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Indentured servants in colonial America experienced

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Low social status

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The treatment of the Native americans by the Spanish conquistadores can be described as

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at times brutal and exploitative

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European voyages of discovery and exploration were facilitated by

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The Renaissance

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European Contact with Native Americans led to

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the deaths of millions of Native Americans who had little resistance to European diseases.

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Men became conquistadores because they wanted to

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gain gods favor by spreadiing Christanity; escape dubious pasts; seek adventure,as the heroes of classical antiquity had done; satisfy their desire for gold

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The stage was set for a cataclysmic shift in the course of history when

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Europeans clamored for more and cheaper products from Asia; Africa was est. as a source of slave labor; The portuguese demonstrated the feasibility of long range ocean navigation; the renaissance nurtured a spirit of optimism and adventure

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In the new interdependent global economic system that emrged after Columbus's discovery, the new world provided

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raw materials

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the Christian crusaders were indirectly responsible for the discovery of America because they

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brought back news of valuable far Eastern spices, drugs, and silk.

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Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to

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break hol that muslim merchants had on trade with Asia; reduce the price of goods from Asia; gain more profits for themselves; reduce the time it took to transport goods

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Some of the more advanced Native American cultures did all of the following

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est. large, bustling cities; make strikingly accurate astornomical observations; study mathmatics; carry on commerce

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The crop that became the staple of life in Mexico and SOuth America was

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Corn (maze)

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The European explorers who followed Columbus to North America

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Continued to view themselved as Europeans

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The ideals that the colonists cherished as synonyomous with American life included reverence for all the following

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individual liberty; self- government; religious tolerance; economic prosperity

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The economic theory of merchantilism would be consistent with which of the following statements?

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It is vital that a country import more than it exports

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A major impact of the French and Indian War on the attitudes of Americans was

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It led to many colonists who had perviously supported independence from England to call for moderation because they feared that the huge British military presence in the colonies ( brought over from England to fight the French) could not be turned on rebellious colonist

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With the British and American victory in the French and Indian War

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A new spirit of interdepence arose, as the French threat disappeared

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The Proclamation of 1763 was issued mainly to

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work out a fair settlemnet of the Indian problem

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France had to give ip its vision of a NorthAmerican New France when

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it was deafeated by britain???

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The immediate puropse of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to

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prevent the french from attacking American outposts

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French motives in the New world included the desire to

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est. agricultural communitied to produce profitable staple crops

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The climactic clash between britain and france for control of the n. Amer/ continent sprang from the rivalry for contrl of

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Mississippi River

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The great Awakening

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Undermined prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies; spilit colonial churched into serval competing denominations; lef to the founding of Princeton, Dartmouth, and Rutgers colleges; was the 1st spontaneous mass movement of the Amer. people

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In 1775, the _____ Churches were the only two est. (tax supported) churches in colonial Amer

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Congregational and Anglican

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The triangular trade of the colonial American shipping industry

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involved trading of rum for slaves

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the riches created by the growing slave pop in AMer. South

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...

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The population of the 13 colonies was

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...

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New England family can best described as

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a very stable institution

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In 17th century colonial American all of the following are true regarding women EXCEPT

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abusive husbands were punished

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African Amer, contirbutions to Amer culture included all of the following EXCEPT

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the guitar

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Slave society that developed in N AMer was 2 of few slave societies in history to

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produce a new culture based entirely on African heritage

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Slave christianity emphasized all the following in their faith EXCEPT

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concepts of humility and obedience

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Immediate reason for BAcons Rebellion was

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indian attacks on frontier settlements

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For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the "middle passage" can best descirbed as

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gruesome ocean voyage to Amer

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For their labor in the colonies indenture servant recived all the following EXCEOT

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heaDright

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The headright system which made som epeople very wealthy entailed

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giving the right to acquire 50 acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to amer

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During the 17th sent indentured servitude solved the labor probelm in many English colonies for all the following reasons EXCPET that

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in some areas families formed too slowly

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New York and Penn. simiular in that they BOTH

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had ethnially mixed pop

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Inidian policy in ealry PEnn best described

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NONE of these... benevoolent;influ mainly by state sup church; bad at 1st but improving later; harsh

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According to Anne Hutchingson a dissenter in Mass. Bay

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the truly saved need not bother to obey the laws of god or man

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Roger Williams beliefs included all following EXCEOT

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condeming the taking of Indian Land without fair compensation

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As a colony RHODE ISLAND became known

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individualist and indep. attitudes

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Initially MAss Bay Colony enjoyed all following advantages EXCEPT

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Reciving many fairly prosperous and edu immigrants

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Puritain doctrine included acceptance of

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antinomianism

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Amoung Puritians,, it was understoof that

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The purpose of gov was to enforce gods laws

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The Mayflowe compact can best described as

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a promising step towatd genuine self gov

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Colonist both N and S est differences in all of the following area EXCEPT

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allegiances to england

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In Americna History 1619 important because that year

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Blacks from Africa arrived in English Amer

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A major reason for the founding of Maryland colony was

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create a refuge for Catholics

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Cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all the following EXCEPT

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soaring prosperity in the colony

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All the following reasons the 13 Atlantic colonies sought indep EXCEPT

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