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HIST 7A - Chapter 2 - Transplantation and Borderlands

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Question 1

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Captain John Smith helped Jamestown to survive when he
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  • imposed work and order on the colony
  • divided the colony's profits among the stockholders
  • entered into a relationship with Pocahontas
  • divided the duties and privileges of leadership among several members of a council
  • ended raids perpetrated on Indian villages to steal food and kidnap natives

Question 2

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The Englishman who first cultivated tobacco in Virginia was
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  • Lord De La Warr
  • Nathaniel Bacon
  • John Rolfe
  • John Smith
  • Walter Raleigh

Question 3

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In 1619, another crucial element was introduced into the Virginia social order:
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  • Catholics
  • Women
  • Africans
  • Puritans
  • Baptists

Question 4

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Which of the following colonies allowed freedom of religion to all Christians?
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  • Plymouth
  • Virginia
  • Rhode Island
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts

Question 5

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Regarding the Indians, Puritan settlers were LEAST likely to advocate a policy of
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  • commerce and trade
  • forbidding intermarriage
  • tolerance and mutual respect
  • treating Indians as heathen savages
  • conversion to Christianity

Question 6

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Why did Nathaniel Bacon lead a rebellion against Sir William Berkeley in Virginia in 1675?
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  • he believed the eastern landowners were underrepresented in the House of Burgesses
  • he believed Berkeley would abolish the House of Burgesses
  • he hoped to defeat Berkeley and rule the colony himself
  • he resented Berkeley's growing power and control of trade

Question 7

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What did Bacon's Rebellion reveal about the growth of the Virginia colony?
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  • that immigration and oversupply of African slaves could destabilize colonial society
  • that landless free men were not a threat to social and political order
  • that Indians no longer exerted influence on colonial affairs
  • serious social and geographical tensions between colonists that threatened the colony's stability

Question 8

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Roger Williams founded a new colony in the north in 1644 when he split from the Puritans.
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  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • New Hampshire
  • Rhode Island

Question 9

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How did the majority of Africans respond to their enslavement and treatment by whites?
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  • by meekly accepting their fate and refusing to resist
  • by developing patterns of resistance and establishing elaborate cultures of their own
  • by seeking ways to escape from slavery by fleeing to the north
  • disassociating themselves from all family and communal relationships

Question 10

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Who led a rebellion against the colonial government of New York after James II was overthrown in England?
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  • John Coode
  • Jacob Leisler
  • Captain Francis Nicholson
  • Edmund Andros

Question 11

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What was the most significant outcome of the Glorious Revolution in the American colonies?
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  • led to series of violent revolts that weakened the crown's authority in the colonies
  • it led to increased religious toleration in the colonies
  • England's plan of centrally controlled colonies was overturned
  • it increased the potential authority of the English King in the colonies

Question 12

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Seventeenth-century English colonial settlements
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  • maintained the political and social institutions of England
  • were essentially business enterprises
  • were well-planned and generally quite successful from the start
  • were always tightly controlled by the English government

Question 13

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The "starving time" in Jamestown during the winter of 1609-1610 was partly the result of
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  • sinking of the colonists supply ship in the Atlantic
  • an influx of rats from settler's ships ate much of their stored grain
  • a drought led to crop failures
  • colonists being kept barricaded in their fenced palisade by local Indians
  • the extermination of the Indians who used to grow crops

Question 14

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The cultivation of tobacco around Jamestown resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
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  • the rapid wearing out of the soil
  • rising prosperity of the colony
  • improved relations with the local Indians
  • the expansion of European settlement farther into the interior of the continent
  • the search for new sources of labor

Question 15

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The Virginia Company developed the "headright system" to
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  • cause conflict among neighboring Indian tribes
  • require families to migrate together
  • raise revenue from the sale of land
  • attract new settlers to the colony
  • discourage poor people from moving to the colony

Question 16

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The Powhatan Indian woman named Pocahontas
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  • married English colonial leader John Smith
  • was ransomed by her father after she was kidnapped
  • created an interest in "civilizing" Indians when she was taken to England
  • was kidnapped by John Rolfe

Question 17

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In which area of technology were the Indians more advanced than the Virginia colonists?
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  • agriculture
  • making metal tools
  • weaponry
  • raising animals for food
  • building ships

Question 18

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In its beginning, the Maryland colony
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  • had conflict with nearby French settlers
  • was led by Captain John Smith
  • experienced tremendous warfare with local Indians
  • was a refuge for English Catholics
  • allowed no Puritan settlers

Question 19

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During its first year in North America, the Plymouth colony
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  • grew rich from the surrounding productive farmland
  • carried out warfare that wiped out most of the local Indians
  • survived mostly due to assistance from local Indians
  • establish critically important trade routes with Jamestown in the south
  • saw two-thirds of its population die

Question 20

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The Massachusetts Bay Puritans
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  • took vows of poverty as evidence of commitment to their faith
  • created a Colonial Theocracy
  • fought with the surrounding Indians almost immediately
  • lived a grim and joyless existence
  • introduced freedom of worship in the New World

Question 21

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In 1638, Anne Hutchinson was deported from the Massachusetts Bay colony because she
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  • was accused of practicing witchcraft
  • challenged the norms of female behavior in their society
  • preached against Catholics and Jews coming to the New World
  • was a single mother who refused to marry

Question 22

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In King Philip's War, both colonists and Indians made use of a relatively new and deadly weapon, the ____________.
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  • matchlock musket
  • repeating revolver
  • artillery cannon
  • Gatling gun
  • flintlock rifle

Question 23

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The New York colony
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  • saw its population grow very slowly for the first 50 years
  • banned slavery from its inception
  • made a commitment to representative assemblies
  • was founded by colonists from the Carolina colony
  • emerged as an English colony after a struggle between the English and the Dutch

Question 24

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In the seventeenth century, English Quakers
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  • had no paid clergy
  • were pacifists
  • All these answers are correct
  • believed all could attain salvation
  • had a disregard for class and gender distinctions

Question 25

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Georgia was founded
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  • as a haven for religious dissenters
  • to quickly make money for its investors
  • to create a military barrier against the Spanish
  • to provide a refuge for Catholics
  • by Quaker missionaries

Question 26

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In colonial North America, the "middle grounds" refers to a region in which
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  • French colonists manager to hold the balance of power
  • Spanish colonists were long the dominant power
  • no one group, wither Indian or European, held clear dominance
  • English colonists quickly became the dominant power
  • Indian tribes were able to keep out European colonists

Question 27

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The Navigation Acts primarily benefitted
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  • businesses and planters in the British Caribbean
  • British businesses and merchants
  • New England merchants
  • Virginia planters
  • colonial American tobacco merchants

Question 28

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Leisler's Rebellion took place in
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  • New Jersey
  • Connecticut
  • Rhode Island
  • Massachusetts
  • New York

Question 29

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The tobacco culture of Virginia created great pressure for territorial expansion.
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  • True
  • False

Question 30

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The survival of Jamestown was largely the result of the English colonists borrowing from the agricultural knowledge of the Indians.
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  • True
  • False

Question 31

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Unlike the colonists of Jamestown, the Puritans of Massachusetts established settlements based on families.
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  • True
  • False

Question 32

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The Pequot War and King Philip's War ended disastrously for the Indians.
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  • True
  • False

Question 33

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The site chosen for Jamestown was
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  • It was far inland and not accessible by ship
  • It was low and swampy and subject to outbreaks of malaria
  • It was near what is now New York City.
  • It was high on a mountaintop
  • It was near the colonies of the Puritans and the Pilgrims.

Question 34

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The cultivation of tobacco around Jamestown resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
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  • rising prosperity of the colony
  • the expansion of European settlement into the interior
  • improved relations with the Indians
  • the rapid wearing out of the soil
  • the search for new sources of labor

Question 35

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Which of the following is true of Bacon's Rebellion?
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  • it spelled the demise of the Virginia Company
  • It was a consequence of the indentured servant system
  • it forced the royal governor of Virginia to resign
  • it carried on for several years
  • it spread throughout several colonies

Question 36

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The difficulty of supressing Bacon's Rebellion helped cause an increase in
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  • calls for independence from England
  • European investment
  • tobacco production
  • slavery in Virginia
  • the triangular trade

Question 37

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What social institution did Europeans in the Caribbean share with their counterparts in North America?
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  • Quakerism
  • religious tolerance
  • town hall meetings
  • House of Burgesses
  • slavery

Question 38

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Which of the following statements regarding the Navigation Acts (1660s) is FALSE?
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  • English colonists could only produce products that were already being produced and sold in England
  • all Eurioean goods sent to the colonies had to pass through England and were subject to taxes
  • certain colonial products could only be exported to England
  • English colonies were closed to all trade except that carried by English ships
  • Duties (taxes) were imposed on trade among the English colonies in North America

Question 39

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The Caribbean settlements of England were sources of slaves for the English colonies in North America.
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  • True
  • False

Question 40

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Quaker is a term for the English Protestant sect, the Society of Friends.
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  • True
  • False

Question 41

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The term "middle passage" refers to the movement of enslaved Africans
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  • from the Caribbean to the mainland colonies
  • across the Atlantic, from Africa to New World
  • from Africa to Europe
  • from the coastal regions of colonies to the interior
  • between individual American colonies

Question 42

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In English North American colonies, the application of slave codes (laws) were based on race and ________.
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  • origin of birth
  • economic status
  • nothing else
  • laboring skills
  • religion

Question 43

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In the seventeenth century, most colonial American families had few tools, many owning an axe but no plow.
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  • True
  • False

Question 44

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Which European country had the strongest and wealthiest early empire, focusing on mining and agriculture, with European men marrying Native American women.
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  • France
  • England
  • Spain
  • Portugal
  • Dutch (Netherlands)

Question 45

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Which European country had the smallest and weakest early colonial empire, but grew because they brought women and children for permanent settlement.
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  • Dutch (Netherlands)
  • England
  • Spain
  • France
  • Portugal

Question 46

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Which European country established a fur trading empire in the Mississippi Valley and lived in relative harmony with the Indians?
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  • England
  • France
  • Dutch (Netherlands)
  • Spain
  • Portugal

Question 47

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Which European country were early slave traders, with a settlement in what is now New York City?
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  • Spain
  • England
  • Dutch (Netherlands)
  • Portugal
  • France

Question 48

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Which European country explored Africa, engaged in an extensive slave trade, and founded Brazil in South America.
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  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Dutch (Netherlands)
  • England
  • France

Question 49

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White people in the North American colonies had a better chance at upward social mobility than did white people in England.
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  • True
  • False

Question 50

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Slaves who worked in the sugarcane fields actually had it the easiest of all the African slaves in North America,
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  • True
  • False
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