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The Glorious Revolution of 1688:
a. resulted mainly from the fears of English aristocrats that the birth of James II’s son would lead to a Catholic succession.
b. ended parliamentary rule in Great Britain until Queen Anne’s War in 1702.
c. was the work of an ambitious Danish prince out to avenge his father’s murder by a British nobleman.
d. had no impact on the British colonies in America.
e. prompted Scotland’s secession from Great Britain and thus a reduction in Scots-Irish immigration to the colonies.
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a. resulted mainly from the fears of English aristocrats that the birth of James II’s son would lead to a Catholic succession.
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The English Bill of Rights of 1689:
a. was unwritten, like the English Constitution on which it was based.
b. was King William’s finest writing on the importance of liberty.
c. divided power in England between the king and Parliament.
d. was copied word for word into the U.S. Constitution a century later.
e. listed parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury.
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e. listed parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury.
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In what ways did England reduce colonial autonomy during the 1680s?
a. Charles II revoked the charters of all colonies that had violated the Navigation Acts.
b. It created the Dominion of New England, run by a royal appointee without benefit of an elected assembly.
c. Because Charles II and James II were at least closet Catholics, the colonies no longer could have established churches within their borders.
d. The king started appointing all judges.
e. Not at all; this was the era in which colonies achieved autonomy.
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b. It created the Dominion of New England, run by a royal appointee without benefit of an elected assembly.
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The Glorious Revolution witnessed uprisings in colonial America, including ones in:
a. New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
b. New York and Maryland.
c. Virginia and New York.
d. Pennsylvania and Maryland.
e. New York and New Hampshire.
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b. New York and Maryland.
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Captain Jacob Leisler, the head of the rebel militia that took control of New York in 1689,:
a. was a close ally of Sir Edmund Andros, who was trying to regain control of the Dominion of New England.
b. was overthrown and killed in so grisly a manner that the rivalry between his friends and foes polarized New York politics for years.
c. was knighted for his role in supporting the Glorious Revolution.
d. sought to impose Catholic rule but was defeated by a Protestant militia in a short but bloody civil war.
e. slaughtered so many Native Americans that wars between whites and the remaining tribes kept New York in an uproar for the next two decades.
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b. was overthrown and killed in so grisly a manner that the rivalry between his friends and foes polarized New York politics for years.
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How did the new Massachusetts charter of 1691 change that colony’s government?
a. Puritans were required to permit religious tolerance of all Christian denominations.
b. It eliminated town government, which had been the heart of Puritan control of the commonwealth.
c. It made Massachusetts a royal colony rather than under the control of Puritan "saints."
d. It required all judges to be Anglican, greatly reducing Puritan influence over the three branches of government.
e. It moved the seat of government to Salem, which contributed greatly to the problems involving witchcraft.
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c. It made Massachusetts a royal colony rather than under the control of Puritan "saints."
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Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691:
a. it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders.
b. it received the right to have its voters elect its own governor and legislative assembly.
c. Plymouth was split off from Massachusetts to become its own independent colony.
d. church membership became the chief legal requirement for voting.
e. social tensions generally decreased and a relatively peaceful period ensued.
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a. it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders.
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According to New England Puritans, witchcraft:
a. was perfectly acceptable when it was used for proper purposes.
b. was punishable by hanging unless it was used to reinforce men’s standing and God’s will.
c. resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes.
d. was restricted to Salem.
e. was due entirely to exposure to Catholicism.
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c. resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes.
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Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England?
a. a single young woman whose attractiveness meant that some saw her as a threat to Puritan values
b. a married woman who normally was subservient to her husband and the community, which made her behavior seem all the more bizarre
c. a widow who presumably was too lonely or too dependent on the community to be taken seriously, but who had to be tried and convicted to keep others from thinking similarly
d. a married woman who had just lost a child
e. a woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband
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e. a woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband
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Why did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692?
a. The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others.
b. When Tituba testified, the issue became racial and divided the town.
c. All of the accused were children, and Puritans were determined to force their young to accept their religious traditions or face death.
d. The colonial capital had just been moved to Salem, upsetting the normally staid town.
e. They did not; actually, the number of accusations was average and Salem was highly overrated as a place for charges of witchcraft.
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a. The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others.
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Who finally ended the Salem Witch trials?
a. the Massachusetts governor
b. the local pastor
c. Salem’s judge
d. Tituba
e. Increase Mather
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a. the Massachusetts governor
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As accusations and executions multiplied in Salem, what was the long-term impact of the witchcraft trials there?
a. Puritan leader Increase Mather encouraged juries to take testimony and accusations more seriously.
b. The idea of prosecuting witches gained widespread support.
c. The number of witchcraft prosecutions in Massachusetts declined markedly.
d. Colonial leaders saw something was seriously wrong with their judicial system and outlawed witchcraft trials in 1715.
e. Witchcraft prosecutions were put under the control of the Massachusetts General Court.
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c. The number of witchcraft prosecutions in Massachusetts declined markedly.
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Which of the following best sums up population diversity in colonial British America?
a. From the beginning of British settlement, the colonies were highly diverse in race and religion.
b. Great Britain originally promoted emigration to the colonies as a means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century, opening the colonies to a more diverse group of settlers.
c. Men and women arrived in almost equal numbers because British officials encouraged women to leave, believing that fewer women in the mother country would equal slower population growth.
d. Great Britain urged professionals and skilled craftspeople to go to its colonies in America because it wanted to create a model society there, but eventually it began to urge vagabonds and "masterless men" to go instead.
e. Germans were the only non-British group allowed to live in the colonies.
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b. Great Britain originally promoted emigration to the colonies as a means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century, opening the colonies to a more diverse group of settlers.
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Great Britain sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the eighteenth century?
a. Protestants from non-English and less prosperous parts of the British Isles
b. Catholics from France and Spain, thereby weakening England’s enemies
c. professionals and skilled craftsmen from England
d. members of nonmainstream religions, particularly Quakers and Anabaptists
e. wealthy merchants who could spur economic growth in the colonies
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a. Protestants from non-English and less prosperous parts of the British Isles
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The German migration to the English colonies:
a. was unusual because few Germans left their part of Europe during the American colonial era.
b. consisted mainly of single young males, as with their counterparts who migrated from England.
c. was mainly to Maryland, because most of the German immigrants were Catholic.
d. led to the formation of many farming communities.
e. led to the separation of church and state.
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d. led to the formation of many farming communities.
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English and Dutch merchants created a well-organized system for "redemptioners." What was this system for?
a. for New Englanders to trade molasses for rum with the West Indies
b. for bringing Protestant refugees to North America for a hefty fee
c. for carrying indentured German families to America where they would work off their transportation debt
d. for unloading the unwanted convicts of London and Amsterdam to ports such as Boston and New York
e. for pirating against Spain and France, their Catholic archenemies
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c. for carrying indentured German families to America where they would work off their transportation debt
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The Scottish and Scotch-Irish immigrants to the colonies:
a. were almost uniformly Catholics.
b. usually worked in the West Indies before moving to the mainland colonies.
c. were often physicians, merchants, and teachers.
d. did little to add to the religious diversity in America.
e. represented only a small fraction of the immigration to the colonies.
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c. were often physicians, merchants, and teachers.
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The separation of church and state:
a. existed only in the southern colonies.
b. existed only in a few colonies.
c. was limited in the colonies and existed only to promote all forms of Christianity.
d. resulted in the colonies from the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
e. was due largely to the increasing German presence in the colonies.
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b. existed only in a few colonies.
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All of the following were factors enticing migration to the British colonies EXCEPT:
a. availability of land.
b. lack of a military draft.
c. absence of restraints on economic opportunity.
d. religious toleration.
e. cheap and safe transatlantic transportation.
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e. cheap and safe transatlantic transportation.
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Elizabeth Sprigs, an indentured servant in Maryland, found her experience to be:
a. difficult but worth it, given her perception of the colonies as a place of genuine freedom.
b. relatively easy, especially compared to that of the slaves.
c. enlightening in terms of the diverse people she had met, many from Germany and Ireland.
d. extremely harsh, barely better than that of a slave’s.
e. much like that of a servant’s life in London; she looked forward to her release in two years.
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d. extremely harsh, barely better than that of a slave’s.
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Indians in eighteenth-century British America:
a. were well integrated into the British imperial system.
b. benefited from the Walking Purchase of 1737.
c. were viewed in the same way by traders, British officials, and farmers.
d. never warred with the colonists.
e. had access to the liberties guaranteed to Englishmen.
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a. were well integrated into the British imperial system.
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What role did Native Americans play in British imperial wars during the eighteenth century?
a. They avoided all involvement.
b. They did much of the fighting in the wars.
c. They fought only in Canada and in the Ohio Valley.
d. They caused some of them, because the French resented British treatment of Indians.
e. They uniformly sided with the French against the British.
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. They did much of the fighting in the wars.
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The Walking Purchase of 1737:
a. sparked King Philip’s War.
b. was a fraudulent deal for the Lenni Lenape Indians.
c. was part of the West Jersey Concessions.
d. was led by Nathaniel Bacon.
e. was rescinded by the governor of Pennsylvania the following year.
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b. was a fraudulent deal for the Lenni Lenape Indians.
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Which of the following was true of agriculture in the colonies during the eighteenth century?
a. It was in decline in the backcountry as compared to coastal areas.
b. Because New York’s landlords had taken over so much land, agriculture grew more slowly in New York than in other colonies.
c. New England moved away from smaller farming and increasingly toward large-scale farms and plantations.
d. The standard of living on farms was far lower than it was in Europe.
e. Farmers in the Middle Colonies had no interest in the market.
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b. Because New York’s landlords had taken over so much land, agriculture grew more slowly in New York than in other colonies.
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By the eighteenth century, consumer goods such as books and ceramic plates:
a. were found in many colonial residents’ homes.
b. were specifically banned in the colonies by the Navigation Acts.
c. were rare in the colonies, thus demonstrating that the colonists lived in a premodern world.
d. were manufactured in several mainland English colonies but had to be shipped to England for sale.
e. were almost entirely Dutch-made.
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a. were found in many colonial residents’ homes.
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During the colonial era, Philadelphia:
a. became home to a varied population of artisans and craftsmen.
b. was one of the empire’s least successful seaports.
c. was large by European standards.
d. was populated almost entirely by wealthy citizens.
e. came under the almost dictatorial control of Benjamin Franklin.
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a. became home to a varied population of artisans and craftsmen.
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North American crops and products:
a. played only a small role in the British empire.
b. were consumed entirely overseas.
c. were part of a commercial trade network that knitted together a far-flung empire.
d. compared unfavorably with those throughout the rest of the empire.
e. led to numerous complaints to the parliamentary consumer advocate.
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c. were part of a commercial trade network that knitted together a far-flung empire.
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Which of the following was true of the colonial elite?
a. As with the mother country, the colonies had a titled aristocracy.
b. They controlled colonial government.
c. They often encountered financial trouble because they lacked connections to their counterparts back in the mother country.
d. Most of them were as wealthy as, if not wealthier than, the British aristocracy.
e. All of them were careful to marry outside of their families.
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b. They controlled colonial government.
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"Anglicization" meant all of the following EXCEPT:
a. colonists were determined to speak English as perfectly as those who lived in England.
b. colonists imported the latest London fashions and literature.
c. the colonial elite modeled their homes on the English gentry’s estates and townhouses.
d. those colonists who could afford to do so often sent their sons to England to be educated.
e. the upper-class colonists often had coats of arms designed for their families, as the upper-class did in England.
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a. colonists were determined to speak English as perfectly as those who lived in England.
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How did the colonial elite view their role in society?
a. Social obligations demanded that they give everyone the same liberties that they enjoyed.
b. It meant the power to rule—the right of those blessed with wealth and prominence to dominate others.
c. They should enjoy their wealth but not parade it by dressing differently or by living in homes that were more elaborate than those of a lower status.
d. They should work hard, because that is how they would make more money.
e. They felt that they had no role and that those beneath them should just take care of themselves.
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b. It meant the power to rule—the right of those blessed with wealth and prominence to dominate others.
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Which of the following was true of poverty in the colonial period?
a. Poverty was greater in the colonies than it was in Great Britain, which had more economic activity.
b. The percentage of colonists living in poverty was great because the northern colonists considered slaves poverty-stricken.
c. Limited supplies of land, especially for inheritance, contributed to poverty.
d. Colonists differed greatly from the British back in England in how they viewed poverty and those living in poverty.
e. It declined in the cities because of the rise of consumer markets.
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c. Limited supplies of land, especially for inheritance, contributed to poverty.
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By the eighteenth century, colonial farm families:
a. almost always owned at least three slaves.
b. were in decline as bigger cities like Philadelphia expanded.
c. saw freedom as depending on their political rights, not their ownership of property.
d. viewed land ownership almost as a right, a precondition of freedom.
e. engaged in arranged intermarriages.
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d. viewed land ownership almost as a right, a precondition of freedom.
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As English colonial society became more structured in the eighteenth century, what were the effects on women?
a. They received more legal rights, such as the right to own property in their own names.
b. Women’s work became more clearly defined as tied closely to the home.
c. Their workloads decreased thanks to technological advances such as the spinning wheel and to declining infant mortality rates.
d. Women were permitted to practice law.
e. Women bore so fewer children that population levels slightly declined in the 1740s, then stabilized until the American Revolution.
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b. Women’s work became more clearly defined as tied closely to the home.
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