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1) Compare the French motives for colonizing North America with those of the English.
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2) What were the principal religious beliefs of the Puritans?
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3) What role did the Congregational church play in the life of New England villages?
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4) What kinds of conflicts commonly arose among white settlers in seventeenth-century
New England? Which were the most bitter and disruptive?
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5) How did migrations to the Chesapeake and New England help to determine the initial
character of these two colonial societies?
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6) Describe the lives of women in early New England. How closely did they resemble the
lives of women in the Chesapeake?
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7) How did the Dutch settlements in New York differ from the New England settlements of
the same period?
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8) How did the pattern of settlement in Pennsylvania differ from that of New England?
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9) Both religious and economic factors made it easier for the French than the English to
coexist with Native American cultures. Discuss those factors and explain why you agree or
disagree.
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10) Why did Puritanism appeal to many people in early modern England?
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11) Why didn’t New England develop a slave-based plantation economy similar to those in
the colonial South?
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12) Assess the relations between white settlers and native peoples in the northern colonies.
How do they compare with relations between those two groups in the colonial South?
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13) Why did Quaker beliefs and customs challenge traditional English society in so many
ways? Why did New England’s Puritans (who were, after all, devout reformers themselves)
persecute Quakers?
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14) How did the Iroquois nation gain strength from its contacts with white colonies?
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15) Why were the colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania relatively diverse
and tolerant at the end of the seventeenth century?
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16) Describe the role of an average woman in New England. How did the Puritan dogma
emancipate women?
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17) Why were women singled out during the witchcraft trials?
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18) The ________ League was the native confederacy consisting of the Mohawks, Oneidas,
Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and eventually the Tuscaroras.
18) ______
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19) The main corridor of French imperial penetration into North America was the St.
________ River valley.
19) ______
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20) The “Pilgrims”—so-called because they migrated from England to Holland to America—
in reality are best known as ________ for their views on the Church of England.
20) ______
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21) The Pilgrims, before disembarking at Plymouth, signed the ________ Compact as a self-
instituted basis for government.
21) ______
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22) ________ became a founder of Rhode Island when his radically critical views of
established religious practice got him banished from Massachusetts Bay. (Provide the
individual’s last name only.)
22) ______
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23) The offensive launched by Massasoit’s son and heir in 1675 was known as ________
War.
23) ______
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24) By the early 1700s the Pennsylvania city of ________ was becoming the commercial and
cultural center of the British Empire in North America.
24) ______
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25) Late in the 1600s, the English Parliament ousted the Stuart king and brought in William
and Mary as monarchs who acknowledged Parliamentary rule. This episode is known as the
________ Revolution.
25) ______
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26) As compared to the English Puritans who settled New England, French settlers were
26) ______
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A) not at all religious.
B) more stringently Protestant.
C) few in number.
D) less likely to return to Europe.
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27) The series of conflicts in which Iroquois raiders sought new hunting grounds and new
captives were known as
27) ______
A) the Indian Slave Wars.
B) the Beaver Wars.
C) Metacom’s War.
D) the Pequot Wars.
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28) Which of the following accurately describes New France in 1700?
28) ______
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A) Most new immigrants to New France were Protestant.
B) The colonial population of New France was the largest in the New World.
C) The colonial population of New France had a hostile relationship with the native
population.
D) Most immigrants to New France eventually returned to Europe.
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29) Which of the following is NOT true of the French colonizing efforts in North America?
29) ______
A) The French were aggressive early adventurers in the North.
B) They targeted the St. Lawrence River valley for the first settlements.
C) They were hampered because of relatively hostile relations with native tribes.
D) The religious zeal of a renewed Catholicism spurred their colonizing efforts.
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30) At one time or another all of the following were objectives of the French effort in North
America, EXCEPT
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A) establishing a permanent settlement.
B) the quest for profits through the fur trade.
C) finding a place to resettle dissident French Protestants.
D) converting the natives to Catholicism.
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31) Why did the Wendat, Innu, and Algonquin have reason to embrace Samuel de
Champlain?
31) ______
A) He came with textiles, glass, copper, and ironware.
B) He promised military aid against the Montagnais, Wahunsenacawh, and the Hurons.
C) He already knew their language and customs upon arrival.
D) He brought African slaves as gifts for the natives.
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32) How come New England churches had the reach and resources to oversee public morality
in the seventeenth century?
32) ______
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A) They were supported with public taxes.
B) They were the largest property owners in the colonies.
C) They generally wielded far more power than churches in the old country.
D) They were thinly spread in the countryside, so people depended on them desperately.
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33) All of the following are true about Anne Hutchinson, EXCEPT that
33) ______
A) she was a skilled midwife.
B) she was the spouse of a wealthy merchant.
C) she had come to Boston in 1634.
D) clergy in Boston mourned her death at the hands of local natives in the New
Netherlands.
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34) A resident of the North American colonies in the seventeenth century would have been
able to identify Quakers in the community by any of the following characteristics, EXCEPT
34) ______
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A) the way they greeted the social elites.
B) the way they dressed.
C) the language they spoke.
D) the churches they attended.
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35) Which of the following was NOT a factor in inducing the migration of English Puritans
to New England?
35) ______
A) a zeal to convert the native peoples
B) the perceived failure of the English government to purify society and the church
C) political conflict
D) economic uncertainty
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36) The Puritan belief that God was in control of history fueled a zeal to improve society.
This belief is known as
36) ______
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A) divine sovereign grace.
B) the Protestant Reformation.
C) the calling to conversion.
D) predestination.
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37) The Puritan program for reforming England included all of the following EXCEPT
37) ______
A) purifying the church of England from remaining traces of Catholicism.
B) separating church and state.
C) improving the education of the clergy.
D) limiting church participation to the godly.
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38) The Mayflower Compact of the Separatists was
38) ______
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A) a basis for government devised without a legal basis to do so.
B) an agreement to organize a colony, as provided in their original charter.
C) a small subgroup that determined on shipboard that pastors would hold ultimate
authority in the colony.
D) a small, efficient floral garden intended to show that God’s creation in Eden was a
model for society.
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39) The description of Massachusetts Bay Colony using the biblical metaphor of a “city on a
hill” relates to the Puritan founders’ idea that the colony should
39) ______
A) be separate from the world.
B) be located on a readily defensible site.
C) be a refuge for all religious dissenters.
D) serve as an example to the world.
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40) Which of the following was NOT one of the ways that the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay
differed from the Pilgrims of Plymouth?
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A) The Puritans felt a sense of mission to reform England.
B) The Puritans were simpler, less educated folk.
C) The Puritans remained within the established Church of England.
D) The Puritans carried with them a Crown charter for their enterprise.
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41) In the early decades of New England settlement, new colonies in adjacent areas were
often founded because of
41) ______
A) religious differences.
B) overcrowding in the older towns.
C) the opportunities of the fertile frontier lands.
D) imperial ambitions.
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42) What was Anne Hutchinson’s heresy?
42) ______
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A) She embraced controversial positions on doctrine and shared these ideas with others.
B) She performed witchcraft against the minister John Cotton.
C) She professed herself to be a midwife.
D) She allied herself with the natives on Long Island.
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43) In 1638 the Bay Colony Government expelled Anne Hutchinson and her followers for
sedition. Where did they initially settle after being expelled?
43) ______
A) Rhode Island
B) Connecticut
C) Long Island
D) New Amsterdam
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44) Which of the following behaviors was typical of a New England wife of the colonial
period?
44) ______
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A) engaged in farm work that changed with the seasons
B) traveled with her husband to the mill
C) kept bees and planted vegetable gardens
D) held a ministerial post in the Puritan church
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45) In their contests with the settlers, New England native tribes suffered from the
disadvantage of
45) ______
A) disease.
B) disarmament.
C) centralized authority of all tribes.
D) lack of knowledge of the terrain.
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46) Which Wampanoag leader led southern New England’s native people to attack and
destroy more than two dozen towns in Plymouth Colony?
46) ______
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A) Mahican
B) Masasoit
C) Abenaki
D) Metacom
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47) The Dutch colony of New Netherland was marked by
47) ______
A) close control by the government in Holland.
B) small but concentrated centers of population.
C) financial prosperity due to exports of foodstuffs.
D) great ethnic and religious diversity.
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48) How did New Netherland become New York?
48) ______
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A) The Dutch sold it to the English.
B) The Dutch abandoned it; the English then colonized it.
C) The English in adjacent areas gradually absorbed the isolated Dutch settlements.
D) It was taken by an English invading fleet.
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49) The first colonial endeavor of the Quaker sect focused on which colony that was
temporarily split in two?
49) ______
A) Connecticut
B) New Jersey
C) Delaware
D) Carolina
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50) Which of the following was NOT included in Penn’s vision for his colony?
50) ______
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A) displacing the savage natives
B) providing a refuge for Quakers from England and elsewhere
C) establishing a model society to reform the failings of Europe
D) generating rental revenue for himself
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51) Which of the following was NOT a reason that Pennsylvania quickly prospered?
51) ______
A) Penn’s planning and publicity efforts
B) Penn’s honest dealings with the natives, who thus posed no threat
C) Parliament’s generous subsidy
D) Pennsylvania’s favorable soil and climate
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52) William Penn and the Quakers differed from the Puritans of New England in their belief
that
52) ______
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A) the government should be based on equality and consent.
B) the government should promote morality by passing laws.
C) a model society could be created in America.
D) the state should guarantee all inhabitants freedom of worship.
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53) Which of the following statements most accurately describes the settlement patterns of
early Pennsylvania?
53) ______
A) Most people lived in cities clustered along the coastline.
B) Like in New England, the town became the focal point of life.
C) The country, with its dispersed farmsteads, became the dominant settlement pattern.
D) Large plantations similar to Virginia’s were characteristic of Pennsylvania.
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54) Which of the following statements is an accurate description of life in Quaker
Pennsylvania?
54) ______
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A) New arrivals were required to serve as indentured servants for a period of seven years.
B) Penn’s colony was completely free of political strife.
C) A representative assembly existed and guaranteed inhabitants the basic English civil
liberties.
D) Inhabitants experienced complete freedom of press.
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55) After the Glorious Revolution, English efforts to exercise closer control over the North
American colonies
55) ______
A) extended merely to putting teeth into commercial regulations in order to maximize
profits from colonial trade.
B) continued to increase throughout the 1700s, eliciting growing American resistance.
C) ended, as the new monarchy sought to consolidate its power at home.
D) grew substantially but subtly, so that British rule was real, though not apparent.
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56) Massachusetts became a royal colony, headed by an appointed governor, where
56) ______
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A) voting rights were determined by property ownership.
B) Catholicism was banned.
C) the new Dominion of New England was headquartered.
D) freed servants and women could vote.
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57) The “praying towns” were
57) ______
A) Puritan strongholds for religious freedom.
B) Catholic missions along the Atlantic coastline.
C) villages established exclusively for Christian native people.
D) centers of worship aimed at educating the Pilgrims in Native American culture.
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58) Which of the following best describes the result of the Glorious Revolution?
58) ______
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A) increased attempts to centralize England’s empire
B) increased tensions between the colonies and England
C) increased power among colonial representative assemblies
D) increased supervision by the monarchs
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59) After 1714, which of the following constituted the majority of the population of North
America?
59) ______
A) British
B) French
C) Spanish
D) native peoples
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