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By the time the Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere in the 1490's, most Native Americans lived in and along which of the following regions?

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mesoamerica and the western coast of south america

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Which of the following describes the first ancestors of the Native American peoples?

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migrants from northeastern asia that came across the bering strait

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Which of the following describes the first peoples who migrated to the Americas?

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eskimo bands of hunter-gatherers

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What was the foundation for the prosperous Native American societies in Mexico, Peru, and the Mississippi River Valley?

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maize, beans and squash

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Which of the following statements describes the Maya peoples?

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a native group in mexico who built pyramids and made the first calendar and sun dial

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The Aztecs lived in which of the following present-day locales?

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mexico

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The Hohokams, Mogollon, and Anasazi peoples who lived in present-day Arizona and New Mexico around A.D. 1000

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had irrigation systems, networks of roads, and villages made of adobe

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Which of the following was characteristic of both the Mississippian and Pueblo peoples?

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they created elaborate ceremonial and urban sites

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Which of the Pueblo peoples built hundreds of miles of straight roads across the desert in the American Southwest to facilitate trade?

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Anasazis

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The Native American settlement known as Cahokia was a

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burial site with temple mounds?

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Which of the following statements describes Native American peoples east of the Mississippi River?

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matrilineal inheritance system and increase in farming

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Which of the following was a characteristic of the Aztec, Mayan, and Iroquois civilizations?

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reliance on agriculture/farming

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Which of the following describes family life among Native Americans?

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kinship bonds more important than extended family

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Which of the following describes trading relationships among Native Americans in the period before European contact?

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expansive trade networks

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Which of the following features characterized most Native North Americans' spiritual views and practices?

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g-ds and spirits

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Which of the following statements describes the status of European monarchs in 1450?

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challenged by nobles

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The social order in Europe around 1450 can be described as

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authoritarian and hierarchal

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Which of the following characteristics did traditional European, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations of the fifteenth century hold in common?

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hierarchal societies

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Typically, when an English woman of the fifteenth century married, she

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she gave up ownership of property to her husband

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Which of following is the name for the European practice wherein the eldest son inherited nearly all of his father's estate?

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primogeniture

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In 1450, the majority of European men were which of the following?

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peasants

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On the eve of European colonization of the Americans, most Western Europeans lived in

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small, rural communities

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The European Renaissance began in 1300 in which of the following countries?

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Italy

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Which of the following Renaissance-era ideologies celebrated public virtue and service to the state?

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civic humanism

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Which European nation was the first to involve itself in exploration of the Atlantic as a route to Asia and the African slave trade?

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Portugal

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Merchants from which of the following countries made inroads in the Arab-dominated trade routes of the Mediterranean in the twelfth century?

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Italy

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The rise of commerce in most of Europe in the fifteenth century shifted the balance of power by favoring which of the following groups?

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monarchs

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Which Europeans were represented by guilds in the fifteenth century?

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artisans

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As it gained power in Europe, Roman and medieval Catholicism contended with pre-Christian festivals and the agricultural cycle by

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integrating them into christian holy days and biblical teachings

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Why were the Crusades, which took place between 1096 and 1291 A.D., significant in Europe?

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europeans became exposed to Arab trade

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Which of the following was a result of the Crusades, which took place between 1096 and 1291 A.D.?

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merchants in the west became aware of asian trade routes

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The first phase of the Reformation in the 1500s had its greatest success in which of the following countries?

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germany

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Martin Luther advocated which of the following ideas?

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the catholic church was corrupt and in need of reform, salvation is reached through the bible

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John Calvin and Calvinist theologians of the 1500s stressed which of the following ideas?

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the doctrine of predestination

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In West Africa, the Ghana Empire (800 A.D. to 1200 A.D.), the Mali Empire (1200s to the 1400s), and the fifteenth-century Songhai Empire shared which of the following characteristics?

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gold used as power

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Most of the people living in West Africa when European trade began in the early fifteenth century were?

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animists

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Which of the following factors prevented Europeans from seeking to conquer territory in Africa in the fifteenth century?

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coastal kingdoms were well protected

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Which of the following statements describes the Portuguese connection to African slavery in the 1400s?

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african slaves were sold by arab merchants

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Why was the fifteenth-century marriage of Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand of Spain significant?

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they completed Spain's campaign to oust muslims

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On October 12, 1492, Columbus, his men, and his ships reached

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an island in the Bahamas

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Why had Christopher Columbus faded from public view by the time he died in 1506?

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he did not find riches or great kingdoms

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Which of the following motivations drove the Spanish conquistadors who followed Columbus to the Americas in the early sixteenth century?

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desire for riches and land they could conquer

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Which of the following factors eased the Spaniards' conquest of the Aztecs in the sixteenth century?

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internal fighting over succession to the empire's throne

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Which of the following statements describes the impact of the Columbian Exchange?

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transported livestock, crops, disease and slaves from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas

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Why did the number of Indians living in Mesoamerica decline from about 30 million in the fifteenth century to approximately 3 million by 1650?

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they died from european diseases

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Which of the following explorers is correctly matched with his area of exploration?

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Cortés: Aztec Empire Pizarro: Incan Empire De Gama: Portugal Cabral: Brazil

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Why were the modern-day countries of Mexico and Peru originally Spain's most significant conquests?

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the Inca, Aztecs and Mayans were wealthy (gold)

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Which of the following statements characterizes the legacy of the Spanish conquest in the New World in the sixteenth century?

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to get rich, suppress indigenous people, and conquer land

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During most of the sixteenth century, which of the following was the wealthiest nation in Europe?

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Spain

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How did the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquer the Incans by 1535?

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people weakened from disease, then killed their emperor (Atahualpa)

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In the sixteenth century, the Spanish crown granted encomiendas to which of the following groups?

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indians who converted (to catholicism)

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The encomiendas granted by the Spanish crown in the sixteenth century consisted of

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gold and silver

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By the mid-1500s, Spain's main goal in North America was to

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maintain dominance and power in the region

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Which of the following diseases were introduced into Europe by Christopher Columbus's sailors after their journey to the Americas in the 1490s?

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syphilis

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Which of the following statements describes the significance of the arrival of New World crops, including maize and potatoes, in Europe and Asia after the 1500s?

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increased agricultural yield and population growth

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What caused the Spanish Netherlands revolt against Spanish rule in 1566?

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to protect calvinist faith

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King Henry VIII started the English Reformation by

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attempting to divorce his wife and declaring himself head of the new church of england

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Which of the following was an outcome of Elizabeth I's compromise on the Church of England in the late 1500s?

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she still practiced holy communion, angering protestants

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The main motive for King Philip II's attack on England in 1588 was to

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to restore the roman church and rid of protestantism

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Two hundred thousand Spaniards from Castile migrated to America in the 1500s in order to escape

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high taxes on agriculture and military service (result from Phillip using money on religious wars)

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Why was the influx of American gold and silver into the English economy during the sixteenth century significant?

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increased power to nobility

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Which of the following was true of the English outwork textile industry that emerged around 1500?

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landless peasants spun and wove wove wool into cloth in small cottages (mercantilism)

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Portuguese colonists in Brazil in the sixteenth century created an industry based on which of these resources?

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sugar

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Which of the following groups provided the labor for Brazil's profitable plantations in 1620?

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african slaves

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Which of the following statements describes the English migrants who initially settled in the Jamestown colony in the early 1600s?

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excepted to exact tribute from indigenous peoples and make money

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Powhatan, leader of a confederation of about two dozen tribes in Virginia,

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attempted to make allies with the english; provided corn in exchange for materials; and arranged a marriage between his daughter and John Rolfe

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What accounted for the uneasy relations that persisted between Powhatan's people and the Jamestown settlers for more than a decade after 1607?

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the groups could not agree on who would pay tribute to who

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The economic livelihood of the Virginia colony in the 1700s depended on which of the following products?

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tobacco plant

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Which of the following developments fostered the flow of migrants into the Virginia colony between 1617 and 1622?

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Virginia co. began giving 100 acre land grants

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What effect did American tobacco have in England during the early colonial period?

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huge appetite for tobacco, stimulating the economy

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Which of the following was the outcome of the surprise Indian attack on the Virginia colony in 1622?

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king james I revoked virginia company's charter and made virginia a royal colony

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Which of the following characteristics was a common feature of royal colonies throughout English America in the seventeenth century?

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the king's privy council appointed the governor and decreed the legal establishment of the church of england

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Lord Baltimore, the proprietor of Maryland, established that colony as a haven for

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catholics with an ordered toleration for protestants

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Which of the following describes the colony of Maryland, founded in 1632?

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religiously tolerant, elected its own rep. assembly, insisted right to initiate legislation

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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes life in the seventeenth-century North American plantation colonies?

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large farms with African slaves for labor and maximized production

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In North America's plantation colonies, most indentured servants

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had a 4-5 year contract and worked long hours in the heat; most poor when released

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In which of the following ways did the plantation colonies of Barbados differ from those in the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century?

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Barbados adopted slavery rapidly so that blacks outnumbered whites 3:1

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Which of the following statements describes Africans in Virginia after the 1660s?

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discovered they were enslaved permanently

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In contrast to the Spanish missionaries of the sixteenth century, the seventeenth-century French Jesuits

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immersed themselves into their lives to understand their values and views

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Which of the following factors encouraged migrants to New France in the seventeenth century?

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generous terms for indentured servitude (3 year contract and low salary)

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How was colonization similar for the French and Spanish?

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wanted to convert natives to christianity

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Which of the following describes the Dutch colony of New Netherland in the seventeenth century?

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it did not thrive, traded fur, small population and issues with natives

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Which of the following native groups capitalized on its geographic location in central New York and remained a significant political force in North America long after colonization?

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iroquois

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Why did Plymouth begin to thrive after its first year while Jamestown struggled for many years?

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they were a self governing religious congregation and few natives since small pox killed them all

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When they settled in the New World in 1630, the Puritans' first priority was to

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form a reformed christian society

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John Winthrop's phrase "City upon a Hill" referred to which of the following colonies?

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Massachusetts Bay

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For which of the following reasons was Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1636?

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he opposed the decision of an official religion, praised the pilgrims' separation of church and state, was religiously tolerant

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Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts Bay for

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holding heretical views and teaching that inward grace freed an individual from rules of the church (salvation was not reached through good deeds) ??

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Which of the following New England colonies required church membership in order to be able to vote?

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massachusetts bay

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What caused the Puritans' "errand into the wilderness" to become permanent?

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failure of the english revolution

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The worldview of devout Puritans, such as Cotton Mather, was based on which of the following?

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the world was full of supernatural forces that caused unusual events

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Why did the largest landholdings in seventeenth-century New England towns usually belong to wealthier families?

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largest plots of land to men of high social status

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Which of the following was characteristic of both the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies?

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governments controlled by a landholding aristocracy

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How did the Puritans justify their invasion of the Native Americans' land in the seventeenth century?

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a smallpox epidemic that devastated native populations was a favorable sign from g-d

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Which of the following statements is true of Metacom's War (King Philip's War), which took place in 1675-1676?

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war was last attempt to save indian lands and culture in NE

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Which of the following statements describes life in the Chesapeake region after 1660?

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wealthy planter merchants dominated the economy (sparked Bacon's rebellion)

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Why was William Berkeley significant in the Chesapeake region in the seventeenth century?

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he gave large land grants to members of his council and ignored demands of the people causing rebellion

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Which of the following was a consequence of Bacon's Rebellion of the 1670s?

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slavery replaced indentured servitude and house of burgesses took vote away from landless freemen

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How were the Indian uprising in 1622 and Bacon's Rebellion in 1675-1676 similar?

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attacked and changed the colony's government

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How were the Spanish conquistadors, Nathaniel Bacon's frontiersmen, and the Puritans were similar?

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treated the native americans brutally

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Which of the following describes the character of Britain's empire in America before 1660?

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Brits ruled with no organization or effort

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Which of the following was true of the Restoration Colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Carolinas in the 1660s?

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created when Charles II ascended throne (after Cromwell); all proprietorships

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Which of the following statements describes the dominant approach to settlement in North Carolina in its early years?

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wanted traditional european society with a manorial system and legally established church of england (failed)

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Where did the first colonists who settled in South Carolina and introduced racial slavery in the 1660s come from?

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Barbados

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Which American colony was established in the 1660s as a haven for Quakers?

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Pennsylvania

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Which of the following statements is true of the Quaker religion in the 1660s?

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argued that g-d imbued all with an inner light of grace (understanding) (sought to restore + to its early state/simple spirituality)

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The Navigation Acts, implemented in the American colonies by Britain in the mid-seventeenth century, were originally intended to

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goods to only be transported on English ships (cut out the french and dutch from colonial trade)

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The Navigation Acts of the mid-seventeenth century included which of the following stipulations?

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all imports and exports go on english ships and through english ports

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Which of the following was an outcome of the Navigation Acts in the mid-seventeenth century?

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smuggling became very common since colonists did not want to export straight to england

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Which of the following statements describes the change in English economic philosophy toward the colonies beginning in the 1650s?

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the english gov began to control colonial trade (b/c they were not happy with the balance of trade)

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As part of its mercantilist policy in the late seventeenth century, England committed which of the following actions?

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drove the dutch from new netherland

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Which of the following events provoked a major crisis for Puritans in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century?

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the 1684 annulment of the massachusetts bay charter

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For which of the following reasons did Britain's King James II create the Dominion of New England in 1686?

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wanted stricter control over the colonies (he created a royal province)

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For which of the following reasons did the 1686 Dominion of New England anger American colonists?

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invalidated land titles under the MB land charter and town meetings were banned

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Which of the following occurred in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688?

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politicians forced King William and Queen Marry to sign the Declaration of Rights

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In Maryland, the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution was characterized by

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religious conflict leading to legal establishment of the church of england (lord balitomre forcibly removed and suspended, royal gov imposed --none of this lasted)

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Which of the following describes the significance of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England and America?

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lax british rule on the colonies with new laws and taxes - also pursued policies to make the colonies economically beneficial

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Which of the following describes the process of tribalization that occurred in America in the early eighteenth century?

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stateless peoples' adaption to major demands from neighboring states

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Why was the Covenant Chain between New York and the Iroquois people in the eighteenth century significant?

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gave Iroquois dominance over all other indian tribes and gave NY economic and political dominance over other colonies

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Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the War for Spanish Succession (1702-1713) in the American Southeast?

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creek nation attacked spanish florida and burned st. augustine but failed to capture the fort and unsuccessfully attacked south carolina (charleston)

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Which of the following was true for the Iroquois in New York during the period of imperial warfare in the early eighteenth century?

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allied with france and britain and declared intention to remain neutral (in conflicts bw them)

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When the early eighteenth-century Anglo-French wars temporarily ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, Britain had

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obtained Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay region, access to albany from w. indian trade (france) & acquired fortresses of gibraltar and 30 year contract to supply slaves to spanish america

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Which agricultural product served as the foundation for the South Atlantic System in the eighteenth century?

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suagar, tobacco and rice

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Which of the following areas imported the smallest number of slaves in the early eighteenth century?

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British?

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Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the slave trade on Africa?

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gender imbalance and harder class divisions

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Which of the following statements characterizes African states' involvement in the Atlantic slave trade?

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Asante Kings used profits of slave trade to expand

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The transatlantic slave trade resulted in which of the following outcomes in the eighteenth century?

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men having more than one wife (polygamist societies)

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The term Middle Passage refers to which of the following?

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the voyage to America across the atlantic slaves took in over crowded ships

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Which of the following statements characterizes life for slaves in the West Indies in the 1700s?

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owners worked slaves to death and replaced them regularly (slave price low, sugar price high)

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Which of the following occurred as a consequence of the "tobacco revolution" in Virginia and Maryland in the late seventeenth century?

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slavery became a core institution ?

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Which of the following characterized tobacco, rice, and sugar production in eighteenth-century America?

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drove expansion of the slave trade

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What method did Chesapeake planters use in the early eighteenth century to prevent slave revolts?

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imported slaves of different ethnic backgrounds so they could not communicate (no similar lang)

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Which of the following explains why Chesapeake planters treated their slaves less harshly than West Indian planters in the eighteenth century?

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sugar had a higher profit while tobacco costed less, so there was fewer profit

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Which of the following statements describes slaves' lives in the North American colonies in the eighteenth century?

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tried to keep traditions and knowledge (hairstyles, motifs, mortars, pestles, house design, music, religion)

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The extent of violence perpetrated by whites against slaves in any particular geographic area depended on which of the following factors?

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the number of slaves (less violence with fewer slaves)

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What spurred slaves to organize the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina in 1739?

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promise of freedom to fugitive slaves

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How did South Carolina planters respond in the aftermath of the Stono Rebellion in 1739?

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planters cut slave imports and tightened plantation discipline (out of fear)

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Which of the following was true of slavery in the American colonies in the eighteenth century?

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large/successful rebellions were rare

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Which of the following changes occurred in white society in the Chesapeake colonies at the same time that slavery was being forced on Africans?

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more rigid class structure with economic and political elite

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During the period between 1676 and 1750, how did the Virginia gentry try to reduce social discontent?

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lowered taxes and encouraged small land owners to buy slaves

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People from which of the following groups modeled themselves after the English aristocracy in the first half of the eighteenth century?

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chesapeake landowners/new england settlers

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By the middle of the eighteenth century, Chesapeake planters displayed their dominance through?

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displayed wealth and gentility

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Which of the following combinations describes wealthy Chesapeake and Southern women in the first half of the eighteenth century?

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genteel and deferential (obeying husband)

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Which of the following statements characterizes the colonial shipbuilding industry during the early eighteenth century?

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colonial built ships made 1/3 of british merchant fleet (most ships built in Boston, Newport, Providence, Phili, and NY)

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In the mid-1700s, how were the English colonies throughout the British Atlantic empire primarily linked?

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small vessels on the hudson and delaware rivers (socioeconomic societies)

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The British colonists in eighteenth-century North America enjoyed a significant degree of autonomy over their royal governors mainly due to?

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salutary neglect

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What did the British policy of salutary neglect of the American colonies in the early eighteenth century mean?

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the british relaxed their supervision of internal colonial affairs, allowing them to govern themselves (and they appointed people who did nothing)

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For which of the following reasons did war break out between England and Spain in the late 1730s?

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Spain was angry of the English settlement in Georgia (and angry about the failure to protect SC as a rice-growing colony)

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The Americans' major objection to the Navigation Acts related to which of the following stipulations?

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all goods imported and exported from the colonies had to go through English ports

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Which of the following statements characterized the currency problems that plagued the American colonies in the early and mid-eighteenth century?

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the lack of currency led to issuing of paper money, which english creditors refused to accept

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Which of the following characterized the New England freehold society of the early eighteenth century?

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husbands at the head of the household and had a job while women were inferior and did house chores

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How did farmwives throughout the colonies in the eighteenth century contribute to their families?

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they were helpmates to their husbands (small gentry elite owned most of the land farmed by farmers and other workers)

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Which of the following statements describes the relationship of typical New England women to the church in the eighteenth century?

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most congregations filled with women although they were excluded from equal roles

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Which of the following statements best describes women's property rights in the English colonies in the eighteenth century?

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all of the bride's property legally given to the husband

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Which of the following statements best describes inheritance patterns in colonial New England during the mid-1700s?

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father's duty to provide inheritance to children otherwise loss of status in community

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In eighteenth-century New England, the notion that parents would pay grown children for their past labors in exchange for the privilege of choosing the children's spouses was known as

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the marriage portion

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Which of the following statements describes rural life in the New England colonies during the eighteenth century?

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colonists' sense of personal worth and dignity (in rural New England) contrasted sharply with European peasant life

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Which of the following developments created a crisis for New England Puritan society in the eighteenth century?

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population growth made land scarce

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Which of the following was a result of the long-practiced policy of subdividing land in New England for inheritance by the mid-1700s?

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number of kids conceived before marriage rose

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Which of the following was an outcome of New England families' efforts to maintain the freeholder ideal in the late eighteenth century?

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abandoned grain crops and adopted livestock agriculture

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Which of the following statements describes the role of money and economic exchange in eighteenth-century rural New England?

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generally no money was exchanged (b/w relatives and neighbors) and debts were recorded (maintained and settled every few years by cash transfers)

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In New York during the first half of the eighteenth-century, settlement of the Hudson River Valley showed which of the following patterns?

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dutch manorial system remained with few wealthy/powerful landlords dominating poor tenant families

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Which of the following statements characterizes the nature of colonial Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century?

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rise of wheat trade and influx in poor families introduced social divisions with a new class (agricultural capitalists)

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Which of the following features characterized the Middle Atlantic colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century?

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large cultural diversity

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Which of the following eighteenth-century Pennsylvania immigrant groups quickly lost its cultural identity by practicing intermarriage with other Protestants?

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Huguenots

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What did the German immigrants known as redemptioners do on their arrival in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century?

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negotiated terms of indentured servitude upon arrival to pay for their trip

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The most numerous voluntary (nonslave) emigrants to British North America in the eighteenth century came from which of the following groups?

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scots-irish

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Which of the following statements characterizes eighteenth-century religious practice in Pennsylvania?

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each religious sect enforced moral behavior among members through communal self-discipline

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The political conflicts that wracked colonial Pennsylvania in the middle of the eighteenth century stemmed from which of the following sources?

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religious conflict on laws that interfered with cultural practices

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Why was the print revolution that occurred in the colonies during the early eighteenth century significant?

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b/c the licensing act was lifted and people began to print their own newspapers/pamphlets spreading news faster and giving freedom of speech

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Which of the following individuals created the foundation for Enlightenment thinking?

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John Locke or Nicolas Copernicus

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The English philosopher John Locke believed which of the following ideas?

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everyone has natural rights (life, liberty and property), environment and experience has impact on behavior, character can be changed (through education, rational thought and purposeful action)

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The power of human reason, a world ordered by natural laws, and the progressive improvement of society are associated with which of the following movements?

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the enlightenment

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Puritan minister Cotton Mather's response to which of the following eighteenth-century crises demonstrated that Enlightenment ideas had begun to influence him?

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boston measles epidemic and then smallpox outbreak (thought g-d would cure measles but then smallpox came)

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Influenced by Enlightenment science, which of the following religious movements believed that God had created the world but allowed it to operate in accordance with the laws of nature?

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deism

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How did the Pietism movement of the eighteenth century differ from Puritanism?

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pietism stressed an individual's relationship with g-d (puritanism believed g-d formed an agreement with them)

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Which of these individuals would have most likely preferred Pietism to deism in the eighteenth century?

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scots-irish merchant (b/c more similar to protestantism?)

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What made George Whitefield such a successful evangelical preacher in New England in the 1740s?

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he spoke his sermons from memory and appeared "almost angelical"

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Which of the following statements describes the religious controversy that emerged from the Great Awakening during the 1740s and 1750s?

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the old lights persuaded legislator to not allow the new lights to speak to a congregation without the ministers permission

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During the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s, which of the following groups challenged the authority of ministers?

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the new lights (ministers' authority should come from conversion experience, not theological knowledge)

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Which of the following colleges was founded in the mid-eighteenth century out of the religious enthusiasm spread by the Great Awakening?

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college of new jersey (princeton)* king's college (columbia) college of rhode island (brown) queen's college (rutgers)

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The eighteenth-century Great Awakening was the impetus for which of the following phenomena?

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african american's creation of distinctive protestant christianity ??

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Which of these religious denominations successfully converted many slaves in the mid-eighteenth-century southern colonies?

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baptists

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Why did the Virginia gentry fear the rise of the Baptists in the mid-eighteenth century?

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threatened to undermine gentry's position

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Which of the following consequences of the eighteenth-century Great Awakening made it historically significant?

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congregations multiplied and the cultural gap between blacks and whites shrank

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Which of the following eighteenth-century movements posed a significant challenge to traditional assumptions about race, gender, and class in American society?

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the great awakening

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The French and Indian War started as a result of disputed land claims regarding the

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ohio river valley

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Hostilities between French troops and Virginians led by Colonel George Washington began in 1754 at which of the following locations?

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fort duquesne

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How did the British government respond to hostilities in America in 1754?

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fought at fort duquesne then called for the congress at albany, then william pitt and lord halifax later pressured pelham to declare war

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What made the British authorities wary of declaring war against the French in North America in 1754?

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debt and heavy taxes on the people and the colonies were incapable of defending themselves

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The 1754 Albany Congress was a significant event because it demonstrated that

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colonist and british plans compromised each other, nothing went through

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The group that came to be known as the Cajuns after the Great War for Empire were

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french settlers expelled by the british from nova scotia and deported to louisiana

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Which of the following was part of William Pitt's strategy to mobilize the American colonists for the Great War for Empire in 1756?

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paid for half the cost of troops, supplied arms, equipment, and a fleet with 30,000 soldiers

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Which of the following was a provision of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?

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return sugar islands to france, britain gets authority over 1/2 of NA

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In the mid-1700s, which industrializing nation was the dominant commercial power in the Atlantic Ocean?

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england

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Which of the following statements describes the early Industrial Revolution and its impact on the American colonies in the eighteenth century?

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greater quantities produced at lower costs, americans used profits from exports to buy stuff (for better living standards)

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What specific purpose did the colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia serve for the British Empire in the eighteenth century?

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supplied wheat crops ("breadbasket of the atlantic world")

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Which of the following developments was an outcome of the eighteenth-century consumer revolution?

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colonies became more independent on overseas markets, then eventually fell into economic recession

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Pontiac's uprising in Detroit in 1763 was a direct cause of which of the following events? (the uprising caused this event)

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the royal proclamation of 1763 (confirmed indian control of the region, no colonial settlements)

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Which of the following problems troubled both eastern migrants and western settlers in the American colonies in the mid-1700s?

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competition for the very little amount of land available

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