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Chapter 4 Test Review Part I
Test Description: Life in Colonial America
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) How many enslaved Africans were taken out of West Africa in the 300 years of the slave trade?
A
under 1 million
B
about 10 million
C
about 20 million
D
about 5 million
2) If the English colonies had not had so many plantations, it is likely that
A
Slavery would not have taken root or survived for as long as it did.
B
settlers would have enslaved Native Americans instead of African Americans
C
Parliament would have forbidden slavery.
D
trade between the colonies and Britain would not have existed.
3) Why did many standard contracts of indentured servants fail to mention the servants' wages?
A
Indentured servants did not get paid any wages.
B
Indentured servants were all paid a standard wage.
C
Indentured servants did not collect any wages until they had worked for 4 years.
D
Indentured servants paid their employers in order to remain in the colonies.
4) How did the Magna Carta, the English Parliament, and the English Bill of Rights impact colonial government?
A
They supported the colonists demand for self-rule.
B
They inspired the English colonists to create the Constitution.
C
They led the English colonists to demand representative government.
D
They encouraged the English colonists to give most people the right to vote.
5) Both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights
A
declared that only a free man has the right to protest his arrest.
B
guaranteed all men the right to vote.
C
gave people accused of a crime the right to trial by jury.
D
stated that physical attacks were considered 'cruel and unusual punishment.'
6) Which of the following is the main reason why colonial authorities wrote slave codes?
A
They did not want enslaved people to read and write.
B
They did not want slaves leaving plantation without permission.
C
They feared antislavery laws.
D
They feared slave revolts.
7) Which of the following led to the rise of many new churches in the colonies?
A
Locke's treatises
B
the Pennsylvania Gazette
C
the Magna Carta
D
the Great Awakening
8) At around what age were colonial children expected to begin working?
A
7
B
12
C
15
D
18
9) Most women in colonial America were expected to marry men
A
they fell in love with
B
who were regular church goers.
C
chosen by their parents.
D
who had an honorable occupation.
10) Whose trial helped establish freedom of the press?
A
John Locke
B
Baron de Montesquieu
C
Phyllis Wheatley
D
Peter Zenger
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