68. What resulted from the disbanding of the Dominion of New England?
a. New York and New Jersey were unified.
b. West Jersey and East Jersey were created.
c. Land was returned to the Iroquois.
d. Massachusetts absorbed Plymouth.
e. Carolina was divided into two colonies.
69. The overthrow of James II and the deposing of Governor Edmund Andros set the stage for which of the
following conflicts?
a. the Glorious Revolution
b. Bacon’s Rebellion
c. King Philip’s War
d. the Maryland uprising
e. the formation of the Covenant Chain
70. Which colony had its charter revoked because of mismanagement, according to King William?
a. New Hampshire
b. Pennsylvania
c. Virginia
d. New York
e. Maryland
71. Captain Jacob Leisler, the head of the rebel militia that took control of New York in 1689,
a. was a close ally of Sir Edmund Andros, who was trying to regain control of the Dominion of New England.
b. was overthrown and killed in so grisly a manner that the rivalry between his friends and foes polarized New
York politics for years.
c. was knighted for his role in supporting the Glorious Revolution.
d. sought to impose Catholic rule but was defeated by a Protestant militia in a short but bloody civil war.
e. slaughtered so many Native Americans that wars between whites and the remaining tribes kept New York
in an uproar for the next two decades.
72. Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691
a. it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders.
b. it received the right to have its voters elect its own governor and legislative assembly.
c. Plymouth was split off from Massachusetts to become its own independent colony.
d. church membership became the chief legal requirement for voting.
e. social tensions generally decreased and a relatively peaceful period ensued.
73. Who benefited the most from the English Toleration Act?
a. Puritan women
b. the remaining Indians
c. churchgoing families in Plymouth
d. non-Puritan merchants
e. small landowning farmers
74. According to New England Puritans, witchcraft
a. was perfectly acceptable when it was used for proper purposes, such as warding off extreme weather events.
b. had long been a central part of common rituals and church services until religious leaders believed it had
gotten out of hand.
c. resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural
processes.
d. was restricted to Salem due to the immorality of the people there and only required imprisonment as
punishment.
e. was due entirely to their exposure to the spread of Catholicism by the Spanish throughout early New
England communities.
75. Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in
seventeenth-century New England?
a. a single young man who got along well with all his neighbors and rarely became entangled in community
conflicts
b. a married woman who normally was subservient to her husband and the community, which made her
behavior seem all the more bizarre
c. a widowed man who presumably was too lonely or too dependent on the community, and because of this,
was easy to ostracize
d. a young married woman who laid low, had many children, and engaged little in the public affairs of the
town
e. a middle-aged woman who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband
76. Why did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692?
a. The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others in the colony as witches.
b. When Tituba testified, the issue became racial and the town divided over the question of equal rights for
those who were enslaved.
c. All of the accused were children, and Puritans were determined to force their young to accept their religious
traditions or face death.
d. English leaders had just moved the colonial capital to Salem, resulting in an influx of diverse settlers and
upsetting the normally quiet town.
e. The colonists refused to take any legal action on the accused witches and relied purely on unofficial trials in
individuals’ homes.
77. Who finally ended the Salem witch trials?
a. the Massachusetts governor
b. the local pastor
c. Salem’s judge
d. Tituba
e. Increase Mather
78. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
a. mostly prosecuted men.
b. only executed people who admitted they were guilty.
c. enhanced colonists’ confidence in the Massachusetts justice system.
d. spurred prominent colonists to seek scientific explanations for natural events.
e. led to a decades-long tradition of prosecuting women for witchcraft.
79. From 1700 to 1776, who was the largest group of people that came to England’s mainland colonies?
a. Irish
b. Scottish
c. Africans
d. English
e. Germans
80. England sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the eighteenth century?
a. Protestants from non-English and less prosperous parts of the British Isles.
b. Catholics from France and Spain, thereby weakening England’s enemies.
c. Professionals and skilled craftsmen from England.
d. Members of nonmainstream religions, particularly Quakers and Anabaptists.
e. Wealthy merchants who could spur economic growth in the colonies.
81. Why did English immigration to the American colonies decline in the eighteenth century?
a. English authorities stopped encouraging emigration in order to retain skilled laborers and professionals in
England.
b. Economic opportunities in the colonies were declining.
c. Disease rates in the colonies had spiked, and many people did not want to risk dying in an epidemic.
d. Economic conditions in England has worsened.
e. Native Americans had regained much of their land, so little land was available to new colonists.
82. The Scottish and Scots-Irish immigrants to the colonies
a. were almost uniformly Catholics.
b. usually worked in the West Indies before moving to the mainland colonies.
c. were not only poor farmers but also physicians, merchants, and teachers.
d. did little to add to the religious diversity in America.
e. represented only a fraction of the immigration to the colonies.
83. The immigrant group that was primarily Presbyterian was
a. Irish.
b. Scots-Irish.
c. Swedish.
d. English.
e. German.
84. In the eighteenth century, what group made up the largest percentage of immigrants from the British Isles to
America?
a. academics
b. religious outcasts
c. skilled workers
d. convicted criminals
e. farmers
85. The German migration to the English colonies
a. was small when compared to other European migrants.
b. involved fur trapping west of the Appalachian Mountains.
c. was to frontier areas as farmers.
d. was mainly to New England.
e. was as slaveholders in the coastal Carolina region.
86. English and Dutch merchants created a well-organized system for “redemptioners.” What was this system for?
a. for New Englanders to trade molasses for rum with the West Indies
b. for bringing Protestant refugees to North America for a hefty fee
c. for carrying indentured German families to America, where they would work off their transportation
debt
d. for unloading the unwanted convicts of London and Amsterdam to ports such as Boston and New York
e. for pirating against Spain and France, their Catholic archenemies
87. In the eighteenth century, around 110,000 Germans immigrated to America. Millions of more Germans
migrated to where?
a. the Spanish colonies
b. the Rhine River valley
c. Austria-Hungary and the Russian empire
d. Australia and New Zealand
e. Canada
88. What prompted many Germans to leave their homeland for North America?
a. The Reformation led Germans to practice a different religion from the prince and, thus, they suffered
persecution.
b. Germans were especially eager to build missions and spread Christianity to the Native Americans.
c. Most Germans ran prosperous farms and wanted to be able to increase their productivity through slave
labor.
d. They were attracted by the opportunities for merchants and fishermen in the coastal regions of New
England.
e. The Russian empire banned the arrival of all German migrants, and North America became their last option.
89. What sort of attitude did Benjamin Franklin express in his Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind
(1751)?
a. what today would be known as racism
b. acceptance of diversity
c. opportunity for all
d. financial greed
e. religious fervor
90. The separation of church and state
a. existed only in Virginia and North Carolina.
b. was due largely to the increasing Jewish presence in the colonies.
c. was in the majority of colonies because of the proliferation of many different Protestant groups.
d. expanded in the colonies because of the English Civil War.
e. was not the norm, as most colonies had taxes to pay the salary of clergy.
91. The biggest reason Jews left Europe was
a. for the economic opportunities in New England.
b. to be involved in colonial governments.
c. to become indentured servants in North America.
d. to escape rigid religious restrictions in German-speaking areas of Europe.
e. to escape violence.
92. Indians in eighteenth-century British America
a. were well integrated into the British imperial system.
b. benefited from the Walking Purchase of 1737.
c. were viewed in the same way by traders, British officials, and farmers.
d. never warred with the colonists.
e. had access to the liberties guaranteed to Englishmen.
93. What eighteenth-century Indian group united dozens of Indian towns in South Carolina and Georgia?
a. the Cherokee Nation
b. the Lenni-Lenape Union
c. the Susquehanna Tribe
d. the Sioux People
e. the Creek Confederacy
94. The Walking Purchase of 1737
a. led to war with the Iroquois and a divided confederacy.
b. was a land deal that colonial leaders intended would keep German immigrants out of the backcountry.
c. was drawn up from William Penn’s agreement with the English monarchy.
d. sparked a slave revolt because it made it nearly impossible for slaves to run away.
e. introduced to the colony of Pennsylvania fraudulent practices of taking Indian lands.
95. The colonists that proved most harmful to Native Americans were
a. merchants.
b. slave traders.
c. farmers.
d. fur trappers.
e. silversmiths.
96. Which of the following words ultimately describes the Walking Purchase of 1737 from the perspective of the
Lenni Lenape Indians?
a. inconsequential
b. deceptive
c. overdue
d. predictable
e. beneficial
97. Which of the following was true of agriculture in the colonies during the eighteenth century?
a. The backcountry farmland was the most rapidly growing region of the colonies.
b. Large agricultural corporations replaced most farm families in the backcountry.
c. Widespread crop failure in the backcountry left the population completely depleted.
d. The presence of large landlords in New York caused it to grow faster than any other agrarian colony.
e. As the eighteenth century progressed, many New England farms became bigger and used more slave
labor.
98. By the eighteenth century, consumer goods such as books and ceramic plates
a. were found in many colonial residents’ homes.
b. were specifically banned in the colonies by the Navigation Acts.
c. were rare in the colonies, thus demonstrating that the colonists lived in a premodern world.
d. were manufactured in several mainland English colonies but had to be shipped to England for sale.
e. were almost entirely Dutch-made.
99. During the colonial era, Philadelphia
a. became the financial, cultural, and commercial center of British North America.
b. was one of the empire’s least successful seaports.
c. was large by European standards.
d. was populated almost entirely by wealthy citizens.
e. came under the almost dictatorial control of Benjamin Franklin.
100. English American cities
a. were much larger than Spanish American cities.
b. served mainly as sites of factory production.
c. were home to large populations of successful artisans.
d. contained 90 percent of the colonial population.
e. contained a steadily decreasing number of poor, propertyless wage earners.
101. The “Atlantic World” refers to
a. Britain and its American colonies.
b. an interdependent web in which diverse people, ideas, and goods of several empires and continents flowed
back and forth across the Atlantic.
c. trade among the English American colonies that took place along the Atlantic coast.
d. the name of a plan devised by the Spanish and Portuguese to exclude Britain from transatlantic trade.
e. a plan by the Dutch to recapture New York and control its trade with Europe.
102. Over the course of the eighteenth century in colonial America, the
a. percentage of landowners increased in urban areas.
b. economic rights of slaves increased.
c. wealthy wanted to spread the wealth to decrease poverty.
d. percentage of those owning land was lower than in England.
e. rich became richer.
103. Which of the following was true of the colonial elite?
a. The colonial aristocracy was far more powerful and wealthier than England’s nobility.
b. Nearly every Virginian of note achieved prominence through family connections.
c. The gap between rich and poor was nearly nonexistent.
d. Few spoke English as a first language.
e. Mercantile success was dependent on business talent as opposed to personal connections.
104. Most wealthy Americans of the late eighteenth century
a. had started out as poor laborers.
b. distanced themselves from any association with the culture of the British aristocracy.
c. owed their elite status and political power to inherited wealth and family connections.
d. lived modestly and avoided leisure.
e. had little political power.
105. In the seventeenth century, the term “American” tended to be used to identify whom in the British colonies?
a. everyone living in the colonies
b. only people of British heritage
c. only people who had lived in England
d. Indians
e. everyone except the slaves
106. How did people in Great Britain tend to view those who had left England to live in the colonies?
a. as diligent workers and entrepreneurs
b. as vital participants in British governance
c. as tourists who would soon return to England
d. as indistinguishable from the Spanish colonists
e. as convicts, religious dissidents, and poor servants
107. Compared to Spanish and French colonists, how did British colonists tend to view the Indians?
a. as a group with whom to intermarry
b. as the heart of the primarily British fur trade
c. as an integral part of colonial society and culture
d. as outside their collective colonial identity
e. as a source of religious inspiration
108. Which of the following was a result of the physical isolation of the British colonies from Great Britain?
a. The colonial elite experienced Anglicization.
b. The wealthy rejected British culture.
c. The British refused to send luxury goods to the colonies.
d. Elites and poor farmers alike quickly forgot about British culture.
e. Indian dress and art came to dominate the homes of the wealthy.