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Great Britain sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the eighteenth century?

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Protestants from non-English and less prosperous parts of the British Isles

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What was William Penn’s most fundamental principle?

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Religious freedom

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The English Bill of Rights of 1689

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Listed Parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury

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Before founding Pennsylvania, William Penn assisted a group of English Quakers to set up a colony in what became

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New Jersey

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Enumerated goods?

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Were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar that first had to be imported to England

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Spain’s Las Siete Partidas, a series of laws touching on slavery

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Gave slaves some opportunities to claim rights under the law in Spain’s American empire

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The Glorious Revolution of 1688

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Resulted mainly from the fears of English aristocrats that the birth of James II’s son would lead to a Catholic succession

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All of the following were factors enticing migration to the British colonies EXCEPT

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Cheap and safe transatlantic transportation

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The separation of church and state

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Existed in only a few colonies

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Why did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692?

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The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others

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Which of the following was true of small farmers in 1670s Virginia?

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The lack of good land, high taxes on tobacco, and falling prices reduced their prospects

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The Walking Purchase of 1737

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Was a deceitful deal for the Lenni-Lanape Indians

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What was one of Pennsylvania’s only restrictions on religious liberty

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Holding office required an oath affirming a belief in Jesus Christ, which eliminated Jews from serving

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According to New England Puritans, witchcraft

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Resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes

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Which commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during the seventeenth century?

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Sugar

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What inspired the 1715 uprising by the Yamasee and Creek peoples against English colonists in Carolina?

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High debts incurred by the Yamasee and Creek in trade with the English settlers

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Who finally ended the Salem witch trials?

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The Massachusetts governor

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Nathaniel Bacon

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Actually was socially closer to the elite than to the indentured servants who supported him

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Which one of the following is true of the English West Indies in the seventeenth century?

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By the end of the century, the African population far outnumbered the European population on most islands

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Which of the following best sums up population diversity in colonial British America?

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Great Britain originally promoted emigration to the colonies as means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century, opening the colonies to a more diverse group of settlers

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The first English Navigation Act, adopted during the rule of Oliver Cromwell

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Aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch

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During the colonial era, Philadelphia

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Became home to a varied population of artisans and craftsmen

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Carolina grew slowly until?

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Rice as a staple crop was discovered to be extremely profitable

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The biggest reason Jews left Europe was?

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To escape rigid religious restrictions in German-speaking areas of Europe

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Which man was once a slave, only to be freed and own slaves himself?

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Anthony Johnson

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What form of behavior did William Penn ban in his Pennsylvania colony?

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Swearing

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Which of the following was NOT a factor that made African slavery appealing to English planters in the New World?

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A long English legal tradition of discriminating against dark-skinned peoples eased the legalization of slavery

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Unlike slavery in American, slavery in Africa

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Was more likely to be based in the household than on agricultural plantation

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Slavery developed more slowly in North America than in the English West Indies because?

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The high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to die within a short time

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What historical evidence demonstrates that blacks were being held as slaves for life by the 1640s?

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Property registers list white servants with the number of years they were to work, but blacks (with higher valuations) had no terms of service associated with their names

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What ironic consequence did William Penn’s generous policies, such as religious toleration and inexpensive land, have?

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They contributed to the increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on African slave labor

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The Scottish and Scotch-Irish immigrants to the colonies

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Were not only poor farmers, but physicians, merchants, and teachers too

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Slave labor in the Chesapeake region increasingly supplanted indentured servitude during the last two decades of the seventeenth century, in part because?

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Improving conditions in England reduced the number of transatlantic migrants

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William Penn was a member of which religious group?

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Quakers

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How did the new Massachusetts charter of 1691 change that colony’s government?

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It made Massachusetts a royal colony rather than under the control of Puritan “saints”

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In its early years, Carolina was the “colony of a colony” because its original settlers included many

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Landless sons of wealthy planters in Barbados

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Which of the following was true of poverty in the colonial period?

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Limited supplies of land, especially for inheritance, contributed to poverty

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Which of the following is true of slave resistance in the colonial period?

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Some slaves were the offspring of white traders and therefore knew enough English to turn the legal system, at least until Virginia lawmakers prevented them from doing so

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Bacon’s Rebellion was a response to

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Worsening economic conditions in Virginia

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Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England?

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A woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband

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Which of the following is true of slavery?

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The English word “slavery” derives from “Slav,” reflecting the slave trade in Slavic peoples until the fifteenth century

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What was the impact of King Philip’s War (1675-1676)?

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In the long run the war produced a broadening of freedom for whites in New England

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The Charter of Liberties and Privileges in New York

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Reflected in part an effort by the British to exert their influence and control over the Dutch

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Bacon’s Rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia?

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The replacing of indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia’s plantations

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Which of the following was true of agriculture in the colonies during the eighteenth century?

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Because New York’s landlords had taken over so much land, agriculture grew more slowly in New York than in other colonies

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Of colonists in British North America, which group was the wealthiest?

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South Carolina rice planters

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What was the Covenant Chain?

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An alliance made by the governor of New York and the Iroquois Confederacy

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Governor William Berkely’s regime

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Was a corrupt alliance of the Virginia colony’s wealthiest tobacco planters

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By the 18th century, consumer goods such as books and ceramic plates

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Were found in many colonial residents homes

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To Quakers, liberty was

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A universal entitlement

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The economy of the Carolina colony

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Originally centered on cattle-raising and trade

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According to the economic theory known as mercantilism

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The government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power

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When England took over the Dutch colony that became New York

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The English ended the Dutch tradition of allowing married women to conduct business in their own names

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William Penn obtained the land for his Pennsylvania colony because

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The king wanted to cancel his debt to the Penn family and bolster the English presence in North America

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In what ways did England reduce colonial autonomy during the 1680s?

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It created the Dominion of New England, run by a royal appointee without benefit of an elected assembly

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As English colonial society became more structured in the 18th century, what were the effects on women?

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Women’s work became more clearly defined as tied closely to the home

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What sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the mid-17th century?

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The restoration of the monarchy in 1660

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The German migration to the English colonies

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Led to the formation of many farming communities

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Captain Jacob Leisler, the head of the rebel militia that took control of New York in 1689

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Was overthrown and killed in so grisly a manner that the rivalry between his friends and foes polarized New York politics for years

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Pennsylvania’s treatment of Native Americans was unique in what way?

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Pennsylvania purchased Indian land that was then resold to colonists and offered refuge to tribes driven out of other colonies

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“Anglicization” meant all of the following EXCEPT

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Colonists were determined to speak English as perfectly as those who lived in England

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Which of the following was true of the colonial elite?

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They controlled government

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Who in the Pennsylvania colony was eligible to vote?

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A majority of the male population

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Ideas of race and racism in 17th-century England

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Had not fully developed as modern concepts

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When the Virginia House of Burgesses decreed that religious conversion did not release a slave from bondage

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It meant that, under Virginia law, Christians could own other Christians

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According to laws in the 17th century Chesapeake

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free blacks had the right to sue and testify in court

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North American crops and products

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Were part of a commercial trade network that knitted together a far-flung empire

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Indians in 18th century British America

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Were well integrated into the British imperial system

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How did English rule affect the Iroquois Confederacy

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After a series of complex negotiations, both groups aided each other’s imperial ambitions

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As accusations and executions multiplied in Salem, what was the long-term impact of the witchcraft trials there?

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The number of witchcraft prosecutions in Massachusetts declined markedly

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The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

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Proposed a feudal society in the New World, complete with hereditary nobility

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By the 18th century, colonial farm families

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Viewed land ownership almost as a right, a precondition of freedom

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The Glorious Revolution witnessed uprisings in colonial America, including ones in?

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New York and Maryland

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English and Dutch merchants created a well-organized system for “redemptioners.” What was this system for?

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For carrying indentured German families to America where they would work off their transportation debt

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What role did Native Americans play in British imperial wars during the eighteenth century?

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They did much of the fighting in the wars

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How did the colonial elite view their role in society?

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It meant the power to rule- the right of those blessed with wealth and prominence to dominate others

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Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691

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It was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders

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The Virginia slave code of 1705

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Embedded the principle of white supremacy in law

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