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Question 1

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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
  • Increase colonial production of manufactured goods
  • Enforce an economics system that believed colonies existed for the good of the mother country
  • Encourage the British north American colonies to increase trade with the Dutch

Question 2

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Acts such as the Navigation Acts encourage
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  • the production of diversified food crops in the South
  • an increased demand for indentured servants by 1700
  • the growth of the shipbuilding industry in New England
  • the dominance of manufacturing industries in the middle colonies

Question 3

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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
  • They benefited both the colonies and England in certain ways
  • They sparked frequent violent rebellions over British authority beginning with King Philip's (Metacom's) War
  • They required that colonial goods be carried in English ships with English crews

Question 4

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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
  • New England was threatening the world trade dominance of Great Britain in the late seventeenth century
  • Britain's inability to provide the colonists with adequate defense from the American Indians led the colonists to issue the Declaration of Independence
  • The majority of American colonists favored separation from Great Britain in 1671

Question 5

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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
  • dominated trade with American Indian, reducing British profits
  • rejected the Anglican Church, leading to English repression
  • were operating outside the British mercantilist system

Question 6

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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
  • The continued naval dominance of the Spanish fleet
  • The failure of anew England to provide England with useful raw materials
  • The commitment of British troops to protect the new England colonies from American allies of the French

Question 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 southern colonies
  • were opposed to the institution of slavery
  • had experienced intolerance of dissenting views in Massachusetts Bay
  • had experienced religious repression in the European countries from which they emigrated

Question 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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  • Egaliltarianism
  • Separation of Church and state
  • Creation of a theocracy where the leaders of Church and state are the same
  • Churches being ruled by congregations

Question 9

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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
  • Pennsylvania
  • North Carolina
  • Connecticut

Question 10

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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
  • Protect colonists settling in Virginia from attacks by American Indians
  • Provide an adequate labor force to make the land profitable
  • Encourage the growth of an elite class of plantation ownership

Question 11

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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
  • The Anglican Church was firmly established as the state church of Virginia by 1660
  • A majority of English people emigrating to Virginia came as indentured servants prior to 1650
  • There was little dissension between the backcountry and the Tidewater prior to 1700

Question 12

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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
  • African slaves became the chief labor source in New England
  • The Chesapeake colonies became more homogeneous than New England in both religion and ethnic background
  • The average size of landholdings were smaller in the New England than in the Chesapeake

Question 13

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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
  • Capitalism
  • Mercantilism
  • Encomienda

Question 14

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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
  • Trade alliances centering on the fur trade
  • Extreme hostility which prevented meaningful trade or commerce
  • The production of cash crops under plantation agriculture

Question 15

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Seventeenth and eighteenth century English
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  • Did not seek to acquire land from the native populations
  • Was dedicated to the religious conversion and assimilation of native populations
  • Eventually established colonies based primarily on agriculture exclusively used African slave labor for mining and agriculture
  • Exclusively used African slave labor for mining and agriculture

Question 16

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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
  • The Dutch
  • The Spanish
  • The French

Question 17

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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
  • A surplus of indentured servants
  • Special funding from European nations to subsidize slavery
  • Limited demand for colonial goods

Question 18

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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
  • Pennsylvania
  • Massachusetts Bay
  • Virginia

Question 19

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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
  • Stono Rebellion
  • Bacon's Rebellion
  • Pope's Rebellion

Question 20

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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
  • John Winthrop
  • John Wesley
  • Ronald McDonald

Question 21

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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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  • The New England Colonies
  • The Middle Colonies
  • The southernmost Atlantic colonies
  • The Chesapeake colonies

Question 22

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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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  • The Chesapeake colonies
  • The New England colonies
  • The southernmost colonies
  • The middle colonies

Question 23

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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
  • Traded peacefully with American Indian Tribes
  • Became involved in numerous colonial-Indian conflicts that had spread from Europe
  • Faced increased aggression from the Spanish Empire

Question 24

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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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  • Commercial fishing
  • The slave trading
  • The fur trade
  • The mining of precious metals

Question 25

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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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  • Increased smuggling
  • Compliance with the laws of England
  • The creation of large-scale industries
  • Calls for revolution

Question 26

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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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  • Salutary neglect
  • The Navigation Acts
  • The Molasses Act
  • The Dominion of New England

Question 27

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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
  • Rice
  • Sugarcane
  • Cotton

Question 28

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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
  • Texas
  • Louisiana
  • California

Question 29

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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
  • Spain
  • Portugal
  • England

Question 30

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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
  • The alliances were limited due to reductions in the fur trade
  • The alliances were shifting, complex, and fragile
  • The alliances were based mostly on religious connections

Question 31

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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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  • Tobacco
  • Alcohol
  • Steel traps and snares
  • Jewelry and manufactured clothes

Question 32

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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
  • The Huron
  • The Ojibwa
  • The Cherokee

Question 33

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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
  • The Navigation Acts
  • The Atlantic World
  • Encomienda

Question 34

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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
  • Utopianism
  • Mercantilism
  • Capitalism

Question 35

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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
  • Maryland
  • Virginia
  • New York

Question 36

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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
  • Strict obedience to British rules and regulations
  • Anglicization in the British colonies
  • Strong and consistent enforcement of the Navigation Acts by England

Question 37

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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
  • Led to the emergence of strict racial categories in colonial society
  • Were similar to the French and Spanish standards for slave treatment
  • Limited the total number of slaves on a plantation

Question 38

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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
  • Governance, with control over the lower houses in colonial legislature
  • Educational institutions as literacy rates nearly 100 percent throughout the colonies
  • Economic production pattern of commerce

Question 39

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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
  • Strong and consistent
  • Closely aligned with colonial governements
  • Laissez-faire, or hands-off

Question 40

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Colonial intellectual resistance to 18th century British imperial control was often based on
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  • The Enlightenment
  • The Great Awakening
  • Nativism
  • Anglican Doctrine

Question 41

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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
  • Puritanism
  • Deism
  • The Enlightenment

Question 42

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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
  • New York
  • Delaware
  • Pennsylvania
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