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The chapter introduction tells the story of the Powhatan confederacy to make the point that: |
| | A) | Indians initially tolerated the first English settlers as allies against rival tribes, but the cultivation of tobacco led to destruction of Indian power. |
| | B) | the initial English settlements at Virginia survived only because of the generous assistance provided by local Indian tribes. |
| | C) | Powhatan had no strategy to deal with the white "tribes" who invaded his domain, so he tried in vain to organize an alliance to resist the English. |
| | D) | since the English colony was so self-sufficient, they felt no need to cultivate friendly relations with the few scattered, unorganized tribal bands in the Chesapeake region. |
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What accounts for the survival of the Virginia colony? |
| | A) | Its early settlers willingly worked hard to establish a viable settlement. |
| | B) | Initially incentives brought immigrants; later the political power of planters created stability while conditions improved for small planters and farmers. |
| | C) | The local confederacy of Indian tribes allied itself with the English in order to take advantage of trade; in return, they taught the first settlers how to cultivate corn. |
| | D) | The healthy natural and human environments insured a high birth rate and low death rate among colonists in the early years. |
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Mortality rates in Virginia in the 1620s were: |
| | A) | the same as in England. |
| | B) | lower than in England. |
| | C) | higher than England's normal death rate. |
| | D) | higher than England's death rate during times of epidemic disease. |
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What is significant about the Indian-white war in the early 1620s? |
| | A) | It proved the exception to the regular pattern of Indian-white cooperation in the southern colonies. |
| | B) | It demonstrated how resistance to the expansion of tobacco cultivation would be met with swift and brutal retaliation. |
| | C) | It wiped out local Indian resistance, thus insuring the company's survival. |
| | D) | It destroyed many of the tobacco fields, thus ending the tobacco boom. |
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British authorities based their colonial trade policies, as embodied in the Navigation Acts, on the theory of: |
| | A) | mercantilism: insuring self-sufficiency by controlling trade. |
| | B) | industrialism: promoting English industrial development. |
| | C) | imperialism: keeping the American colonies weak and dependent. |
| | D) | developmentalism: stimulating colonial economic diversification. |
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Because Maryland was granted as a "proprietary colony" to the Calvert family, they could: |
| | A) | give land to their friends. |
| | B) | collect fees annually from every settler in the colony for the use of the land. |
| | C) | extend complete religious freedom to all Christians, including Catholics. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
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The slaves imported into the Chesapake after 1680: |
| | A) | were mostly born in the Caribbean. |
| | B) | had much in common with white indentured servants. |
| | C) | were locked into their slave status by new laws that increasingly distinguished between the rights of white and black servants. |
| | D) | could marry white people. |
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By the end of the 1600s, the leaders of Chesapeake society were able to foster greater unity and stability due to all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | relying more on slavery than servitude. |
| | B) | improving economic opportunities for freed servants and small landowners. |
| | C) | accepting responsibility for the welfare of their social and economic inferiors. |
| | D) | encouraging a greater role in government for the middle and lower classes. |
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Spanish and English colonization of the Caribbean resulted in the "loss of paradise," but also: |
| | A) | resurgent growth in population among Indians who acquired immunity to European diseases. |
| | B) | the introduction of political stability among English colonists who replaced frontier outposts with massive military fortifications. |
| | C) | the beginnings of West Indian influence in North America as planters began to settle the Carolinas. |
| | D) | the discovery of a new paradise for Dutch colonists who introduced and monopolized plantation production of sugar. |
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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. |
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South Carolina's population by 1730 was: |
| | A) | primarily English. |
| | B) | politically unified. |
| | C) | ethnically and religiously diverse. |
| | D) | naturally increasing. |
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South Carolinians did NOT feel threatened by which of the following? |
| | A) | the Spanish settlements in Florida |
| | B) | their black slaves |
| | C) | the French in Louisiana and their Indian allies |
| | D) | the economic competition of Georgia |
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George Oglethorpe promoted: |
| | A) | the colony of Maryland. |
| | B) | the colony of Georgia. |
| | C) | the plantation system in Barbados. |
| | D) | the plantation system in South Carolina. |
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Georgia was created: |
| | A) | in order to provide a place where England could send people who were languishing in debtors' prisons. |
| | B) | as a haven for the religiously oppressed of Europe and other colonies. |
| | C) | as a utopia for small farmers. |
| | D) | with a strict slave code borrowed from South Carolina. |
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The principal institution used by the Spanish to incorporate natives into colonial society was: |
| | A) | the presidio. |
| | B) | the hacienda. |
| | C) | the vaquero. |
| | D) | the mission. |
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