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Charles I:

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disbanded Parliament from 1629–1640

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The stockholders who invested in the Virginia Company were motivated primarily by:

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financial profit

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For the English preparing to colonize America, one model of settlement was provided by their country's prior experience in:

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Ireland

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One outstanding characteristic of Jamestown in its initial years was:

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the high mortality rate among its settlers

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One of the important factors aiding the survival of the early Jamestown settlers was

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the assistance they received from the Indians

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As Jamestown's leader, Captain John Smith:

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made the colonists work in order to eat

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The headright system adopted for the Virginia colony consisted of:

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giving fifty acres of land to anyone who would transport himself to the colony and fifty more for any servants he might bring

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In 1624, a British court dissolved the struggling Virginia Company, and Virginia:

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became a royal colony

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Sir William Berkeley:

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arrived as Virginia's royal governor in 1642

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Which of the following was NOT true of Nathaniel Bacon

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He had a close relationship with governor Berkeley

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Bacon's Rebellion:

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brought indentured servants and small farmers together against the colony's rich planters and political leaders

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Maryland was much like Virginia in that it:

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had a tobacco-based economy

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The early settlers of New England differed from those of the Chesapeake by being primarily:

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middle-class

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The English Puritans:

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opposed Catholic elements in the Church of England

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All of the following are true of the Pilgrims EXCEPT that they:

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were a sect of radical Catholics

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The leader of the Pilgrims who established the Plymouth colony was:

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William Bradford

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When Massachusetts leader John Winthrop spoke of "a city upon a hill," he was referring to that colony's desire to:

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serve as a model christian community

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After 1644, the right to vote in Massachusetts Bay was restricted to those who:

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were members of a Puritan church

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Anne Hutchinson was kicked out of Massachusetts for:

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challenging the authority of local ministers

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Puritans viewed the Indian belief in nature filled with spirits as:

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pagan

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For the Pequots, the result of the 1637 war that they fought with New England settlers was:

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slaughter and enslavement

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The major cause of King Philip's War was:

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Indian resentment over forced conversions to Christianity

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The English Civil War affected the American colonies by:

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permitting the colonies to essentially govern themselves

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During Oliver Cromwell's rule, defeated English Royalists would most likely seek refuge in:

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virginia

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In the Southeast, the profitability of Indian captives prompted a frenzy of:

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slaving activity

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The first Jews in the colonies:

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arrived in New Netherland

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The Iroquois:

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controlled much of eastern North America during the second half of the seventeenth century

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The British colonies differed from the Spanish in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

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they were in a more compact geographical area

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Which of the following is NOT true of Georgia?

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It succeeded in keeping out slavery.

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By the early eighteenth century, the English colonies in North America:

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were the most populous and prosperous on the continent