History 161 Ch. 3

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1.What happened to the Spanish colonial outposts in New Mexico and Florida?
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D) They stagnated and primarily attracted religious missionaries.
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2.Bacon's Rebellion erupted in 1676 as a dispute over Indian policy and ended as a conflict between
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B) the planter elite and small farmers.
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3.How did the Indian leader Popé respond to Spanish exploitation and the work of Spanish missionaries in New Mexico in 1680?
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B) Popé organized a violent revolt against the Spanish.
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4.Why did Nathaniel Bacon's demands distress the royal government and the elite planters of Virginia?
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D) His plan transferred power to newcomers and small farmers.
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5.How did the English of the Virginia Company differ from the Spanish colonists in the New World?
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C) The English cared less about converting Indians to Christianity.
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6.By the 1670s, the Chesapeake social structure was polarized along what lines?
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D) Land ownership
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7.Most indentured came from which class?
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A) Poor men from England
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8.Which profitable export crop depended on the expertise of slaves brought from West Africa to Carolina?
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A) Rice
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9.Why did the colonies shift from an indentured servant labor force to a slave labor force?
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D) Slavery provided a perpetual labor force.
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10.The majority of the original settlers who came to Jamestown and the Virginia colony were
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A) gentlemen and their servants.
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11.Seventeenth-century Chesapeake society was essentially a society of
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C) servants and free workers.
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12.Virginia tobacco farmers confronted what major obstacle in the 1600s?
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A) Too few workers
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13.What happened in Maryland, Lord Baltimore's planned refuge for Catholics?
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C) Catholics feuded with the Protestant majority.
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14.How had political equality in Virginia actually decreased by 1670?
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B) Only male landowners and heads of households could vote.
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15.How did indentured servitude differ between women and men?
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B) Women servants could not marry.
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16.Which factor contributed to the high mortality rate of the Englishmen who made the first voyage to what would become Jamestown, Virginia?
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C) Disease
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17.What was the only seventeenth-century English colony to be settled principally by colonists from other colonies rather than from England?
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D) Carolina
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18.A servant labor system in the British colonies was made possible by the New World's labor shortage and
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B) the decrease in job opportunities in England.
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19.Planters preferred a slave labor system over a servant labor system because slaves
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D) could be controlled politically.
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20.Until the 1670s, almost all Chesapeake colonists were English; by 1700, how many were African?
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A) one in eight
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21.Which crop turned Virginia into a stable colony?
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A) tobacco
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22.What did Opecancanough do only four years after the death of his brother Powhatan?
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D) They granted the head of non-English immigrant families English citizenship.
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23.How did headrights encourage settlement in the Virginia colony?
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B) They provided fifty acres of land to every settler who paid his own way.
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24.The availability of land during the first half of the seventeenth century shaped what kind of society in the Chesapeake?
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D) A society with a degree of frontier equality
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25.Why did Richard Hakluyt support English colonization?
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C) Colonies would provide a place for the unemployed to work.
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26.What could the Virginia colonists have done to improve their prospects in 1607?
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A) Learned how to farm
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27.How did Powhatan help the English stave off starvation?
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A) He brought corn to the colony for barter.
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28.King James's land grant to the Virginia Company of over 6 million acres allowed English settlers to
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B) poach on Spanish claims and on Indian lands.
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29.What did the concept of mercantilism dictate about the colonial economy?
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B) What was good for England should become colonial policy.
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30.What happened in Virginia after Bacon's death?
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D) Royal officials nullified Bacon's Laws.
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31.Spanish missionaries considered European ideas about civilization to be
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D) necessary for the full conversion of Indians to Christianity.
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32.Which statement characterizes most hired workers in Virginia?
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B) Workers earned two to three times more in the Chesapeake than in England.
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33.By 1700, the British Caribbean annually exported nearly 50 million pounds of which product?
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D) Sugar
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34.What explains the dispersion of settlements in the Chesapeake?
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D) Tobacco farms required large amounts of land.
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35.Indentured servants viewed themselves as
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A) free people who were servants only temporarily.
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36.Indentured servants could have their servitude extended by years if they
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B) committed a crime
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37.What was an employer required to give a servant after she or he completed an indenture?
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D) Freedom dues
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38.Under royal government in Virginia, the colony's inhabitants could vote for
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A) local burgesses.
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39.Which factor, along with Opecancanough's uprising, led King James to revoke the Virginia Company charter and make Virginia a royal colony in 1624?
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B) A report highlighting the mismanagement of the Virginia Company
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40.When Pocahontas intervened to save John Smith, she may have been participating in an Algonquian ceremony that
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C) expressed Powhatan's supremacy.
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41.What is a yeoman farmer?
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A) One whose small plot of land is worked by himself and his family
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42.Why were Powhatan and his people suspicious of English intentions?
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C) Colonists often resorted to violence toward the Indians.
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43.The slave population grew in Barbados because
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C) planters imported more slaves from Africa.
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44.Compared to slavery in Barbados, slaves in the Chesapeake
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C) were subjected to more constant surveillance by whites.
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45.The slave labor system that was introduced to the Chesapeake was "exported" from
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D) Barbados.
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46.Why did the social and political distance between planters and small farmers decrease between 1660 and 1700?
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D) The colony increased its dependence on slave labor.
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47.Why did planters maintain the servant system through the 1680s?
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B) Free people preferred to work for themselves.
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48.How did the decline in the price of tobacco in the third quarter of the seventeenth century change the Chesapeake?
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B) Social divisions emerged.
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49.Which of the following British colonies brought in the greatest profit in 1700?
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B) Barbados
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50.Unlike servants in England, Chesapeake servants
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B) had no control over who purchased their labor.