How did Roger Williams gain notoriety in New England?
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He challenged the religious leadership of Massachusetts's powerful men.
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After having spent a great deal of time with Native Americans, Roger Williams believed
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that Indian religion and culture was as good as that of the Puritans.
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Which colony attracted dissenters through the protection of ìLiberty of Conscience?î
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Rhode Island
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New England Puritanism owed its religious roots to the
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Protestant Reformation of the early sixteenth century.
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How did King Henry VIII respond to the Protestant Reformation?
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He made himself the head of the Church of England.
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Which statement characterizes sixteenth-century English Puritanism?
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Puritans wanted to rid the Church of England of many features of Catholicism.
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What did English Puritans emphasize instead of Catholic rituals?
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A personal relationship with God
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How did the English monarchs James I and Charles I react to the ideas of Puritan reformers?
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Both enforced conformity to the Church of England.
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How did Puritans react when King Charles I dissolved Parliament in 1629?
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They prepared to leave England because they had lost their political voice.
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The Puritans, who described themselves as Separatists, believed that
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the Church of England was corrupt beyond redemption.
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Why was the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company unique?
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It allowed the government of the company to be located in the colony.
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What was the goal of the Puritans who founded Massachusetts Bay colony?
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To reform the Church of England
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Who argued that the Puritans should be ìa city upon a hillî that would inspire the rest of the world?
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John Winthrop
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Most Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay colony were either farmers or
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tradesmen.
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Unlike most other immigrant groups in American history, the migration to Puritan New England included
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a great number of complete families.
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According to the Puritan doctrine of predestination, how could one achieve salvation after death?
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Puritans could do nothing to alter God's ruling on their fate.
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Which statement characterizes Puritan communities in the first half of the seventeenth century?
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A high degree of religious conformity
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Why did Puritans keep churches out of the civil government of New England?
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Puritans did not want to emulate the Church of England.
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Why was the New England town meeting significant?
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Its popular political participation was unprecedented during the seventeenth century.
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Widespread political participation of males in New England town meetings led to
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a reinforcement of community conformity.
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How did Anne Hutchinson stir religious controversy in early Massachusetts?
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Hutchinson preached that many of the colony's leaders affirmed the covenant of works.
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How did the Boston church punish Anne Hutchinson?
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Excommunication
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Who left Massachusetts for Connecticut in 1636 after clashing with church leaders over the requirements for church membership?
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Thomas Hooker
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What happened to Puritans in England during the mid-seventeenth century?
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They ruled the nation from 1649 to 1660.
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What was seventeenth-century New England's biggest export?
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Fish
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Which factor allowed New England's population continue to grow steadily during the seventeenth century?
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The cold weather minimized the spread of life-threatening illnesses.
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By the 1680s, New England's religious consensus had weakened to the point that
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only 15 percent of adult males were church members in some towns.
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What problem did the Halfway Covenant address?
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Declining church membership
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What did members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, believe?
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God spoke to each individual through an ìinner light.î
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How did Puritans view Quakers?
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As dangerous to the Puritan faith and social order
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The majority of accused witches came from which segment of the population?
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Older women
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During most of the seventeenth century, New Netherland was
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under the control of the Dutch.
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Compared to the colonies to the north and south, the population of New Netherland was
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diverse.
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What major change occurred in New Netherland in 1664?
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New Netherland became New York.
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Why did the English continue the Dutch policy of religious toleration in New York?
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The diversity of the population prevented them from imposing a uniform religion.
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The creation of New York led indirectly to the founding of
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New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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What was William Penn's goal for his new colony?
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To establish a genuinely Quaker colony in the Americas
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Who served as leaders of Quaker congregations?
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Ordinary men and women
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Which factor contributed to Charles II's making William Penn the proprietor of a new colony?
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Charles II hoped to rid England of Quakers.
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The official Indian policy in seventeenth-century Pennsylvania
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instructed agents to respect the land claims of nearby tribes.
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What consequence did religious toleration in Quaker-dominated Pennsylvania have for colonists?
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Colonists did not have to pay taxes to maintain a state-supported church.
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The Navigation Acts of the 1650s and 1660s were designed to regulate colonial trade in order to
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yield revenues for the crown and English merchants.
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What characterized colonial commerce by the end of the seventeenth century?
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Strong ties to England because of royal supervision of merchants and shippers
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Why did the Wampanoag Indians attack New England settlements in 1675?
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New Englanders had been steadily encroaching on land the Indians needed to survive.
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King Philip's War (1676) left New England settlers with
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an enduring hatred of Indians.
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In 1686, England created the Dominion of New England, a new government consolidation that
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placed all colonies north of Maryland under more direct control by England.
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In 1688, the Glorious Revolution in England influenced American colonists to
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rise up against royal authority in the northern colonies.
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James II was a zealous supporter of which religion?
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Catholicism
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What became the defining characteristic of Massachusetts citizenship after it became a royal colony in 1691?
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Wealth
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What did King William's War, an attack by Great Lakes and Canadian French forces on villages in New England and New York, demonstrate to the American colonists?
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English military protection from hostile neighbors was still valuable.
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