A) relied on the marketing of a single crop
B) were heavily dependent on slave labor
C) had an established Anglican church
D) were royal colonies
E) administered local government through justice of the peace
A) isolationism
B) capitalism
C) mercantilism
D) monopolism
E) imperialism
A) growth of European awareness of the New World
B) impact of Enlightenment on colonial thought
C) wave of religious revivals
D) beginning of the colonial movement toward independence from Great Britain
E) growth of technology that added to increased industrialization in the early 1800's
A) mercantilism
B) free trade
C) salutary neglect
D) enlightened despotism
E) physiocracy
A) Jonathan Edwards
B) John Winthrop
C) Thomas jefferson
D) WIlliam Penn
E) Ben Franklin
A) mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods
B)places where most poor immigrants settled and worked
C)centers where large scale financial and banking operations were conducted
D) places wage earners commuted to
E) centers of light manufacturing
A) It was a major source of valuable tropical produce
B) It was the center of the Catholic mission system in the New World
C) It retarded English colonial expansion southward from the Carolinas
D) supplied Spain with precious metals
E) shielded converted Catholic indians from
A) They had renounced the Church of England
B) They rejected the authority of England's king
C) They considered themselves to be non-separatists
D) They approved of the crown's religious policy
E) They intended to return eventually to England
A) respected Natives and lived in harmony with them
B) encouraged permanent farming communities with large, food-producing populations
C) refused to import Africans
D) rejected the mercantile system
E) allied with Spain and coordinated colonial policies throughout the New World
A) adoption of representative government
B) intro of tobacco cultivation
C) flourishing trade with American indians
D) export of dried cod and whale tallow
E) cultivation of cotton
A) strengthened the Anglican church
B) undermined religious toleration
C) promoted Christianity
D) eased requirements for church membership
E) encouraged belief in predestination
A) recreate Old World feudalistic society
B) create a perfect religious commonwealth
C) create a refuge for political dissidents
D) profit economically
E) increase the glory of Great Britain
A) southern colonies only
B) middle and southern colonies only
C) tobacco and rice growing colonies only
D) all colonies but pennsylvania and New england colonies
E) All of the colonies
A) immigrants from Sweden
B) slaveholders, indentured servants, etc
C) Puritans from New England
D) Scotish irish, german, and english immigrants
E) white immigrants
A) a belief that the course of each individuals life is predestined by God
B) a concept of toleration
C) the belief that GOd created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature
D) a principle taught in colonial New England
E) A radical theory
A) Governor William Berkely abolished VA's House of Burgessess
B) VA passed new laws
C) tensions between back country farmers and tidewater gentry were exposed
D) indentured servants recieved additional free land
E) the king allowed VA colonists
A) secure a refuge for the persecuted
B) check the growth of English colonies in North America
C)expand their commercial and mercantile network
D) gain colonies to produce agricultural surpluses
E) secure naval supplies
A) discovery of gold and precious metals
B)successful cultivation and export of tobacco
C) violent struggles between English and Spanish forces
D)harmonious relations
E) high mortality rates among the settlers
A) train lawyers and doctors
B) encourage scientific advances
C) ensure an adequate supply of ministers
D) prepare young men for political leadership
E) preserve the traditions of classical scholarship
A)3 aristocratic propitiers
B) a joint stock company anxious to return a profit for investors
C)Sir walter raleigh
D) King james 1
E) John smith
A)Having suffered persecution in england, they accepted everyones views
B) they tolerated no one whose expressed religious views varied from their own views
C)They tolerated all Protestant sects, but not catholic
D)They tolerated catholics, but not Quakers
E) They had no coherent views on religious liberty
A) Baptists in the Carolinas
B) Puritans in Massachusetts
C) Baptists in rhode island
D) anglicans in VA
A)disdain for British constitutional monarchy
B)many religious denominations
C) a society without a hereditary aristocracy
D) a growing number of non-English settlers
A) take over the colony and end slavery in it
B)return to Africa by commandeering boats
C) flee to Florida where Spanish offered freedom
D)runaway to join Maroon groups living in the backcountry
A)the restriction of governmental intervention in the economy
B)the protection of natives from european economic exploitation
C)the expansion of colonial manufacturing
D) the subordination of the colonial economy to that of the mother country
A)were less militan than other Native American tribes
B)all allied themselves with the American colonists against Britain during the Rev. war
C) successfully resisted incorporation into the English fur-trading system
D) were converted to Anglicanism
E)formed the most important Native american politcal organization to confront the colonists
A) establishing trade with American indians
B) plundering american indian settlements for gold and silver
C)conquering spanish and british colonies
D) encouraging the growth of permanent settlements
E) discovering a new route to africa
A) city residents were equal in wealth and status
B)cities were centers of economic activity
C) cities were often hit hard by diseases
D) many city residents earned their living in non farming activities
A)lawyers, doctors, and other professionals
B) northern merchants and southern planters
C) inland farmers
D)industrialists
A) method by which the colonies initially secured a workforce
B)device for preventing the emancipation of the slaves
C) technique for regulating the size of the lower classes
D) means by which England rid itself of criminals
E) process by which young people learned skills
A)1 only
B) 11 only
C) 111 only
D) 1 and 11 only
E) 1, 11, and 111
A) increasing resistance to taxation
B) The inability of newcomers to acquire fertile farmland
C) Overpopulation in urban areas
D)Sectional divisions between northern and southern colonies
E)Resistance to slavery
A)It consisted of loosely organized commuinities
B)Its economy was dependent on large scale farming and trading
C) Life was centered in clustered villages with farmland surrounding the villages
D) most people lived in large cities
A) the growth of religious conformity throughout all the colonies
B) an increase of attacks on American indian peoples
C) the establishment of Harvard college in massachusetts
D) splits among existing religious denominations and the rise of new churches
A)tobacco
B) rice
C) sugar
D) cotton
A)in the Carolina backcountry
B)in inland towns
C) in seaboard cities
D) among the PA dutch
A)cotton mather
B) thomas hutchinson
C) anne hutchinson
D) john winthrop
A) King philip's domain in 1675
B)Powhatan confederacy in 1680
C) Dominion of new england in 1688
D) Puritan colonies in 1710
A) the obsessive search for gold by the first settlers
B) the unwillingness of the local indian tribes to assist the settlers
C) fear of attack by spanish forces
D) the settlers' preoccupation with planting tobacco
E) the failure of the VA company to send supply ships
A) a profession of faith and a demonstration of good works
B) a written recomandation by the church's minister
C) a conversion experience
D) the support and testimony of 3 current members
E) membership by both parents and a conversion experience
A) an added dimension to their own religious culture, adding the Christian god as another diety
B) evidence of an ancient european culture that they were willing to embrace
C) a means of improving their agricultural practices
D) as a means of establishing greater equality within their community
A) established merchants in cities like Boston and Philadelphia
B) Presbyterians in the southern colonies
C) backwoods farmers isolated on the colonial fronteir
D) landless sons in NE communities
E) Itinerant preachers unable to find permanent parishes for themsevles
A) their economies depended entirely on hunting and gathering
B)their political and linguistic differences hindered their united opposition to the Europeans
C) their populations were immune to European diseases
D) their warriors rarely engaged in intertribal warfare
E) their cultures made no distinction between men's work and women's work
A) hold political office
B) serve as protestant ministers
C) vote
D) own property
E) serve on juries
A) native americans traded with the french and the english as a means of maintaining their autonomy
B) native americans in the southern part of new france negotiated treaties with the french that allowed the peaceful expansion of the european timber trade
C) some native americans created a horse based nomadic culture in the northeast
D) native americans in the great plains assimilated with the european settlers
E) the iroquois did not adopt european firearsm and meral tools, in an effort to maintain their own traditions
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