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Chapter 2: American Society in the Making

True/False Quiz

True/False Quiz
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This activity contains 13 questions.

	The Middle Colonies were surprisingly homogenous.    True  False

	White women, even indentured servants, rarely worked in the fields in the South.    True  False

	By 1730, the majority of South Carolina's population was black.    True  False

	Though generally poor, most southerners were not isolated.    True  False

	Southern whites generally exaggerated the danger of slave rebellion in English North America.    True  False

	Unlike the Puritan Church in New England, the Anglican Church never became a powerful force in southern colonial life.    True  False

	New England households were usually extended; aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents often lived in the same house as a man, his wife, and his children.    True  False

	Throughout most of the seventeenth century, at least with respect to local issues, England's North American colonies were largely left to govern themselves.    True  False

	The Salem witchcraft episode in the 1690s restored the public's respect for Puritan ministers throughout New England.    True  False

	Yale University was the first institution of higher education in English North America.    True  False

	As in the South, colonial New England's economic prosperity depended on growing surplus cash crops for export.    True  False

	The English were a minority in the Middle Colonies.    True  False

	The Paxton Boys were Scotch-Irish frontiersmen who marched on Philadelphia to try to gain more representation in the Pennsylvania assembly.    True  False

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