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1
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What was Ann Hutchinson trialed for?

A

teaching unorthodox religious ideas

2
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What is the difference between the puritans and the separatists?

A

the Puritans want to fix the church

the separatists want to leave the church

3
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What happened to the English Colony of Roanoke?

A

it mysteriously disappeared within a few years of being established.

4
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What was the pilgrim’s governmental document?

A

the mayflower compact

5
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The Portuguese interest in exploring Atlantic trade routes to the Indies was sparked by what?

A

the ottomans over land trading

6
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According to the journal of Christopher Columbus, the natives he found were able to convert to Christianity because?

A

they had no religion

7
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What was critical to the success of the Hernan Cortes expedition?

A

Indian allies and European disease

8
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What was three important crops transplanted to the New World?

A

coffee rice and sugar.

9
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Who forced the French to locate their colonies in the North Atlantic Region?

A

Spanish

10
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Where did the Dutch originally establish their trading posts?

A

New York

11
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Roger Williams is best known in American history as?

A

an early champion of religious freedom.

12
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In founding the colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe’s primary purpose was to?

A

provide a refuge for English debtors

13
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What was a proprietary colony and what is an example of one?

A

a colony like New Jersey that was run as a privately owned estate.

14
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Were women treated more equal in New England than they were in Chesapeake?

A

no

15
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In founding the colony of Pennsylvania, William Penn’s primary purpose was to?

A

provide a refuge for persecuted English Quakers

16
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A man’s right to vote for governor and members of the General Court inn 17c Massachusetts was based on?

A

church membership

17
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The headright system adopted in the Virginia colony did what?

A

gave 50 acres of land to anyone who would transport someone [like an indentured servant] to the colony

18
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One of the reasons for Roger William’s banishment from Massachusetts Bay was his belief that?

A

the king of England had no right to give away land belonging to the Indians.

19
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Anne Hutchinson’s teaching threatened to undermine the spiritual authority of the established clergy because she?

A

claimed believers could communicate directly with God.

20
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The Half-Way Covenant was adopted because?

A

too few second- and third-generation Puritans were willing to testify publicly about their conversion experiences.

21
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The CHIEF significance of the Great Awakening was that it?

A

was the first genuine unified movement of the American colonists.

22
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One of the major reasons for social change and the disruption of the English economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was what?

A

enclosing of pastureland

23
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The Spanish monopoly of the New World was broken with

A

the English defeat of the Spanish Amada

24
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What is the most ethically diverse and religiously diverse English Colony by the late seventeenth?

A

New york

25
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By the 1650’s the New England Economy had diversified into what economy’s?

A

farming, fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, and other enterprises

26
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In contrast to Chesapeake, New England communities were mainly what social organization?

A

family groups

27
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About half of the slaves imported to the New World between 1701 and 1810 were delivered to:

A

the Caribbean basin

28
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Mulattoes were free people of what ancestries?

A

Indian, African and European ancestry

29
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Before the 1730’s the most profitable activity of the early Carolina economy was what?

A

the Indian slave trade

30
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Where was the rebellion in September 1739 that was the largest slave revolt of the colonial period?

A

Stono South Carolina

31
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The Essence of the European theory of mercantilism was the belief that?

A

the states should exert political control of the economy

32
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What is the nation of birth for Columbus?

A

Italy

33
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What were the three reasons Spain explored?

A

God, gold, and glory

34
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Why did England take little interest in establishing its own overseas colonies during the early 16th century?

A

religious conflict when King Henry VIII launched the English Protestant Reformation

35
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What are the three ways to set up a colony?

A

Joint-stock, proprietary, royal

36
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What was the main product of Jamestown?

A

tobacco

37
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Who could vote in the House of Burgesses?

A

anyone with property