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| 486949440 | In his attempt to settle the Roanoke colony, Sir Walter Ralegh found that | inadequate financing and difficulty in communication and supplies doomed the project. | |
| 486949441 | The key to the success of Protestantism in England was | widely popular anticlericalism. | |
| 486949442 | The religious settlement of Elizabeth I | made the Church of England Catholic in organization and ceremony, but Protestant in doctrines. | |
| 486949443 | The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 | totally destroyed the Spanish fleet. | |
| 486949444 | As a result of the successful domestication of maize (corn), beans, and squash, some Native Americans | gained greater control over their environments. This meant that Native Americans now had the ability to produce their own food and not have to depend on what nature would supply them. | |
| 486949445 | In what is now Mexico, the Aztecs, Toltecs, and Mayas | developed advanced cultures prior to European contact.These were the great Native American civilizations of North America that rivaled Europeans in cultural sophistication at the time. | |
| 486949446 | The result of the deadly diseases brought to the New World by Europeans was | an extremely high mortality rate among the natives, destroying the culture of many tribes. Upwards of one-third to over 90 percent of the Native American population were killed by the European-brought diseases. | |
| 486949447 | The encomienda was | a royal grant of Indian labor and land to conquistadores in return for their protection and guidance. Conquistadores usually abused the intent of these encomiendas, exploiting the Indian labor, but neglecting their obligation to protect the Indians and see to their material well being and religious training. | |
| 486949448 | In Canada, the French colonial empire was | based primarily on the fur trade. Although the effort was made, feudal institutions did not fair well in French America. | |
| 486949449 | The English and Spanish colonial systems differed in that | the English efforts were privately funded, while the Spanish colonies were supported by the crown. | |
| 486949450 | To keep the dream of America alive, Richard Hakluyt | interviewed explorers and propagandized their stories in a book. | |
| 486949451 | The experience of English colonization of Ireland | served as a model for England's later colonization of America. Experiences in Ireland caused English colonizers in America to approach the latter enterprise with some preconceived notions about native peoples and how they must be treated. | |
| 486949452 | John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) primarily wanted to | find the northwest passage for England. | |
| 486962709 | The Act of Supremacy of 1534 | made the Catholic Church supreme in England. | |
| 486962710 | Most tribes located on the Atlantic Coast of North America belonged to a linguistic group known as | the Eastern Woodlands Tribal Group | |
| 486962711 | Eric the Red's son, Leif, established a small settlement in North America in the tenth century called | Greenland | |
| 486962712 | More maneuverable ships built in the fifteenth century with a new type of sail were called | caravels | |
| 486962713 | In 1494, Pope Alexander VI divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal by issuing the | Treaty of Tordesillas | |
| 486962714 | The teachings of John Calvin, especially the doctrine of predestination, contributed to the development of a religious group known as the | Puritans | |
| 486962715 | In colonizing North America, the English monarchs | followed no central plan and granted charters and proprietorships for a variety of reasons. | |
| 486962716 | The flow of immigrants to the English colonies in the seventeenth century | was determined by political upheaval, religious persecution, and economic recession. All these played a role in motivating various emigrants to leave England and settle in the American colonies. | |
| 486962717 | By founding a colony in North America, the London Company (later the Virginia Company) initially wanted to | make profits through the discovery of gold and silver. It wanted to emulate the Spanish success. | |
| 486962718 | In the early days of the Virginia colony, the settlers | preferred searching for gold to farming or guarding the settlement. The settlers' orders (and their preferences) were to search for gold, so they did. | |
| 486962719 | The solution to the economic problems of Virginia was | the cultivation of tobacco. John Rolfe found a way of curing tobacco that made it a profitable staple crop. | |
| 486962720 | The Lords Baltimore viewed their colonizing project as | a haven for English Catholics. Although founded as a haven for English Catholics, Protestants soon outnumbered Maryland's Catholics and introduced a high level of contention into the colony's politics. | |
| 486962721 | Pilgrims, or Separatists, left the Anglican Church because they | felt that it was still influenced too much by Catholic elements. Separatists were especially offended by the "popish" liturgy of the Anglican Church. | |
| 486962722 | The colony of New York | was originally settled by the Dutch and was then taken over by the English. The English takeover in 1664 was bloodless. | |
| 486962723 | The economy of Carolina was | at first diverse in agriculture and then became dependent on rice as a staple. | |
| 486962724 | The seventeenth-century English colonies | had few common traits other than their loyalty to the monarch. Loyalty to the crown was not an issue in the American colonies in the seventeenth century; in almost everything else, there was diversity in the colonies. | |
| 486962725 | In the seventeenth century, the colonists in Massachusetts were more successful than Virginia's | in adopting a concept of corporate or community welfare. | |
| 486962726 | The lives of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson indicate that | Massachusetts Bay faced difficulties in creating the perfect society in America. | |
| 486962727 | In Massachusetts, the electorate consisted of | all adult male members of a Congregational Church. | |
| 486962728 | William Penn's Frame of Government for his colony | was based on the ideas of James Harrington. | |
| 486962729 | The government of the Carolinas | was conceived by the Earl of Shaftesbury with help from John Locke. | |
| 486967684 | In the seventeenth century Virginia | was a death trap with a mortality rate higher than that of England at the time. | |
| 486967685 | The Puritans' form of church government, known as Congregationalism | were governed by decisions of a congregational meeting. | |
| 486967686 | Anne Hutchinson | was an Antinomian who also claimed she had divine revelations and was an outspoken critic of Massachusetts Bay's religious orthodoxy. | |
| 486967687 | In ruling New York, James, Duke of York, | disallowed a popularly elected assembly in New York | |
| 486967688 | Quakers believed | in the "Inner Light" of each soul and the possibility of salvation for all. | |
| 486970981 | Oliver Cromwell | was the military leader and religious reformer who ruled England after the execution of Charles I. | |
| 486970982 | James II | The Catholic king of England who was exiled by the Glorious Revolution | |
| 486970983 | Virginia's representative assembly was called the | House of Burgesses | |
| 486970984 | A grant of land to anyone who would pay transportation costs to a colony was known as a | headright | |
| 486970985 | A small annual payment to a proprietor of a colony in exchange for a grant of land was called a | quitrent | |
| 486970986 | The Puritan who became the most important governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony was | John Winthrop | |
| 486970987 | George Fox | was the Quaker spokesman who wrote extensively of the "Inner Light." | |
| 486970988 | Many of the original colonists to the Carolinas were migrants from | Barbados | |
| 486982900 | New England's increase in population toward the end of the seventeenth century is attributed to the fact that | New England Puritans apparently lived much longer than other colonists did. | |
| 486982901 | Education of the young during the colonial period was primarily a function of the | family. The family was the central social unit, particularly in Puritan New England | |
| 486982902 | In which of the following activities or responsibilities could colonial women most expect to take part? | church activities. Women could and did take part in worship and even church government to some level. | |
| 486982903 | Most farmers in the northern colonies belonged to which of the following groups? | yeoman or independent farmer | |
| 486982904 | Most of the settlers of the Chesapeake region migrated as | indentured servants. | |
| 486982905 | Most slaves brought across the Atlantic from Africa by slave traders were sold in which of the following regions? | Brazil or the West Indies. Sugar cultivation pulled the largest percent of slaves to the West Indies and Brazil. | |
| 486982906 | The British designed the mercantilist system primarily for | work around them as much as possible. | |
| 486982907 | The issue that started Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia was the | inability of the governor to control the Indians on the frontier effectively. | |
| 486982908 | To govern the northern colonies, James II created | the Dominion of New England. | |
| 486982909 | Which of the following factors did not contribute to the hysteria over witchcraft in Salem during the early 1690s? | the refusal of the courts to accept "spectral evidence" | |
| 486982910 | Until the middle of the seventeenth century, English political leaders | largely ignored the American colonies. | |
| 486982911 | The main reason for the lack of development of towns in the Chesapeake region seems to have been the | dependence on a one-crop economy. | |
| 486982912 | The uprising of Massachusetts Bay colonials in response to the Glorious Revolution was directed against the | administration of Governor Andros. | |
| 486982913 | Regarding Christianity, most slaves in North America | accepted it as their own, but with their own cultural variations. | |
| 486982914 | The British mercantilist system for managing the empire was | decentralized and created haphazardly | |
| 486989774 | The best-selling book of seventeenth-century New England was Reverend Michael Wigglesworth's | The Day of Doom | |
| 486989775 | The first institution of higher learning founded in England's mainland colonies was | Harvard | |
| 486989776 | Gullah | The creole language which mixed English and African words, was spoken on some of the Sea Islands along the Georgia-South Carolina coast. | |
| 486989777 | England of vice-admiralty courts in America | were establihsed to try offenders of the Navigation Acts because such courts required neither juries nor oral cross-examination, both traditional elements of the common law. | |
| 486990267 | Metacomet | The Wampanoag Chief that declared war against the colonists in 1675 | |
| 487005739 | Most Scots-Irish immigrants to America settled in | Pennsylvania. | |
| 487005740 | Most Germans who settled in the Middle Colonies came to America primarily in search of | land of their own | |
| 487005741 | The oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the United States is | St. Augustine, Florida. The Spanish founded St. Augustine in 1565. | |
| 487005742 | Colonists who clustered along the Atlantic coastal cities in the mid-eighteenth century | were culturally very similar to the English | |
| 487005743 | The balance of trade between England and the colonies had turned so much to England's favor by the mid-eighteenth century chiefly because | industrialization allowed England to sell a greater quantity of consumer goods at cheaper prices to American buyers. Mass produced manufactured goods from England sold more cheaply in the colonies than colonial manufactures; the massive import of English goods (more costly than the raw materials colonists sold in return) created the serious imbalance of trade. | |
| 487005744 | As a product of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin | constantly pursued his numerous curiosities until they yielded new and practical ideas that were quite usable. | |
| 487005745 | Jonathan Edwards preached that | God was omnipotent and the eternal fate of helpless individuals was determined at their birth. Like his Calvinist forebears, Edwards preached a doctrine of predestination. | |
| 487005746 | Royal governors were usually | appointed by the king. Royal governors served at the will of the monarch. | |
| 487005747 | Members of colonial assemblies perceived it their most important duty to | preserve colonial liberties against any attack or intrusion. In the tradition of the Commonwealthmen, colonial assemblymen viewed their primary purpose as vigilantly defending colonists' rights and liberties. | |
| 487005748 | Benjamin Franklin's purpose in developing the Albany Plan was to | organize a council of delegates from the separate colonies to coordinate common defense and western expansion. | |
| 487005749 | The English constitution | was a cumulative body of laws, statutes, and court decisions. | |
| 487005750 | The Peace of Paris in 1763 | gave Britain title to Canada, Florida, and all the land east of the Mississippi River. | |
| 487005751 | Native Americans of the middle ground | sought to maintain a strong, independent role in commercial exchange with Europeans. | |
| 487005752 | Colonial commerce by the mid-eighteenth century | helped to "anglicize" American culture by exposing colonists to large amounts of British products. | |
| 487005753 | Enlightenment philosophers claimed that | humans could achieve perfection in this world through the appeal to reason. | |
| 487012218 | In the eighteenth century, Spain's North American frontier was more sparsely populated than the English colonies along the Atlantic seaboard. | Spain's settlements in what is now the American Southwest never did grow very large and were always vulnerable to Indian attack or intrusion by foreigners. | |
| 487012219 | Because of the rapid increase in colonial population, | The standard of living measured by per capita income steadily rose throughout the eighteenth century. | |
| 487012220 | These thinkers believed that perfection in the human species was possible. | Enlightenment philosophers | |
| 487012221 | Natural reproduction | was most responsible for the rapid expansion of American population during the eighteenth century. | |
| 487012222 | Scots-Irish and the Germans | account for the bulk of non-English immigration into the colonies during the eighteenth century. | |
| 487012223 | According to the principles of the Enlightenment, individuals were to make certain that public institutions such as government were constructed or developed according to | natural laws | |
| 487012224 | In the search for useful knowledge and inventions, Enlightenment thinkers utilized | practical experimentation | |
| 487012225 | A major source of political information vigorously put forth, especially in New York and Massachusetts, to exercise vigilance against the spread of "privileged power" was the | weekly journal | |
| 487012226 | King George's War | American colonists captured the French fortress, Louisburg, only to have to returned it to the French by the Treaty of AixlaChapelle. | |
| 487012227 | The center of colonial government were the local | assemblies | |
| 487013767 | The climax to the Seven Years' War was British General Wolfe's successful assault on | Quebec | |
| 487013768 | The Commonwealthmen | criticized what they saw as corruption and lack of balance in the English Constitutional system. |
