Question 1

In 1675, the Wampanoag in New England laid waste to Puritan settlements.

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True

Question 2

The leader of the pilgrims was John Smith.

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False

Question 3

The Pequot War took place in New England in 1667 because the Puritans wanted Indian gold.

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False

Question 4

New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch became New York after English conquest.

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True

Question 5

Slavery did not exist nor take root in New England cities during the 1600s

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False

Question 6

The Navigation Act of 1660

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listed colonial products that could be shipped only to England or to other English colonies

Question 7

William Penn believed that the Indians should be

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compensated for their land

Question 8

Slavery never became the foundation of the northern colonial workforce because

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labor-intensive crops were not grown by the Puritans

Question 9

In the colony of Maryland, the Clavert family intended to

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offer a religious refuge to Catholics

Question 10

By the 1720, the population of South Carolina

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consisted mostly of black slaves

Question 11

The Dutch colony of New Netherland

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became the colony of New York following English takeovers in 1664.

Question 12

The Society of Friends, or Quakers

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renounced the use of force in human affairs and rejected a hierachical society

Question 13

The architects of the Carolina colony

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intended to create a hereditary aristocray of wealthy manor lords

Question 14

By the early seventeenth century, the French

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developed fur trade in Canada

Question 15

The organizers of the Jamestown colony were motivated primarily by a desire to

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earn profits by discovering gold and developing trade with Indians

Question 16

Which of the following elements contributed to the cohesion of Puritan village life in New England?

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predominance of families

Question 17

Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 relieved much of the social tension among white Virginians by

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opening additional lands for white settlers

Question 18

In 1684, King Charles II annulled the ________ colonial charter.

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Massachusetts

Question 19

In the colony of _______ the Glorious Revolution became bloodless but quite disruptive

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New York

Question 20

The ______ of 1688 ended forever in England the idea that kinds ruled by divine right.

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Glorious Revolution

Question 21

As cities grew, new values took hold in British North America

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True

Question 22

During the Age of Reason, European thinkers discarded Calvinism

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True

Question 23

John Locke, an Enlightenment thinker wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1689

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True

Question 24

Food shortages were frequent occurrences in British North America

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False

Question 25

Eighteenth-century indentured servants possessed many opportunities for economic advancement.

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False

Question 26

The Chesapeake colonies of the early eighteenth century witnessed

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the emergence of a planter gentry as political and social leaders

Question 27

Colonial America in the first half of the eighteenth century experienced

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population growth and economic development

Question 28

In 1718 in North America, France settled

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New Orleans

Question 29

Which of the following factors helped temper rebellion and offer comfort to colonial slaves?

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religion and family life

Question 30

Even in the North which group was a regular part of commerce linking North America, Africa, and Europe?

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slaves and indentured servants

Question 31

The advent of modern life occurred first in the seaboard centers of colonial America, including the transition from a

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barter to a commercial economy

Question 32

Compared to her English counterpart, the eighteenth-century northern colonial woman

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enjoyed broader legal and property rights

Question 33

New Englanders opted for more of a mixed economy than settlers in the middle of southern colonies because in New England

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availability and productivity of land was limited

Question 34

In 1739 a major slave rebellion broke out in

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Stono, South Carolina

Question 35

All of the following were true about slave marriages and family life except

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Black women's constant labor made them less equal to men than was the case of women in white society

Question 36

Masters controlled which of the following aspects of slave life

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Physical location, work rules, diet

Question 37

All of the following represent theories of Enlightenment thinkers except the notion that

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God predetermined the contents of the human mind

Question 38

Popular ____ in British North America seldom faced effective police power

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protests

Question 39

A system of small forts, trading posts, and agricultural villages throughout the central area of North America was established in the early Eighteenth century by the _______

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French

Question 40

Between 1746 and 1769, six new ____ were created in British North America

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colleges

Question 41

In 1786, Virginia adopted a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, written by

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Thomas Jefferson

Question 42

The American Revolution gave rise to the idea of separating ____ and the state.

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church

Question 43

The South's nearly 400,000 ____ were viewed by the British as a resource to be exploited during the war.

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Slaves

Question 44

Swarms of camp followers surrounded Washington's army and proved to always be of vital assistance.

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False

Question 45

Approximately 250,000 men fought for the American side during the Revolution

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True

Question 46

The American Revolution lasted for eight years, longer than any other of American's wars until Vietnam nearly 200 years later.

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True

Question 47

About half of New York's population fled when the British occupied the city.

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True

Question 48

In the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the United States agreed to a western boundary at the Mississippi River

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True

Question 49

According to the Treaty of Paris 1783, ending the American Revolution

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all British forces would evacuate American territory with all convenient speed

Question 50

The agreement to have a two part national legislature meant

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smaller states received better representation than in the Virginia Plan, in the senate, each state received equal representation, and the Convention was able to reach what became know as the Great Compromise

Question 51

Who among the following was not a strong federalist?

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Jefferson

Question 52

Loyalist emigrants established successful live in which of the following places?

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British west indies, Canadian maritime provinces, England

Question 53

How populous was the Iroquois nation by 1776?

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15000

Question 54

The Virginia Plan which formed the basis of the new constitution, was primarily the work of

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James Madison

Question 55

All of the following factors contributed to American victory in the Revolution except the

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overwhelming support by Congress and the state governments for the continental army

Question 56

During the first year of the Revolution in New England, the

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British decided to evacuate Boston

Question 57

Which of the following were problems experienced by the Continental Army?

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inadequate supplies

Question 58

Initially in the Revolutionary War, the French concentrated their fleet near

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the West Indies

Question 59

Many American black slaves sought their freedom during the Revolution by

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seeking haven behind the British lines

Question 60

Intending to push further into the South, British commanders realized that

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the distance was too far, supply lines would be too long, Loyalists sympathy was weak

Question 61

Human travel was the only means of mass communication across space in the early American Republic

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True

Question 62

Methodists and Baptists were particularly energized by the Second Great Awakening

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True

Question 63

The Second Great Awakening was confined to New England

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False

Question 64

In the 1790's, the United States experienced a religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening

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True

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