LER 458Y Quiz Bank & Exam Bank sheet
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● Quiz 1
○ Which colony had a system of manorial estates that limited possibilities for
yeomen and former indentured servants to obtain productive farmland?
■ New York
○ In which society did women supposedly have decision-making authority to
declare war?
■ Iroquois
○ Which of the following was NOT a feature of early New England society?
■ Gender equality within the church
○ Which factor was NOT a major trend in sixteenth- and seventeenth-
century England?
■ The abolition of gender inequalities
○ Which selection best describes the views of the Protestant Reformation
toward work, especially the ideas articulated by Protestant theologians
Martin Luther and John Calvin?
■ Work was a calling by God and a service to God
○ Native American societies had cooperative or communal economies.
Many of these societies encountered European and European American
fur trappers and traders who came from Western societies that were
transforming into mercantilist and capitalist economies. With their vast
knowledge and experience, Native American fur trappers proved crucial
intermediaries between Native American and Western economic ways of
life. Nonetheless, the higher levels of economic production of Western
economies undermined different aspects of social relations within Native
American economies. Which group within certain Native American
societies felt the greatest change in their status?
■ Native American women whose overall status decreased
because their economic contributions lost equal footing with
men’s economic contributions that the fur trade enhanced
○ Which of the following was NOT a geographical variant of slavery in
colonial America?
■ Many more black slaves than free whites lived in the less
agriculturally productive backcountry
○ Which factor was a significant reason that made women in many
preindustrial societies worldwide specialized in work in and around the
house or homestead or village?
■ Infant Care
○ Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of slave life in colonial
America?
■ Slaves held on large plantations had more day-to-day
autonomy from whites than those held on small farms or in
towns
○ Which of the following was NOT an integral part of William Penn’s vision
for his Quaker colony?
■ A live-and-let-live approach to private behavior
○ Some scholars have argued that women lost social status during the early
stages of the Industrial Revolution in the Western World. Which selection
best describes the reason for the loss of women’s social status?
■ The Industrial Revolution practically stripped all forms of
economic production from the household
○ Which group of workers had their rhythms of work measured by traditions
rooted in pre-modern and preindustrial practices in English-speaking
colonial North America?
■ Wage-earning agricultural laborers
○ Which reason was NOT a driving force behind European colonization in
the New World?
■ A fascination with Native American culture
■ The quest for material wealth
■ An interest in the religious uplift or conversion of indigenous people
○ Which of the following was NOT an element of British mercantilism?
■ Government should play no part in regulating the flow of
commerce
■ England brought in considerable revenue by imposing duties on
colonial trade
■ The colonies performed the primary role of supplying raw materials
to and buying manufactured goods from the mother country
○ Which one of the following was NOT an element of the collective
bargaining “accord” between large unions and major employers in the
postwar era?
■ Union workers would refrain from “wildcat strikes” and other forms of
unofficial, shop-floor militancy
○ A key goal of early English colonists in North America was
■ Attainment of land and, thus, of personal independence
○ Which concept was present in North American Native American societies
in 1700?
■ Communal land ownership
○ What was Gottlieb Mittelberger’s Warning in the primary source document, “Packed
Densely, Like Herrings”
■ The warning was about the disease, death, and horrors that german
indentured servants encountered during sea voyages from Europe to
the english north american countries
○ Which occupational status allowed people to gain their freedom and
become independent persons?
■ Indentured servants
○ Which of the following was NOT a distinctive quality of the Great
Awakening?
■ A conclusion that one’s prospects for spiritual salvation were
set at birth, and nothing one did on this Earth would make any
difference
○ Which selection best describes mainstream attitudes toward work in the
Western world after 1700?
■ Work has intrinsic value for its own sake
○ Which attitude toward work did Protestant theologian Martin Luther
promote?
■ A person's vocation, including manual labor, was his calling,
but all callings were of equal spiritual dignity
○ Which occupation was common in colonial America?
■ Tanners
○ Which of the following was NOT a noteworthy aspect of indentured
servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?
■ For most of the century, indentured servants greatly
outnumbered slaves
○ Historian Brian Balogh in Government out of Sight quotes from historian
Stephen Innes, Creating the Commonwealth, the story of the Leonard
family of Essex County, Massachusetts, to illustrate the dilemma New
England Puritans faced: maintaining a devout workforce or pursuing
economic development. “The Leonards were highly skilled ironworkers.
They were equally renowned for making trouble. Charges levied against
the Leonards included armed robbery, rape, lewdness, and chronic
drunkenness. Keeping pace with the men, female Leonards were charged
with indecent exposure, singing bawdy songs, and contempt of authority.
Despite flaunting the religious and legal conventions of their neighbors,
the Leonards were not ‘harried out of the land.’ Their skills were too
valuable. Indeed, they flourished, emerging as one of the colony’s leading
families.” Which group did the Leonards belong, suggesting that some
people in this group embodied the trend of skilled working people with the
means to thumb their noses at unrepresentative authority figures and to
seek liberty from these authorities?
■ Agricultural landlords
○ Which attitude toward work did Protestant theologian John Calvin
promote?
■ A person was judged by his or her daily life and deeds, and success in
his or her worldly endeavors was a sign of possible inclusion as one of
the Elect
○ Which selection best describes some early twenty-first century Americans’
views toward able-bodied persons on public welfare that is similar to the
thought that seventeenth century English and English Americans held
toward the unemployed?
■ Able-bodied persons without jobs are lazy and unproductive
○ Which of the following was NOT a factor behind the rise of black slavery in
the American colonies?
■ A fear that West Africans, if left alone, might someday surpass
Europeans in economic and technological achievement
● Quiz 2
○ Which of the following was NOT a significant trend in revolutionary
America?
■ The poor supported independence; the rich opposed it
○ What did the advocates of republicanism find disturbing in the first three or
four decades after the War for Independence?
■ Wage labor
○
○ Which group was fully excluded from participating in electoral politics
before 1815?
■ Native Americans
○ Which one of the following was NOT a significant point of debate
concerning the rightful character of American government in the aftermath
of independence?
■ Should government officials obtain office via elections or royal
appointment?
○ Enslaved African Americans did all but one of the following actions during
the American Revolution. What did they NOT do?
■ Some, in hopes of gaining their freedom, organized their own
armed units for the Revolution
○ What did the advocates of republicanism find disturbing in the first three or
four decades after the War for Independence?
■ Wage labor
○ Which selection best explains the “relative” ease of journeymen and
apprentices engaging in demonstrations before 1815?
■ They were not governed by the clock and the hourly wage
system
○ Which notion was NOT foremost on the minds of major revolutionary
leaders?
■ Abolition of enslaved labor
○ Which of the following was NOT true of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765?
■ Colonists of the laboring classes showed little interest in the
Stamp Act controversy
○ Which historical development occurred in the “background” during the
middle of the eighteenth century (1701-1800) as the imperial British
government pursued policies that later made its North American colonies
producers of raw materials and consumers of English manufactured
goods?
■ The industrial revolution
○ Which of the following reasons best explain why advocates of
republicanism find wage labor disturbing in the first three or four decades
after the War for Independence?
■ Wageworkers were economically dependent on their
employers who in turn often influenced their political views
○ NOT among the forms of pre-revolutionary (i.e., 1763–1774) protest over
British rule was
■ Armed skirmishes and battles against British soldiers and
sailors
○ Which workers had their rhythms of work measured by the clock or labor
discipline in English-speaking colonial North America?
■ Slaves
○ Which one of the following was NOT a characteristic of the world of
artisans?
■ Production of goods for the world market
○ Which of the following was NOT a point of social conflict within the
colonies prior to the American Revolutionary War?
■ Relations between factory owners and industrial workers
○ What was the general state of the economy in the thirteen colonies for
several years after the French and Indian War?
■ Economic hardship for those colonists who belonged to the
lower and middling orders
○ In 1806, a group of Philadelphia cordwainers (a.k.a. shoemakers) who
were journeymen under the leadership of Peter Polin and Undriel Backes,
organized and struck for higher wages. Their employer had them arrested
for conspiracy. The court found the strikers guilty of conspiracy and said
wageworkers have no right to organize a trade association for the
purposes of what is now called collective bargaining. Beaten but unbowed,
the cordwainers organized a cooperative boot and shoe factory instead of
returning to work for their former employer. What value did the judge in the
Philadelphia Cordwainers Conspiracy case uphold?
■ Economic liberty for employers to engage with his or her employees
individually rather than collectively over wages, hours, and working
conditions
○ What was one course of action by the unemployed and other members of
the lower orders during economic downturns in mid-eighteenth century
colonial America?
■ They often ransacked warehouses for food
○ Which one of the following was NOT a characteristic of the world of
artisans?
■ Production of goods for the world market
○ Which one of the following does NOT help explain the rousing impact and
influence of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?
■ A claim that one day America, not Great Britain, would have the world’s
largest empire
○ Which one of the following was NOT a significant feature of colonial
resistance from 1763–1774?
■ The gulf between elite and ordinary protesters steadily widened; by
1775, fewer issues than ever held them together
○ One of the many problems that American revolutionaries had in fighting
the British was that
■ Most revolutionaries were laboring people, not full-time professional
soldiers
○ Which occupational groups benefited from the French and Indian War
(1756-1763)?
■ Merchants, farmers, and gunsmiths
○ In 1806, a group of Philadelphia cordwainers (a.k.a. shoemakers) who were
journeymen under the leadership of Peter Polin and Undriel Backes, organized and
struck for higher wages. Their employer had them arrested for conspiracy. The
court found the strikers guilty of conspiracy and said wageworkers have no right
to organize a trade association for the purposes of what is now called collective
bargaining. Beaten but unbowed, the cordwainers organized a workers’
cooperative boot and shoe factory instead of returning to work for their former
employer. What was the significance or value of the cordwainers establishing a
workers’ cooperative?
The cordwainers gained economic independence from owning and controlling their
workplace and their livelihood
○ Which one of the following contributions did women revolutionaries NOT make to
the war effort?
Some women issued proclamations and other demands for political equality for women
○ Which of the following was NOT a significant trend in revolutionary America?
The poor supported independence; the rich opposed it
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