Question 1

Virginia's colonial policy of requiring Native Americans to move to reservations:

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A)   immediately followed the Pequot War.
B)   came after the Native American population had risen to 10,000.
C)   followed a precedent established by the English in Ireland.
D)   led to the Trail of Tears of Native Americans from the Virginia coast to an inland area.
E)   ended in failure in 1633.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 2

Roger Williams imagined Rhode Island as a feudal domain.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Why was the death rate in early Jamestown so high?

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A)   It lay beside a malarial swamp.
B)   The ample food was full of botulism.
C)   It was not high; most of the colonists survived.
D)   Constant Native American attacks decimated the population.
E)   Many of the colonists committed suicide.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 4

Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s?

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A)   Because of religious differences: England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was devoutly Catholic.
B)   Because of the Spanish Armada's successful invasion of Great Britain in 1588.
C)   Because Spain had allied with France to invade English colonies in the New World.
D)   Because one of Henry VIII's beheaded wives was a Spanish princess, and the Spanish government announced it would be at war with England until Henry apologized.
E)   Because both the English and Spanish royal families laid claim to the Irish throne.F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 5

All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century EXCEPT:

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A)   a lower birth rate, which made it difficult to find workers for new industries.
B)   the enclosure movement, which forced thousands of peasants from farms.
C)   increased prices buoyed by the influx of gold and silver from Latin America.
D)   decreased wages in the cities.
E)   the invasion of the cities by vagrants, who wandered the roads in search of work.F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 6

What was Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop's attitude toward liberty?

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A)   He saw two kinds of liberty: natural liberty, the ability to do evil, and moral liberty, the ability to do good.
B)   He saw two kinds of liberty: negative liberty, the restricting of freedoms for the sake of others, and positive liberty, the assuring of rights through a constitution.
C)   He believed that individual rights took precedence over the rights of the community.
D)   He believed in a dictatorship, with only himself in charge of it.
E)   He believed "liberty" had a religious but not a political meaning.F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 7

As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:

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A)   there was an increase in the number of jobless peasants, whom the British government aided with an early form of welfare.
B)   efforts were made to persuade or even force those who had been evicted to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis.
C)   mass numbers of peasants converted from Protestantism to Catholicism, because the Catholic Church took better care of the poor.
D)   there was a sharp reduction in the number of sheep and other livestock.
E)   the spread of the Black Plague decreased because of the elimination of cramped living quarters.F) All of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 8

How did indentured servants display a fondness for freedom?

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A)   They became abolitionists, fighting to end slavery in British North America.
B)   Some of them ran away or were disobedient toward their masters.
C)   They sent letters home telling their fellow Englishmen that the American colonies offered special opportunities for freedom.
D)   They insisted on their right to serve in the militia, because they believed in the right to bear arms.
E)   They published pamphlets criticizing their masters, displaying their love of free speech.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 9

Which English group did the most to reshape Native American society and culture in the seventeenth century?

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A)   traders
B)   religious missionaries
C)   colonial authorities
D)   settlers farming the land
E)   the Royal Geographical SocietyF) A) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 10

Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England:

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A)   arrived with other members of their families.
B)   were single, middle-class men.
C)   were lower-class men.
D)   had been released from debtors' prisons.
E)   sought to escape the Black Death then ravaging England.F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 11

In Great Britain, the idea of working for wages:

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A)   was so dishonorable that many refused to accept money for their work and instead received food and shelter.
B)   was associated with servility and the loss of liberty.
C)   was romanticized in ballads and tales.
D)   meant true freedom.
E)   grew more popular among the poor during the sixteenth century.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

Early settlers of Jamestown preferred gold to farming.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Tobacco production in Virginia:

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A)   enriched an emerging class of planters and certain members of the colonial government.
B)   benefited from the endorsement of King James I.
C)   declined after its original success, as Europeans learned the dangers of smoking.
D)   resulted in more unified settlements, thanks to tobacco's propensity to grow only in certain areas of Virginia.
E)   was under the control of two planters, Walter Winston and the Earl of Kent.F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 14

In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England:

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A)   was more family-oriented.
B)   did not involve class-based hierarchies.
C)   was not as deeply religious.
D)   allowed for equal legal rights for women and men.
E)   centered on an economy based on one cash crop.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 15

The Native American leader Powhatan:

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A)   tried to avoid trade with the colonists because he believed that it would destroy Native American culture.
B)   managed to consolidate control over some thirty nearby tribes.
C)   was the brother of Pocahontas.
D)   invited the colonists to feasts with his tribe and then slaughtered eighty Virginia settlers.
E)   won the respect of the colonists when he defeated John Smith in a wrestling match.F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 16

John Winthrop followed which one of the following policies toward Native Americans?

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A)   He declared all Indian land to be the property of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B)   He insisted that they agree to submit to English authority.
C)   He required Puritans to pay them.
D)   He urged all Puritans to work at converting Native Americans to Christianity.
E)   He called for their immediate extermination.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 17

The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker:

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A)   founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut.
B)   insisted that Massachusetts pay Indians for land the colony took from them.
C)   was Anne Hutchinson's minister and thus created problems for the Puritan leadership.
D)   tried to minister to Puritan women who fell victim to the big city of Boston, for which his name eventually became associated with prostitutes.
E)   defended the rights of conscience in a spirited debate with Puritan leaders about church-state relations.F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 18

In the seventeenth century, New England's economy:

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A)   grew at a very slow rate because few settlers moved to the region.
B)   suffered because most early settlers were poor and could not gain access to land.
C)   centered on family farms and also involved the export of fish and timber.
D)   boasted a significant manufacturing component that employed close to one-third of all men.
E)   relied heavily on indentured servants in the labor force.F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 19

In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and eastern Native Americans :

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A)   the arrival of new English goods had no impact on how Indians lived.
B)   Native Americans initially welcomed the colonists' goods.
C)   Native Americans sought to keep English goods from influencing their religious ceremonies.
D)   Native Americans never became integrated into the Atlantic economy.
E)   Native Americans soon saw that the colonists' goods were shoddier than their own.F) All of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 20

Puritans relied on and deeply valued education.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 2: Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660

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John Winthrop followed which one of the following policies toward Native Americans?

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How did indentured servants display a fondness for freedom?

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In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and eastern Native Americans :

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Early settlers of Jamestown preferred gold to farming.

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In Great Britain, the idea of working for wages:

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Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s?

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Which English group did the most to reshape Native American society and culture in the seventeenth century?

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Virginia's colonial policy of requiring Native Americans to move to reservations:

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Why was the death rate in early Jamestown so high?

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Tobacco production in Virginia:

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Roger Williams imagined Rhode Island as a feudal domain.

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In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England:

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As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:

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The Native American leader Powhatan:

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All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century EXCEPT:

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In the seventeenth century, New England's economy:

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Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England:

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The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker:

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What was Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop's attitude toward liberty?

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