lost their jobs
- 9.How many acres of land did the purchaser of a voyage in the Chesapeake region get granted?
- A.
70
- B.
100
- C.
50
- 10.What was the rebellion when landless former indentured servants rebelled against the government of Virginia led by a twenty nine year old planter?
- A.
South Carolina revolt
- B.
Bacon's Rebellion
- C.
Stono Rebellion
- 11.True or False. The Virginia Assembly allowed the landless owners to vote.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Why was Nathaniel Bacon and his followers upset over the government of VA?
- A.
Because of the governor's friendly relations with the Indians
- B.
Because their land was taken away for no apparent reason
- C.
Because they had no right to vote
- 13.What was a reason William Berkeley did NOT want to revenge against the Indians?
- A.
Their territory was among the rivers that had fertile soil and they were provided with that to grow agriculture.
- B.
They had a fur trading relationship that he didn't want to have taken away
- C.
They helped provide lumber and shipping equipments that was what the economy was based off of in VA
- 14.True or False? As a result of Bacon's rebellion, they expelled Governor Berkley from town.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.How did 20 of the rebels during Bacon's Rebellion die?
- A.
They were hanged.
- B.
They were stoned to death.
- C.
They were beheaded.
- 16.Where did colonial slavery originate?
- A.
West africa
- B.
Virginia
- C.
Caribbean
- 17.What made the population of indentured servants decrease in the colonies during the 1680's?
- A.
Diseases
- B.
Indian attacks in the frontier settlements
- C.
Rising wages in England
- 18.What is the name of the company that lost its monopoly on the slave trade which allowed ambitious colonials to begin trading?
- A.
The Virginia Company
- B.
The Royal African Company
- C.
The Massachusetts Bay Company
- 19.Where did most of the colonial slave traders come from?
- A.
Rhode Island
- B.
New York
- C.
Maryland
- 20.What % of slaves did NOT reach the shores of the colonies during the Middle Passage?
- A.
50%
- B.
15%
- C.
20%
- 21.What happened to the survivors of the Middle Passage?
- A.
They were auctioned off
- B.
They were given to large landowners
- C.
They worked as doctors
- 22.True or False? Slaves and their children were designated as property for life
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.True or False? The Chesapeake region had very demanding crops and very large plantations that slaves would never interact with other slaves
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.What was the African- American dialect that blended English w/ other African languages called?
- A.
Yoruba
- B.
Ibo
- C.
Gullah
- 25.What was the slave rebellion called where several black slaves tried to kill the whites but only 12 whites were killed while 21 blacks were executed as a result?
- A.
New York City slave revolt
- B.
South Carolina slave revolt
- C.
Stono Rebellion
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