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The above act, the Navigation Acts, 1660-1696, was part of a British attempt to
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Establish a high protective tariff on colonial goods entering Great Britain
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Increase colonial production of manufactured goods
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Enforce an economics system that believed colonies existed for the good of the mother country
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Encourage the British north American colonies to increase trade with the Dutch
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Acts such as the Navigation Acts encourage
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the production of diversified food crops in the South
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an increased demand for indentured servants by 1700
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the growth of the shipbuilding industry in New England
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the dominance of manufacturing industries in the middle colonies
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Which of the following is NOT true of the series of English acts that regulated trade during the seventeenth century?
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They were largely ignored by the American colonies if they were not beneficial
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They benefited both the colonies and England in certain ways
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They sparked frequent violent rebellions over British authority beginning with King Philip's (Metacom's) War
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They required that colonial goods be carried in English ships with English crews
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Which of the following is best reflected by the "Comments upon New England", 1671?
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Some colonists were beginning to feel a sense of identity separate from Great Britain by the late seventeenth century
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New England was threatening the world trade dominance of Great Britain in the late seventeenth century
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Britain's inability to provide the colonists with adequate defense from the American Indians led the colonists to issue the Declaration of Independence
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The majority of American colonists favored separation from Great Britain in 1671
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The above passage, "Comments upon New England", indicates that the New England colonies
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were dependent on Great Britain for raw materials
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dominated trade with American Indian, reducing British profits
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rejected the Anglican Church, leading to English repression
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were operating outside the British mercantilist system
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Which of the following best represents a reason for the development of the New England colonies as expressed by the Earl of Sandwich?
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British preoccupation with internal and European affais
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The continued naval dominance of the Spanish fleet
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The failure of anew England to provide England with useful raw materials
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The commitment of British troops to protect the new England colonies from American allies of the French
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Founders of Rhode Island supported the above provision of the charter primarily because they
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had experienced religious repression in the southern colonies
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were opposed to the institution of slavery
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had experienced intolerance of dissenting views in Massachusetts Bay
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had experienced religious repression in the European countries from which they emigrated
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Provisions such as those in the Rhode Island charter would ultimately encourage movement toward which of the following principles in colonial America?
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Egaliltarianism
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Separation of Church and state
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Creation of a theocracy where the leaders of Church and state are the same
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Churches being ruled by congregations
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Which of the following colonies would be most similar to Rhode Island in granting religious freedom during the 1600s?
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Virginia
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Pennsylvania
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North Carolina
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Connecticut
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Virginia Company Instructions to Sir George Yeardley, November 18, 1618
The system described above was primarily initiated to
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Encourage the deportation of riffraff from England
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Protect colonists settling in Virginia from attacks by American Indians
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Provide an adequate labor force to make the land profitable
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Encourage the growth of an elite class of plantation ownership
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Virginia Company Instructions to Sir George Yeardley, November 18,1618
As a result of the system eluded to above,
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Slavery replaced indentured servitude as the chief labor source in Virginia by 1618
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The Anglican Church was firmly established as the state church of Virginia by 1660
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A majority of English people emigrating to Virginia came as indentured servants prior to 1650
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There was little dissension between the backcountry and the Tidewater prior to 1700
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Virginia Company Instructions to Sir George Yeardley, November 18, 1618
Because no such system was established in New England,
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New England was the last colonial region to become overpopulated
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African slaves became the chief labor source in New England
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The Chesapeake colonies became more homogeneous than New England in both religion and ethnic background
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The average size of landholdings were smaller in the New England than in the Chesapeake
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Which system employed by the Spanish advanced the goals of both converting American Indians to Christianity and exploiting their labor?
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Socialism
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Capitalism
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Mercantilism
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Encomienda
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Seventeenth and eighteenth century French and Dutch colonial relationships with American Indians were based primarily on
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The mining and refining of precious metals
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Trade alliances centering on the fur trade
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Extreme hostility which prevented meaningful trade or commerce
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The production of cash crops under plantation agriculture
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Seventeenth and eighteenth century English
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Did not seek to acquire land from the native populations
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Was dedicated to the religious conversion and assimilation of native populations
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Eventually established colonies based primarily on agriculture exclusively used African slave labor for mining and agriculture
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Exclusively used African slave labor for mining and agriculture
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Which of the following groups of colonial settlers largely avoided intermarriage or cross-racial sexual unions with native populations?
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The English
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The Dutch
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The Spanish
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The French
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The Atlantic slave trade grew dramatically in the 18th century because of
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The difficulty of effectively enslaving native peoples
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A surplus of indentured servants
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Special funding from European nations to subsidize slavery
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Limited demand for colonial goods
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Which British North American colony violently confronted the Powhatan Indians and justified their actions by their strong belief in their racial and cultural superiority?
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Rhode Island
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Pennsylvania
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Massachusetts Bay
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Virginia
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Which of the following was the largest slave rebellion in the British North American colonies prior to the Revolutionary War?
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Shay's Rebellion
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Stono Rebellion
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Pope's Rebellion
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Who, as governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, claimed that Puritans should establish a "City upon a Hill"?
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Lord Baltimore
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John Winthrop
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John Wesley
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Ronald McDonald
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Which religion of the British North American colonies, nicknamed the "bread colonies," was the most ethically, religiously, and demographically diverse?
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Which of the following regions had the longest growing seasons, primarily cultivated rice and indigo, and had a majority African slave population?
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From 1600 to 1750, the Dutch, French, and English in colonial North America
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Developed "spheres of influence" which ended in colonial rivalries
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Traded peacefully with American Indian Tribes
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Became involved in numerous colonial-Indian conflicts that had spread from Europe
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Faced increased aggression from the Spanish Empire
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The most economically profitable commerce between European colonies in North America and native populations between the 16th and 18th centuries was based on
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Before 1750, what was the most frequent reaction of British colonists in North America to increased trade regulations and a growing mistrust of England's commitment to support the colonies?
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Which of the following is NOT an example of England exerting greater control over its North American colonies?
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During the 17th century, which of the following was the primary cash crop for the Chesapeake colonies?
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Tobacco
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Rice
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Sugarcane
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Cotton
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Eighteenth-century Spanish contact with native communities in North America, through both missionaries and the establishment of presidios, was most prevalent in
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Florida
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Texas
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Louisiana
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California
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Which 18th Europeans nation's settler's most categorically rejected North American Indian culture and worldviews?
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France
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Spain
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Portugal
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England
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Which of the following best describes American Indian alliances with North American colonies during the 17th and early 18th centuries?
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The alliances were overwhelmingly with the French
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The alliances were limited due to reductions in the fur trade
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The alliances were shifting, complex, and fragile
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The alliances were based mostly on religious connections
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In addition to deadlier weapons, which European trade goods had the most destructive effect on American Indian communities?
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Which American Indian confederation, reaching form the St. Lawrence Valley to the eastern Great Lakes, successfully resisted both native and colonial challenges during the 18th century?
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The Iroquois
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The Huron
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The Ojibwa
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The Cherokee
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Which of the following terms best describes the maritime economic system of global exchange?
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The Lords of Trade
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The Navigation Acts
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The Atlantic World
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Encomienda
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Historians describe the colonial system of the European "mother country" regulating trade of its manufactured goods in exchange for raw materials from its North American colonies, as
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Socialism
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Utopianism
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Mercantilism
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Capitalism
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Which colony in the mid-17th century passed legislation protecting the rights of the Catholic colonists to worship freely?
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Massachusetts Bay
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Maryland
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Virginia
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New York
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In the British North American colonies between 1607 and 1750, political communities based on English models, economic ties, and legal structures led to
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A lack of religious diversity and pluralism
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Strict obedience to British rules and regulations
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Anglicization in the British colonies
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Strong and consistent enforcement of the Navigation Acts by England
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Starting in the early 18th century, some southern British colonies adopted slave codes from Barbados that
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Ensured the protection of basic human rights for slaves
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Led to the emergence of strict racial categories in colonial society
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Were similar to the French and Spanish standards for slave treatment
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Limited the total number of slaves on a plantation
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By the mid-18th century, British colonies in North America Began to develop similar
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Religious institutions as religious pluralism declined
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Governance, with control over the lower houses in colonial legislature
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Educational institutions as literacy rates nearly 100 percent throughout the colonies
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Economic production pattern of commerce
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With the exceptions of the Dominion of New England, British governmental oversight of the North American colonies prior to 1750 was
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Limited to the Southern colonies
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Strong and consistent
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Closely aligned with colonial governements
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Laissez-faire, or hands-off
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Colonial intellectual resistance to 18th century British imperial control was often based on
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The Enlightenment
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The Great Awakening
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Nativism
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Anglican Doctrine
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Which 18th century religious movement in the British colonies most clearly signified growing religious independence, diversity and uniqueness?
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The Great Awakening
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Puritanism
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Deism
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The Enlightenment
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Which mid-Atlantic British colony was noted for its promotion of religious freedoms, good relations with local Indians, and Quaker idealism?
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New Jersey
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New York
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Delaware
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Pennsylvania