Question 1

Use the following to answer questions :
-Coerced labor. Africans constituted the most important coerced labor in the New World in the seventeenth century.

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A)  Algonquian Indians
B)  Bacon's Rebellion
C)  Barbados
D)  headright
E)  House of BurgessesF) indentured servantsG) JamestownH) Navigation ActsI) Pueblo RevoltJ) royal colonyK) slaveryL) Virginia Company

Question 2

Unlike servants in England, Chesapeake servants

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A)   could vote in local elections while serving their indenture.
B)   rarely earned their freedom or owned land.
C)   had no control over who purchased their labor.
D)   could not be sold by their original purchaser.

Question 3

List the stipulations of the Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663 and explain these acts' purpose.

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Question 4

The majority of the original settlers who came to Jamestown and the Virginia colony were

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A)   soldiers and their families.
B)   gentlemen and their servants.
C)   artisans and laborers.
D)   planters and ex-convicts.

Question 5

Identify two ways in which the features of the government of Virginia-the first established under the Virginia Company-changed when King James I revoked its corporate charter in 1624 and made Virginia a royal colony.

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Question 6

A servant labor system in the British colonies was made possible by the New World's labor shortage and

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A)   the decrease in job opportunities in England.
B)   the many English people who fled to escape religious persecution.
C)   the racial equality that forbade African slavery.
D)   the crown's endorsement of Spain's labor system.

Question 7

How did Powhatan help the English stave off starvation?

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A)   He taught them to grow tobacco for trade.
B)   He showed them how to hunt big game.
C)   He brought corn to the colony for barter.
D)   He gave the colonists wheat for cooking.

Question 8

When Pocahontas intervened to save John Smith, she may have been participating in an Algonquian ceremony that

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A)   expressed Powhatan's willingness to incorporate Smith into Powhatan's empire.
B)   reflected the Algonquian matriarchal society.
C)   showed deference to Europeans by ensuring that Smith would not be harmed.
D)   appeased the Algonquian gods who disapproved of the killing of outsiders.

Question 9

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-People who inhabited the coastal plain of present-day Virginia, near the Chesapeake Bay, when English colonists first settled the region.

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A)  Algonquian Indians
B)  Bacon's Rebellion
C)  Barbados
D)  headright
E)  House of BurgessesF) indentured servantsG) JamestownH) Navigation ActsI) Pueblo RevoltJ) royal colonyK) slaveryL) Virginia Company

Question 10

Provide the rationale behind the following statement: Both economically and socially, seventeenth-century South Carolina was a frontier outpost of the West Indian sugar economy.

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Question 11

What happened in Maryland, Lord Baltimore's planned refuge for Catholics?

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A)   Catholics feuded with the Protestant majority.
B)   Catholics created a religious society that farmed tobacco.
C)   Wealthy Protestants dominated the colony.
D)   Catholics returned to England, where they were in favor.

Question 12

Briefly identify the major reason for Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. Include Bacon's principal demand of Governor Berkeley, Berkeley's response, and the result of Berkeley's response.

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Question 13

The labor system that existed in Virginia until the 1670s profoundly influenced nearly every feature of Chesapeake society. Identify the source of labor and explain the major characteristics of this labor system. Explain the conditions that caused this system to flourish. Discuss the effects of this system on Chesapeake society up to the 1670s.

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Question 14

Until the 1670s, almost all Chesapeake colonists were English; by 1700, how many were African?

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A)   One in ten
B)   One in five
C)   One in eight
D)   One of two

Question 15

What was an employer required to give a servant after she or he completed an indenture?

Accepted Answer

A)   A share of the master's crop
B)   Free land
C)   Freedom dues
D)   Nothing

Question 16

Use the following to answer questions :
-Poor immigrants who signed contracts in which they committed to four to seven years of labor in North America in exchange for transportation from England, as well as food and shelter after they arrived in the colony.

Accepted Answer

A)  Algonquian Indians
B)  Bacon's Rebellion
C)  Barbados
D)  headright
E)  House of BurgessesF) indentured servantsG) JamestownH) Navigation ActsI) Pueblo RevoltJ) royal colonyK) slaveryL) Virginia Company

Question 17

Use the following to answer questions :
-Colonized in the 1630s, this island in the British West Indies became an enormous sugar producer and a source of wealth for England. The island's African slaves quickly became a majority of the island's population despite the deadliness of their work.

Accepted Answer

A)  Algonquian Indians
B)  Bacon's Rebellion
C)  Barbados
D)  headright
E)  House of BurgessesF) indentured servantsG) JamestownH) Navigation ActsI) Pueblo RevoltJ) royal colonyK) slaveryL) Virginia Company

Question 18

"Irish Nell told [his mother] the day she expected to be married, she was early up intending to clear the house out, and a Gentleman . . . asked her if she was the Girl that was to be married that day to the negro? She said Yes, he then chid her, and told her, she would put a mark by that upon her Children and bring them into Slavery, that if she would marry a white man her Children might be of Credit in the world, otherwise they wou'd be in Slavery, upon which she fell a crying, and said it was to her Choice, she wou'd rather have Charles than have your Lordship." Why did the witnesses' testimony in "Analyzing Historical Evidence: Enslavement by Marriage" accuse Irish Nell of putting "a mark . . . upon her Children?"

Accepted Answer

A)   Because she married an African, her free white children from her first marriage had to become slaves.
B)   Because she married an African, all of her future descendants would be slaves.
C)   Because she had a child out of wedlock, she subjected this child to public shame.
D)   Because she wanted to marry unencumbered, she sold her own children into slavery.

Question 19

Why did the Indians refrain from attacking the English settlers during the first fifteen years of English settlement?

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A)   The Indians sought to convert to Christianity.
B)   They were intimidated by the settlers' religion.
C)   The Indians hoped to convert the settlers to their religion.
D)   They wanted to trade with the settlers to obtain wheat.

Question 20

Defend the following statement with specific evidence: The servant labor system perpetuated the gender imbalance in seventeenth-century Virginia.

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Exam 3: The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

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Provide the rationale behind the following statement: Both economically and socially, seventeenth-century South Carolina was a frontier outpost of the West Indian sugar economy.

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Unlike servants in England, Chesapeake servants

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Defend the following statement with specific evidence: The servant labor system perpetuated the gender imbalance in seventeenth-century Virginia.

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Briefly identify the major reason for Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. Include Bacon's principal demand of Governor Berkeley, Berkeley's response, and the result of Berkeley's response.

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Identify two ways in which the features of the government of Virginia-the first established under the Virginia Company-changed when King James I revoked its corporate charter in 1624 and made Virginia a royal colony.

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Why did the Indians refrain from attacking the English settlers during the first fifteen years of English settlement?

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How did Powhatan help the English stave off starvation?

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A servant labor system in the British colonies was made possible by the New World's labor shortage and

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When Pocahontas intervened to save John Smith, she may have been participating in an Algonquian ceremony that

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Use the following to answer questions : -Poor immigrants who signed contracts in which they committed to four to seven years of labor in North America in exchange for transportation from England, as well as food and shelter after they arrived in the colony.

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List the stipulations of the Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663 and explain these acts' purpose.

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Navigation...
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Until the 1670s, almost all Chesapeake colonists were English; by 1700, how many were African?

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Use the following to answer questions : -People who inhabited the coastal plain of present-day Virginia, near the Chesapeake Bay, when English colonists first settled the region.

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Use the following to answer questions : -Coerced labor. Africans constituted the most important coerced labor in the New World in the seventeenth century.

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The majority of the original settlers who came to Jamestown and the Virginia colony were

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What was an employer required to give a servant after she or he completed an indenture?

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What happened in Maryland, Lord Baltimore's planned refuge for Catholics?

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Exam 3: The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

Use the following to answer questions : -Colonized in the 1630s, this island in the British West Indies became an enormous sugar producer and a source of wealth for England. The island's African slaves quickly became a majority of the island's population despite the deadliness of their work.

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Provide the rationale behind the following statement: Both economically and socially, seventeenth-century South Carolina was a frontier outpost of the West Indian sugar economy.

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Unlike servants in England, Chesapeake servants

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Defend the following statement with specific evidence: The servant labor system perpetuated the gender imbalance in seventeenth-century Virginia.

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Briefly identify the major reason for Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. Include Bacon's principal demand of Governor Berkeley, Berkeley's response, and the result of Berkeley's response.

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Identify two ways in which the features of the government of Virginia-the first established under the Virginia Company-changed when King James I revoked its corporate charter in 1624 and made Virginia a royal colony.

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Why did the Indians refrain from attacking the English settlers during the first fifteen years of English settlement?

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How did Powhatan help the English stave off starvation?

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A servant labor system in the British colonies was made possible by the New World's labor shortage and

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When Pocahontas intervened to save John Smith, she may have been participating in an Algonquian ceremony that

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Use the following to answer questions : -Poor immigrants who signed contracts in which they committed to four to seven years of labor in North America in exchange for transportation from England, as well as food and shelter after they arrived in the colony.

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List the stipulations of the Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663 and explain these acts' purpose.

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Until the 1670s, almost all Chesapeake colonists were English; by 1700, how many were African?

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Use the following to answer questions : -People who inhabited the coastal plain of present-day Virginia, near the Chesapeake Bay, when English colonists first settled the region.

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Use the following to answer questions : -Coerced labor. Africans constituted the most important coerced labor in the New World in the seventeenth century.

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The majority of the original settlers who came to Jamestown and the Virginia colony were

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What was an employer required to give a servant after she or he completed an indenture?

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What happened in Maryland, Lord Baltimore's planned refuge for Catholics?

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