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Native American (Indian) civilization was least highly developed in

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North America

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Which of the following New World plants revolutionized the International economy?

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potatoes

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The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of

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A.similiar mountain ranges on the various continents B.the discovery of nearly identical species of fish in long-separated freshwater lakes of various continents C. the discovery of marsupials on the various continents D. the continued shifting of the earths crus

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The colonists who ultimately embraced the vision of America as an independant nation had in common all of the following characteristics except

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the desire to create an agricultural society

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European explorers intorduced ____in the New World.

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smallpox

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The Great ice Age accounted for the origins of North America's human history because

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it explosed a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America.

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The origins of themodern plantation system can be found in the

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Aftrican Slave system

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Within a century after Columbus's landfall in the New World, the Native American population was reduced by nearly.

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90%

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All of the following contributed to the emergence of a new interdependent global

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the belief of European explorers to create new cultures

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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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After his first voiyage, Christopher Columbus believed that he had

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sailed to the outskirts of the East Indies

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The flood of precious metal from the New World to Europe resulted in

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the growth of capitalism

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Spain began to fortify and settle its North American border lands in order to

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protect its Central and South American domains from encroiachments by England

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At the time of the European colonization of North America the number of Indian tribes was estimated at approximately.

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500

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The introduction of American plants around the world resulted in

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rapid population growth in Europe

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Which group was responsibile for salve trading in Africa long before the Europeans had arrived

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the Arabs and Africans

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In an effort to reach the Indies, Spain looked westward because

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Muslims blocked the sea route

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The European explorers who followed Columbus to North America

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no longer saw themselves as subjects of European Kings

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The development of "three sister" farming on the southeast Atlantic seaboard

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enabled the Anasazis to prosper

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Men became conquistadors because they wanted to

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A) gain god's favor by spreading Christianity B) escapte dubious pasts C) seek adventure, as the heroes of classicla antiquity had done D) all of the above

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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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At the outset, Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland colony because he

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hoped to secure freedom of worship for his fellow Catholics

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By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies

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A) based their economies on the production of staple crops for export B) practiced slavery C) provided tax support for the Church of England D) had few large cities E) all of the avoce

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The purpose of the periodic "mourning wars" was

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the avenge the deaths of Huron warriors

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The English treatment of the Irish, under the reign of Elizabeth I, can best be described

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violent and unjust

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...

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place holder

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The result of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War of 1644 can best be described as

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ending any changes of assimiliating the native peoples into Virginia Society

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The colony of South Carolina prospered

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by developing close economic ties with the Britich West Indies

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The Indians that had the greatest opportunity to adapt to the Europrean incursion were

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inland tribes such as teh Algonquians

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The colony of Georgia was founded

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as defensive buffer for the valuable Carolinas

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Despire an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to starve because

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they were unaccustomed to fend for themselves and wasted time looking for gold

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The attitude of Carolinians toward Indians can best be described as

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neutral

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Arrange in chronological order A) Reformation B) founding of Jamestown colony, C) Restoration D) defeat of the Spanish Armada

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A, D, B, C,

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George grew very slowly or all the following reasons except

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John Oglethorpe's leadership

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One of the earliest and most important exports from the Carolinas was

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Indian Slaves

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The biggest disrupter of Native American life was

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disease

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The Iroquois leader who helped his nation revive its old customs was

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Handsome Lake

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Thenative peoples of Virginia (Powhatans) succumbed to the Europeans because they

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A) died in large numbers from European diseases B)lacked the unity necessary to resist the well-organized whites C) could be disposed of by Europeans with no harm to the oclonial economy D) were not a reliable labor sources E) all of the above

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Georgia's founders were determined to

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creat a haven for people imprisoned for debt

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The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by

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starvation, disease and frequent Indian raids

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After the purchases of slaves in 1619 by Jamestown settlers, additional purchases of African were few because

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they were too costly.

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The guarantee that English settlers in the New World would retain the "rights of Englishmen" proved to be

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the foundation for American liberties

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Two major exports of teh Carolinas were

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rice and Indian slaves

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The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was teh most important for the future United States was

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Massachusetts Bay

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Under the Barbados slave code of 1661, slaves were

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denied the most fundamental rights.

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Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as

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saving the colony from collapse

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The first successful English attempt at colonization in 1585 was in

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St. Augustine

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The introduction of horses brought about significant change in the lives of the Lakotas from this they

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became nomadic hunters

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Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all

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economically dependent on the export of a staple crop.

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Sugar was called a rich man's crop for all of the following reasons except that it

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could be purchased only by the wealthy

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Some Africans became especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas because they

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were experienced in rice cultivation

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The statutes governing slavery in the North American colonies originated in

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Barbados

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Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the

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defeat of teh Spanish Armada

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England's defeat of the Spanish Armada

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helped to ensure Englands naval dominance in the north Atlantic

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Chief Powhatan had Captain John Smith kidnapped in order to

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impress Smith with his power and show the Indian's desire for peace

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On the eve of its colonizing adventure, England possessed

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all of the above A) a unified national state B) a measure of religious unity C) a sense of nationalism D) a popular monarch

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Economically, the colony of Pennsylvania

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became profitable very quickly

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Unlike Separatists, the Puritans

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remained members of the Church of England

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After the Pequot War, puritan efforts to convert indians to Christianity can best be described as

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feeble, not equaling that of the Spanish or the French

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For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the "middle Passage" can be best describerd as

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the gruesome ocean voyage to america

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Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by

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young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land

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in seventeenth century colonial America all of the following are true regarding women except

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woman had no rights as individuals.

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The Half-Way Covenant

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admitted to baptism but not full membership the unconverted children of existing members

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During the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witches were

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property owning women

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African American contributions to American culture include all of the following except

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the guitar

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The impact of New England on the rest of the nation can best be described as

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extremely important

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Most immigrants to the Chesapeake colonies in the seventeenth century came as

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indentured servants

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The combination of Calvinism, soil, and climate in New England resulted in the people there possessing which of the following qualities

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E)All of the below A)energy B)stubborness C)self reliance D)resourcefulness

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Urban development in the colonial South

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was slow to emerge

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In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies those in New England

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had a more diversified economy

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The expansion of New England society

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proceeded in an orderly fashion

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The population of the Cheapeakecolonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable for its

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scarcity of women

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The majority of African slaves coming to the New World

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were delivered to South American and the West Indies

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Puritans refused to recognize a woman's separate property rights because

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they worried that such rights would undercut the unity of married persons

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Slave Christianity emphasized all of the following in their faith except

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the concepts of humility and obedience

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____reaped the greatest benefit form the land policies of the "headright" system

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Merchant Planters

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When new towns were established in New England, all of the following were true except

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families did not automatically receive land

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As the seventeenth century wore on , regional differences continued to crystalize, most notably

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the importance of slave labor in the south

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As a result of Bacon's Rebillion

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planters began to look for less troublesome laborers.. they felt slavery was the way to go because they were less troublesome.

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Thomas Jefferson once observed that "the best school of political liberty the world ever saw" was the

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New England town meeting

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The Salem "witch hunt" in 1692

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was the first in the English American colonies

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By the end of the seventeenth century, indentured sevants who gained their freedome

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had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages to their former masters

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Southern colonies generally allowed married women to retain separate title to their property because

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southern men frequently died young.

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Many of the slaves who reached North America

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were originally captured by African coastal tribes

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All of the following were consquences of the Half_Way Covernant except

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it maintained the original agreement of the covenant.

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After 1680, reliance on a slave labor in colonial America rapidly increased because

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All the below A) higher wages in England reduced thenumber of emigrating servants B) Planters feared the growing number of landless freemen in the colonies C) the British Royal African company lost its monopoly on the slave trade in colonial America D) Americans rushed to cash in on slave trade.

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As slavery spread in the South

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gaps in the social structure widened

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Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from

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white servants

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Compared with most seventeenth century Europeans, Americans lived in

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affluent abundance

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For their labor in the colonies indentured servants received all of the following except

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a headright

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In the seventeenth century, due to high death rate families were both few and fragile in

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the Chesapeake colonies

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While slavery might have begun in America for economi reasons

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racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American salve system

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The Puritan system of congregtional church government logically led to

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democracy in political government

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By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was

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Virginia

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Seventeenth_century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by

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growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production

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Compared with indentured servants, African American slaves were

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a more manageable labor force.

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Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American South were

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Landowning small farmers

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over the course of the seventeenth century, most indentured servants

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faced increasingly harsh circumstances

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One featureof the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the

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growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain

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All of the following conditions caused many Scots to migrate to Northern Ireland and thence to America except

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persecution for their Catholic religion

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The person most often called the "First civilized American" was

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Benjamin Franklin

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In contrast to the seventeenth century, by 1775 colonial Americans

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had become more stratified into social classes and had less social mobility

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Colonial schools and colleges placed their main emphasis on

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religion

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Duing the colonial era, all of the following peoples created new societies out of diverse ethnic groups in America except

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Asians

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By 1775, which of the following communities could not be considered a city of colonial America?

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Baltimore

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By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was

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less fervid than when the colonies were established

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in 1775, the ________ churches were teh only two established (tax-supported) churches in colonial America.

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Congregational and Anglican

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All of the following are achievements of Benjamin Franklin except

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influential poetry

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The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was

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lumbering

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As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century

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a momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country.

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One feature common to all of the eventually rebellious colonies was their

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rapidly rowing populations

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By the end of the 1700's what was teh percentage of people living in rural areas of colonial America

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90%

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The Scots-Irish can best be described as

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fiercely independant

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The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was ________, whereas ___________ was teh least ethnically diverse

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the middle colonies, New England

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Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the power of teh governors to their will because

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colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that paid the goernors salaries

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one political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was

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the property qualification for voting

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By the mid_eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities except

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opportunity for social mobility

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When it came to religion, the Scots_Irish

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advocated the policy of the established churches

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By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on _____, the Chesapeake colonies relied on ________ and the souther colonies relied on _________

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cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo

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Colonial American taverns were all of teh following except

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frequented mainly by the lower class

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The population of teh thirteen American colonies was

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perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon

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The least honored profession in early colonial society was

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medicine

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The "new light" preachers of the Great Awakening

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delivered intensely emotional sermons

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All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence except

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distinctive ethnic or racial structures

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The time-honored Enlgish ideal, which Americans accepted for some time, regarded education as

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reserved for the aristocratic few

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The first American college free from determined control was

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The university of Pennsylvania

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When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1733, it intended the act to

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inhibit colonial trade with the French West indies

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The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to

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the natural fertility of all Americans

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By 1775, most governors of American colonies were

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appointed by the king

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Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated

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Congregtionalist - New England Anglican - the South Presbyterian - the frontier

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The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South

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were not distributed evenly among whites

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As the revolution approached, Presbyterian and Congregational ministers in general

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supported the Revolutionary cause

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English officials tried to establish the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because

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the church would act as a major prop for kingly authority

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In colonial America, educaiton was most zealously promoted

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in New England

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Which of the following was not considered to be a naval store

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glass

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