U.S. History Chapter 3

Question 1

Alcoholic beverages were readily available in the colonies.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Village schools were called dame schools because the teachers were usually widows and spinsters.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Few Germans wanted to move to the backcountry.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

Infant death rates in the colonies were....

Accepted Answer

lower than in Europe

Question 5

The "colonial style" of architecture....

Accepted Answer

was borrowed from Tudor England

Question 6

The Great Wagon Road connected the port cities along the coast.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

The two largest non-English groups in America were....

Accepted Answer

Scots-Irish and Germans

Question 8

What were dame schools?

Accepted Answer

village schools in New England

Question 9

English colonists were often prejudiced against the German settlers.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Most southern planters lived in stately white mansions.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

What was the standard text during the colonial period?

Accepted Answer

New England Primer

Question 12

.........settlers from Ulster

Accepted Answer

Scots-Irish

Question 13

Women in America married earlier than women in Europe because....

Accepted Answer

there were more men than women

Question 14

This was written by Benjamin Franklin.....

Accepted Answer

Poor Richard's Almanac

Question 15

The American Indians introduced the potato to European settlers.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Children were an important labor source on colonial fams.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Epidemics were more common in the eighteenth-century colonies because...

Accepted Answer

crowded cities helped to spread disease

Question 18

An important Native American food was....

Accepted Answer

corn

Question 19

Barn raising and quilting allowed backwoodsmen to combine work and play.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

In education, the middle colonies and the South lagged behind New England because...

Accepted Answer

the population was scattered in rural areas

Question 21

Puritans emphasized education primarily because they wanted children to ....

Accepted Answer

study the Bible

Question 22

Which title was a colonial newspaper?

Accepted Answer

New England Courant

Question 23

What is the name of a paddle-shaped board for reading?

Accepted Answer

Hornbook

Question 24

What is a style of colonial architecture?

Accepted Answer

Williamsburg

Question 25

America's population increased tenfold during the eighteenth century.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

The main reason the scots-Irish and Germans came to America was to....

Accepted Answer

escape religious intolerance

Question 27

The Pennsylvania Dutch were.....

Accepted Answer

German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania

Question 28

.....settlers from German areas.

Accepted Answer

Pennsylvania Dutch

Question 29

Scots-Irish and German settlers....

Accepted Answer

occupied lands in the backcountry

Question 30

Growing rice was common in ....

Accepted Answer

the South

Question 31

Best access to the backcountry...

Accepted Answer

Great Wagon Road

U.S. History Chapter 3

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U.S. History Chapter 3

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