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1
In what year did the Jamestown settlers arrive in the Chesapeake?
A)1588
B)1603
C)1607
D)1620
2
Who led Jamestown through the crisis of its disastrous first winter?
A)John Smith
B)John Rolfe
C)Lord De La Warr
D)Thomas Gates
3
Who experimented with tobacco cultivation in Jamestown and gave the English New World its first cash crop?
A)John Smith
B)John Rolfe
C)Lord De La Warr
D)Thomas Gates
4
How big was the "headright" offered by the Virginia Company to each new settler?
A)25 acres
B)50 acres
C)75 acres
D)100 acres
5
In what year did both the first meeting of an elected legislature take place and the first Africans arrive in Virginia?
A)1607
B)1613
C)1619
D)1627
6
Why did Lord Calvert draft the 1648 "Act Concerning Religion," assuring freedom of worship to all Christians in Maryland?
A)To protect the Protestant minority
B)To assuage the Queen
C)To protect the Catholic minority
D)To entice Puritan separatists
7
What were the long-term consequences of Bacon's Rebellion?
A)Improved relations with nearby Indians
B)Growing commitment to political reform
C)Increased use of African slaves for labor
D)Growing emigration from the original Virginia colony
8
Who served as leader, governor, and historian of the migrating "Pilgrims"?
A)John Winthrop
B)Nathaniel Bacon
C)Roger Williams
D)William Bradford
9
Who served as the leader of the Puritans under the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company?
A)John Winthrop
B)Nathaniel Bacon
C)Roger Williams
D)William Bradford
10
Which of the following splinter colonies formed an even stricter religious government than that in Boston?
A)Hartford
B)New Haven
C)Rhode Island
D)New Hampshire
11
Which tribe rose up against the English under the leadership of King Philip?
A)Pawtuxet
B)Pequot
C)Wampanoag
D)Mohawk
12
What English King was beheaded by the Roundheads during the English Civil War?
A)Charles I
B)Charles II
C)James I
D)James II
13
Which political philosopher helped Anthony Ashley Cooper draw up the Fundamental Constitution for Carolina in 1669?
A)Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B)Baron de Montesquieu
C)John Locke
D)John Stuart Mill
14
What colony served as Carolina's most important trading partner and helped to spur the rise of slavery there?
A)Virginia
B)Brazil
C)Barbados
D)St. Augustine
15
To whom was Peter Stuyvesant forced to surrender the colony of New Amsterdam?
A)William Penn
B)Richard Nicolls
C)James Oglethorpe
D)William Carteret
16
Which colony was founded by Sir John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, political allies of James II?
A)New Jersey
B)Delaware
C)Pennsylvania
D)North Carolina
17
Which of the following statements is not true of Quakerism?
A)Quakers rejected predestination and original sin.
B)Quakers believed in rigid church government
C)Quakers were strongly pacifist and anti-slavery
D)Quakers generally believed in gender equality in the church
18
Which of the following is not a reason why Pennsylvania prospered from the outset?
A)Penn's successful recruitment of emigrants
B)Penn's thoughtful planning
C)The region's mild climate and fertile soil
D)The region's lack of nearby Native Americans
19
Which of the following is not true of life in the English Caribbean?
A)White people had virtually absolute authority over Africans under the law
B)Most English settlers were single men who either died or left at a young age
C)The African population substantially outnumbered the white population.
D)There were relatively few slave revolts in the Caribbean islands.
20
What was the most prosperous and populous Spanish outpost in North America?
A)Texas
B)California
C)New Mexico
D)Florida
21
Which of the following men is most responsible for the founding of Georgia?
A)Anthony Ashley Cooper
B)William Penn
C)Richard Nicolls
D)James Oglethorpe
22
Who or which of the following was not excluded from Georgia in its early days?
A)Catholics
B)Rum
C)Africans
D)Jews
23
Which of the following was not mandated by the Navigation Acts?
A)Only English ships could bring trade into the colonies
B)All goods shipped from Europe had to pass through England
C)Colonies could not build their own ships
D)Tobacco could only be exported to England or English possessions
24
Who served as governor of the Dominion of New England?
A)William Bradford
B)Sir Edmund Andros
C)George Calvert
D)John Coode
25
In what English colony did the Leisler Rebellion take place?
A)Pennsylvania
B)Maryland
C)New York
D)Massachusetts





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