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William Berkeley

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governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favorite; he enticed friendly policies towards the Indians that led to Bacon's Rebellion in 1676

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Nathaniel Bacon

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leader who took over when Berkeley wouldn't attack the Indians; was willing to lead not only against Indians but the governor too; this time was known as Bacon's Rebellion

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William Bradford

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founder and long time governor of the Plymouth Colony Settlement

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indentured servitude

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laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

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slave codes

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laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights

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headright system

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parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. It was used by the Virginia Co. to attract more colonists.

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jeremaids

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a sermon or prophecy recounting wrong doing, warning of doom, and calling for repentance.

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middle passage

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the middle portion of the triangular trade that brought African slaves to the Americas

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freedom dues

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dues of a master to his servant after the servant's period of indentured servitiude. They included simple clothing, tools, one barrel of corn, and sometimes a parcel of land.

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"witch hunting"

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tracking down, trials, and execution of people accused of witchcraft

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Yankee ingenuity

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originally fostered by the flinty fields and comfortless climate of New England; came to be claimed by all Americans as a proud national trait; clever; original

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family stability

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a loving environment for children: tranquil New England social structure and few pre-marital pregnancies

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conversions

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testimonials by Puritans that they had received God's grace and therefore deserved to be admitted to the church as members of the elect

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Bacon's Rebellion

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led by Nathaniel Bacon with 1000 other poverty stricken Virginians to attack Native Americans in an attempt to avenge a series of Indian attacks on frontier settlements; largest uprising in Americans history

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Liesler's Rebellion

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Jacob Liesler seized control of lower NY from 1689 to 1691. The uprise occurred in the midst of Britain (Glorious Rebellion) and refelected colonial resentment against the policies of King James II. Royal Authority was restored in 1691 by British troops

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Half-Way Covenant

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allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church

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

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e. the importance of slave labor in the South

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The population of the Chesapeake colonies, through out the first half of the seventeenth century, was notable for its

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b. scarcity of women

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in 1650, males in the Chesapeake area competed for the affections of the extremely scarce women, whom they outnumbered nearly

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a. six to one

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Which of these is NOT a true statement about life expectancy for the earliest Chesapeake settlers?

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d. the population grew rapidly due to new male immigrants

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During the seventeenth century, indentured servitude solved the labor problem in many English colonies for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that

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d. Spain had stopped sending slaves to its New World colonies

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The headright system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of

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c. giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America

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by 1700, the most populous colony in English America was

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b. Virginia

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

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c. growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production

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_________ reaped the greatest benefit from the land policies of the headright system

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c. merchant planters

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English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called

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c. indentured servants

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for their labor in the colonies, indentured servants received all of the following EXCEPT

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d. a headright

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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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b. white servants

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indentured servants in the seventeenth century Chesapeake represented

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d. three quarters of the population

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over the course of the seventeenth century, most indentured servants

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d. faced increasingly harsh circumstances

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by the end of the seventeenth century, indentured servants who gained their freedom

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

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Bacon's rebellion was supported mainly by

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a. young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land and find women to marry

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the immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was

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a. the Virginia governor's refusal to retaliate against Indian attacks on frontier settlements

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as a result of Bacon's Rebellion

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b. planters began to look for less troublesome laborers

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the majority of African slaves coming to the New World

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b. were delivered to South America and the West Indies

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all of the following are reasons for increased reliance on slave labor, after 1680, in colonial America EXCEPT

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e. the development of wheat as a staple crop in the British colonies

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many of the slaves who reached North America

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b. were originally captured by African coastal tribes

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for those Africans who were sold into slavery, the middle passage can best be described as

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d. the gruesome ocean voyage to America

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the 1662 slave codes in Virginia are significant because they

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b. established a legal difference between servants and slaves based on race

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identify the statement that is false

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a. most of the early African immigrants gained their freedom

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the physical and social conditions of slavery were harshest in

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c. South Carolina

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all of the following are true of the Chesapeake, as commanded to the Deep South, EXCEPT

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e. even though the slave population began to rise, family life was still impossible

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

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c. the piano

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while slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,

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c. racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American slave system

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which of these is NOT a true statement about the experience of slavery for women?

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d. female slaves made up the majority of early imports to the colonies

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all of the following can be said about slave culture in the colonies except

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e. it emerged from efforts by slave traders to suppress African speech, religion, and traditions

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Slave Christianity emphasized all of the following in their faith EXCEPT,

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b. that they should be humble and obedient

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compared with indentured servants, African American salves were

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d. a more easily controlled labor force

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as slavery spread in the south

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c. gaps in the social structure widened

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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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urban development in the colonial south

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d. was slow to emerge

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at the bottom of the social class in the south were the

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d. slaves

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it was typical of colonial New England adults to

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a. marry early and have several children

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the New England family can best be described as

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b. a very stable institution

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

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c. southern men frequently died young

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

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

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in the seventeenth - century colonial America, all of the following are true regarding women EXCEPT

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a. women could not own property under any circumstances

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the expansion of New England society

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a. proceeded in an orderly fashion

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when new towns were established in New England, all of the following were true EXCEPT

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e. families did not automatically receive land

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the Puritan system of congressional church government logically led to

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c. democracy in political government

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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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c. New England town meeting

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all of the following are were consequences of the Half Way covenant EXCEPT

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b. it maintained the original agreement of the covenant

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the Half Way Covenant

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e. allowed the children of unconverted existing members to be baptized but not full members of the church

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the Salem witchcraft trials were

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b. the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachsetts

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during the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witched were

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a. property owning women

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The Salem witch hunt in 1692

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c. was opposed by the more responsible members of the clergy

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as a result of poor soil, all of the following conditions prevailed in New England EXCEPT that

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a. reliance on a single, staple crop became a necessity

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the New England economy depended heavily on

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c. fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce

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in contrast to the Chesapeake colonies, those in New England

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a. had a more diversified economy

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the English justified taking land from the native inhabitants on the grounds that the Indians

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b. wasted the Earth

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the combination on 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 these

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

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d. extremely important

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compared with most seventeenth - century Europeans, Americans lived in

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c. affluent abundance

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the late - seventeenth rebellion in New York was headed by _______, whereas that in Maryland was led by ________.

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d. Jacob Liesler, Protestants

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Bacon's Rebellion stemmed from

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a. Governor Berkeley's Indian policies c. the frontier's resentment of the tidewater

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the great majority of Africans who left Africa as captured slaves

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a. were taken to South American and Caribbean colonies d. came to the west coast of Africa

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the early "slave codes" in colonial America

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a. defined slavery as lifetime servitude b. defined slavery as inheritable servitude c. usually forbade whites from teaching slaves to read or write

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which of the following are products of the American slave culture?

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a. Jazz c. several modern American dances e. a new language, Gullah

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slaves in colonial America

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a. were a generally manageable labor force c. were mostly menial field hands

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by 1700, the colonial south generally lacked

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b. reliable overland transportation c. an urban professional class

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unlike those in the Chesapeake, New England immigrants

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a. enjoyed a longer life expectancy b. usually migrated in family units c. were less ravaged by infectious diseases d. had a low premarital pregnancy rate

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which of the following reflected the lessening hold of Puritan piety on later generations of New Englanders?

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a. the geographical dispersion of New Englander's population b. the Congregational church's reliance on the Half Way covenant to bolster church membership c. the erosion of the distinction between the elect ad other members of society

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whether slave or free, North or South, which of the following was universally true about men and women?

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a. women cooked, cleaned, and cared for children c. men cleared the land and planted the crops e. children helped with all chores and picked up an education when possible

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