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| Columbus "discovered" America in the year |
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| It is not the cause of one poor printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying. No! It may in its consequence affect every free man that lives under a British government on the main [continent] of America. It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty. . . . Nature and the laws of our country have given us a right to liberty of both exposing and opposing arbitrary power (in these parts of the world at least) by speaking and writing the truth.201D 2014 Andrew Hamilton, 1735 This courtroom summation helped establish which democratic principle in colonial America? |
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| Jamestown survived as the first permanent British settlement in America because of? |
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| the emergence of tobacco as a cash crop. |
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| What is properly considered the main purpose of the Navigation Acts? |
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| to guarantee that England alone would profit from trade with the colonies. |
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| In 1619, African slavery was introduced to the Southern colonies and in the Caribbean because: |
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| the tobacco plantations required a large labor force |
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| In the 1750s, the relationship between the British Empire and the American colonies was characterized by which of the following? |
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| most Americans believed that the benefits of the empire far outweighed the costs. |
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| The CHIEF significance of the Great Awakening was that it? |
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| was the first genuine unified movement of the American colonists. |
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| The early colonists who worked for a specific number of years in exchange for their passage to America were called: |
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| British administration of the North American colonies was weakened by? |
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| Officials sent to the colonies were often incompetent, and some were dishonest. Few officials had any firsthand knowledge about the colonies. There was no centralized governmental authority in London with exclusive responsibilities for the colonies. |
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| The most famous witchcraft hysteria in colonial America occurred in: |
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| The Mayflower Compact of 1620 is considered an important step in the development of democracy in America because it |
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| expressed the importance of self-government |
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| Which of the following resulted from King William's and Queen Anne's Wars? |
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| the wars heightened Anglo-Americans' sense of British identity and made them feel dependent on the mother country for protection. |
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| The right to vote for members of the colonial assemblies was? |
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| extended to a greater proportion of the population than anywhere else in the world of the 18th century |
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In what order did the following events occur?
A Treaty of Tordesillas signed
B Pope's rebellion takes place
C Pizarro defeats Incas.
D St. Augustine established.
E Cortes conquers Mexico
F Magellan circumnavigates the globe
G Columbus discovers America |
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G Columbus discovers America
A Treaty of Tordesillas signed
E Cortes conquers Mexico
F Magellan circumnavigates the globe
C Pizarro defeats Incas.
D St. Augustine established.
B Pope's rebellion takes place |
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| One feature of the English mother country that was not transplanted to the colonies was the: |
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| aristocratic class structure |
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| The Pilgrims were also known as Separatists because they?: |
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| broke all ties with the Church of England. |
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| Most of the slaves who came to the thirteen mainland colonies in British North America?: |
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| were considered to be property and as such could be used as collateral for loans. |
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| In founding the colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe's primary purpose was to? |
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| provide a refuge for English debtors. |
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