Chapter 5 Summative Quiz
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1. How did the population of the colonies change during the eighteenth century?
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2. Why was the colonial economy in the eighteenth century unique?
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3. Why did New Englandís population lag behind the growth in other colonies?
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4. Why did New Englanders have only a quarter of the wealth the free colonists in the South had in 1770?
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5. Why were there so few slaves in New England during the eighteenth century?
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6. Which statement characterizes slaves in the middle colonies in the eighteenth century?
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7. What was an early Pennsylvania policy encouraging settlement?
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8. The huge increase in the slave population in the South during the second half of the eighteenth century can be attributed to natural increase and
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9. What made the southern colonies unique compared to other New World slave societies?
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10. Why did masters in the southern colonies prefer black slaves over white indentured servants?
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11. The increasing presence of English goods in the colonial market in the eighteenth century
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12. What was the status of colonial assemblies by 1720?
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