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which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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Establishment of Dominion of New England; Glorious Revolution in England; Parliamentary Declaration of Rights

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Pennsylvania's Charter of Liberty

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Required persons to affirm Jesus Christ's dvinity

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Which of the following was not a significant feature of the Salem witchcraft hysteria of the early 1690's

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Many were tried on charges of witchcraft, but no one was actually convicted

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Which of the following was not central to William Penn's vision for his Quaker colony?

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a hands-off policy toward private behavior

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Which of the following was an effect of Bacon's Rebellion?

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The increased use of African slaves

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In the mid-eighteenth, colonial America's leading commercial port was

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Philadelphia

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Which did not characterize free blacks (such as Anthony Johnson) in Virginia and Maryland in the 1600's?

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They could not own African slaves

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When Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against teh Governor of Virginia, he called for all of the following except

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The freeing of slaves, particularly enslaved Christians

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Which was not an element in Leisler's Rebellion (1689)?

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Leisler's success meant French domination of New York

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Which of the follwoing was not a key factor behind the introduction of black slavery in the Chesapeake?

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a fear that West Africans, if left alone, might seek to establish colonies of their own in North America, or even Europe

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By the late 1600's the majority of enslaved labor inteh SWest indies worked on

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sugar plantations

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In the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692

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almost 150 people, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft

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Which of the follwing was not a theme of seventeenth-century British mercantilism?

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Trade should flow freely among all lands, unimpeded by government policy.

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In 1691, Massachusetts was transformed when a new charter, issued by the English government, absorbed Plymouth into Massachusetts, and

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Made property ownership, not church membership, a requirement for voting in General Court elections

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The colony founded by a leader who hoped women and blacks would be given equality along with all persons was

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Pennsylvania

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Which was not a part of the Glorious Revolution?

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It secured the Catholic succession to the throne of England

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Prior to being taken over by the English in 1664, New York was

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called New Netherland, and controlled by the Dutch

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The largest group of immigrants from continental Europe were the

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Germans

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The Dutch primarily settled in

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New York and New Jersey

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Which was not a characteristic view of mercantilism?

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A country's imports should exceed its exports

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Which was not part of the Dominion of New England (1686-88)?

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Vermont

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Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?

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Rice

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Which is not true regarding King Philip and King Philip's War?

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Indian tribes fought together under the unified leadership of Metacom

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Which of hte following was not a major cause fo Bacon's Rebellion?

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a determination to abolish slavery in Virginia

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One significant consequence of the Glorious Revolution for the American colonies was

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a renewed sense of entitlement to liberty, as the birthright of all English subjects.

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Which was not part of the aftermath of King Philip's War?

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The Iroquois, having attacked the coloinists, were destroyed

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TRUE/FALSE

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During the first half of the 18th century, the flow of non-English migrants to British North America was larger than that of English migrants

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True

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The English eclipsed the Dutch as the leading producer and trader of inexpensive consumer goods in the 18th century

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True

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New York was named after king charles the II's brother, James, the grand Duke of york

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True

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In the Walking Purchase of 1737 , the Lenni Lanape Indians of Pennsylvania lost more land than they had anticipated when Governor James Logan hired a team of runners to mark off the amount of land "a man could walk" in thirty-six hours

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True

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In the English colonies as a whole, half of the wealth at mid-century was concentrated in teh hands of the richest 10% of the poplulation

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True

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In1678, when the Lords of Trade in England queried the Massachusetts government about how well it was following the Navigation Acts, the Lords received the reply from teh colony that the Navigation Acts did not apply to the colony unless teh colony's own government (not teh British Parliament, but rather the Massachusetts General Court) approved them

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True

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In the mid-1700's, per capita, the richest people in teh world were most likely the (non-slaves) colonists in what would later become the United States.

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True

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During the 18th century, women's work in the rural North grew less taxing and less rigidly defined

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False

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Tituba, who was one of the people accused of beinga witch in Salem, was originally an Indain from the Caribbean who, in 1692, was a slave in Massachusetts

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True

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Racism-the idea that some races are inherently superior to others and entitiled to rule over them-was fully develped in 17th-century colonial Virginia

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False

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The Inidans' defeat in King Philip's War hastened the introduciton of slavery in Carolina

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False

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By 1700, alomost 2 million acres of land was owned by five New York families

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True

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During the early to id-eighteenth century, consumption of manufactured goods penetrated deep into the colonia countryside

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True

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Fourteen women and five men were hanged as witches in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692

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True

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Under the 17th-century Bristish Navigation Acts, certain goods produced in teh colonies had to be taken in Ebnglish ships and sold in ports in England

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True

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In 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses decreed that religious conversion did not release a slave from bondage

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True

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By 1775, three-fifths of the English owned no land, but about two thirds of the free male colonists in British North America owned land

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True

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America had become a land of the very rich and the desperately poor; the in-between ranks of yeomen and craftsmen had all but disappeared

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Flase

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In the late seventeenth century, the liroquois were known for their fierce hatred and courageous fighting against British colonists

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False

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Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 was rebellion over a tax increase on bacon

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False

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Vastly more people living in teh colonies hd far greater opportunities- to vote, own land, worship freely-than existed in Europe

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True

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During the 18th century, British colonies diversified along ethnic and religious lines

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True

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Over the century between 1650 and 1750, the agricultural economies of New England, the Middle Colonies, and the backcountry grew more and more alike

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False

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There were no banks in 1700s colonial America

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True

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The English word slave derives from the word Slav, that is, a people from Eastern Europe who were enslaved by other Europeans into the 1400's

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True

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The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669) ended hereditary nobility, and abolished landgraves and caciaques

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False

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Slaves showed little inclination to challenge their enslavedment in seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century Virginia

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False

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In human history slaves have all been blacks

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False

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The rise of black slavery in Virginia developed only gradually, over several generations

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True

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In the 1700s, 90% of colonists in Bristish North America worked farms

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True

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After 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses held that Christians could not enslave other Christians

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False

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Virginia's upper class in the 1700's was sometimes called a "cousinocracy."

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True

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In the first half of the 18th century, low taxes, the lack of a military draft, high wages for skilled workers, and an abundance fo liberties cahracterized life for many whites in teh British colonies of North America

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True

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In 1705, The House of Burgesses enacted strict slave codes

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True

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