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10. William Penn designed it as a grid-city to accomodate for future growth, and it is a good thing he did, because within a hundred years, its population had increased ten times, making it the biggest city and most busy port in North America.
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C. Philadelphia.
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19. The first fighting between redcoats and minutemen occured during the:
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B. Battle of Lexington
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18. Samuel Adams and other called the confrontation between British soldiers and civilians in March of 1770 "the Boston Massacre" in order to:
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A. Sway public opinion against the British.
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3. This part of North America was in Spanish hands in the 1600's
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A. Florida
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20. According to John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence, governmental power should be based on:
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B. The consent of the people.
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16. The Sons of Liberty were a group of:
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D. Any of the above, depending upon whom you asked.
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17. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act when it became clear that:
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D. The colonies' boycott of British goods was too expensive to Britain.
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1. Most slaves came from this place.
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C. West Africa
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2. The Dutch hired Henry Hudson to find this:
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D. Northwest Passage
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15. What cargo was carried on what is known as the middle passage of the triangular trade?
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D. African slaves
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4. This part of North America was in Spanish hands in the 1600's:
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A. Florida
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5. A charter colony, the first successful colony planted by England on mainland North America. Became a tabacco plantation state.
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C. Virginia
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11. This city originally belonged to the Dutch. It was the third largest city when it came into British hands; and by the Revolution, it was the second largest.
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A. New York
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7. A proprietary colony given to Calvert, Lord Baltimore. He made a colony for Catholics that also allowed freedom of other to worship as they chose. The colony became something of a mixture between the northern and southern cultures.
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A. Maryland
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6. A charter colony started in 1620 whose citizens were seeking religious freedom. They called themselves separists. They were helped in their first years by the Wampanoag. Their colony got absorbed by a larger one.
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D. Plymouth
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8. A proprietary clony given to a few friends of King Charles. They modeled thier colony after Virginia, but grew more rice and indigo than tobacco. After arguing with a settlement in the north of the colony over issues of culture, they split the colony in two.
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B. Carolina
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9. John Winthrop called it the "City Upon a Hille", this city started as the largest in the colonies, but quickly lost first place and never caught up again. When it began, it was the focus of Puritan dreams of a new society.
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B. Boston
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14. The triangular trade could best be described as a network of trade routes conecting:
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D. Nations and colonies located on the Atlantic Ocean.
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12. A cash crop is one that is raised primarily for:
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A. Sale
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13. All of the following were important cash crops in the Southern colonies except for:
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C. Wheat
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