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Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts Bay for |
questioning the ideas that good works led to salvation |
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By the mid-1500s, Spain’s main goal in North America was to |
maintain its dominance and power in the region |
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For which of the following reasons was Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1636? |
he questioned the English seizure of the native people’s land |
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How did the Puritans justify their invasion of the Native Americans’ land in the seventeenth century? |
The Puritans interpreted epidemics that devastated Native American populations as a favorable sign from God. |
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How was colonization similar for the French and Spanish? |
The French and Spanish aimed to Christianize the native peoples. |
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How were the Indian uprising in 1622 and Bacon’s Rebellion in 1675-1676 similar? |
The rebellions led to changes in the structure of the colony’s government. |
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How were the Spanish conquistadors, Nathaniel Bacon’s frontiersmen, and the Puritans were similar? |
All treated the Native Americans brutally. |
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In contrast to the Spanish missionaries of the sixteenth century, the seventeenth-century French Jesuits |
tried to understand the Indians’ values and worldview. |
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In North America’s plantation colonies, most indentured servants |
did not escape from poverty |
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In the sixteenth century, the Spanish crown granted encomiendas to which of the following groups? |
Conquistadors |
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In which of the following ways did the plantation colonies of Barbados differ from those in the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century? |
The Chesapeake adopted slavery gradually and Barbados did so quickly. |
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John Winthrop’s phrase "City upon a Hill" referred to which of the following colonies? |
Massachusetts Bay |
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King Henry VIII started the English Reformation by |
declaring himself supreme head of the new Church of England. |
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Lord Baltimore, the proprietor of Maryland, established that colony as a haven for |
Catholics |
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Portuguese colonists in Brazil in the sixteenth century created an industry based on which of these resources? |
sugar |
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Powhatan, leader of a confederation of about two dozen tribes in Virginia, |
treated the English as potential allies and attempted to integrate them into his chiefdom. |
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The economic livelihood of the Virginia colony in the 1700s depended on which of the following products? |
tobacco |
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The encomiendas granted by the Spanish crown in the sixteenth century consisted of |
legal control over American land and Indian labor. |
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The main motive for King Philip II’s attack on England in 1588 was to |
A. eradicate Protestantism in England and Holland |
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The worldview of devout Puritans, such as Cotton Mather, was based on which of the following? |
The notion that supernatural forces caused unusual events |
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Two hundred thousand Spaniards from Castile migrated to America in the 1500s in order to escape |
high taxes on agriculture and military service |
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What accounted for the uneasy relations that persisted between Powhatan’s people and the Jamestown settlers for more than a decade after 1607? |
Both groups’ inability to reach an agreement about who would pay tribute to whom |
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What caused the Puritans’ "errand into the wilderness" to become permanent? |
The failure of the English Revolution |
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What caused the Spanish Netherlands revolt against Spanish rule in 1566? |
Dutch Protestants’ desire to protect their faith |
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What effect did American tobacco have in England during the early colonial period? |
The English developed a huge appetite for tobacco, which stimulated the English economy and bolstered England’s treasury. |
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When they settled in the New World in 1630, the Puritans’ first priority was to |
create a reformed society that would model true Christianity in America |
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Which of the following characteristics was a common feature of royal colonies throughout English America in the seventeenth century? |
An elected assembly |
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Which of the following describes the colony of Maryland, founded in 1632? |
Tobacco production shaped its economy and social structures. |
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Which of the following describes the Dutch colony of New Netherland in the seventeenth century? |
The venture failed to attract many settlers. |
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Which of the following developments fostered the flow of migrants into the Virginia colony between 1617 and 1622? |
The Virginia Company began to allow individual settlers to own land |
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Which of the following diseases were introduced into Europe by Christopher Columbus’s sailors after their journey to the Americas in the 1490s? |
syphilis |
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Which of the following factors encouraged migrants to New France in the seventeenth century? |
Generous terms for indentured servitude |
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Which of the following groups provided the labor for Brazil’s profitable plantations in 1620? |
African slaves |
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Which of the following native groups capitalized on its geographic location in central New York and remained a significant political force in North America long after colonization? |
Iroquois |
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Which of the following New England colonies required church membership in order to be able to vote? |
Massachusetts Bay |
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes life in the seventeenth-century North American plantation colonies? |
Disease took such a toll that most children lost at least one parent before their thirteenth birthday |
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Which of the following statements describes Africans in Virginia after the 1660s? |
Africans found themselves more entrenched in slavery as a permanent condition. |
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Which of the following statements describes life in the Chesapeake region after 1660? |
A wealthy, planter-merchant elite dominated the Chesapeake economy and owned almost half the land in Virginia |
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Which of the following statements describes the English migrants who initially settled in the Jamestown colony in the early 1600s? |
Early Jamestown settlers expected to profit from gold and Indian labor |
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Which of the following statements describes the significance of the arrival of New World crops, including maize and potatoes, in Europe and Asia after the 1500s? |
American crops increased agricultural yield and population growth in the Old World |
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Which of the following statements is true of Metacom’s War (King Philip’s War), which took place in 1675-1676? |
The war was a last-ditch attempt to save Indian lands and culture in New England |
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Which of the following was a consequence of Bacon’s Rebellion of the 1670s? |
Slavery began to replace indentured servitude |
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Which of the following was an outcome of Elizabeth I’s compromise on the Church of England in the late 1500s? |
It angered English people who supported radical Protestantism |
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Which of the following was characteristic of both the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies? |
Ordinary farmers had more political power than most Chesapeake men. |
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Which of the following was the outcome of the surprise Indian attack on the Virginia colony in 1622? |
James I revoked the Virginia Company’s charter and made it a royal colony. |
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Which of the following was true of the English outwork textile industry that emerged around 1500? |
Landless peasants in small cottages spun and wove wool into cloth |
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Why did Plymouth begin to thrive after its first year while Jamestown struggled for many years? |
The religious discipline of the Plymouth settlers encouraged their stronger work ethic. |
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Why did the largest landholdings in seventeenth-century New England towns usually belong to wealthier families? |
Men of higher social status tended to receive the largest land grants from their towns. |
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Why was the influx of American gold and silver into the English economy during the sixteenth century significant? |
it stimulated further economic expansion |
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It stimulated further economic expansion. |
His political favoritism during his governorship aroused great resentment in Virginia |
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chattel slavery |
a system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold like property |
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neo-Europes |
term for colonies in which colonists sought to replicate, or at least approximate, economies and social structures they knew at home |
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encomienda |
a grant of Indian labor in Spanish America given in the 16th century by the Spanish kings to prominent men. |
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columbian exchange |
the massive global exchange of living things including people, animals, plants, and diseases, between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres that began after the voyage of Columbus |
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outwork |
a system of manufacturing, also known as putting out, used extensively in the english woolen industry in the 16th and 17th centuries/ merchants bought wool and then hired landless peasants who lived in small cottages to spin and weave it into cloth |
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mercantalism |
a system of political economy based on government intervention |
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house of Burgess |
organ of government in colonial Virginia made up of an assembly of reps elected by the colony’s inhabitants |
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royal colony |
in the english system, a royal colony was chartered by the crown. The colony’s government was appointed by the crown and served according to the instructions of the Board of Trade |
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freeholds |
land owned in its entirety, without feudal dues or landlord obligations/had the right to improve, transfer, or sell their property |
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headright system |
a system of land distribution, pioneered in Virginia and used in several other colonies, that granted land usually 50 acres, to anyone who paid the passage of a new arrival |
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indentured servitude |
workers contracted for service for a specific period/agreeing to work 4 to 5 years w/o pay meant they received passage across the Atlantic |
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pilgrims |
one of the first protestant groups to come to america seeking a separation from the Church of England/ founded Plymouth, the first permanent community in New England |
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puritans |
dissenters from the church of england who wanted a genuine Reformation rather that the partial Reformation sought by Henry VIII/stressed importance of relationship w God developed thru the bible, prayer, and introspection |
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joint-stock coporation |
a financial organization devised by english merchants around 1550 that facilitated the colonization of North America |
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predestination |
the protestant christian belief that God chooses certain people for salvation before they are born |
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toleration |
the allowance of different religious practices |
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covenant of works |
the christian idea that God’s elect must do good works in their earthly lives to earn their salvation |
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covenant of grace |
the christian idea that God’s elect are granted salvation as a pure gift of grace |
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town meeting |
a form of warfare that mobilizes all of a society’s resources- economic, political, and cultural- in support of the military effort |
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Philip II |
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Francis Drake |
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Opechancanough |
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Lord Baltimore |
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John Winthrop |
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Roger Williams |
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Anne Hutchinson |
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metacom |
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