Question 1

What benefited the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth?

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A)   They met a Native American, Opechancanough, who helped them.
B)   It was the late spring, so it was planting season.
C)   Native Americans, decimated by disease, had left behind cleared fields for farming.
D)   The local Indian leader considered the English to be divine.
E)   John Smith arrived to help organize them.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 2

Who would most admire today's America with its constitutional protections of equal rights for all?

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A)   Puritans.
B)   Levellers.
C)   Stuart kings.
D)   John Winthrop.
E)   John Smith.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 3

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Virginia Company

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A)  principles of religious toleration
B)  believed the spirit of God dwelled in all persons
C)  gave five to seven years of service for passage to America
D)  first elected assembly in colonial America
E)  charter company that established JamestownF) first written frame of government in British AmericaG) a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great MigrationH) primary crop of the Chesapeake coloniesI) argued that the Church of England was still too CatholicJ) granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passageK) a political movement favoring expanded libertiesL) written in 1215, this document was said to embody English freedomM) B) and G)
N) C) and K)

Question 4

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-English Civil War

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The English Civil War was a series of ar...

Question 5

Both religious freedom and the separation of church and state are taken for granted today.In seventeenth-century colonial America,freedom and religion did not necessarily go hand in hand,for many believed that the church ought to influence the state.Describe the varying degrees of religious freedom practiced in the colonies as well as differing attitudes about the relationship between church and state.Be sure to consider the following colonies,at least: Massachusetts Bay,Rhode Island,and Maryland.

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Question 6

Who received most of the profits from trade between Native Americans and colonists?

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A)   Native Americans.
B)   English soldiers.
C)   Colonial and European merchants.
D)   The king.
E)   Parliament.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 7

The Virginia Company can be called a failure primarily because:

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A)   it ultimately did not make money.
B)   Jamestown suffered Native American attacks.
C)   Pocahontas died in England.
D)   King James criticized tobacco.
E)   Spain gained control of the company's colony.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 8

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-indentured servant

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A)  principles of religious toleration
B)  believed the spirit of God dwelled in all persons
C)  gave five to seven years of service for passage to America
D)  first elected assembly in colonial America
E)  charter company that established JamestownF) first written frame of government in British AmericaG) a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great MigrationH) primary crop of the Chesapeake coloniesI) argued that the Church of England was still too CatholicJ) granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passageK) a political movement favoring expanded libertiesL) written in 1215, this document was said to embody English freedomM) A) and B)
N) A) and E)

Question 9

Opechancanough:

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A)   emphasized peaceful relations with the English colonists in Virginia.
B)   was responsible for his brother Powhatan's death.
C)   killed John Smith.
D)   mounted a surprise attack against Plymouth in the 1620s.
E)   opposed through violence English settlement of Virginia.F) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

Question 10

Boston merchants:

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A)   challenged the subordination of economic activity to Puritan control.
B)   refused to trade with anyone outside the Puritan faith.
C)   paid for Anne Hutchinson's prosecution.
D)   had enjoyed widespread freedom to trade since the establishment of the colony.
E)   controlled John Winthrop.F) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 11

Which of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order by the dates they were founded,from the earliest to the latest?

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A)   Plymouth, Jamestown, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island.
B)   Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Jamestown.
C)   Jamestown, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Rhode Island.
D)   Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Jamestown.
E)   Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island.F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 12

The Half-Way Covenant of 1662 addressed:

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A)   separation of church and state.
B)   freedom of religion.
C)   Native American relations.
D)   generational conflicts.
E)   business relations.F) A) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 13

________ described best the actions of the Puritan leaders in Massachusetts Bay.

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A)   Fair-minded
B)   Loving
C)   Irreligious
D)   Lazy
E)   IntolerantF) All of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 14

John Winthrop distinguished between natural and moral liberty.What was the difference? How did moral liberty work,and how did Puritans define liberty and freedom? Discuss the restrictions of moral liberty and the consequences as illustrated by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.Be sure to address Winthrop's speech in the "Voices of Freedom" box.

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Question 15

Once England decided to create an overseas empire,it did so with impressive speed.Explain the motives behind English expansion to the North American continent,including the Great Migration.

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Question 16

In the seventeenth century,New England's economy:

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A)   grew at a very slow rate because few settlers moved to the region.
B)   suffered because most early settlers were poor and could not gain access to land.
C)   centered on family farms and also involved the export of fish and timber.
D)   boasted a significant manufacturing component that employed close to one-third of all men.
E)   relied heavily on indentured servants in the labor force.F) All of the above
G) A) and C)

Question 17

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-tobacco

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A)  principles of religious toleration
B)  believed the spirit of God dwelled in all persons
C)  gave five to seven years of service for passage to America
D)  first elected assembly in colonial America
E)  charter company that established JamestownF) first written frame of government in British AmericaG) a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great MigrationH) primary crop of the Chesapeake coloniesI) argued that the Church of England was still too CatholicJ) granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passageK) a political movement favoring expanded libertiesL) written in 1215, this document was said to embody English freedomM) E) and L)
N) G) and L)

Question 18

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-headright system

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The headright system was a land grant po...

Question 19

The headright system led to fewer people from England coming to Virginia.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

A consequence of the English Civil War of the 1640s was:

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A)   an English belief that England was the world's guardian of liberty.
B)   an increase in the power of the Stuart kings.
C)   the establishment of Plymouth Colony.
D)   the signing of the Magna Carta.
E)   the outbreak of war between Spain and England.F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

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