History Chapter 2
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Just as the reconquest of Spain from the Moors established patterns that would be repeated in Spanish New World colonization, the methods used in which one of the following countries anticipated policies England would undertake in America?
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Ireland.
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Why did the Pilgrims flee the Netherlands?
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They felt that the surrounding culture was corrupting their children.
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The Massachusetts General Court:
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Reflected the Puritans' desire to govern the colony without outside interference.
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Even Jewish people enjoyed religious freedom under Maryland's Act concerning Religion. T/F
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False.
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In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England:
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Was more family oriented.
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Which one of the following is an accurate statement regarding the impact on Maryland of seventeenth-century England's Protest and-Catholic conflict?
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The English government temporarily repealed Calvert's ownership of Maryland and the colony's policies of religious toleration.
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Which one of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order by the dates they were founded, from the earliest to the latest?
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Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island.
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The English increasingly viewed America as a land where a man could control his own labor and thus gain independence. T/F
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True.
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Growing connections with Europeans lessened warfare between Indian Tribes. T/F
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False.
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In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and Eastern Native Americans:
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Native Americans initially welcomed the colonists' goods.
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Jamestown was originally settled only by men. T/F
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True.
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Treatment of the Indians by members of the Virginia colony was influenced in part by Las Casa's condemnation of Spanish behavior. T/F
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True.
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Where in the Americas did the Pilgrim's originally plan to go?
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Virginia.
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During the reign of ___, the English government turned its attention to North America by granting charters to Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh for the establishment of colonies there.
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Elizabeth I.
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Which one of the following is true of poverty in seventeenth-century Great Britain?
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About half of the population lived at or below the poverty line by the end of the seventeenth-century.
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Oliver Cromwell's Parliament passed the first Navigation Act, aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch. T/F
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True.
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Religious toleration violated the Puritan understanding of moral liberty. T/F
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True.
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John Winthrop followed which one of the following policies toward Native Americans?
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He declared all Indian land to be the property of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
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How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development?
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It instituted the headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or around passage.
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As leader of the Jamestown colony, John Smith:
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Alienated many of the colonists with his autocratic rule.
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Who received most of the profits from trade between Native Americans and colonists?
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Colonial and European merchants.
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Which one of the following spurred increased European interest in colonizing North America?
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The desire to spread universal freedom.
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The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker:
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Founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut.
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Maryland was similar to Virginia in that:
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Tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society.
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During the seventeenth century, indentured servants:
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Had a great deal of trouble acquiring land.
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All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century EXCEPT:
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A lower birth rate, which made it difficult to find workers for new industries.
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Intermarriage between English colonists and Native Americans in Virginia:
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Was very rare before being outlawed by the Virginia legislature in 1691.
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What does the seal of the Massachusetts Bay colony imply?
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That the Indians wished for the English to come over and help liberate them.
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Which of the following is true of indentured servants?
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Their masters could determine whether they could marry.
