was more likely to be based in the household than on an agricultural plantation.
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As slave society consolidated in the Chesapeake region, what happened to free blacks?
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They lost many of their rights
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In the chesapeake region, slavery
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rapidly became the dominant labor system after 1680
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Which of the following is true of slaver resistance in the colonial period?
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Some slaves were the offspring of white traders and therefore knew enough English to turn to the legal system, at least until Virginia lawmakers prevented them from doing so
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which commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during the seventeenth century?
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Sugar
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Which of the following is true of slavery?
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The English word slavery derives from slav reflecting the slave trade in slavic peoples until the fifteenth century
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William Penn was a member of which religious group?
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Quakers
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What was William Penns most fundamental principle?
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Religious freedom
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Carolina grew slowly until
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rice as a staple crop was discovered to be extremely profittable
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The economy of the Carolina Colony
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Originally centered on cattle-rasing and trade
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According to the economic theory known as mercentalism
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The government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power
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when Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island
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He made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay
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For most New Englanders, Indians represented
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Savagery
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Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England
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Were single, middle class men
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which one of the following is true of poverty in seventeenth-century Great Britain
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About half of the population lived at or below the poverty line by the end of the seventeenth century?
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Which of the following statements is true about the early history of Jamestown?
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The death rate was extraordinarily high
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Who received most of the profits from trade between Native Americans and colonists?
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Colonial and European merchants
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Where in the Americas did the pilgrims originally plan to go
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Virginia
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As leader of the Jamestown Colony, John Smith
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Used rigorous military discipline to hold the colony together
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What benefited the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth?
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Native Americans, decimated by disease, left behind cleared fields for farming
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Why did puritans decide to emigrate from England in the late 1620 and 1630
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The church of england was firing their ministers and censoring their writings
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Which of the following is true of the puritans of the seventeenth century?
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They agreed that the church of england retained too many elements of catholicism in the rituals and doctrines
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the mayflower compact established
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a civil government for the plymouth colony
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Maryland was similar to virginia in that
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Tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society
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puritans followed the religious ideas of the french born theologian
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John Calvin
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to entice settlers to virginia the virginia company established the headright system which
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provided land to settlers who paid their own and others passage
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the marriage between Jogn rolfe and pocahontas
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was seen in england as a sign of anglo indian hermony and missionary success
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it can be argued that conflict between the english settlers and local indians in virginia became inevitable when
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native amercans realized that england wanted to establisha permanent and constantly expanding colony not just a trading post
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Tobacco production in virginia
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enriched an emerging class of planters and certain members of the colonial government
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what was virginias gold which ensured its survival and prosperity
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tobacco
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maryland was established as a refuge for which group
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catholics
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why was the death ratein early Jamestown so high
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it lay beside a malarial swamp
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what did english settlers in North America believe
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land
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during the seventeenth century indentured servants
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Had a great deal of trouble acquiring land
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in the economic exchanges between the english colonists and eastern Native Americans
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Native Americans initially welcomed the colonists goods
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The 104 settlers who remained in virginia
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were all men reflecting virginia companys interest in searching for gold
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which one of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order
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Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island
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tobacco plantations in the chesapeake region
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Helped make the chesapeake colonies models of mercantilism
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Bacons rebellion contributed to which of the following in virgina
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the replacing of indentured servants with african slaves on virginias plantaion
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the virginia slave code of 1705
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Embedded the principle of white supremacy in law
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the development of rice plantaions in south carolina
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led to a black majority in that colony by the 1730
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boston merchants
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challenged the subordination of economic activity to puritan control
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all of the following statements are true of the atlantic trade in the eighteenth century except
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although important slave grown crops actually accounted for only a small portion of the value of the trade
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in the seventeenth century new englands economy
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centered on family farms and also involved the export of fish and timber
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In the early seventeenth century massachusetts freeman status was granted to adult males who
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Were landowning church members
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the mayflower compact established
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a civil government for the plymouth colony
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which statement about women in the early virginia colony is false
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women consisted of about half the white population
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georgia was established by James Oglethorpe whose causes included improved conditions for imprisoned debtors and the abolition of
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Slavery
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When brought to the new world with regard to religion slaves
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Mixed elements of christianity with african beliefs
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the task system
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Assigned slaves daily jobs and allowed them free time upon completion of those jobs
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