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Deists shared the ideas of eighteenth-century European Enlightenment thinkers,namely that:


A) the universe was unknowable.
B) Christ's divinity was beyond question.
C) science could uncover God's laws that governed the natural order.
D) God did not exist.
E) divine revelation was necessary for a proper understanding of truth.

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The transatlantic slave trade was not a vital part of world commerce.

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

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What did the Paxton Boys demand?


A) that liquor not be banned in Georgia
B) that slave codes be tightened in New York
C) that the Indians be removed from Pennsylvania
D) that the French be hanged in Quebec
E) that John Peter Zenger be tried for treason

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What would most likely be the reason why there were few slave rebellions in the original English colonies?


A) Slaves did not know how to use guns.
B) Slaves spent most of their time chained to each other.
C) Most slaves did not desire to be free.
D) Slaves feared being punished.
E) Slaves were outnumbered in most regions.

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In the northern colonies the law did not prohibit blacks from voting but local custom did.

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In the eighteenth century how was freedom of the press viewed?


A) Leaders saw it as a natural right.
B) Governments praised it as helping democracy.
C) After 1695 the British government required a license for printing.
D) Newspapers did not feel it was necessary.
E) Governments in both England and the colonies viewed it as dangerous.

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Some contemporaries spoke of British America as a "rising empire" that would one day eclipse the mother country in population and wealth.

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Deism


A) Jamaican fugitive slaves
B) bearers of the good news
C) distinct slave dialect
D) no colonial settlement west of the Appalachians
E) the ship voyage for slaves from Africa to the New World
F) right to provide slaves to Spanish America
G) religious traditionalists who did not support revivalism
H) courteous respect
I) Enlightenment religion
J) virtuous elite giving themselves to public service
K) controlling northern New Spain
L) slaves fought in South Carolina

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Gullah


A) Jamaican fugitive slaves
B) bearers of the good news
C) distinct slave dialect
D) no colonial settlement west of the Appalachians
E) the ship voyage for slaves from Africa to the New World
F) right to provide slaves to Spanish America
G) religious traditionalists who did not support revivalism
H) courteous respect
I) Enlightenment religion
J) virtuous elite giving themselves to public service
K) controlling northern New Spain
L) slaves fought in South Carolina

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MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Junípero Serra


A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal
B) Great Awakening preacher
C) survived the Middle Passage
D) founded the first mission in San Diego
E) founder of Georgia
F) British prime minister
G) Ottawa war leader
H) wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I) English Enlightenment political philosopher
J) founder of the Junto,a club for mutual improvement
K) authors of Cato's Letters
L) victim of Zenger's pen

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MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Jonathan Edwards


A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal
B) Great Awakening preacher
C) survived the Middle Passage
D) founded the first mission in San Diego
E) founder of Georgia
F) British prime minister
G) Ottawa war leader
H) wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I) English Enlightenment political philosopher
J) founder of the Junto,a club for mutual improvement
K) authors of Cato's Letters
L) victim of Zenger's pen

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In the Chesapeake region,slavery:


A) was geographically restricted to the Tidewater area until transportation improved in the nineteenth century.
B) rapidly became the dominant labor system after 1680.
C) was the labor system preferred by planters as early as the 1620s.
D) allowed planters to make vast profits from cotton and rice as well as from tobacco.
E) was so widely practiced that nearly three-fifths of white households in 1770 included a slaveowner.

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What was the significance of Ashanti and Dahomey?


A) Portugal controlled these trade ports in Asia.
B) Europeans controlled these African cities.
C) These African states became powerful through the slave trade.
D) These port cities refused to participate in the slave trade.
E) Olaudah Equiano's father was chief of these kingdoms.

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MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -John Locke


A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal
B) Great Awakening preacher
C) survived the Middle Passage
D) founded the first mission in San Diego
E) founder of Georgia
F) British prime minister
G) Ottawa war leader
H) wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I) English Enlightenment political philosopher
J) founder of the Junto,a club for mutual improvement
K) authors of Cato's Letters
L) victim of Zenger's pen

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Three distinct types of slavery developed in the thirteen colonies.

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Which of these steps was/were most important to the Spanish when establishing their presence in California?


A) the displacement of Native American populations
B) roads between California and their other colonies
C) the creation of missions and presidos
D) agriculture through forced labor
E) keeping the British from settling on their territory

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The participants in South Carolina's Stono Rebellion:


A) surrendered without any bloodshed and agreed to pledge loyalty to the colony.
B) were mostly former indentured servants upset over the colony's Indian policy.
C) included some who apparently had been soldiers in Africa.
D) laid siege to Charleston but had to retreat when the Royal Navy brought reinforcements.
E) were unsuccessful because of divisions over language and ethnicity.

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MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Trenchard and Gordon


A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal
B) Great Awakening preacher
C) survived the Middle Passage
D) founded the first mission in San Diego
E) founder of Georgia
F) British prime minister
G) Ottawa war leader
H) wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I) English Enlightenment political philosopher
J) founder of the Junto,a club for mutual improvement
K) authors of Cato's Letters
L) victim of Zenger's pen

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

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