4. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 4: A New Commercial Culture in Boston

**Quiz for Document 4.2: Goods for Sale (1720)**

Quiz for Document 4.2: Goods for Sale (1720)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. What does the catalog of goods suggest about Boston’s consumers?

Their religious beliefs prevented them from drinking alcohol.

They did not buy goods they could acquire for free through their own labor.

They had money to spend on a variety of foods and products.

They preferred to buy goods that had been made in North America.

2. To what audience was the catalog of merchandise most likely aimed?

Farmers living in rural areas

Shop owners who were seeking to expand their inventory

Wealthy and middling urban dwellers

Laborers

3. What does the catalog of goods suggest about Boston’s economy in the 1720s?

It was primarily a service economy.

It was a central part of the North Atlantic trade.

It was primarily a local economy.

It was badly damaged by mercantilism.

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