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Test Bank For American History Connecting with the Past 15 Th Edition By Alan Brinkley

Chapter 3 Society and Culture in Provincial America

Multiple-Choice Questions

1. Most seventeenth-century English migrants to the North American colonies were

A. aristocrats.

B. religious dissenters.

C. laborers.

D. commercial agents.

E. landowners.

Answer: C

Page: 66

Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life

2. In the seventeenth century, the great majority of English immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region were

A. slaves.

B. women.

C. convicts.

D. indentured servants.

E. religious dissenters.

Answer: D

Page: 68

Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life

3. Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the English indenture system?

A. Most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts.

B. Contracts for indenture generally lasted four to five years.

C. The presence of indentured servants was a source of social unrest.

D. Female indentured servants were typically not allowed to marry while under contract.

E. Female indentured servants constituted one-fourth of the total arrivals.

Answer: A

Page: 66-67, 70

Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life

4. By 1700, English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery in part because

A. of a declining birthrate in England.

B. of worsening economic conditions in England.

C. landowners in the southern colonies became less capable of paying indentured servant wages.

D. the English government had come to discourage the practice of indenture.

E. colonial parliaments passed laws improving the status of indentured servants.

Answer: A

Page: 68

Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life

5. Regarding colonial life expectancy during the seventeenth century,

A. backcountry settlers had a similar life expectancy to that of settlers in coastal areas.

B. life expectancy was highest in the southern colonies.

C. one in two white children in the Chesapeake died in infancy.

D. men had a shorter life expectancy than women.

E. life expectancy in New England was exceptionally high.

Answer: E

Page: 68

Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life

6. During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw

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.

Answer: B

Page: 69

Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life

7. By 1775, the non-Indian population of the English colonies was just over

A. 1 million.

B. 2 million.

C. 4 million.

D. 6 million.

E. 8 million.

Answer: B

Page: 76

Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life

8. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, medical practitioners

A. became increasingly professionalized.

B. had little or no knowledge of sterilization.

C. grew to understand the link between bacteria and infection.

D. were nearly all males.

E. rejected purging and bleeding as medical techniques.

Answer: B

Page: 69

Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life

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

A. Calvinist religious doctrine.

B. scientific experimentation and observation.

C. evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.

D. practices acquired from Indians.

E. the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.

Answer: E

Page: 69

Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life

10. In the seventeenth century, white women in the colonial Chesapeake

A. generally married later than in England.

B. generally had a longer life expectancy than their husbands.

C. rarely engaged in premarital sex.

D. averaged one pregnancy for every two years of marriage.

E. bore an average of four children apiece.

Answer: D

Page: 70

Topic: Population Patterns and Family Life

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