APUSH Chapter 3 Review

Most seventeenth century English migrants to North American colonies were

• commercial agents

• laborers

• religous dissenters

• aristocrats

By the 17th century, European and African immigrants outnumbered natives along the Atlantic coast. 

• True
• False

Religious toleration was more pronounced in American than anywhere. 

• True
• False

The first American college was 

• Yale
• William and Mary 
• Columbia
• Harvard 

"Jeremiads" were

• witchcraft
• sermons
• community experiments
• a measurement of wealth

In the English colonies, Roman Catholics

• were generally well treated
• were officially illegal 
• made up a large minority population of most colonies 
• suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland

In the mid-1600s, New England Puritan ministers began preaching against the decline of 

• community
• family
• piety
• freedom 

The witchcraft trials in Salem 

• saw the accusers recant their charges
• were unique in the history of colonial New England
• led to prison terms, but no excutions
• prodvided evidence of a decline in religious fervor

In Puritan New England, participation in town meetings was limited to 

• "selectmen"
• all church members
• adult males who were church members
• all land-owning adults

By the 1770s, the two largest port cities in colonial North America were 

• New York and Boston
• Philadelphia and New York 
• Philadelphia and Charleston 
• Boston and Newport