What practice formed a customary part of trading ritual between American colonists and natives?
A) hand-washing
B) gift-giving
C) kissing of the hand
D) smoking of a mixture of tobacco and sage
The 'ideal' republican woman during the early republican period was free to pursue her own economic self-interest.
A) True
B) False
In the original British mainland colonies, how did the proportion of slaves in a colony's total population relate to the level of support in that colony for the patriot cause?
A) the greater the proportion of a colony's total population were slaves, the less likely that colony was to fully support the revolutionary cause
B) the smaller the proportion of a colony's total population were slaves, the less likely that colony was to fully support the revolutionary cause
C) the greater the proportion of a colony's total population were slaves, the more likely that colony was to fully support the revolutionary cause
D) there was no meaningful correlation between the proportion of a colony's population that was enslaved and the degree of support in that colony for the Revolutionary War
What attitude held by the Puritans factored into the greater value placed on education in the New England colonies?
A) the importance they placed on being able to read the Bible
B) the need to maintain intellectual and cultural continuity with the mother country
C) the Puritans thought that only an educated people could be entrusted with democracy
D) their belief that literacy was the key to prosperity and hence God's favor
The new racist theories that emerged in the postrevolutionary years were a result of over ten thousand blacks having fought on the British side.
A) True
B) False
Which of the following reforms was made by the Virginia Colony and set it apart from Spanish colonies?
A) the shifting of some governmental control to the colonists via an elected assembly
B) a ban on the enslavement of Indians
C) the reestablishment of the Church of England's authority in the colony
D) the banning of indentured servitude