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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Nathaniel Bacon


A) established a Committee of Safety in New York
B) a Protestant who became King of England
C) Metacom
D) formed Covenant Chain with Iroquois
E) elite planter who called for reform in Virginia
F) governor of Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion
G) a Catholic who became King of England
H) wealthy Virginian speaker of the House of Burgesses
I) proprietor of Pennsylvania
J) successful Jewish silversmith
K) overthrown in the Glorious Revolution
L) slave who became free and owned slaves himself

M) H) and J)
N) F) and J)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Charter of Liberties


A) elites in America becoming more culturally English
B) allowed Protestant Dissenters to worship freely in England
C) government regulation of the nation's economy (to assure national power)
D) placed William of Orange on the English throne
E) had a monopoly on the slave trade
F) a very liberal frame for government
G) English demanded this over their former Dutch rulers
H) agreement between New York and Iroquois
I) believed in the equality of all persons
J) law that regulated the shipping and selling of colonial products
K) the poor of Virginia demand change
L) war between New Englanders and Indians

M) D) and E)
N) C) and F)

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What was the Covenant Chain?


A) The promise James II gave Parliament that he would marry a Protestant princess.
B) An agreement between the Dutch and the Mohican Nation that led to the founding of New Netherland.
C) A mythical piece of priceless gold jewelry that Europeans wished to acquire from the Iroquois.
D) An important Puritan text that spelled out the doctrine of predestination.
E) An alliance made by the governor of New York and the Iroquois Confederacy.

F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

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The English Bill of Rights of 1689:


A) was unwritten, like the English constitution on which it was based.
B) was King William's finest writing on the importance of liberty.
C) divided power in England between the king and Parliament.
D) was copied word for word into the U.S. Constitution a century later.
E) listed parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Glorious Revolution


A) elites in America becoming more culturally English
B) allowed Protestant Dissenters to worship freely in England
C) government regulation of the nation's economy (to assure national power)
D) placed William of Orange on the English throne
E) had a monopoly on the slave trade
F) a very liberal frame for government
G) English demanded this over their former Dutch rulers
H) agreement between New York and Iroquois
I) believed in the equality of all persons
J) law that regulated the shipping and selling of colonial products
K) the poor of Virginia demand change
L) war between New Englanders and Indians

M) F) and L)
N) F) and H)

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Explain how and why tobacco planters in the Chesapeake region came to rely on African slaves rather than European indentured servants over the course of the seventeenth century.At what point did the Chesapeake become a "slave society" rather than merely a "society with slaves"?

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What was the impact of King Philip's War (1675-1676) ?


A) New England's tribes united against the colonists.
B) In the long run, the war produced a broadening of freedom for whites in New England.
C) Native Americans up and down the eastern seaboard began rebelling against colonial rule when they saw what happened to their New England counterparts.
D) Massachusetts banned all Native Americans from living within its borders.
E) Great Britain formed the New England Confederation to protect against Native American depredations.

F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

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By the eighteenth century,consumer goods such as books and ceramic plates:


A) were found in many colonial residents' homes.
B) were specifically banned in the colonies by the Navigation Acts.
C) were rare in the colonies, thus demonstrating that the colonists lived in a premodern world.
D) were manufactured in several mainland English colonies but had to be shipped to England for sale.
E) were almost entirely Dutch-made.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

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The cities were the most rapidly growing region in North America by the mid-eighteenth century.

A) True
B) False

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -German migration

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Royal African Company


A) elites in America becoming more culturally English
B) allowed Protestant Dissenters to worship freely in England
C) government regulation of the nation's economy (to assure national power)
D) placed William of Orange on the English throne
E) had a monopoly on the slave trade
F) a very liberal frame for government
G) English demanded this over their former Dutch rulers
H) agreement between New York and Iroquois
I) believed in the equality of all persons
J) law that regulated the shipping and selling of colonial products
K) the poor of Virginia demand change
L) war between New Englanders and Indians

M) G) and K)
N) A) and C)

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Why did Massachusetts have its charter revoked by Charles II?


A) The Salem witch trials made a mockery of colonial law.
B) Massachusetts's opposition to the Glorious Revolution angered Parliament.
C) The king planned on living in Massachusetts after fleeing England.
D) Charles did not approve of Massachusetts's violations of Navigation laws.
E) Charles wanted to give more colonial power to Plymouth.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

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English and Dutch merchants created a well-organized system for "redemptioners." What was this system for?


A) For New Englanders to trade molasses for rum with the West Indies.
B) For bringing Protestant refugees to North America for a hefty fee.
C) For carrying indentured German families to America, where they would work off their transportation debt.
D) For unloading the unwanted convicts of London and Amsterdam to ports such as Boston and New York.
E) For pirating against Spain and France, their Catholic archenemies.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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"Enumerated" goods:


A) made up the bulk of items imported into the colonies from abroad.
B) were those the English colonies could not produce under the terms of the Navigation Acts.
C) created a financial drain on the English government during the seventeenth century.
D) were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that first had to be imported to England.
E) were specifically exempt from England's mercantilist regulations.

F) A) and C)
G) C) and E)

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Which of the following is true of the English West Indies in the seventeenth century?


A) By the end of the century, the African population far outnumbered the European population on most islands.
B) Mixed economies with small farms worked by indentured servants dominated islands such as Barbados throughout the century.
C) Frequent uprisings by African slaves caused the English to abandon the West Indies by the 1680s and to relocate staple crop production to mainland North America.
D) The free labor system of the West Indies stood in stark contrast to the slave labor system of the Chesapeake.
E) Indentured servants replaced African slaves in the West Indies once the demand for slaves in Carolina drained away the African population of the islands.

F) B) and E)
G) C) and E)

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