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The English takeover of New Netherland (which was subsequently renamed New York)

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was followed by the expulsion of the Dutch

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In the early days of the Virginia Colony, which is the best description of its settlers?

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They preferred to search for riches instead of farm

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After 1618, the Virginia Company's principal means of attracting new settlers was

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a system of land grants

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How did Roger William's religious ideas clash with those of the Puritans?

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Williams felt that it was not enough to purify the Church of England from within, but to separate from it

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Lord Baltimore's settlement in Maryland

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never succeeded in becoming a feudal society

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King Charles I disbanded Parliament in 1629 because he could not deal with the intense criticism from the

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Puritans

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In 1622, the Native American tribes of Virginia

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attacked the English settlements

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Because of its policy of religious toleration, ______ attracted unusual numbers of independent-minded people

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Rhode Island

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What eventually solved the economic problems of 17th-century Virginia?

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cultivation of tobacco

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Which describes the Puritan attitude toward the Church of England in the early seventeenth century?

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They wanted to improve the Church of England from within

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Seventeenth-century Quakers were known for their

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beliefs in personal humility and pacifism

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To resolve the problem of the vast expenses New World settlement required, English merchant-capitalists introduced the concept of

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the joint-stock company

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Initially, Lord Baltimore intended that Maryland be a haven for

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Catholics

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The colony of Pennsylvania was established as a religious sanctuary for

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Quakers

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Which identifies why the Mayflower Compact is considered an important historical document?

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It was the first example of colonists forming a basic government in North America

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How did the religious beliefs of the Quakers compare to those of the Puritans?

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The Quakers rejected the Church of England in favor of their own form of worship; the Puritans merely wanted to reform the Church of England

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Which statement provides the best interpretation of this sentence from text page 57? "The diversity of early English colonization must be emphasized precisely because it is so easy to overlook"

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The different reasons settlers came to each English colony cannot be considered separately from their experiences once they had arrived

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The selection of a site for Jamestown was based primarily on the settlers

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fear of surprise attacks

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English settlers in seventeenth-century America could be characterized best in terms of their

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striking social diversity

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The lives of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson provide strong evidence that

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Massachusetts Bay faced difficulties in creating the perfect society in America

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In which colony was the death rate for the early colonists most severe?

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Virginia

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How did someone become a member of a church in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

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A person had to perform community service before being allowed to join a community church

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Which is the only category in which seventeenth-century colonists in Massachusetts were more successful than Virginia's colonist?

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adopting a concept of community welfare

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The first three years of Jamestown's history witnessed

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terrible hardship and suffering

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Why was William Penn's Frame of Government remarkable for its time?

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It included more personal liberties than other English colonies

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Those who migrated to the Chesapeake Bay area as indentured servants were

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normally single, lower-class males in their teens or early twenties

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Jamestown might have gone the way of Rhode Island had it not been for the perseverance of

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Captain John Smith

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Which best summarizes the pattern of English kings in colonizing North America?

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they followed a precise plan of geographic development

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Jamestown's prosperity was ensured by

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tobacco cultivation

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The document in which the Pilgrims established a civil government for their Plymouth colony has become known as the

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Mayflower Compact

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Which best describes how the colony of New York was settled?

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New York was originally settled by the Dutch and then taken force by the English

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Upon arriving in the New World, English settlers

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generally adapted old beliefs to the new environment

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The Pilgrims, who left Holland to settle in America

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feared their way of life was being undermined by the ways of their Dutch hosts

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The man who taught Virginians how to grow tobacco was

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John Rolfe

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Which was NOT a major factor stimulating English migration to the New World?

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laws that forced migration of the poorer classes

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The attitude of King James I toward tobacco

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showed hat, in the end, he valued revenue more than good health

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Large numbers of the first English settlers in the Carolinas came from

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Barbados

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The ______ Company was responsible for the settlement of Jamestown in Virginia

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Virginia

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The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed that the best way to reform the Church of England was to

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remain in the Church and reform it from the inside

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In 1624, Virginia became

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a royal colony

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Why did the original boundaries of Maryland present a problem to colonists?

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They were vaguely defined

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Which made the economy of Carolina different from the other Southern colonies

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Carolina's economy became dependent on rice as a staple

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In which colony were religious reasons least important in its founding?

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Virginia

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To its founding leaders, _______ would be a City on a Hill

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Massachusetts

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Under the "headright" system in Virginia

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all new arrivals received 50-acre land grant after they had paid for their passage

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Why did the new colonists of Georgia demand slaves?

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The main crop of Georgia, tobacco, could be cultivated only with slave labor

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The purpose of these new English companies to finance settlements was

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to encourage "limited liability" for the investors

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Anne Hutchinson's skillful self-defense at her trial before the magistrates of Massachusetts Bay was ruined by

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her reliance on the scriptures

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Seventeenth-century English Puritans

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were committed to significant institutional change

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Indentured Servants

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were working off the coast of their passage to America

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