Question 1

During the colonial era, Philadelphia:

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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.

Question 2

What sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the mid seventeenth century?

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A)   England's defeat of the Netherlands in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War of 1649
B)   England's victory in a 1676 religious war with Spain
C)   a treaty signed with the Iroquois Confederacy
D)   the incredible financial success of the British East India Company
E)   the restoration of the monarchy in 1660

Question 3

Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691:

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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.

Question 4

All of the following were factors enticing migration to the British colonies EXCEPT:

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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.

Question 5

"Anglicization" meant all of the following EXCEPT:

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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.

Question 6

In the eighteenth century, efforts began to stop emigration from England, except that convicts were still sent to bolster the Chesapeake labor force.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Nathaniel Bacon, who led Bacon's Rebellion against the Virginia elite, was himself a wealthy planter.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

MATCHING
-Toleration Act

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A)  elites in America becoming more culturally English
B)  allowed Protestant Dissenters to worship freely in England
C)  government regulation of the nation's economy (to assure national power) 
D)  placed William of Orange on the English throne
E)  had a monopoly on the slave tradeF) a very liberal frame for governmentG) English demanded this over their former Dutch rulersH) agreement between New York and IroquoisI) believed in the equality of all personsJ) law that regulated the shipping and selling of colonial productsK) the poor of Virginia demand changeL) war between New Englanders and Indians

Question 9

MATCHING
-Anglicization

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A)  elites in America becoming more culturally English
B)  allowed Protestant Dissenters to worship freely in England
C)  government regulation of the nation's economy (to assure national power) 
D)  placed William of Orange on the English throne
E)  had a monopoly on the slave tradeF) a very liberal frame for governmentG) English demanded this over their former Dutch rulersH) agreement between New York and IroquoisI) believed in the equality of all personsJ) law that regulated the shipping and selling of colonial productsK) the poor of Virginia demand changeL) war between New Englanders and Indians

Question 10

Great Britain sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the eighteenth century?

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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

Question 11

What role did Native Americans play in British imperial wars during the eighteenth century?

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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.

Question 12

The Virginia slave code of 1705:

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A)   simply brought together old aspects of the laws governing slaves and slavery.
B)   completely rewrote and changed the earlier slave laws.
C)   embedded the principle of white supremacy in law.
D)   made clear that slaves were subject to the will of their masters but not to anyone who could not claim ownership of them.
E)   was the work of Nathaniel Bacon.

Question 13

Nathaniel Bacon:

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A)   actually was socially closer to the elite than to the indentured servants who supported him.
B)   had no connection to Virginia's wealthiest planters.
C)   won unanimous support for his effort to reduce taxes, but his effort to remove all Native Americans from the colony doomed his rebellion.
D)   burned down Jamestown but never succeeded in taking over the colony or driving out Governor Berkeley.
E)   was the first colonist to open his own slaughterhouse.

Question 14

Which one of the following is true of the English West Indies in the seventeenth century?

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A)   By the end of the century, the African population far outnumbered the European population on most islands.
B)   Mixed economies with small farms worked by indentured servants dominated islands such as Barbados throughout the century.
C)   Frequent uprisings by African slaves caused the English to abandon the West Indies by the 1680s and to relocate staple crop production to mainland North America.
D)   The free labor system of the West Indies stood in stark contrast to the slave labor system of the Chesapeake.
E)   Indentured servants replaced African slaves in the West Indies once the demand for slaves in Carolina drained away the African population of the islands.

Question 15

Which of the following is true of slave resistance in the colonial period?

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A)   Runaways were very rare because slaves knew that attempting to escape would be futile.
B)   Some slaves were the offspring of white traders and therefore knew enough English to turn to the legal system, at least until Virginia lawmakers prevented them from doing so.
C)   A number of bloody rebellions prompted a wholesale revision of slave codes.
D)   It was limited because slaves at the time were too new to the colonies to understand the concept of freedom.
E)   All runaways headed for freedom in French Canada.

Question 16

MATCHING
-James II

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A)  established a Committee of Safety in New York
B)  a Protestant who became King of England
C)  Metacom
D)  formed Covenant Chain with Iroquois
E)  elite planter who called for reform in VirginiaF) Governor of Virginia during Bacon's RebellionG) a Catholic who became King of EnglandH) wealthy Virginian speaker of the House of BurgessesI) proprietor of PennsylvaniaJ) successful Jewish silversmithK) overthrown in the Glorious RevolutionL) slave who became free and owned slaves himself

Question 17

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

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Question 18

Bacon's Rebellion was caused by a conflict between blacks and whites in Virginia.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

To Quakers, liberty was:

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A)   limited to white, landowning men.
B)   strictly defined.
C)   a universal entitlement.
D)   extended to women but not to blacks.
E)   limited to the spiritually inclined.

Question 20

German immigrants greatly enhanced the ethnic and religious diversity of Britain's colonies.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 3: Creating Anglo-America, 1660 -1750

MATCHING -Toleration Act

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Nathaniel Bacon:

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Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691:

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During the colonial era, Philadelphia:

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MATCHING -Anglicization

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What sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the mid seventeenth century?

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Nathaniel Bacon, who led Bacon's Rebellion against the Virginia elite, was himself a wealthy planter.

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In the eighteenth century, efforts began to stop emigration from England, except that convicts were still sent to bolster the Chesapeake labor force.

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Which of the following is true of slave resistance in the colonial period?

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All of the following were factors enticing migration to the British colonies EXCEPT:

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