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The most distinctive feature of the Rhode Island colony was that

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it enjoyed the most complete religious freedom of all english colonies

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Before the first english settlements in New England, Native Americans in the region had been devastated by

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intertribal conflicts caused by disputes over hunting grounds

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The Indian tribe that first encountered the Pilgrim colonists in New England were the

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Wampanoags

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King Philip’s war represented

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The last major Indian effort to halt New Englanders’ encroachment on their lands

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The primary value of the New England Confederation lay in

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Providing the first small step on the road to intercolonial cooperation

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6
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The event that sparked the collapse of the Dominion of New England was

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the Glorious (bloodless) revolution in England

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The short-lived colony conquered by the Dutch New Netherland in 1655 was

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New Sweden

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William Penn’s colony of Pennsylvania

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actively sought settlers from Germany and other non-british countries

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Besides Pennsylvania, Quakers were also heavily involved in the early settlement of both

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New Jersey and Delaware

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The middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware

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had more ethnic diversity than either New England or the southern colonies

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11
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The Principle motivation shaping the earliest settlements in New England was

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religious commitment and devotion

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12
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Compared with the Plymouth colony, the Massachusetts Bay colony was

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larger and more prosperous economically

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One reason that the Massachusetts Bay was not a true democracy is that

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Only church members could vote for the governor and the general court

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For most of their early history, the colonies of Maryland and Virginia

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contained far more men than women.

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The primary beneficiaries of the “headright” system were

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landowners who paid the transatlantic passage for indentured servants.

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The primary cause of Bacon’s Rebellion was

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the poverty and discontent of many single young men unable to acquire men.

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17
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African slavery became the prevalent form of labor in the 1680s when

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planters were no longer able to rely on white indentured servants as a labor force.

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18
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The culture that developed among the slaves in the English colonies of North America was

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a combination of several African and American cultures.

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19
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Political and economic power in the southern colonies was dominated by

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wealthy planters.

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20
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Because there were few urban centers in the colonial South,

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a professional class of lawyers and financiers was slow to develop.

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21
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Puritan lawmakers in New England prevented married women from having property rights because

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they feared that separate property rights for women would undercut the unity of married couples.

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22
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In New England, elementary education

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was mandatory for any town with more than fifty families.

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23
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The Congregational Church of the Puritans contributed to

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the development of basic democracy in the New England town meeting.

24
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In contrast to the Chesapeake Bay colonists, those in New England

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enjoyed longer lives and more stable families.

25
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The focus of much of New England’s politics, religion, and education was the institution of

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the town.

26
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The “Half-Way Covenant” provided

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baptism but not “full communion” to people who had not had a conversion experience.

27
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Those people accused of being witches in Salem were generally

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from families associated with Salem’s burgeoning market economy.

28
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English settlers greatly altered the character of the New England environment by

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their extensive introduction of livestock.

29
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Imperial England and English soldiers developed a contemptuous attitude towards “natives” partly through their colonizing experiences in

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Ireland.

30
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The event that signaled that beginning of the end for the new Spanish empire in the New World was

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the defeat of the Spanish Armada

31
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The English first attempted colonization in the Americas in

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Roanoke

32
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England’s first colony at Jamestown

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was saved from failure by the leadership of John smith and by John Rolfe’s introduction of tobacco

33
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What makes the Virginia Company charter such a significant document in American history?

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It guaranteed Jamestown colonists citizenship rights equal to those of Englishmen.

34
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What single cause was responsible for the death of so many Jamestown settlers in the early years?

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Starvation

35
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Representative government was first introduced to the Americans in the colony of

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Virginia

36
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The early conflicts between English settlers and the Indians near Jamestown laid the basis for the

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Forced separation of the Indians into separate territories of the reservation system

37
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The primary labor source for the early development of the plantation colonies of Virginia and Maryland was

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Indentured servants

38
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The Acts of Toleration (1649) granted Marylanders

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Freedom of Christian worship

39
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The purpose of slave codes was to

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Limit the rights and behavior of Negro slaves

40
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The primary reason that no new colonies were founded between 1634 and 1670 was

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the civil war in England.

41
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Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were

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religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia.

42
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The high-minded philanthropists who founded the Georgia colony were especially interested in the causes of

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prison reform and avoiding slavery.

43
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In the last half of the 15th century some 40,000 africans were forced into slavery by Portugal and Spain to

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work on plantations on he Atlantic Sugar islands.

44
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The early voyages of the scandinavian seafarers did not result in permanent settlement in north america because

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no nation-state yearning to expand supported these ventures

45
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The development of “three sister” farming on the southeast Atlantic seaboard

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produced a rich diet that led to high population densities.

46
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Identify the statement that best describes the Black Legend

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spain’s Reputation as a brutal and exploitive colonizer

47
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All of the following contributed to the emergence of a new interdependent global economic system except:

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European explorers’ desire to create new cultures

48
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In an effort to reach the indies, Spain looked westward because

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Portugal controlled the African coast

49
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All of the following are true about Pope’s Rebellion in 1680 except

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The revolt by Pueblo Indians was successfully halted by the Spanish

50
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One of the main factors that enabled Europeans to conquer native North Americans with relative ease was

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the absence of dense concentrations of population or complex nation-states in North America.

51
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The institution of encomienda allowed the

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European governments to give Indians to colonists if the promised to Christianize them.

52
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The term “Columbian Exchange” describes

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The transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Old and New Worlds

53
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Most likely the first Americans

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People who crossed the land bridge from Eurasia to North America

54
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The treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish conquistadors can be described as:

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at times brutal and exploitative

55
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Which of these statements does NOT describe mestizos?

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b. They were the pagan slaves of Cortes’ soldiers

56
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The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of

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the discovery of nearly identical species of fish in long-separated freshwater lakes of various continents

57
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In which of the following is the explorer mismatched with the area he explored:

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Ponce de Leon—Misissippi River Valley