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Chapter 04 Self-Quiz 1
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What happened to Mercy Lewis after the Salem Witch Trials?
She was executed for false accusations.
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She became a prominent minister in the colony.
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She was exiled to Rhode Island.
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None of the above.
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Parliament and the King of England struggled over two issues in the middle decades of the seventeenth century. They were
religion and royal power.
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whether the monarch was superior or inferior to Parliament.
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whether the monarch or Parliament would control the colonies and pay out the incomes from the colonies.
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All of the above.
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According to the economic theory of mercantilism, a nation's wealth was calculated by the ________ that it possessed.
amount of gold and silver
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amount of raw materials
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the number of colonies
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the amount of manufactured goods
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In the mid-1600s New Amsterdam, soon to be named New York, was an unusual North American city because
it was a multinational city.
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it was made up of people who tolerated each others' beliefs.
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it was important in international trade.
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All of the above.
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William Penn was a
Catholic.
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Quaker.
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Methodist.
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Puritan.
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For the early colonists in Carolina, which of the following commodities became the most important?
Indian slaves.
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Deerskins.
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Rice.
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Corn.
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Which of the following statements about slavery in Virginia is an incorrect characterization?
Slavery was hereditary.
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Manumission was quite rare.
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Slavery was racial.
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The same conditions applied to indentured servants.
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The underlying cause of King Philip's War was
the steady encroachment of British settlers upon land inhabited by Indians.
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the desire to overthrow an unpopular and corrupt colonial governor.
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the brutal way in which each side treated its enemies.
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that the Mohawks, Dutch, and French had allied themselves together in order to take the colonists' land.
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Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion in part to protest
heavy-handed British rule
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Indian raids on English settlements
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treatment of slaves
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elite rule in the colony
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Why were the colonists no longer using witchcraft and magic to explain unusual events?
They had come to believe that events were caused by natural and knowable forces.
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They had come to understand the natural world around them was not evil and fearful.
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They had come to realize that they were foolish for relying on witchcraft and magic.
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They had come to place their faith in God, not the devil.
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France established a series of outposts in present-day Louisiana and Mississippi (all of the territory known as Louisiana) in order to
cut the Spanish mainland empire in two parts (Florida on the east and New Mexico on the west).
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solidify her claims to the region and develop the Indian fur trade in that region.
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create a physical presence along Britain's western border and perhaps limit her western economic development.
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All of the above.
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Which of the following statements was not a cause for the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
A combination of Spanish demands for labor and tribute.
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The Pueblos believed their Apache and Navajo neighbors had entered into an alliance with the Spanish.
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A long period of drought that began around 1660.
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Persecution of the Pueblos for their religious practices.
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What was the main argument of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government?
It argued that governments received their power from the people.
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It argued that people had no rights to revolt against their government.
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It argued that governments had a God-given right to govern over the people.
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It argued that the rich and powerful had a duty to rule over society justly.
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How did "The Barbados Connection" change Carolina's slave code?
Settlers made the colony's slave code less hard in order to avoid comparisos with Barbados.
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Settlers first made the slave code less harsh and then abolished slavery.
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Slaves imported from Barbados rose up in a rebellion, which demanded a new slave code.
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None of the above.
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Generally, which statement best describes the state of British North American Colonies by the beginning of the eighteenth century?
For the most part, they were prosperous, with a large white middle class.
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The northern colonies had prospered, but the southern colonies had struggled.
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The southern colonies had prospered, but the northern colonies had struggled.
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The colonies, after early struggles, had grown wealthy off of slavery.
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The chief trade rival of England in the second half of the seventeenth century was the Netherlands.
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New York's early history was a contradiction of religious freedom, an attraction to settlement, and feudal land ownership that was a hindrance to settlement.
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Colonial South Carolina was socially, culturally and economically tied are most closely with the Caribbean.
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Bacon's Rebellion provides ample proof of the internal tension among elites and non-elites.
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Controversy in Puritan New England churches in the later 1600s revolved around the fact that many people had abandoned the church for the more prosperous life.
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