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CHAPTER 3
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which
colony’s legal code became the basic penal code for blacks in the South until
the end of the Civil War?
2. Virginia
3. South
Carolina*
4. Georgia
5. Maryland
2. Which
colony instituted martial discipline that some have historians have called
draconian?
3. Virginia*
4. Massachusetts
5. New
York
6. Pennsylvania
3. All
of the following offenses were regarded as gender specific (female) crimes
except
4. witchcraft
5. larceny*
6. fornication
7. infanticide
4. When
it came to capital punishment the harshest sanction were found in
the colonies.
5. southern*
6. New
England
7. mid-Atlantic
8. northeast
5. Which
document is considered the first charter of liberties ever framed by English
common people?
6. the
Magna Carta
7. Lawes,
Divine, Morall and Martiall (Dale’s Laws)
8. the
Mayflower Compact*
9. the
Body of Liberties
6. Which
colony’s criminal justice system was most influenced by the Bible and Mosaic
Code?
7. Pennsylvania
8. Massachusetts*
9. Virginia
10.
Maryland
7. Which
colonial laws combined biblical principles of justice with more secular
concepts such as due process and right to a jury trial?
8. Moses
His Judicials
9. Laws
Divine Morall and Martiall
10.
Laws and Liberties of 1648*
11.
Dale’s Laws
8. How
many actual witnesses to a crime were required to testify before an individual
could be executed in the Puritan colonies?
9. one
10.
two*
11.
three
12.
none
9. The
first mass execution of African slaves occurred in
10.
New York*
11.
Virginia
12.
South Carolina
13.
Pennsylvania
10.
During the first decades of colonial America violent crime
between white colonists
11.
was common
12.
was infrequent*
13.
resulted in thousands of deaths a year
14.
none of the above
11.
John Peter Zenger was arrested for committing
12.
treason
13.
perdition
14.
sedition*
15.
slander
12.
Which colony used banishment to get rid of undesirables?
13.
Pennsylvania
14.
Massachusetts*
15.
Virginia
16.
South Carolina
13.
This region has exhibited low crime rates for 300 years.
14.
New England*
15.
London and its environs
16.
the Chesapeake Bay region
17.
the backcountry of South Carolina
14.
Which religious group would become most identified with American
reform movements such as abolitionism and women’s rights?
15.
Puritans
16.
Anglicans
17.
Catholics
18.
Quakers*
15.
Which group was most pragmatic when it came to methods of public
punishment?
16.
Quakers
17.
Anglicans
18.
Puritans*
19.
Catholics
16.
Quaker punishments for deviant behavior included all of the
following except
17.
forfeiture of property
18.
fines
19.
branding*
20.
shaming
17.
Pennsylvania demanded the death penalty for
18.
blasphemy
19.
bestiality
20.
treason and murder*
21.
fornication and adultery
18.
Town constables were most common in
19.
New England*
20.
Virginia
21.
Pennsylvania
22.
South Carolina
19.
The first night watch in America was established in
20.
New York City
21.
Boston*
22.
Philadelphia
23.
Washington, D.C.
20.
The schout and the rattlewatch would be most familiar to
21.
French colonists
22.
Quaker colonists
23.
Puritan colonists
24.
Dutch colonists*
21.
One of the most important American criminal justice
modifications of old English law was the introduction of
22.
the jury trial
23.
the district attorney*
24.
the hue and cry
25.
the Barbadian Code of 1661
22.
During the colonial era the death penalty was most often used in
23.
New England
24.
the South*
25.
the Quaker and Puritan colonies
26.
the Northeast
23.
Contrary to English criminal practice which crimes in the
colonies became capital offenses?
24.
treason
25.
murder and manslaughter
26.
blasphemy and other moral offenses*
27.
gambling and drinking
24.
In New England
25.
property crimes outnumbered personal crimes*
26.
personal crimes outnumbered property crimes
27.
most crimes were against authority, such as confronting peace
officers on duty
28.
none of the above
25.
The development of prison reform in America can be traced back
to the
26.
use of debtors prisons by the Puritans
27.
principles of William Penn’s code*
28.
Anglican settlers of Virginia
29.
Anglican takeover of Pennsylvania
TRUE/FALSE
26.
According to recent scholarship, Massachusetts colonist were
rarely punished for Old Testament infractions. (T)
27.
Over 90 percent of witchcraft accusations occurred in the
southern and mid-Atlantic colonies. (F)
28.
During the colonial era punishments were less severe in England
than in America. (F)
29.
Historians regard the evolution of slave patrols in the early
1700s as the first real advances in American policing. (T)
30.
Prior to 1750 incarceration by statute was rare. (T)
CHAPTER 5
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Former
Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial in 1807 for
2. killing
Alexander Hamilton in a duel
3. treason*
4. helping
the British during the recent war
5. his
attempt to overthrow the American government
2. What
was the final result of the Aaron Burr Trial?
3. Burr
was exonerated*
4. Burr
was found guilty
5. the
trial had little effect on his standing with the American people
6. the
trial resulted in a hung jury
3. Which
city was the first to require a permanent night watch with fixed pay?
4. New
York City
5. Boston*
6. Charleston
7. Philadelphia
4. How
did most British citizens feel about the creation of a police force?
5. most
favored it
6. little
concern was voiced one way or another
7. most
opposed it *
8. most
were favorable if it was based on Napoleonic precedents
5. The
Marbury v. Madison decision
6. established
the exclusionary rule
7. applied
the Bill of Rights to state law
8. established
the doctrine of judicial review*
9. established
the power of the President over Congress
6. The
Alien and Sedition Acts proved an early test for the
7. First
Amendment*
8. Second
Amendment
9. Fourth
Amendment
10.
Fifth Amendment
7. Where
was the development of police forces stimulated by their affiliation with the
state?
8. London
9. England
10.
the United States
11.
France*
8. Which
police force was developed with the goal of preventive policing?
9. France
10.
London*
11.
Paris
12.
Texas and other Western states
9. The ranging
tradition of police patrol developed in
10.
Texas
11.
Australia
12.
England*
13.
France
10.
Much of America’s urban violence in the 1830s and 40s was
directed at
11.
German immigrants
12.
Irish-Catholic immigrants*
13.
Natives and freed slaves
14.
French Hugeunots and former British Tories
11.
Which city’s police force wore uniforms first?
12.
New York City
13.
Boston
14.
Charleston*
15.
Philadelphia
12.
Which city was the American capital between 1790 and 1800?
13.
Washington, D.C.
14.
New York City
15.
Annapolis
16.
Philadelphia*
13.
Prison stripes were first introduced in
14.
Massachusetts
15.
New York*
16.
Pennsylvania
17.
Virginia
14.
One of the main goals shared by the state prison building
movement in the 1820s and 1830s was
15.
making new institutions self-sufficient*
16.
increasing literacy
17.
creating new alternatives to imprisonment
18.
keeping convicts from working together to avoid contagion
15.
This prison reformer has been referred to as the “John Howard of
America.”
16.
Elam Lynds
17.
Thomas Eddy*
18.
Louis Dwight
19.
John Cray
16.
Which prison system was most popular in the United States?
17.
Auburn*
18.
Pennsylvania
19.
Panopticon
20.
the solitary system
17.
After a visit to this penitentiary the British writer Charles
Dickens criticized its system as “rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary
confinement.
18.
Sing Sing
19.
Auburn
20.
Newgate
21.
Eastern State Penintentiary*
18.
The first state to hold its executions in private was
19.
Pennsylvania*
b.New York
1. Virginia
2. South
Carolina
19.
Following the American Revolution
20.
slave revolts became less common
21.
slave revolts became less bloody
22.
the number of slave revolts increased*
23.
slave insurrections virtually ceased
20.
The first American slave revolt to actually come to bloody
fruition was led by
21.
Gabriel Prosser
22.
Nat Turner*
23.
Ike Turner
24.
Denmark Vesey
21.
After Aaron Burr killed his political adversary Alexander Hamilton
in a duel
22.
dueling was prohibited in the North
23.
dueling continued to flourish in the South and North
24.
dueling was completely outlawed
25.
dueling continued to flourish in the South*
22.
Which prison system model was deemed most profitable?
23.
Pennsylvania
24.
Panopticon
25.
Auburn*
26.
federal prisons
23.
With the quick success of the London Metropolitan Police model
24.
other English cities quickly adopted the system
25.
most English cities resisted its innovations*
26.
most forces turned to a more reactive model of policing
27.
a nationwide police force replaced the outdated watch system
24.
Which of the following was not a characteristic of early New
York City peacekeepers?
25.
cooping
26.
carried handguns *
27.
wore leather helmets
28.
did not wear uniforms
25.
Which individual is regarded as the “world’s first private
detective?”
26.
Inspector Clouseau
27.
Eugene Vidocq*
28.
Joseph Fouche
29.
Robert Peel
TRUE/FALSE
26.
Dueling was rare in America prior to the American Revolution.
(T)
27.
In the early nineteenth century even New England states had more
licensed taverns than meetinghouses. (T)
28.
Corporal punishment was abolished in American prisons by the
nineteenth century. (F)
29.
There was little discussion of a crime problem prior to the
American Revolution. (T)
30.
The early success of the London police model led other English
cities to quickly adopt the new system. (F)
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