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| The Duke of Baltimore established the colony of Maryland for what purpose? |
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| To be a safe haven for pursecuted catholics |
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| Where were German settlements in the colonies was especially heavy? |
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| What imperial power originally settled in the Hudson River Valley? |
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| Who were the unfortunate group of unvlountary immigrants who ranked below indentured servants on the American social scale? |
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| Why was Roger Williams banished from Massachusettes Bay Colony in 1636? |
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| For advocating the separation of church and state |
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| Which of these occurred first? |
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a. Bacon's Rebellion
b. Glorious Revolution in England
c. War of Spanish Succession
d. Formation of the New England Confederation
e. French and Indian War |
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| What group of people arrived in Jamestown and were auctioned off for 120lbs of tobacco, then $80? |
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Poor women who agreed to become brides |
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| Who were the Indian people who first encountered the pilgrim colonists? |
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| At the beginning of the 17th century, what is one factor that did not serve to increase the English role in America? |
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| What best describes the Virginia Colony? |
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| Captian John Smith was chosen to lead the Virginia Colony during its early years |
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| In the early Colonial period, what described a separatist? |
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| a person who wished to break away from the impure Church of England |
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| The Navigation acts were which part of the British policy? |
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| Who was not associated with the Massachusetts Bay Colony? |
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| What colonial power was exercised the least amount of control over commercial and political practices in its colonies? |
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| What is the least important factor behind European exploration and settlement in the 16th Century? |
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| The trial of Peter Zenger in New York has often been considered an important step in the development of what? |
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| The puritans believed that the freedom to practice religion should be extended to what? |
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| What satement about Africans brought as slaves to the Bristish North American colonies is true? |
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| They maintained cultural practices brought from Africa |
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| A primary weapon used by colonial legislatures in their conflict with royal governors was what? |
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| using their power of taxation to withhold the governor's salary |
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| What settlement, founded in the early 1600s, was the most important for the future United States? |
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| Why did puritan immigraiton from England come to a near halt between the years 1649 and 1660? |
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the puritans controlled the English government |
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| What coloy required each community of 50 or more families to provide a teacher for reading and writing? |
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| How were the French, Spanish and English colonies similar> |
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| they were an extension of mercantilism |
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| What best describes the way Europeans treated the Native Americans in the 1500s and 1600s? |
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| Native Americans were regarded as inferioir people subject to christian domination |
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| What has not been advanced as an explanation for the development of slavery in colonial America? |
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| Black slavery as an example |
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| Before the first English settlements in New England, what were the Indians in the region devastated by? |
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disease epidemics caused by contact with english fisherman |
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| Where di the French immigrants to the new world tend to inhabit? |
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| What is not true of life in colonial America? |
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| women had the same legal rights of men |
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| The delay in founding English settlements in the Americas was a result of what? |
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| religious upheavals in England |
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| What can the survival of the Jamestown colony be most directly attributed to? |
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the development of the tobacco industry |
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| What document encouraged church membership in the Massachusetts Bay colony? |
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| What was the primary source of livelihood for most colonial Americans? |
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| Why did religious toleration develop by th end of the colonial period? |
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| because no church was strong enough to gain dominance |
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| What were the two best-established denominations? |
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| Anglicans and congregationalists |
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| What events sparked the collapse of the Dominion of New England? |
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the glorious revolution in England |
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| What colonies had more ethnic diversity than either New England or the Southern Colonies? |
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| New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware |
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| What was the chief significance of the great awakening? |
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| that it was the first genuine movement of the American colonies |
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| What colony was established as a buffer against the Spanish colonies and to give the poor and unfortunate a chance for a new start in life? |
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| Mercantilism refers to an economic policy that emphasizes what? |
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| establishing colonies and a favorable balance of trade for the mother country. |
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| In what colonies did an established church NOT exist in? |
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| Pennsylvanis and Rhode Island |
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| Compared with the Plymouth colony, what was the Massachusetts Bay Colony? |
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larger and more prosperous economically |
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| What is one reason that the Massachusetts Bay colony was not a true democracy? |
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| only church members could vote for governor and the general court |
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| What did King Philip's war represent? |
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| the last major Indian effort to halt New Englander's encroachment on their lands |
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| What did the passage of British restrictions encourage colonial merchants to do? |
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| find ways to smuggle and otherwise evade the law by trading with other countries |
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| colonial taverns served as importants function centers for what? |
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| news and political opinion |
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| Why is the Mayflower Compact significant in the history of political thought? |
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| because in it, the people agreed to be bound by the will of the majority |
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What was the group of people who immigrated to 17th century New England |
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| What religion had the most influence upon the daily life of the colonists of the 17th century? |
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| the puritans in Massachusetts |
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| What was the primary reason the Dutch settled New Netherland? |
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| to expand their commercial and mercantile network |
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