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Late 17c and 18c American Society - Quiz 1
Question | Answer |
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The Salem Village witchcraft crisis occurred for which of the following reasons? | experiencing feelings of powerlessness and insecurity, many Puritans found in witchcraft an explanation for the disorder and change around them. |
What did the Great Awakening, inter-colonial trade and American attitudes toward English culture and constitutional theory have in common? | they contributed to a growing sense of shared American identity. |
Colonial cities functioned primarily as? | mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods. |
Colonial law generally defined slaves as chattels. This meant that slaves were considered as? | pieces of property with no rights. |
Anglo-American women in colonial times? | could own property or execute legal documents only if they were widowed or unmarried. |
By the early 1700s, the slave codes of the English colonies in North America established all of the following rules EXCEPT that they? | allowed a slave with some white ancestry to apply for freedom. |
Between 1650 and 1750, family life in the English colonies changed such that in? | northern colonies it grew less patriarchal, while in southern colonies it grew more patriarchal. |
According to the Whig ideology, the best defense against corruption and tyranny rested in the? | eternal vigilance by the people. |
Thomas Jefferson once observed that the best school of political liberty the world ever saw was the? | New England town meeting. |
Benjamin Franklin's concept of the "ideal American" differed from John Winthrop's in which of the following ways? | Franklin valued individualism; Winthrop valued the submission of individual will to the good of the community. |