Question 1

What sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the mid-seventeenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)   England's defeat of the Netherlands in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War of 1649.
B)   England's victory in a 1676 religious war with Spain.
C)   A treaty signed with the Iroquois Confederacy.
D)   The incredible financial success of the British East India Company.
E)   The restoration of the monarchy in 1660.

Question 2

England sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)   Protestants from non-English and less prosperous parts of the British Isles.
B)   Catholics from France and Spain,thereby weakening England's enemies.
C)   Professionals and skilled craftsmen from England.
D)   Members of nonmainstream religions,particularly Quakers and Anabaptists.
E)   Wealthy merchants who could spur economic growth in the colonies.

Question 3

By the end of the seventeenth century,who was most successful at using diplomacy in securing rights to use land?

Accepted Answer

A)   Hurons.
B)   Iroquois.
C)   Wampanoags.
D)   Creeks.
E)   Powhatan.

Question 4

According to laws in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake:

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A)   black men were not permitted to marry white women but black women could marry white men.
B)   free blacks had the right to sue and testify in court.
C)   free blacks were not permitted to serve in the militia unless they signed a loyalty oath.
D)   the sale of any married slave was prohibited.
E)   the children of enslaved women were free; the status of enslavement was not inherited.

Question 5

Which of the following was true of poverty in the colonial period?

Accepted Answer

A)   Poverty was greater in the colonies than it was in Great Britain,which had more economic activity.
B)   The percentage of colonists living in poverty was great because the northern colonists considered slaves poverty-stricken.
C)   Limited supplies of land,especially for inheritance,contributed to poverty.
D)   Colonists differed greatly from the British back in England in how they viewed poverty and those living in poverty.
E)   It declined in the cities because of the rise of consumer markets.

Question 6

Anglicization meant that the colonial elites rejected all things British.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The German migration to the English colonies:

Accepted Answer

A)   was small when compared to other European migrants.
B)   involved fur trapping west of the Appalachian Mountains.
C)   was to frontier areas as farmers.
D)   was mainly to New England as they came to frontier areas.
E)   was as slaveholders in the coastal Carolina region.

Question 8

What resulted from the disbanding of the Dominion of New England?

Accepted Answer

A)   New York and New Jersey were unified.
B)   West Jersey and East Jersey were created.
C)   Land was returned to the Iroquois.
D)   Massachusetts absorbed Plymouth.
E)   Carolina was divided into two colonies.

Question 9

Which of the following was true of agriculture in the colonies during the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)   It was in decline in the backcountry as compared to coastal areas.
B)   Because New York's landlords had taken over so much land,agriculture grew more slowly in New York than in other colonies.
C)   New England moved away from smaller farming and increasingly toward large-scale farms and plantations.
D)   The standard of living on farms was far lower than it was in Europe.
E)   Farmers in the Middle Colonies had no interest in the market.

Question 10

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Edmund Andros

Accepted Answer

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 VirginiaF) governor of Virginia during Bacon's RebellionG) a Catholic who became King of EnglandH) wealthy Virginian speaker of the House of BurgessesI) proprietor of PennsylvaniaJ) successful Jewish silversmithK) overthrown in the Glorious RevolutionL) slave who became free and owned slaves himself

Question 11

Slavery flourished in Brazil and the West Indies in the seventeenth century because of tobacco.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

In seventeenth-century England,the main lines of division focused on:

Accepted Answer

A)   race.
B)   ethnicity.
C)   political ideals.
D)   religion.
E)   literature.

Question 13

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

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Question 14

How did the Dutch lose New Netherland to England?

Accepted Answer

A)   It resulted from a treaty in Europe.
B)   The Duke of York married into the Dutch royal family.
C)   The Dutch traded the colony back to Indians,who sold it to the English.
D)   The Dutch saw New York as being on the periphery of its empire,so they didn't protect it.
E)   Puritans from New England mounted an invasion with the idea of setting up a holy community.

Question 15

William Penn obtained the land for his Pennsylvania colony because:

Accepted Answer

A)   King Charles I wanted Quakers to have a place where they could enjoy religious toleration.
B)   he supported the crown during the Glorious Revolution.
C)   the king wanted to cancel his debt to the Penn family and bolster the English presence in North America.
D)   he conquered the Swedes and Dutch who previously had controlled the land.
E)   his invention of what was then called the "penncill" made him incredibly rich.

Question 16

Which man was once a slave,only to be freed and own slaves himself?

Accepted Answer

A)   William Penn.
B)   Anthony Johnson.
C)   Olaudah Equiano.
D)   Robert Carter.
E)   Nathaniel Bacon.

Question 17

Why did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692?

Accepted Answer

A)   The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others.
B)   When Tituba testified,the issue became racial and divided the town.
C)   All of the accused were children,and Puritans were determined to force their young to accept their religious traditions or face death.
D)   The colonial capital had just been moved to Salem,upsetting the normally staid town.
E)   They did not; actually,the number of accusations was average and Salem was highly overrated as a place for charges of witchcraft.

Question 18

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-James II

Accepted Answer

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 VirginiaF) governor of Virginia during Bacon's RebellionG) a Catholic who became King of EnglandH) wealthy Virginian speaker of the House of BurgessesI) proprietor of PennsylvaniaJ) successful Jewish silversmithK) overthrown in the Glorious RevolutionL) slave who became free and owned slaves himself

Question 19

The immigrant group that was primarily Presbyterian was:

Accepted Answer

A)   Irish.
B)   Scotch-Irish.
C)   Swedish.
D)   English.
E)   German.

Question 20

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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By the end of the seventeenth century,who was most successful at using diplomacy in securing rights to use land?

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William Penn obtained the land for his Pennsylvania colony because:

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According to laws in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake:

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In seventeenth-century England,the main lines of division focused on:

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The German migration to the English colonies:

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Which of the following was true of agriculture in the colonies during the eighteenth century?

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Anglicization meant that the colonial elites rejected all things British.

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England sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the eighteenth century?

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