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Frage 1
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The above act was part of a British attempt to
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encourage the British North American colonies to increase trade with the Dutch.
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enforce an economic system that believed colonies existed for the good of the mother country.
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increase colonial production of manufactured goods.
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establish a high protective tariff on colonial goods entering Great Britain.
Frage 2
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Acts such as the one above encouraged
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the growth of the shipbuilding industry in New England.
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the production of diversified food crops in the South.
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the dominance of manufacturing industries in the middle colonies.
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an increased demand for indentured servants by 1700.
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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 benefited both the colonies and England in certain ways.
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They were largely ignored by the American colonies if they were not beneficial.
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They required that colonial goods be carried in English ships with English crews.
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They sparked frequent violent rebellions over British authority beginning with King Phillip's (Metacom's) War.
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Which of the following is best reflected by the above passage?
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New England was threatening the world trade dominance of Great Britain in the late seventeenth century.
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The majority of American colonists favored separation from Great Britain in 1671.
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Britain's inability to provide the colonists with adequate defense from American Indians led the colonists to issue the Declaration of Independence.
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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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The above indicates that the New England colonies
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were operating outside the British mercantilist system.
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rejected the Anglican Church, leading to English repression.
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dominated trade with American Indians, reducing British profits.
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were dependent on Great Britain for raw materials.
Frage 6
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Which of the following represents a reason for the development of the New England colonies as expressed by the Earl of Sandwich?
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The commitment of British troops to protect the New England colonies from the American Indian allies of the French.
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The continued naval dominance of the Spanish fleet.
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British preoccupation with internal and European affairs.
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The failure of New England to provide England with useful raw materials.
Frage 7
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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 European countries from which they emigrated.
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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.
Frage 8
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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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Separation of church and state
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Egalitarianism
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Churches being ruled by congregations
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Creation of a theocracy where the leaders of the church and state are the same
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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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The system described above was primarily initiated to
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protect colonists settling in Virginia from attacks by American Indians.
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encourage growth of an elite class of plantation owners.
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provide an adequate labor force to make the land profitable.
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encourage the deportation of riffraff from England.
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As a result of the system eluded above,
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slavery replaced indentured servitude as the chief labor source in Virginia by 1618.
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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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the Anglican Church was firmly established as the state church of Virginia by 1660.
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Because no such system was established in New England,
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the average size of landholdings was smaller in New England than in Chesapeake.
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New England was the last colonial region to become "overpopulated."
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African slaves became the 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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