Question 1
The Chesapeake colonies of the early eighteenth century witnessed
A) increasing profitability of, and thus reliance upon, tobacco cultivation.
B) the emergence of a planter gentry as political and social leaders.
C) steady replacement of slave laborers by indentured servants.
D) virtual universal ownership of land and slaves.
Question 2
Compared to her English counterpart, the eighteenth-century northern colonial woman
A) received fewer chances to marry if divorced or widowed.
B) pursued a daily routine less likely to overlap that of her husband's.
C) enjoyed broader legal and property rights.
D) married at an older age and bore fewer children.
Question 3
Most immigrants to colonial America after 1713 were
A) skilled craftsmen and shopkeepers.
B) sons of wealthy gentry.
C) university-trained Puritans.
D) slaves and indentured servants.
Question 4
New Englanders opted for more of a mixed economy than settlers in the middle or southern colonies because in New England
A) Native Americans had already cleared and used the land.
B) Puritans forbade the buying of slaves.
C) availability and productivity of land was limited.
D) cultivation of cereal crops was too labor-intensive.
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