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Roger Williams is best known in American History as:
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an early champion of religious freedom
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In founding the colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe's primary purpose was to:
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provide a refuge for English debtors
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Most of the slaves who came to the thirteen mainland colonies in British North America:
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were considered to be property and as such could be used as collateral for loans
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What was a proprietary colony?
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A colony like New Jersey that was run as a privately owned estate
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The New England colonies were more successful and stable than the Chesapeake Bay colonies for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
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women were treated more as equals in the New England colonies than they were in the Chesapeake Bay region, making it more difficult to attract women to Chesapeake Bay
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Which of the following colonies required each community of 50 or more families to provide a teacher of reading and writing?
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Massachusetts
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A man's right to vote for governor and members of the General Court in 17c Massachusetts was based on:
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church membership
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Anne Hutchinson's teaching threatened to undermine the spiritual authority established by the clergy because she:
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claimed believers could communicate directly with God
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The CHIEF significance of the Great Awakening was that it:
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was the first genuine unified movement of the American colonists
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Puritans
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English Protestants who wished not only to rid the Church of England of its Catholic traditions, but also to reform English society; they came to New England to set up a model community as an example to the rest of Europe.
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Roger Willliams
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In 1635 he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because he said that the government had no authority over the personal opinions of individuals. Founded Rhode Island as a colony for religious freedom.
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Pilgrims
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a radical separatist group of English protestants who settled at Plymouth in order to be left alone to lead a pure and religious life.
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Increase Mather
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This prominent New England clergyman helped bring the Salem witchcraft trials to a close.
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Jonathan Edwards
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This Puritan theologian was the leader of the first Great Awakening in New England.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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He led a rebellion in Virginia against the autocratic government of Lord Berkeley in the late 17c.
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John Peter Zenger
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This New York newspaper editor made a written attack on the corrupt royal governor and was arrested on the basis of seditious libel. However, after a trial, he was found not guilty.
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Jacob Leisler
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He led an uprising in New York in the name of King William IV against the Anglo-Dutch ruling elite.
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Which was not involved in the Triangle Trade during the colonial period?
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Cotton
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Prior to successfully colonizing the New World, England defeated a major rival, and just prior to losing many of its New World colonies, England defeated another major rival. The rivals were first:
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Spain, then France
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Most of the thirteen original colonies:
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Started as proprietary colonies and became royal colonies by the 1750s
