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Apush Chapter 4-6
Advanced Placement United States History
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Colonial America
Review for Unit 2 Test-Chapters 4-6

Directions: There will be 80 multiple choice questions on the test. These review questions follow a chronological order. I would suggest that you study them in this order first and then scramble them up.

1. As the seventeenth century wore on, regional differences continued to form, most notably in the south, where slave labor was very important.
2. The population of the Chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable for its scarcity of women.
3. During the seventeenth century, indentured servitude solved the labor problem in many English colonies for all of the following reasons: a. The Indian population proved to be an unreliable work force because they died in such large numbers b. African slaves cost too much money c. In some areas families formed too slowly d. Families procreated (had babies) too slowly
4. The “headright” system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.
5. By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was Virginia.
6. Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production.
7. Merchant planters reaped the greatest benefit from the land policies of the “headright” system.
8. For their labor in the colonies indentured servants received all of the following: a. Passage to America b. A suit of clothes c. A few barrels of corn d. At times a small parcel of land
9. English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called indentured servants.
10. Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies

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