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Chapter 2: American Society in the Making

Multiple Choice Quiz #2

Multiple Choice Quiz #2
This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the button next to the answer you believe is correct. When you are done, click “Submit for Grade” in order to see how well you did.

This activity contains 10 questions.

	Most immigrants to England's seventeenth-century mainland American colonies   were not from England settled in the backcountry were criminals or debtors wanted to improve the condition of their own lives intended to develop a new civilization

	In contrast to the New England colonies, the Chesapeake colonies had a   healthy environment high birthrate shorter acclamation period for settlers scarcity of women low mortality rate

	Slavery in England's North American colonies was first used on a large scale   in 1619 when the first blacks arrived late in the seventeenth century when the demand for labor increased in the Middle and New England colonies in the mid-eighteenth century when England began losing control over the colonies. by Spanish settlers in the West

	In the colonial South,   most people were illiterate children were more strictly disciplined than in New England white women often worked in the fields household plumbing was common food was scarce

	In New England families it was usual that   children were held to strict obedience more than one family inhabited a household the father and mother equally shared authority women owned all property wives had servants to do their housework

	The Half-Way Covenant was intended to allow the baptism of   adult church members only the children of church members only the grandchildren of adult nonchurch members the children of those who were not church members women

	In the 1680s, the English monarchy tried to gain greater control over the New England colonies by appointing Edmund Andros to govern the   House of Burgesses Virginia Company Puritan church New England Confederation Dominion of New England

	John Peter Zenger was charged with   exporting illegal goods organizing an armed rebellion religious heresy advocating the abolition of slavery seditious libel

	The enactment and severity of slave codes in each colony was closely related to the   kind of crops grown there structure of that colony's government ethnic origins of the white settlers size of the black population All of the answers are correct.

	The Middle Colonies were similar to South Carolina in all the following ways EXCEPT   slavery was legal they grew a cash crop for export most people were farmers the majority of the population was black

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