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history exam I

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in 1622, the native america tribes of VA...   attacked the English settlements  
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in 1624, VA became..   a royal colony  
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the colony of NJ's main liability was..   lack of a good harbor  
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The most important institution of local govt in colonial VA was the...   county court  
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To resolve the problem of the vast expenses New World settlement req'd, English merchant-capitalists introduced the concept of...   joint-stock company  
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Which colony were religous reasons least important in explaining its founding?   VA  
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King Charles I disbanded Parliament in 1629 bc he couldnt deal with intense critisism from which religous grp?   Puritans  
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A feudal land system was associated with which colony?   MD  
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Large numbers of the 1st English settlers in the carolinas came from...   barbados  
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unlike their southern counterparts, the first enlishmen who established colonies in New england were...   religous refugees  
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Lord Baltimore's settlement in MD...   never succeeded in becoming a feudal society  
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William Penn guaranteed the commercial success of Philadelphia by purchasing...   Delaware  
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In massachusetts bay, "freeman status" was granted to adult men who...   were church members  
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puritan dissenter roger williams established the colony of   Rhode Island  
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The individual largely responsible for MD's settlement was   Sir George Calvert  
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Jamestown's prosperity was ensured by..   tobacco cultivation  
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What were the factors that stimulated english migration to the new world?   desire for land ownershiprapid population growththe fear of falling into povertyreligous disagreements in England  
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17th century quakers were know for their...   belief in personal humility and pacifism  
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The 1st capital of colonial MD was...   St. Mary's city  
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What state was called the city on a hill?   Mass  
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the attitude of king james I toward tobacco...   showed that he valued revenue more than good health  
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The english takeover of New Netherland..   had little immediate effect on the colony  
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John Smith associates with which colony?   VA  
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Roger williams associates with which colony?   RI  
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Sir George Carteret; colony?   NJ  
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John Winthrop ; colony?   Mass  
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the central figure of the glorious revolution in NY was...   Jacob Leisler  
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The Glorious Revolution was influenced by...   pent-up antipropriety and anti-catholic sentiment  
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the armed conflict which pitted native americans against New Englanders in 1675 was led by...   Metacomet(King Philip)  
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the half-way covenant of 17th century New England did what?   lessened the requirements for baptism as congregationalist  
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18th century population of the lowlands of SC was what percent black?   60%  
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by 1700, the population of New england had reached..   120,000  
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After Bacon died of fever, the rebellion...   collapsed  
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The most important reason for the difference between the New England and Chesapeake colonies was based on...   the much higher mortality rate of the chesapeake colonies  
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The navigation acts established the principle that...   -only english or colonial merchants would engage in colonial trade-colonial goods sold in england had to be sent in english vessels-certain amer. products could be sold only in England  
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the sources of the witchcraft hysteria in salem..   are a subject of debate among historians  
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from 1686-1689, the royal govnr of the dominion of new england was who?   edmund andros  
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factors which retarded population growth in 17th century VA and MD were...   -short life expectancies -many young women had to delay marriage til terms of service were complete-gender ratio was unbalanced-high infant mortality  
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end of the 17th century, VA could be best described as...   a plantation society, dominated by slaveholding aristocracy  
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the most serious slave rebellion of the colonial period was...   the Stono Uprising  
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from 1696 on, who monitored colonial affairs closely?   Board of Trade  
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Sumptuary laws did what?   prohibited anyone not wealthy from wearing fine clothes  
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the 1st institution of higher learning founded in Englands mainland colonies was...   Harvard  
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people from which colonial region tended to be the flagrant violators of the navigation act?   New England  
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British authorities based their colonial commercial polivies on the theory of...   mercantilism  
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In New England, women...   outnumbered men in church by 2:1  
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the society created by puritans in new england...   copied the social order they had left behind in England  
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by the late 1600s, the gap between rich and poor in white chesapeake society...   steadily widened  
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Of all rebellions in the 17th century, which was successful?   Coode's rebellion  
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Disfranchisement of landless freemen by the VA house of burgesses in 1670, was a major cause of which rebellion?   Bacon's rebellion  
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the Staple Act of 1663 state that...   nothing could be imported to America unless 1st shipped through England  
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The leader of the anti-catholic, antiproprietary rebellion in MD in 1689 was...   John Coode  
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Gullah, a creole language, was spoken by the sea islands of SC and GA until...   the end of the 19th century  
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