Chapter 5 Practice Questions

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• All of the following are true of Scots-Irish
  immigrants in Pennsylvania EXCEPT that
• A. they were the first to settle in the American
  west
• They were not actually of Irish descent
• Many of them united with the American
  Revolutionaries
• They brought with them the now-how for Whiskey
  distilling
• They were tolerant of local Indians

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• The population growth of the American colonies by
  1775 is attributed mostly to
• a. the natural fertility of Native Americans.
• b. white immigration from Europe.
• c. the importation of slaves from Africa.
• d. the natural fertility of all Americans.
• e. the influx of immigrants from Latin
  America.

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• The most ethnically diverse region of colonial
  America was __________, whereas __________ was
  the least ethnically diverse.
• a. the middle colonies, the South
• b. New England, the South
• c. the frontier regions, New England
• d. the middle colonies, New England
• e. the South, New England

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• The most important economic enterprise in the
  American colonies was
• a. commerce.
• b. slave trading.
• c. manufacturing.
• d. agriculture.
• e. fishing.

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• The triangular trade of the colonial American
  shipping industry
• a. saw the Spanish gaining the largest
  profits.
• b. was not that profitable.
• c. relied on the Spanish fleet for
  protection.
• d. involved America, France, and England.
• e. involved the trading of rum for African
  slaves.

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Chapter 5 Practice Questions

• The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial
  America in the eighteenth century was
• a. iron making.
• b. making clothes.
• c. lumbering.
• d. rum distilling.
• e. arms and munitions production.