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English colonies in the Chesapeake were mostly business enterprises.

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Originally, the Georgia colony excluded


A) free Africans.
B) slaves.
C) indentured servants.
D) both free Africans and slaves.
E) neither free Africans nor slaves.

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Which of the following was NOT a Stuart Restoration colony?


A) Maryland
B) Carolina
C) New York
D) Pennsylvania
E) New Jersey

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Bacon's Rebellion accelerated the development of slavery in Virginia.

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One result of the Stuart Restoration was the development of new colonies in North America.

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The Glorious Revolution helped to solidify the Dominion of New England.

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Like Virginia, Maryland became a center for the cultivation of tobacco.

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The Puritan merchants who founded the Massachusetts Bay colony


A) established their capital in Salem.
B) took over what had been a royal colony.
C) were led by Miles Standish.
D) were given their colonial charter by Charles II.
E) carried out the largest single migration in the seventeenth century.

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During the early years the survival and growth of the Plymouth colony


A) was due in large part to the assistance of the natives.
B) led the colonists to grow rich from the surrounding productive farmlands.
C) saw the colonists carry out warfare that wiped out much of the local Indian population.
D) nevertheless saw two-thirds of its population die.
E) was critically important for trade routes with Jamestown to the south.

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Both the Pequot War and King Philip's War ended disastrously for the Indians.

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Captain John Smith helped the Jamestown settlement survive by


A) waging all-out war with the local Indians.
B) dividing decision-making authority among the colonists to improve morale.
C) imposing work and order on the colonists.
D) introducing tobacco to the colonists.
E) importing African slaves to rebuild the fort.

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The founder of Georgia was ________.

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Anne Hutchinson preached what her critics considered a heresy and referred to it as _______.

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What were the critical differences between the English settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts?

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The founders of Maryland encouraged both Protestants and Catholics to migrate to the colony.

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Unlike Puritans, the Quakers


A) accepted the concept of predestination.
B) rejected the doctrine of original sin.
C) were not persecuted by the English government.
D) paid their clergy handsomely.
E) All these answers are correct.

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The Virginia Colony pursued a two-year campaign of suppression, led by Thomas Dale, against the ________ Indians.

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Indians using bows and arrows often bested English settlers using matchlock rifles.

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The English Restoration began with the reign of


A) James II.
B) Oliver Cromwell.
C) George I.
D) Elizabeth I.
E) Charles II.

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In 1620, the Puritan Pilgrims who came to North America


A) intended to settle at Cape Cod.
B) came over the objections of the Virginia colony.
C) were seeking to escape military service in England.
D) hoped to create their ideal close-knit Christian community.
E) enjoyed a particularly mild winter their first year.

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