HIST CHP.2 – Flashcards
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Who founded a permanent settlement in Quebec in 1608?
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Samuel de Champlain
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What is the meaning of the term "filles du Roi"?
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king's daughters
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The Dutch Republic was _____.
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predominantly Protestant
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By 1600, which group had become the leading economic power in Europe?
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the Dutch
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Large, landed estates that were offered to wealthy Dutchmen from the West India Company in the 1630s were called _____.
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patroonships
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The Virginia Company was composed primarily of merchants from _____.
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London
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What was the House of Burgesses?
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the first legislative body in English America
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What did indentured servants receive for their labor?
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free passage to America
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Which law, passed in 1649, called for freedom of worship of all Christians?
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the Act for Religious Toleration
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Widows in the English colonies ______.
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controlled their deceased husbands' lands until their eldest son reached 21
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Which of the following was a common disease in the Chesapeake colonies?
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malaria
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The first New England settlement, founded in 1620, was ____.
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Plymouth Colony
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The Wampanoag leader was named _____.
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Massasoit
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Freemen in the General Court in Massachusetts were those male property holders who _______.
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were church members
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The settlers in which area adopted the Fundamental Orders?
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Connecticut
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Anne Hutchinson held religious meetings in ________.
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Boston
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What happened in 1642 that slowed the number of settlers to New England?
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the outbreak of the English Civil War
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The Spanish began importing African slaves to Santa Domingo to grow sugar cane, because ______.
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many Indians had died from disease
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By 1700, more than _______ slaves had been brought to the English West Indies.
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250,000
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The first Europeans in the Carribbean concentrated on ______.
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mining for precious metals
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By the 1640s, the principles crop grown in Barbados went from being tobacco to _____.
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sugar
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The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina ensured stability by linking property ownership and political rights to ______.
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a hierarchical social order
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The Dutch colony of New Netherlands split to become the two proprietary colonies of ______.
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New Jersey and New York
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Who devised the "Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina"?
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Anthony Ashley Cooper
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Which crop, introduced in the 1690s, became a staple for the Carolina economy?
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rice
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What situation interrupted France's efforts to establish a foothold in North America?
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religious warfare between Catholics and Protestants.
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The total number of French settlers in Canada ______.
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was less than the total number of England's North American settlers
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The instrument of colonial dominance for the Dutch was the ______.
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Dutch East India Company
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The settlers in New Netherlands treated the Iroquois people as ___.
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trading partners
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What was the greatest challenge facing the Maryland colony?
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religious conflict
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Which of the following was a joint-stock company that was granted a charter to establish an English colony in the New World?
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Plymouth
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Falling tobacco prices in the eighteenth century caused the colonists to ________.
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produce more tobacco
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The Puritans who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
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wanted to reform the Anglican Church
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The first document to establish self-government -and the decisions of the majority- in North America was _________.
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the Mayflower Compact.
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Unlike the Virginia settlers, most New Englanders settled in America with ______.
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their families
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Compared to families in the Chesapeake region, New England families __________.
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had more children
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Relative to Virginia's economy, New England's economy was _____.
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more diversified.
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Why did Anne Hutchinson move to Rhode Island?
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Rhode Island had a policy of religious toleration
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Which of the following was one of the ways that slave managed to preserve some elements of a normal life under the brutal conditions of slavery and the slave code?
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They formed families
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Farming of which of the following caused widespread deforestation of entire Caribbean islands?
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Sugarcane
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Why was it difficult for colonists to become wealthy in the sugar trade?
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Production of sugar required costly investments in land and equipment.
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Which country turned Brazil into one of the world's major producers of sugar?
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Portugal
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The profits earned from rice persuaded Carolina planters to ______.
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invest more heavily in slave labor
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Rice farming was very similar to the farming of _____.
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sugar
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Which colonial religious group granted women spiritual quality with men?
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Quakers
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Which of the following colonies had an established practice of peaceful and respectful interactions with the native population?
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Pennsylvania
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The Quakers rejected ______ and believed that salvation was possible for anyone who sought it.
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predetermination.
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Which of the following stalled pop. growth in the Chesapeake colonies?
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prohibition on marriage of indentured servants
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Which of the following offered colonists the greatest religious freedom?
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Rhode Island
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What was the dominant religion in the English colonies during the seventeenth century?
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Anglican
