Chapter 6 Life in the 13 Colonies   1. In the government of the colonies after the Glorious Revolution, final authority rested with the ____________     A) the voters.     B) colonial legislature.     C) colony's royal governor.     D) Anglican Church.   2. Harvard and other early colonial colleges trained mostly ____________     A) Ministers.     B) laborers.     C) doctors.     D) lawyers.   3. New England settlers usually built their towns around the ____________     A) saltboxes.     B) pastures.     C) greens.     D) meeting houses.   4. Under the policy of mercantilism, England looked on its American colonies as a source of raw materials and a ____________     A) model for the organization of Parliament.     B) limit on the power of monarchs.     C) market for its own products.     D) center of a profitable fur trade.   5. In colonial government, all the following groups were restricted from voting EXCEPT ____________     A) enslaved persons.     B) Native Americans.     C) women property owners.     D) white male property owners over the age of 21.   6. The population of the Middle Colonies was made up of people who ____________     A) came from many different countries and religions.     B) were mostly descendants of the Dutch and Swedes.     C) mainly followed the Roman Catholic religion.     D) were like the Puritans in New England.   7. The Southern slave codes did all of the following EXCEPT ____________     A) forbid enslaved persons to carry weapons.     B) prohibit enslaved persons from holding meetings.     C) require enslaved Africans to learn to read.     D) treat enslaved people as both persons and property.   8. In the 1600s, the frontier in the Middle Colonies was along the ____________     A) eastern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.     B) Ohio River Valley.     C) Lancaster and Reading Roads.     D) Chesapeake Bay.   9. Frontier life was known to offer all the following EXCEPT ____________     A) sharp social class distinctions.     B) opportunities for cheap land and adventure.     C) a spirit of independence and equality.     D) a mixture of cultures and traditions.   10. The Southern Colonies were characterized by ____________     A) cities and urban life.     B) farms and rural life.     C) early English immigrants who separated from the Anglican Church.     D) an upper class of wealthy merchants.   11. The cash crops in the Southern Colonies included all the following EXCEPT ____________     A) corn.     B) tobacco.     C) rice.     D) indigo.   12. By 1760 most Africans in the colonies were ____________     A) free artisans and sailors.     B) enslaved in the Middle Colonies.     C) enslaved in the Southern Colonies.     D) living in New England as free citizens.   13. Women in New England commonly worked as all of the following EXCEPT ____________     A) merchants.     B) shopkeepers.     C) political leaders.     D) farmers.   14. An important step toward democracy found in New England was ____________     A) the Sabbath service.     B) the village common.     C) the tithingman.     D) the town meeting.   15. The term "Middle Passage" refers to the ____________     A) banks of a number of slow-flowing rivers in Virginia.     B) lower class Southern farmers who worked for big planters.     C) route of slave trips between Africa and America.     D) raids made by slave traders in Africa.