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Chapter 4 Summative Quiz

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1. What did a person’s economic success signal to New England ministers?

A successful person was being rewarded for godly behavior.

Successful people were sinful and greedy.

Success was a sign of a person who had been chosen by God.

A successful person could give more to the church.

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2. Witch-hunts were likely to occur in which region of colonial North America?

The South

The West

New England

Mid-Atlantic

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3. In early colonial communities from New England to the Chesapeake, many women gained economic and legal leverage because

colonists supported women’s rights.

women and men were equal in the eyes of God.

they had to take care of many children.

there was a shortage of women and workers.

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4. What led to a great decline in the value of women’s labor near the end of the seventeenth century?

The number of young women increased.

Indentured servitude and slavery spread.

Families broke up due to war and other hardships.

Household technology advanced, requiring women to work less.

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5. How did men with children respond when their wives died in colonial America?

They remarried as quickly as possible.

They remained celibate for five years.

They gave the children over to the women in their wife’s family.

They became stay-at-home dads.

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6. What inspired large numbers of Scots-Irish to migrate to Pennsylvania in the 1720s and 1730s?

Lack of employment back home

Bad harvests and high rents back home

War with England

Religious freedom

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7. The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century was a

cultural movement that emphasized rational and scientific thinking.

religious movement that emphasized formal training and biblical literacy.

political movement that demanded more rights for women.

superstitious movement that embraced witches and other evil forces.

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8. What was the lasting legacy of the Great Awakening on American Protestantism?

A style of passionate and popular preaching

A belief in equal rights for African Americans

A distrust of learned clergy

A widespread faith among the wealthy

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9. What role did the Great Awakening have on colonial American political culture?

It called for greater separation between church and state.

It inspired free-thinking and rebellion against authority.

It led to a period of conservatism and repression.

It discouraged women from participating in politics.

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10. How did English officials and wealthy colonists with power ensure the masses would defer to their authority?

By holding public elections by voice vote rather than secret ballot

By allowing only wealthy men to vote

By threatening the livelihoods and families of ordinary people

By holding private elections

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11. Colonists in Boston rioted against impressment in 1747. Why was this important?

It ended the system of impressments.

It led the Royal Navy to impress men in Philadelphia rather than Boston.

It showed that colonists would fight against those who sought to deprive them of liberty.

It inspired men already in the Royal Navy to abandon their ships.

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12. In New York in 1734, the legal basis for a libel charge was if the published material

was untrue.

undermined government authority.

criticized any religion.

was slanderous and shameful.