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Americas History Volume 1 9th Edition Edwards Test Bank 1
Americas History Volume 1 9th Edition Edwards Test Bank 1
1. Which of the following characterized the New England freehold society of the early
eighteenth century?
A) A small gentry elite that owned most of the land, which was farmed by tenants and
other workers
B) Many relatively equal landowning families whose livelihoods came from
agriculture and trade
C) Maritime cities consisting of wealthy traders, skilled artisans, and propertyless
workers
D) A relatively large elite whose economic and political power depended on
manufacturing profits
2. How did farmwives throughout the colonies in the eighteenth century contribute to their
families?
A) The women worked within the farmhouse due to traditional notions that only men
performed field work.
B) Mothers assembled manufactured goods in their homes while caring for children.
C) They exercised strict control over the family's finances and economic decisions.
D) Wives acted as helpmates to their husbands and performed both domestic and
agricultural tasks.
3. Which of the following statements describes the relationship of typical New England
women to the church in the eighteenth century?
A) Women flocked to New England churches because they were regarded as equals
there.
B) Women and men joined churches in equal numbers, but men dominated the
leadership.
C) Church attendance was obligatory for everyone, but only men could obtain church
membership.
D) Churches were filled primarily with women but led exclusively by men.
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4. Which of the following statements best describes women's property rights in the English
colonies in the eighteenth century?
A) A widow gained control over her late husband's estate and retained it even if she
remarried.
B) When they married, women passed legal ownership of all personal property to their
husbands.
C) Upon marriage, sons and daughters usually received equal shares of the family
property.
D) Any land a woman owned before her marriage reverted to her ownership at her
husband's death.
5. Which of the following statements best describes inheritance patterns in colonial New
England during the mid-1700s?
A) Typically, sons received their inheritance at age twenty-one.
B) Daughters—not sons—received a “marriage portion” when they married.
C) Fathers had a cultural duty to provide inheritances for their children.
D) Every family's eldest son inherited its entire property.
6. In eighteenth-century New England, the notion that parents would pay grown children
for their past labors in exchange for the privilege of choosing the children's spouses was
known as
A) common law.
B) the marriage portion.
C) primogeniture.
D) household production.
7. Which of the following statements describes rural life in the New England colonies
during the eighteenth century?
A) As the colonial elite consolidated its power, yeomen farmers tended to sink to the
level of impoverished European peasants.
B) Colonists' sense of personal worth and dignity in rural New England contrasted
sharply with European peasant life.
C) Farmers' grown children clung to their ancestral towns, fearful of moving westward
where they might encounter harsh living conditions.
D) Long-settled areas frequently lost much of their population as farmers continued to
migrate westward.
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8. Which of the following developments created a crisis for New England Puritan society
in the eighteenth century?
A) Changes in women's status caused a declining birthrate.
B) British domination threatened the region's economy.
C) Puritan churches could no longer attract qualified ministers.
D) Population growth made freehold land scarce.
9. Which of the following was a result of the long-practiced policy of subdividing land in
New England for inheritance by the mid-1700s?
A) The number of children conceived before marriage rose sharply.
B) Parents helped their children get established on their own prosperous farm.
C) The freehold system in the American colonies became unsustainable.
D) Speculators bought up small parcels of land, combined them, and sold them off at a
large profit.
10. Which of the following was an outcome of New England families' efforts to maintain
the freeholder ideal in the late eighteenth century?
A) Churches consolidated their power and exercised greater control over young adults'
behavior.
B) Thousands of New England families migrated to Canada, where more land was
available.
C) Farmers abandoned traditional grain crops and adopted livestock agriculture
instead.
D) Colonial legislatures reformed inheritance laws and eliminated the “marriage
portion.”
11. Which of the following statements describes the role of money and economic exchange
in eighteenth-century rural New England?
A) Generally, no money was exchanged between relatives and neighbors, but accounts
of debts were maintained and settled every few years by cash transfers.
B) As New England's exports increased, even isolated farming communities became
accustomed to monetary transactions.
C) Because they owed increasingly heavy taxes to the British, who demanded
payment in coin, farmers were forced to switch from a barter economy to a cash
economy.
D) Land banks printed and distributed paper currency for farmers to use as cash in
return for a percentage of a farm's yearly output.
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12. In New York during the first half of the eighteenth century, settlement of the Hudson
River Valley showed which of the following patterns?
A) The Dutch manorial system largely remained intact, with a few wealthy and
powerful Dutch and English landlords dominating poor tenant families.
B) German and Scots-Irish immigrants, attracted by generous terms offered by Dutch
families who did not want the land to be settled exclusively by migrating New
Englanders, poured in.
C) Continuing troubles with the French and Indians to the north kept the valley
sparsely populated until the eve of the American Revolution.
D) Migrants from overcrowded New England bid up the price of land so high that
immigrant Germans and Scots-Irish could not afford to settle there.
13. Which of the following statements characterizes the nature of colonial Pennsylvania
during the eighteenth century?
A) Despite the Quakers' ideals, rural colonial Pennsylvania was never a land of
economic equality.
B) Because the Quakers insisted on social equality and justice, few economic
inequalities developed until the 1790s.
C) The growing wheat trade in the mid-eighteenth century brought an influx of poor
families, which increased social divisions.
D) German and Scots-Irish farmers soon became the richest ethnic groups in rural
Pennsylvania.
14. Which of the following features characterized the Middle Atlantic colonies of New
York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century?
A) Religious orthodoxy
B) Cultural diversity
C) Amicable relations with Native Americans
D) A wheat-based economy
15. Which of the following eighteenth-century Pennsylvania immigrant groups quickly lost
its cultural identity by practicing intermarriage with other Protestants?
A) Scots-Irish Presbyterians
B) English Quakers
C) French Huguenots
D) Swedish Lutherans
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16. What did the German immigrants known as redemptioners do on their arrival in
Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century?
A) Found jobs as wage laborers in order to save money to bring their relatives to
America
B) Negotiated the terms for a period of servitude through which they would pay for
their trip
C) Sold valuable products they brought from Germany in order to defray their travel
expenses
D) Organized elaborate religious revivals intended to redeem the souls of fallen-away
Christians
17. The most numerous voluntary (nonslave) emigrants to British North America in the
eighteenth century came from which of the following groups?
A) Scots-Irish
B) English
C) Germans
D) Dutch
19. The political conflicts that wracked colonial Pennsylvania in the middle of the
eighteenth century stemmed from which of the following sources?
A) Disagreements over the importance of economic opportunity
B) Rapid immigration and population growth
C) Tension between pious Quakers and those who embraced religious toleration
D) State funding for churches and public education
20. Why was the print revolution that occurred in the colonies during the early eighteenth
century significant?
A) The print revolution made the American Reformation possible.
B) It solidified distinctions between slaves and free people.
C) Printing allowed for the broad transmission of new ideas.
D) The revolution advanced the burgeoning cause of public education.
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