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Unfinished Nation

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England's first experience with colonization came in   1492  
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Seventeenth century English colonial settlements maintained   The political and social institutions of England  
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The "starving time" in Jamestown during the winter of 1609-1610   Was partly the result of colonists being kept barricaded in their palisade by local Indians.  
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The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began   From the southern tip of South America  
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In the Great Plains region, most pre-columbian societies   Hunted buffalo for survival.  
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At the beginning of the seventeenth century, English Puritan discontent was increased by   suppression of English catholics  
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Which statement about French colonization in the new world is FALSE?   The French, like the English, tried to remain separate from native people.  
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Some historians have suggested that European diseases virtually exterminated many native tribes.   True  
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Who was a native of Genoa sailing in the employ of England near the end of the fifteenth century?   John Cabot  
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English colonies in the Chesapeake were first and foremost business enterprises   True  
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Bacon's rebellion was undertaken to do away with slavery in Virginia.   False  
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The "middle ground" refers in part to areas on the western edges of English colonial settlements   True  
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Most indentured servants came to the colonies voluntarily   True  
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In the early seventeenth century, the legal status of slaves was ambiguous and fluid.   True  
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African slaves engaged in the cultivation of rice, but they were not very adept at it.   False  
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The British Navigation Acts were designed to protect England from foreign competition in the colonies   True  
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French Protestants who fled their country in 1685 because of new policy that rejected religious toleration   Huguenots  
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Backyard pits where waste, both household and human, could be dumped   Privies  
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To reduce conflicts, Spanish policy toward the Pueblo Indians in the eighteenth century involved all of the following EXCEPT   An expansion of encomienda system  
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Over time in the seventeenth century, an increased number of New England Puritans came to view Indian society   With fear and contempt  
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Industrialization in colonial America was hampered by   English parliamentary regulations, a small domestic market, an inadequate labor supply, and inadequate transportation network  
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Seventeenth-century southern plantations   Tended to be rough and relatively small  
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In London, the initial promoters of Jamestown encouraged colonists to focus on   The search for gold.  
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The Declaratory Act of 1766   Was a sweeping assertion of Parliament's authority over the colonies.  
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By the 1750s, American colonial assemblies   Exercised a significant degree of authority to levy taxes.  
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By 1670, political representation for colonists in Virginia   Had grown more restrictive  
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The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region   Went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles.  
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An encomienda was   The right to exact tribe and labor from natives.  
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Which of the following statements regarding Sir William Berkeley is FALSE?   He extended the political representation for frontier settlers.  
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One reason Roger Williams was deported from the Massachusetts colony was he   Said the land occupied by the colonists belonged to the Indians.  
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The Virginia Company developed the "headright" system to   Attract new settlers to the colony.  
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In the mid-1600s, New England Puritan ministers began preaching against the decline of   Piety  
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"Jeremiads" refer to   Sermons  
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During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw   A life expectancy for men of about forty years.  
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During the first half of the eighteenth century, royal officials in America   Contributed to England's overall lax control of the colonies  
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In the seventeenth century, English Quakers   Had a disregard for class or gender distinctions, had no paid clergy, were pacifists, believed all could attain salvation.  
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Under the English constitution during the eighteenth century   Large areas of England had no direct political representation.  
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The agricultural practices of pre-Columbian tribes in the Northeast were characterized by   A rapid exploitation of the land  
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In the eighteenth century, the English constitution was   An unwritten document  
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During the first stage (1754–1756) of the French and Indian War,   The Iroquois were allied with the English but remained largely passive.  
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Like New York, the New Jersey colony   Had great ethnic and religious diversity  
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The English Restoration began with the reign of   Charles II.  
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William Penn   Was a man of great wealth who converted to Quakerism  
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According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763   France ceded all of its claims to land west of the Mississippi River to Spain.  
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In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies   All the answers are correct.  
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The French and Indian War was fought in   India, the West Indies, the North American interior, Europe  
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Class divisions in colonial North American cities were   More real and visible than in rural places outside the south  
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In 1513, what European became the first to see the Pacific Ocean?   Vasco de Balboa  
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As a result of the Seven Years' War, in North America, England   Confirmed its commercial supremacy and increased its political control of the settled regions.  
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The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on   the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.  
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Which statement about Spanish settlements in the New World is FALSE?   The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming.  
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In the aftermath of King George's War   Relations between the English, French, and Iroquois deteriorated.  
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All of the following were characteristics of the English indenture system EXCEPT   Most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts.  
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Charismatic person who antagonized the leaders of Massachusetts Bay Colony by arguing that the clergy who were not among the "elect" had no right to spiritual office   Anne Hutchinson  
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