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Chapter 4 Review Questions
Instructions:
a. During the Preview Phase of your reading, predict the Section where the answer will be found.
b. After critically reading the assigned Section, attempt to answer the questions predicted for the assigned Section.
c. If you can answer the question easily, provide the page number and a quote that supports the correct answer.
d. If you have difficulty correctly answering the questions, REREAD the section.
e. Once you understand the material in the Section well enough to easily answer the questions, provide the page number
and a quote that supports each correct answer.

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. In 1689, King William and Queen Mary
A dissolved Parliament. C signed the English Bill of Rights.
B executed King Charles I. D established a two-house legislature.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 2. Who among the following had the right to vote in English colonies?
A white men and women who owned property
B white men only
C white men and freed Africans
D white men and some Native Americans
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 3. The Zenger case helped establish the right of
A freedom of the press. C trial by jury.
B habeas corpus. D freedom of religion.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 4. How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?
A by supporting mercantilism C by smuggling
B by selling to English merchants D by growing their own tobacco
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 5. In colonial families, who usually handled childcare and domestic duties?
A grandparents C males
B older children D females
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 6. In colonial times, how did a young man often learn a trade?
A by becoming enslaved C by becoming an indentured servant
B by becoming an apprentice D by buying his own business
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

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____ 7. Unlike the poor in Europe, lower-class colonists
A often lived in luxury.
B had a great deal of leisure time.
C could count on a comfortable retirement.
D could hope to acquire property and move up the social scale.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 8. Free African Americans in the colonies were allowed
A to vote. C to be slaveholders and own property.
B to sit on juries. D to become part of the gentry.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 9. How many enslaved Africans were taken to British North America?
A around 500,000 C around one million
B around 750,000 D more than two million
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 10. What percent of enslaved Africans died or committed suicide during the Middle Passage?
A 10 to 15 C 20 to 25
B 15 to 20 D 25 to 30
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 11. Which of the following was a factor in the growth of southern Slavery?
A the Navigation Acts C the plantation system
B an increase in colonial shipbuilding D the growth of apprenticeship
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 12. Which of the following was legal under slave codes?
A teaching enslaved people to read and write
B enslaved people meeting in large numbers
C the killing of an enslaved person by his or her master
D an enslaved person owning a weapon
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 13. Every Puritan town with at least 50 families was required
A to have a grammar school for older students.
B to start an elementary school.
C to own a hornbook.
D to read the Bible.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________



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____ 14. What happened to Puritan towns that did not set up the required schools?
A The towns were closed down.
B The towns children were taken to boarding schools.
C The government forced them to run dame schools.
D The towns were fined.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 15. How did the southern gentry usually educate their children?
A They hired private tutors. C They used public schools.
B They taught their children themselves. D They did not educate their children.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 16. What schools today would compare to Puritan grammar schools?
A colleges C vocational schools
B elementary schools D high schools
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 17. Who was Phillis Wheatley?
A a colonial singer C a colonial poet
B a colonial novelist D a colonial actor
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 18. Who published the Pennsylvania Gazette?
A Ben Franklin C Jonathan Edwards
B Anne Bradstreet D John Locke
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 19. What was the Great Awakening?
A a belief that all problems could be solved by human reason
B a Christian revival that swept the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
C a decade of creativity in colonial art and literature
D a widespread belief that American colonies should be independent
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 20. What was Montesquieus contribution to ideas about government?
A the idea of divine right C the idea of separation of powers
B the idea of natural rights D the idea of representative democracy
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Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________




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____ 21. The Magna Carta was the first document to
A place limits on the power of wealthy landowners.
B establish a monarchy.
C place limits on an English rulers power.
D give greater power to an English ruler.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 22. The legal rights that Englishmen had led the colonists to
A support the Navigation Acts. C expect a voice in their government.
B give more power to the monarchy. D believe in the separation of powers.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 23. Unlike modern public schools, colonial public schools included instruction in
A science. C politics.
B poetry. D religion
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

Directions: Use the quotation and your knowledge of social studies to answer the questions.

The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which
was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us.The shrieks
of the woman, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost
inconceivable. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

____ 24. What does the quote describe?
A conditions aboard a slave ship headed towards Africa
B conditions aboard a slave ship crossing the Pacific
C conditions aboard a slave ship headed towards the Americas
D conditions aboard a slave ship crossing the Mediterranean
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 25. Enslaved people such as those described in the quote experienced a brutal voyage known as the
A Gullah. C Atlantic Crossing.
B Middle Passage. D Columbian Exchange.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 26. Which of the following colonies had a ban on Slavery until the 1750s?
A Virginia C Pennsylvania
B Georgia D Maryland
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 27. Whose trial helped establish freedom of the press?
A John Locke C Baron de Montesquieu
B Phillis Wheatley D Peter Zenger
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Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 28. Most women in colonial America were expected to marry men
A they fell in love with. C who had an honorable occupation.
B who were regular churchgoers. D chosen by their parents.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 29. At around what age were colonial children expected to begin working?
A 7 C 18
B 15 D 12
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 30. Which of the following led to the rise of many new churches in the colonies?
A the Magna Carta C Lockes treatises
B the Great Awakening D the Pennsylvania Gazette
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 31. Which of the following is the main reason why colonial authorities wrote slave codes?
A They did not want slaves leaving plantations without permission.
B They did not want enslaved people to read and write.
C They feared slave revolts.
D They feared antislavery laws.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 32. Who wrote Poor Richards Almanack?
A John Locke C Benjamin Franklin
B George Whitefield D Peter Zenger
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

39. No free man shall be arrested or imprisoned or . . . in any way victimized,
neither will we attack him or send anyone to attack him, except by lawful
judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Magna Carta
That excessive bail ought not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor
cruel and unusual punishment. inflicted;
That jurors ought to be duly impanelled [sworn in] . . . and jurors which pass
upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders.
English Bill of Rights

Use the excerpts and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions:




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____ 33. Both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights
A guaranteed all men the right to vote.
B stated that physical attacks were considered cruel and unusual punishment.
C declared that only a free man has the right to protest his arrest.
D gave people accused of a crime the right to a trial by jury.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 34. How did the Magna Carta, the English Parliament, and the English Bill of Rights impact colonial
government?
A They inspired the English colonists to create the Constitution.
B They led the English colonists to demand representative government.
C They encouraged the English colonists to give most people the right to vote.
D They supported the colonists demands for self-rule.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

Fixed gown for Prude, Mended Mothers Riding Hood, Spun short thread,
Fixed two gowns for Welshs girls, . . . Pleated and ironed, Read sermon of
Dodridges, . . . Milked cows, . . . Made broom from Guinea wheat straw, Spun
thread to whiten, Set a red dye, . . . Spun harness twice, Scoured pewter. . . .
Diary of Abigail Foote, of Colchester, Connecticut

Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions:

____ 35. Based on the list of chores, Abigail Foote is most likely
A a frontier woman. C a young girl.
B an African American slave. D an apprentice.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 36. Many standard contracts of an indentured servant failed to mention the servants wages. Why?
A Indentured servants paid their employers in order to remain in the colonies.
B Indentured servants did not collect any wages until they had worked four years.
C Indentured servants did not get paid any wages.
D None of the above.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

All servants imported and brought into the Country . . . who were not
Christians in their native Country . . . shall be accounted and be slaves. All
Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion [territory] . . . shall
be held to be real estate. If any slave resist his master . . . correcting such
slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction . . . the master shall
be free of all punishment . . . as if such accident never happened.
Law passed by the Virginia General Assembly, 1705

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____ 37. The text above is an example of
A a slave code. C a bill of rights.
B a piece of colonial American literature. D instructions for a slave revolt.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 38. If the English colonies had not had so many plantations, it is likely that
A settlers would have enslaved Native Americans instead of African Americans.
B trade between the colonies and Britain would not have existed.
C Slavery would not have taken root or survived for as long as it did.
D Parliament would have forbidden slavery.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________



Use the information in the box and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions:

____ 39. One of the earliest forms of colonial literature was
A dramatic plays. C novels.
B histories. D school textbooks.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 40. Which of these examples of colonial literature was written as part of the Great Awakening?
A The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America
B Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
C General History of Virginia
D On the Death of Rev. Dr. Sewall
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________



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Timeline of Colonial Legislatures

1619 House of Burgesses becomes the first colonial legislature.
1701 Pennsylvania General Assembly gains the right to make laws.

____ 41. Which of these events belongs on the timeline?
A 1735: Court case establishes freedom of the press.
B 1689: Queen Mary and King William sign English Bill of Rights.
C 1651: Navigation Acts support mercantilism with a series of laws.
D 1629: Massachusetts colonists set up the General Court to make laws.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________

____ 42. Which statement best summarizes the view in Andrew Hamiltons A Brief Narrative of the Case and
Trial of John Peter Zenger?
A The right to publicly criticize the government helps prevent tyranny.
B People should be allowed to publish anything, whether true or false.
C The government has a right to limit criticism that is published about it.
D Newspapers break the law when they publish facts about the government.
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence___________________________________________________________
____ 43. Where did most enslaved immigrants to America come from?
A South America C Asia
B Africa D Europe
Section:_____
Page_______Evidence__________________________________________________________