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The Navigation Acts were


A) procedures instituted by the king when he chartered the Virginia Company.
B) reforms prescribed by the Virginia Company to encourage diversification of the economy.
C) regulations decreed by Massachusetts to regulate shipping safety.
D) laws passed to give English merchants a monopoly on the colonial trade.

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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Does the text's account of Powhatan's confederacy reinforce or contradict the notion of the Chesapeake Indians as "noble savages"who lived a simpler life than did the Europeans who reached their shores? Explain why.

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Discuss and assess the following statement from the textbook: "All that saved white society in the Chesapeake from renewed crisis and conflict [after Bacon's and Coode's rebellions] was the growth of black slavery."

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One of Virginia's biggest planters, William Byrd, boasted that, "I am dependent upon no one but Providence."In what ways were Byrd and other planters like him powerful and independent? In what ways were they more dependent than Byrd realized?

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What created the conditions of unrest that led to local rebellions in the Chesapeake?


A) religious persecution
B) a sharp rise in the death rate
C) political oppression
D) diminishing economic opportunity

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Which of the following is NOT an accurate generalization about the southern English colonies by about 1700?


A) Each had been founded as a private (i.e. proprietary) colony, but each would eventually become royal.
B) The economy of each was based on slave-grown plantation staple crops.
C) Each had matured into a hierarchical society in which the leading planters controlled the government.
D) To the south of England's mainland colonies were mainland colonies of Spain.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

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________ was the king of England who chartered the company that founded the first permanent English colony in North America.

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Which of the following did NOT trigger the revolt led by Nathaniel Bacon?


A) clashes between Indians and whites
B) diminishing economic opportunities for freed servants and small planters
C) popular opposition to the restoration of the monarchy
D) a contest for power between older and newer elites

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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As with the Chesapeake colonies, so too the Carolinas followed a process from ________ to ________.


A) violence and high mortality; relative stability
B) diverse economic endeavors; a single-crop economy
C) reliance on African slaves; reliance on indentured servants
D) the West Indies; the mainland

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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A

English settlements in the West Indies had the greatest influence upon the development of the mainland colonies of


A) the Chesapeake.
B) the Carolinas.
C) New England.
D) New York and New Jersey.

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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In an effort to ensure that his American colonies contributed to England's prosperity, King Charles II initiated a series of regulations known as the


A) mercantile regulations.
B) Navigation Acts.
C) tariff and tax laws.
D) Neutrality Acts.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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The early instability of South Carolina society was due to


A) ethnic and religious divisions among the white settlers.
B) the trafficking of Indian slaves.
C) the influx of black labor and the resulting disruption of families.
D) the volatile rice boom.

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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The Chesapeake gentry, above all, sought


A) wealth in order to return to England.
B) respect.
C) titles of nobility.
D) social relations rooted in morality and equality.

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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The English mainland colonies of North America received most of their slaves directly from


A) Africa.
B) Brazil.
C) the West Indies.
D) Portugal.

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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One of the differences between South Carolina and the Chesapeake was that


A) the Chesapeake had a black majority.
B) Virginia and Maryland were Catholic; South Carolina was Protestant.
C) wealthy South Carolina planters grew rice; the Chesapeake gentry were primarily tobacco growers and brokers.
D) South Carolinians enjoyed peaceful relations with Indians.

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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The principal institution used by the Spanish to incorporate natives into colonial society was the


A) presidio.
B) hacienda.
C) vaquero.
D) mission.

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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Which of the following accounted for the desperate circumstances early in the Jamestown settlement?


A) failure of the first tobacco crop
B) Jamestown's lack fortifications
C) colonists' willingness to cooperate
D) agrarian skills of the colonists

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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The ________ basically the leading plantation owners-were the political and economic elite of the Chesapeake colonies by the late 1600s.

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Which of the following most characterized the Virginia colony in its first two decades?


A) the profitability of the Virginia Company due to the tobacco boom
B) political stability due to the representative assembly
C) Indian wars
D) immigrant deaths

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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The king revoked the company's charter and made Virginia a royal colony in 1624 for what reason?


A) He wanted to keep all the colony's profits for the royal treasury.
B) Indian attacks on the settlers required revenue for security.
C) An investigation revealed the horrible death rate for the Spanish.
D) More than 3,000 immigrants had succumbed to the brutal conditions of Chesapeake life.

E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

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