Chapter Two Remediation
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Which of the following is correctly paired?
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Coronado—Florida
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Ponce de León—the seven cities of gold
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B)
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de Soto—New York
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D)
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Champlain—Quebec
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Why did Dutch merchants send Henry Hudson to North America?
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To begin converting the Native Americans
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To find gold and silver deposits
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To scout for farmland for Dutch colonists
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D)
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To locate a new source of fur
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3.
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The Dutch colony of New Netherland
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increased rapidly due to the success of slavery.
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B)
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had mainly peaceful relations with the indigenous people in the Hudson River Valley.
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failed to attract many settlers.
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quickly became the most profitable of Holland's overseas colonies.
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4.
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The new colony of Maryland
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was a democracy from the outset, with full religious freedom.
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B)
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experienced a political power struggle between its governor and settlers.
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was ruled by Catholic priests and missionaries.
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D)
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was virtually an independent kingdom under the strong control of the Calvert family.
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What effect did American tobacco have in England during the early colonial period?
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It became fashionable for the upper class to smoke, but tobacco was too expensive for most everyone else.
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Tobacco was so popular in England that large quantities were planted and grown in most rural English towns.
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Although King James I initially condemned it, he later became a heavy smoker.
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The English developed a huge appetite for tobacco, helping to fuel a forty-year boom in tobacco prices.
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By the late seventeenth century, the economic life of the Chesapeake region was dominated by
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planters and Anglican clergy.
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yeomen farmers and merchants.
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merchants and Anglican clergy.
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planter-merchants.
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the New England Puritans' attitude and/or behavior toward Native Americans?
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Compared to the Spanish Franciscans in New Mexico, the Puritans failed miserably in controlling the Native Americans.
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B)
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The Puritans refused to “pollute” the word of God by permitting the Bible to be translated into a “savage” Indian language.
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The Puritans set very high standards for Indian converts and, therefore, only a few Indians became full church members.
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Though the Puritans believed Indians were “miserable savages” brought to America by the devil, they treated them gently in the hopes of converting them to Christianity.
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Which of the following was characteristic of both the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies?
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Their governments were controlled by the landholding aristocracy.
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Ordinary farmers had more political power than most yeomen in the Chesapeake colonies.
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Religious toleration was widespread.
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They had a single-crop economy.
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What caused the Puritans' “errand into the wilderness” to become permanent?
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The failure of the English Revolution
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B)
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The large profits that most New England settlers made through trade
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The desire of most Puritans to Christianize the Native Americans
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The Salem witchcraft trials
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Which of the following statements most accurately describes Africans in Virginia after the 1660s?
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Africans made up 75 percent of the workforce.
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Africans found themselves more entrenched in slavery as a permanent condition.
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Africans were required to join the local militias whenever a war with Indians erupted.
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Africans were able to purchase the labor contracts of white indentured servants.
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Metacom's Rebellion (King Philip's War) resulted in the
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complete extermination of the Wampanoag tribe.
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destruction of about 80 percent of the English towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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death of about 25 percent of the English population.
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death of about 25 percent of the Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Nipmuck populations.
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The English colonies differed from the French and the Dutch in that the English
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colonies were settled nearly a century before.
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B)
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allowed the native peoples to retain their lands and political autonomy.
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colonies were mainly fur-trading empires.
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created farming communities.
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The New England colonies differed most from the Chesapeake colonies with regard to
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land ownership.
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loyalty to England.
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relations with Native Americans.
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their rejection of the Navigation Acts.
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14.
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Spanish, French, Dutch, and English settlers all had in common
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the inadvertent spreading of devastating diseases among the natives.
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the goal of creating an economy based on the lucrative fur trade.
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a strong desire to convert the Indians to Christianity.
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a desire to create large, permanent settlements of landowning farmers.
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