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"Anglicization" meant all of the following except - anscolonists were determined to
speak English as perfectly as those who lived in England
"Enumerated" goods: - answere colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that first
had to be imported to England
A central element in the definition of English liberty was: - ansthe right to trial by jury
A consequence of the English Civil War of the 1640s was: - ansan English belief that
England was the world's guardian of liberty
According to Bartolomé de Las Casas: - ansSpain had caused the deaths of millions of
innocent people in the New World.
According to New England Puritans, witchcraft: - ansresulted from pacts that women
made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes
According to the economic theory known as mercantilism: - ansthe government should
regulate the economic activity so as to promote national power
Amerigo Vespucci: - anshelped to correct Columbus's theory that he had found a route
to Asia
As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their land in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries: - ansEfforts were made to persuade or even force those who
had been evicted to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis.
As early as 1615, the ______________ people of present-day southern Ontario and
upper New York State forged a trading alliance with the French, and many of them
converted to Catholicism. - ansHuron
At Anne Hutchinson's trial: - ansshe violated Puritan doctrine by claiming that God
spoke to her directly rather than through ministers or the Bible
Bacon's Rebelling contributed to which of the following in Virginia? - ansthe replacing of
indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia's plantations
Bacon's Rebellion was a response to: - answorsening economic conditions in Virginia
Both the Aztec and Inca empires were: - anslarge, wealthy, and sophisticated
During the seventeenth century, indentured servants: - anshad a great deal of trouble
acquiring land
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Europeans tended to think which one of the following about Native Americans and their
culture? - ansNative Americans failed to make use of the land, so it was acceptable for
Europeans to take it and use it.
Europeans--particularly the English, French, and Dutch--generally claimed North
American Indian land as their own based on: - anstheir view that Indians did not use the
land properly
For most New Englanders, Indians represented: - anssavagery
Great Britain sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the
eighteenth century? - ansProtestants from non-English and less prosperous parts of the
British Isles
Henry Hudson: - anshoped to find the Northwest Passage to Asia
How did Native Americans conceive property? - ansFamilies might use a specific plot of
land for a season.
How did Spain justify enslaving Native Americans? - ansThe Spanish believed that
enslavement could liberate Native Americans from their backwardness and savagery
and introduce them to Christian civilization.
in 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded: - ansQuebec
In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England: - answas more family-
oriented
In early seventeenth-century Massachusetts, freeman status was granted to adult males
who: - answere landowning church members
In England, social inequality: - answas part of ha hierarchical society
In regard to religious toleration, the Puritans: - anssaw only their faith as the truth
In the 1640s, leaders of the House of Commons: - ansaccused the king of imposing
taxes without parliamentary consent
In the Pequot War of 1637: - ansConnecticut and Massachusetts soldiers teamed with
Narragansett allies to set the main Pequot village afire and kill 500 Pequots.
In what way was Puritan church membership a restrictive status? - ansFull membership
required demonstrating that one had experienced divine grace.
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In what ways did England reduce colonial autonomy during the 1680s? - ansIt created
the Dominion of New England, run by a royal appointee without benefit of an elected
assembly.
It can be argued that conflict between the English settlers and local Indians in Virginia
became inevitable when: - ansthe Native Americans realized that England wanted to
establish a permanent and constantly expanding colony, not just a trading post
John Cabot sailed to: - ansNewfoundland
Maryland was similar to Virginia in that: - anstobacco proved crucial to its economy and
society
Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England: - answere lower-
class men
New France was characterized by: - ansmore peaceful European-Indian relations than
existed in New Spain
North American crops and products: - answere part of a commercial trade network that
knitted together a far-flung empire
Of colonists in British North America, which group was the wealthiest? - ansSouth
Carolina rice planters
Pueblo Indians lived in what is now: - ansthe southwestern United States
Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as: - ansdangerous to social harmony
community stability
Roger Williams argued that: - anschurch and state must be totally separated
Slavery developed more slowly in North America than in the English West Indies
because: - ansthe high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically
unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to die within a short time
Slavery in Africa: - ansinvolved the enslavement of criminals, debtors, and war captives
The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from
England returned home: - answere all men, reflecting the Virginia Company's interest in
searching for gold as opposed to building a functioning society
The city situated along the Mississippi River with between 10,000 and 30,000 residents
in the year 1200 is today known as: - ansCahokia
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The Columbian Exchange was: - ansthe transatlantic flow of plants, animals, and germs
that began after Christopher Columbus reached the New World
The economy of the Carolina colony: - ansoriginally centered on cattle-raising and trade
The English Bill of Rights of 1689: - anslisted parliamentary powers over such individual
rights as trial by jury
The first French explorations of the New World: - answere intended to locate the
Northwest Passage
The first permanent European settlement in the southwest, established in 1610, was: -
ansSanta Fe
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina: - ansproposed a feudal society in the New
World, complete with hereditary nobility
The Glorious Revolution of 1688: - ansresulted mainly from the fears of English
aristocrats that the birth of James II's son would lead to a catholic succession
The Half-Way Covenant of 1662: - ansdid not require evidence of conversation to
receive a kind of church membership
The Mayflower Compact established: - ansa civil government for the Plymouth Colony
The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker: - ansfounded what became part of the colony of
Connecticut
The repartimiento system established by the Spanish in the mid-1500s: - ansrecognized
Indians as free but required them to perform a fixed amount of labor
The Scottish and Scotch-Irish immigrants to the colonies: - answere not only poor
farmers, but physicians, merchants, and teachers, too
The Spanish set up outposts from Florida to South Carolina in part because: -
ansSpanish missionaries hoped to convert local Native Americans to Christianity.
The Virginia House of Burgesses: - answas created as part of the Virginia Company's
effort to encourage the colony's survival
To entice settlers to Virginia, the Virginia Company established the headright system,
which: - ansprovided land to settlers who paid their own and others' passage
Unlike slavery in America, slavery in Africa: - answas more likely to be based in the
household than on an agricultural plantation
