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Quiz by Snack Pack, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Snack Pack
almost 10 years ago
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Question 1
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What did the English settlers believe was the basis of liberty?
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Freedom
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Land
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Loyalty to the Crown
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Belief in God
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Economic independence
Question 2
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English Puritans:
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Were loyal to Charles I.
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Believed that the church of England still resembled the catholic Church in its rituals
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Fled to France for religious freedom before coming to America.
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Followed the teachings of Protestant theologian Martin Luther.
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Believed in the separation of church and state.
Question 3
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How did Richard Hakluyt and the other court advisers explain the claim that there was a connection between freedom and colonization.
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The English constitutional system would improve on Spain's less structured system in the New World.
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English colonization would save the New World from Spanish Tyranny.
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The only way to achieve true freedom was through wealth, and the abundant amount of gold in the New World would make all Englishmen wealthy.
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They claimed no such connection; they saw them as seperate and unrelated.
Question 4
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The Domain of New England was a:
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northeastern trade area created by the Navigation Acts
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proprietary colony granted to Edmund Randolph
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system of colonial governance decreed by William of Orange after the Glorious Revolution
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new unit of colonial administration created by King james II in order to centralize colonial governance
Question 5
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According to the theory of Mercantilism:
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the wealth of a nation depended upon the size of its population
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development or rigorous trade and control of colonial commerce were essential for national power.
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colonies were an economic drain on national resources and thus should be given independence.
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only merchants should be eligible for election to the house of commons.
Question 6
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Britain's new imperial policy after 1763 can best be described as:
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one of increased centralized control over the colonies
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one of relaxed control over the colonies
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unchanged from before 1763
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one that sought to get rid of the colonies
Question 7
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Which of the following statements about early Jamestown is most correct?
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It was a success
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Its success or failure was unclear
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It was saved by the discovery of silver
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It was a deathtrap
Question 8
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The colony of Massachusetts Bay was settled by:
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Catholics
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Puritans
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Quakers
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Anglicans
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Pilgrims
Question 9
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How did the Virginia Company relapse the colony's development?
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It instituted the head-right system giving set acreage of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another passage.
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It fired John Smith and brought in a more popular leader
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It gave control back to the king, who straightened our its problems by relying on a system of "total quality management"
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It required all settlers to grow tobacco, a highly profitable crop
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It created an executive committee that really ran the colony and a committee of colonists who thought they were running it
Question 10
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___________________ formulated the idea that New England would be a "city upon a hill"
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John Winthrop
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William Bradford
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George Fox
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Roger Williams
Question 11
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opposition to what acts provoked the first great drama of the revolutionary era and the first major split between the colonists and the Great Britain over the meaning of freedom?
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The Stamp Act
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The Sugar Act
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The Intolerable Acts
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The Townsend Act
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The Declaratory Act
Question 12
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Britain wished for the colonies to:
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stop cheating the Treasury by violating the navigation acts
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contribute to the cost for British protection of the colonies
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accept virtual representation
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help pay down Britain's national debt
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all the above
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none of the above
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