Redemptioners were immigrants who: (Multiple Choice)

Redemptioners were immigrants who:
 a. came to America as missionaries.
  b. were brought over on credit provided by ship captains.
  c. had previously been imprisoned in England.
  d. refused to work as indentured servants.

Question 2

Costing more than the average person's yearly income, the Atlantic passage in the early seventeenth century was roughly
 a. 1
  b. 10
  c. 100
  d. 1,000

Question 3

Based on the research findings of David Galenson, Robert Heavner and others, what type of person would you expect to negotiate an indenture contract of the longest duration?
 a. a 13 year-old illiterate male who went to New York
  b. a 22 year-old female weaver who went to Massachusetts
  c. a 20 year-old male unskilled worker who went to the West Indies
  d. a 21 year-old male blacksmith who went to the Pennsylvania

Question 4

What type of person would you expect to have the shortest indenture?
 a. 13 year-old male craftsman who went to New England
  b. 22 year-old male laborer who went to the West Indies
  c. 20 year-old male farm worker who went to the South
  d. 21 year-old male carpenter who worked in the West Indies

Question 5

In the early colonies, private landholdings
 a. gradually replaced common ownership.
  b. occasionally supplemented common ownership.
  c. were only legalized after 1650.
  d. were the norm from the very beginning of colonization.

Question 6

People from which nation were most likely to come to colonial North America as indentured servants?
 a. England.
  b. Liberia.
  c. Germany.
  d. France.

Question 7

Indentured servitude was first used to promote immigration in
 a. Jamestown in 1618.
  b. Plymouth Colony in 1623.
  c. New York in 1630.
  d. Rhode Island Colony in 1652.

Question 8

Who would be most likely to move from Europe to the New World in the early 1600s?
 a. A 19 year-old, first born son with many skills
  b. A 37 year-old skilled carpenter
  c. A 17 year-old from a poor family
  d. A 21 year-old woman
  e. An unskilled laborer with a wife and two children

Question 9

Settlers often received 50 acres of land for each person whose passage they paid to America. This was known as
 a. a special purpose grant.
  b. an entailment.
  c. the headright system.
  d. planter's shares.

Question 10

What was the least important reason for the failure of the Virginia Company?
 a. Difficulty in finding good crops to grow
  b. The Company's employees had unforeseen labor alternatives.
  c. There was a relatively small incentive for employees to work hard.
  d. The death rate was much higher than they expected.

Question 11

Jamestown's early years were marked by
 a. a focus on futile get rich quick schemes.
  b. collective operations under which production methods and consumption were shared.
  c. lack of local control over production decisions.
  d. extremely high mortality rates.
  e. All of the above.

Question 12

Of the English-owned joint stock companies that operated in North America, which was the only one to survive longer than 20 years?
 a. The London Company
  b. The New Plymouth Company
  c. The Hudson Bay Company
  d. The Massachusetts Bay Company

Question 13

According to a royal investigation in 1623 of the English colonies in Virginia, the average life expectancy of newly arrived setters was
 a. 2 years.
  b. 5 years.
  c. 10 years.
  d. 20 years.

Question 14

Of the 6,000 settlers who migrated to Virginia since the founding of the first permanent settlement in 1607, nearly ________ had died by 1623.
 a. 5,500
  b. 4,000
  c. 2,500
  d. 1,000