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History 1301 Withee
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Undergraduate 1
03/06/2010

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Which of the following revolutionized early Native American Cultures?
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The developement of agriculture.
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What Indians desired most, upon encountering Europeans, was
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Peaceful trade
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At the time of Columbus's first voyage in 1942
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most educated Europeans did not believe the earth was flat
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Upon arriving in the New World, English settlers
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generally adapted old beliefs to the new environment
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To resolve the problem with the vast expenses New World settlement required, English merchant-capitalists introduced the concept of 
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The joint stock company
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The selection of a site for Jamestown was primarily based on the settlers
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fears of surprise attacks
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The first three years of Jamestown's history witnessed
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 terrible hardship and suffering
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The most important institution of local government in Colonial Virginia
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The county court
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The document in which the Pilgrims established a civil government for their Plymoth colony has become known as the
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Mayflower compact
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Which of the following was not a New England colony?
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Connecticut
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By 1700, the population of New England had reached ______ people
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120,000
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In New England, women
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outnumbered men in church by two to one
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In New England,
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Land ownership was widespread
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Sumptuary laws
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prohibited anyone who was not wealthy and prominemt from wearing fine clothes.
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THe intention of the Navigation acts was to
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allow England to monopolize American trade.
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The best definition of republican, as it was understood in the late 1700's, was
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a government without monarchy or aristocracy.
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The articles of Confederation
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jealously guarded state sovereignty at the expense of national power.
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The most brilliant American political theorist of the post revolutionary period was
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James Madison
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The Constitutional convention took place in
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1787
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The Federalist was a sceries of essay's written by
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Madison, Hamilton, and Jay
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For many Americans, George Washington was
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a symbol of the new government
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The greatest challenge facing the first Washington administration was
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financial
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Jefferonians' fear of strong financial institutions was based on
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their belief that they were the root of corruption in the British government.
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Washington's Farewell address
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advised against permanent alliances with nations that weren;t interested in promoting
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The twelfth Amendment to the Constitution
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changed the process of electing the president and vice president.
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Thomas Jefferson's attitude toward Native Americans showed that he
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respected them as people, but was not impressed by their culture.
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Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa
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worked to persuade the Indians of the Indiana Territory to hold onto their tribal lands.
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Who first expolored the Louisiana Territory all the way to the Pacific?
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Lewis and Clark
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Aaron Burr was charged with treason for trying to
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seperate the west from the rest of the United States.
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On the issue of slavery, Jefferson
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wanted the slave trade outlawed.
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