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Question 1

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What did most of the Jamestown colonists expect to do for a living?.
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  • establish missions
  • find gold
  • farm
  • sell fish to native americans

Question 2

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The Separatists were people who
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  • split off from the Jamestown colony.
  • separated from the Church of England.
  • required men and women to live separately.
  • separated from the Roman Catholic Church.

Question 3

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Who helped the Plymouth colonists learn how to survive in their new colony?
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  • Squanto
  • Metacom
  • John Smith
  • Sacajawea

Question 4

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What form of government did England have during the age of exploration?
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  • a representative democracy
  • a direct democracy
  • a monarchy
  • a dictatorship

Question 5

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What source of income did the Jamestown settlers come to depend on?
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  • fur-bearing animals
  • corn and squash
  • fishing
  • tobacco

Question 6

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Why is farming difficult in New England?
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  • Summers are long and cool.
  • The Connecticut River is surrounded by a plain.
  • Winters are short and dry.
  • The soil is thin and rocky.

Question 7

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What did William Penn consider his colony to be?
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  • a "personal estate"
  • a "holy experiment"
  • a "royal church"
  • a "fundamental order"

Question 8

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Before Delaware became a separate colony it was part of the colony of
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  • Pennsylvania
  • Maryland
  • New Jersey
  • Virginia

Question 9

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Which of these was renamed New York in 1664?
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  • the backcountry
  • Massachusetts Bay
  • New Netherland
  • the Middle Colonies

Question 10

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Why did Virginia's governor hesitate to start an all-out war against the Native Americans?
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  • The Virginia colonists were allied with the local Native Americans.
  • He benefited from his fur trade with them.
  • He did not think the colonists could defeat them.
  • He did not want to pay for extra British troops.

Question 11

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How did people in the backcountry feel about colonial government?
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  • They felt that English rule would be more just.
  • They felt that the government did not care about them.
  • They were devoted to participating in the government.
  • They formed their own local governments and fought the colonial government.

Question 12

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Who became the proprietor of Maryland after George Calvert died?
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  • his son, Cecil Calvert
  • King Charles I
  • the Church of England
  • the Catholic Church

Question 13

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What helped spur the early development of slavery in the South?
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  • The crops grown in the South required many field workers.
  • African American colonists had difficulty finding work.
  • A survey establishing the Mason-Dixon line.
  • Many workers were needed to drain the swamps of the tidewater.

Question 14

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Which English colony was the last one founded?
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  • Tidewater
  • Virginia
  • Georgia
  • Delaware

Question 15

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What did Anne Hutchinson and Thomas Hooker have in common?
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  • Both disagreed with Puritan leaders and left Massachusetts.
  • Both became leaders of the Puritans in Massachusetts.
  • Together, they founded Hartford, Connecticut.
  • They established new churches in Rhode Island.

Question 16

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Why did the Puritans leave England?
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  • to freely practice their Catholic faith
  • to escape those engaged in witchcraft against them
  • to show their devotion to the Church of England
  • to escape persecution by England's king

Question 17

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Why did Bacon's Rebellion collapse?
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  • The English stopped consuming tobacco.
  • The Virginia governor declared Bacon and his men rebels.
  • Its leader, Nathaniel Bacon, became sick and died.
  • Bacon was defeated at Jamestown.

Question 18

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What does the holiday of Thanksgiving commemorate?
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  • Squanto's birthday
  • the founding of the House of Burgesses
  • the Pilgrims' 1621 celebration of their good fortune
  • the anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact

Question 19

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In 1619, a Dutch ship arrived in Virginia carrying
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  • 20 crates of tobacco.
  • corn, beans, and pumpkin seeds.
  • 20 enslaved Africans.
  • the Mayflower Compact.

Question 20

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What is the difference between a proprietary colony and a royal colony?
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  • The first is run by a king, the second by a king's family.
  • A royal colony is larger.
  • The first is run by a king, the second by an individual.
  • The first is run by an individual or family, the second by the king.

Question 21

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The Tidewater is
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  • a mountainous area along the Mason-Dixon line.
  • a flat, often swampy, lowland area along the southern coast.
  • a flat, often swampy, portion of New England.
  • another name for the Georgia coastline.

Question 22

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What was England's first PERMANENT settlement in North America?
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  • Salem
  • Jamestown
  • Plymouth
  • Roanoke

Question 23

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Who was NOT protected by Maryland's 1649 Act of Toleration?
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  • Catholics
  • non-Catholic Christians
  • Protestants
  • non-Christians

Question 24

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The winter following John Smith's departure from Jamestown is called the
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  • peaceful time
  • freezing time
  • starving time
  • prosperous time

Question 25

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Which four states made up the Middle Colonies?
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  • New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware
  • New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Connecticut
  • New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey
  • Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Jersey

Question 26

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Which four states made up the New England Colonies?
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  • Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, and Georgia
  • Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Delaware
  • Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Pennsylvania
  • Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island

Question 27

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Which of the following best describes New England's climate?
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  • long mild winters and long mild summers
  • short mild winters and long hot summers
  • short mild winters and short mild summers
  • short warm summers and long snowy winters

Question 28

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During the Colonial Era, a person who worked in exchange for the ship fare to North America was called
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  • a burgess
  • Nobleman
  • a freed slave
  • indentured servant

Question 29

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What year did the Salem Witch Trial take place?
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  • 1776
  • 1692
  • 1792
  • 1629

Question 30

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How many people were killed during the Salem Witch Trials?
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  • 18
  • 19
  • 15
  • 150

Question 31

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One of the theories about what started the witch craze in Salem was ergot, is ___________
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  • A fungus caused hallucinations
  • a spell cast by the Barbados slave
  • colonial era candy

Question 32

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Approximately how many accused "witches" were arrested in Salem during the witch trial?
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  • 50-100
  • 150-200
  • 19
  • 18
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