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APUSH Midterm Practice Exam
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1Which is true of English society by the early 1600s? (Ch. 2)
- AThe right to trial by jury had yet to be established
- BThere was a growing population of beggars and vagabonds
- CThere were no limits in the power of the monarch
- DTitled nobles dominated the House of Commons
- EThere was no significant class distinctions
2The Glorious Revolution of 1688:
- AIncreased the power of parliament
- Bresulted in the execution of Charles 1
- Cended with the death of Oliver Cromwell
- Dtemporarily abolished the monarchy
- Edelayed the American Revolution
3the stockholders who invested in the Virginia Company were mainly motivated by:
- Areiligon
- Ba spirit of adventure
- Ccuriosity of the new world
- Dpersonality loyalty to James I
- Efinancial profit
4one outstanding characteristics of Jamestown in its initial years was:
- Ahigh % of slaves in the population
- Bcomplete freedom of religion
- Cthe influence of women in its government
- Dthe absence of effective leaders
- Ehigh mortality rate among the settlers
5as Jamestown's leader, Captain John Smith:
- Amade the colony a democracy
- Btried to wipe out Powhatan's Confederacy
- Cmade the colonists work in order to eat
- Dargued that the colony should be abandoned
- Ediscovered deposits of gold and silver
6the Jamestown colony finally attained a measure of prosperity from:
- Aland sales
- Btrade with indians
- Cgold discoveries
- Dtobacco
- Etrade with Spanish Florida
7the headright system adopted for the Virginia colony consisted of:
- Agiving 50 acres of land to anyone who would transport himself to the colony and 50 more for any servants he might bring
- Bselling wives to single men
- Cauctioning slaves
- Dgiving free land to all servants
- Egiving free land in return for 5 years of military service
8in 1624, a British court dissolved the struggling Virginia company and Virginia:
- Awas merged with New England
- Bno longer existed
- Cbecame a royal colony
- Dlost all its funding
- Ewas given to the kings brother, Duke of York
9Bacon's Rebellion:
- Abrought indentured servants and small farmers against the colony's rich planters and politicians
- Bhad the support of indians
- Cresulted from changes in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina that discriminated against Puritans
- Dforced Governor Berkeley to abandon the colony and return to England
- Esought to make Virginia independent of England
10Maryland was established in 1634 as a refuge for:
- Adebtors
- BPuritans
- Cex-convicts
- DAnglicans
- EEnglish Catholics
11the early settlers of New England differed from those of the Chesapeake by being primarily:
- AEnglish
- BProtestant
- Cwhite
- Dmiddle class
- Emale
12all of the following are true about Pilgrims EXCEPT that they:
- Aestablished the Plymouth colony
- Bbased their initial colonial government on the Mayflower Compact
- Cwere Separatists who had abandoned the Church of England
- Doriginally fled to Holland
- Ewere a sect of radical Catholics
13New England's Congregationalist churches were:
- Aopen the everyone
- Bself governing
- Ctolerant of other religions
- Dmorally opposed to slavery
- Efinancially supported by the king
14when John Winthrop spoke of "a city upon a hill" he was referring to the colony's desire to:
- Abe financially successful
- Bbecome independent of England
- Cserve as a model Christian community
- Destablish an ideal government
- Econvert the indians to Christianity
15Roger Williams believed:
- APuritanism was the only suitable religion for MA
- Bin the propriety of linking church and state
- CIndians should be forcibly Christianized
- Dthat compulsory church attendance was an important tenet of the Christian faith
- Eit was wrong to confiscate Indian lands
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- Long multiple choice quiz on APUSH, Chapters 1-21 (W.W. Norton 9th Edition)
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