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Topic 3: Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society

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This activity contains 23 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

	Peace negotiations between the Spanish and Apaches in August 1749 devolved into bloody warfare.    True  False

	When the Europeans made contact with the native populations at the end of the 15th century, the horse had already been domesticated on the Great Plains for 300 years.    True  False

	Comanche Indians were admired throughout the 18th century for their agricultural innovations.    True  False

	Horses proved to be a stabilizing influence among the Plains Indian tribes.    True  False

	French traders worked strenuously to prevent the sale of guns to Indians along their frontier.    True  False

	Access to French firearms contributed to the rise of Sioux military power in the 18th century.    True  False

	While gun culture transformed native populations in the West, population pressures touched off dramatic changes in the East.    True  False

	In the early 18th century, men tended to outlive women, living into their sixties, seventies, and eighties.    True  False

	The slave trade contributed mightily to the population pressures in the colonies.    True  False

	The growing non-English population of the colonies in the 18th century included a new wave of immigration from Asia.    True  False

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