Question 1

When new towns were established in New England, all of the following were true except

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A)   parcels of land was given out.
B)   a meeting house was built.
C)   a village green was laid out.
D)   schools were required in towns of more than fifty families.
E)   most land was held in common by the town.

Question 2

Compared with most seventeenth-century Europeans, Americans lived in

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A)   relative poverty.
B)   larger cities.
C)   a much healthier environment.
D)   a more rigid class system.
E)   more primitive circumstances.

Question 3

Over the course of the seventeenth century, more and more indentured servants

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A)   eventually became landowners.
B)   were forced into slavery.
C)   managed to run away from their masters toward the frontier.
D)   fell into landlessness and poverty.
E)   saw their wages increase.

Question 4

During their term of labor, or at its completion, indentured servants received all of the following except

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A)   passage to America.
B)   a suit of clothes.
C)   a few barrels of corn.
D)   a headright.
E)   at times, a small parcel of land.

Question 5

In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies, those in New England

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A)   had a more diversified economy.
B)   expanded westward in a less orderly fashion.
C)   had a more ethnically mixed population.
D)   were more oriented toward the individual than toward community interests.
E)   followed the ecologically wise practices of the local Indians.

Question 6

The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was

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A)   Indian policies and economic grievances.
B)   the wealthy planter class losing control of the colony.
C)   a shortage of indentured servants.
D)   a shortage of African slaves.
E)   all of these.

Question 7

The late-seventeenth-century rebellions in New York and Maryland partly reflected

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A)   the fear that whites might be enslaved alongside blacks.
B)   resentment against the English government.
C)   dissent against Puritan domination of government.
D)   the resentment of ordinary settlers against aristocratic pretensions.
E)   ethnic conflict between English, Scottish, Dutch, and German settlers.

Question 8

The Salem "witch hunt" in 1692

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A)   was the largest "witch hunt" in recorded history.
B)   was primarily a result of contemporary superstition.
C)   resulted in the executions of twenty people.
D)   set off a wave of witchcraft persecutions throughout the colonies.
E)   caused injury mostly in lost reputations and jobs for those accused.

Question 9

How did the changing nature of Puritan theology and New England's affect New England society? How were the Salem witch trials related to these developments?

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Question 10

In the seventeenth century, due to a high death rate, families were both few and fragile in

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A)   New England.
B)   the Chesapeake colonies.
C)   the middle colonies.
D)   Georgia.
E)   Florida

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