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| The Pilgrims were also known as Separatists because they? |
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| broke all ties with the Church of England. |
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| Jamestown survived as the first permanent British settlement in America because of? |
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| the emergence of tobacco as a cash crop. |
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| Roger Williams is best known in American history as |
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| an early champion of religious freedom. |
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| In founding the colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe's primary purpose was to? |
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| provide a refuge for English debtors. |
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| Most of the slaves who came to the thirteen mainland colonies in British North America? |
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| were considered to be property and as such could be used as collateral for loans. |
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| The Mayflower Compact could best be described as? |
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| a foundation for self-government. |
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| Seventeenth-century New England and the West Indies? |
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| were interdependent because the sugar islands could not feed themselves or supply their own lumber, and New England relied on the Caribbean to purchase its surpluses. |
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| What was a proprietary colony? |
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| a colony like New Jersey that was run as a privately owned estate. |
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| Which of the following correctly describes the attitude of most English settlers toward the Indians and their way of life? |
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| they assumed the Indians to be their inferiors and showed little respect for Indian society. |
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| Indentured servants were important to the development of the 17c Chesapeake because they? |
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| provided a relatively cheap and abundant source of labor for Chesapeake tobacco planters. |
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| Seventeenth century English settlers of New England differed from those in Virginia by? |
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| living in tightly clustered communities. |
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| In the 17c, the Great Migration refers to the? |
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| settlement of the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay and other colonies |
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| The New England colonies were more successful and stable than the Chesapeake Bay colonies because... |
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| women were treated more as equals in the New England colonies than they were in the Chesapeake Bay region, making it more difficult to attract women to Chesapeake Bay. |
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| Which colony required each community of 50 or more families to provide a teacher of reading and writing? |
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| In founding the colony of Pennsylvania, William Penn's primary purpose was to? |
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| provide a refuge for persecuted English Quakers. |
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| The Virginia House of Burgesses and the New England town meetings were similar in that they? |
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| represented colonial participation in government. |
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| A man's right to vote for governor and members of the General Court inn 17c Massachusetts was based on? |
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| In the early 1600s, migrants to New England differed from those who went to the Chesapeake in that? |
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| New Englanders immigrated in family groups. |
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| The headright system adopted in the Virginia colony? |
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| gave 50 acres of land to anyone who would transport someone [like an indentured servant] to the colony |
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| One of the reasons for Roger William's banishment from Massachusetts Bay was his belief that? |
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| the king of England had no right to give away land belonging to the Indians. |
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| Which of the following statements does NOT express the attitudes or beliefs of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? |
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| the Church of England had become so corrupt that all true Christians were obligated to separate from it. |
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| The Virginia Company attracted new settlers to its colony after 1609 by? |
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| promising free land at the end of seven years' labor for the company. |
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| During the first two decades of the 17c, all of the following aided in the establishment and growth of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, EXCEPT? |
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| good relations with the local Native Americans. |
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| The Mayflower Compact is significant in American political thought because? |
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| in it the people agreed to be bound by the will of the majority. |
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| Anne Hutchinson's teaching threatened to undermine the spiritual authority of the established clergy because she? |
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| claimed believers could communicate directly with God. |
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| The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 provided for? |
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| the tolerance of most Christian churches. |
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| The Half-Way Covenant was adopted because? |
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| too few second- and third-generation Puritans were willing to testify publicly about their conversion experiences. |
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| Which of the following characterized life in the Chesapeake region in the early 17c? |
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| the presence of many more men than women, giving women somewhat greater status because of their scarcity. |
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| As a result of the cultivation of tobacco in Virginia? |
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| a scattered pattern of settlement emerged in the colony. |
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| A visionary radical Protestant sect whose members believed in an Inner Light that brought them close to God, equality in religious and social life, pacifism, and defiance of authority when it denied their rights to practice their religion. |
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| The name given to any prominent Englishman to whom the king granted vast areas of land in colonial North America. |
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| This was used in Virginia to encourage immigration by giving 50 acres of land to any settler who brought a servant. |
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| This Virgina settler married and experiments with growing tobacco in the colony. |
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| English Protestants who wished not only to rid the Church of England of its Catholic traditions, but also to reform English society; they came to New England to set up a model community as an example to the rest of Europe. |
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| In 1635 he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because he said that the government had no authority over the personal opinions of individuals. He founded Rhode Island as a colony for religious freedom. |
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| This Quaker viewed his colony as a "Holy Experiment." |
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| A radical separatist group of English Protestants who settled at Plymouth in order to be left alone to lead a pure and religious life. |
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| Mostly young and single European immigrants who entered into work contracts for a specified period of years in exchange for free passage to America and sometimes a promise of land at the end of the contract. |
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| This adventurer instituted military discipline and perhaps saved the Virginia colony at Jamestown. |
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| An attempt by New England clergymen in 1662 to counteract declining church membership by allowing the children of church members to join even though they had not experienced salvation. |
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| An interpretation of Puritan doctrine associated with Anne Hutchinson that stressed mystical elements in God's grace and diverged from orthodox Puritan views on salvation. |
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| This Puritan theologian was the leader of the first Great Awakening in New England. |
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| Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
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| This law allowed freedom of worship for all Christians in Maryland to keep the peace between Catholics and Protestants there. |
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| He led about 1000 Puritans to America in 1630 and was elected the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
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| He led a rebellion in Virginia against the autocratic government of Lord Berkeley in the late 17c. |
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| A prominent humanitarian, he led a group of settlers and helped found the colony of Georgia in 1732. |
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| This New York newspaper editor made a written attack on the corrupt royal governor and was arrested on the basis of seditious libel. However, after a trial, he was found not guilty. |
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