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- 1. The Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez is best known as the:
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- (A) first Spanish explorer of Florida
- (B) conqueror of Puerto Rico and Cuba
- (C) founder of Spanish bases in Latin America
- (D) first European to circumnavigate the globe
- (E) leader of a successful expedition to Mexico
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- (E) Cortez led a Spanish expedition to Mexico in 1519. By 1521, he had crushed
- Aztec resistance and opened Mexico to Spanish colonization.
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- 2. During the colonial era, the Iroquois Indians could be found in:
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- (A) northern Virginia
- (B) the Ohio Valley
- (C) the Connecticut River Valley
- (D) upper New York State
- (E) Nantucket
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- (D) The five nations of the League of Iroquois were located in New York State.
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- 3. In which of the following colonies was slavery prohibited at the outset?
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- (A) Virginia
- (B) Maryland
- (C) Massachusetts
- (D) New York
- (E) Georgia
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- (E) Georgia was founded in 1732 by James Oglethorpe, a member of Parliament.
- He intended the colony to be a haven for imprisoned debtors and a buffer zone
- between the English and Spanish colonies. Slavery was prohibited until 1749.
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- 4. A "patroon" in 17th century New Netherland can be most accurately
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- (A) an employee of the Dutch West India Company
- (B) a Dutch merchant in New Amsterdam
- (C) the captain of a ship that brought Dutch sailors to the New World
- (D) the owner of a large landed estate
- (E) a Dutch servant indentured to a large landowner
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- (D) Persons who settled in New Netherland received large estates along the
- banks of the Hudson River.
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- 5. Anne Hutchinson offended officials of Massachusetts Bay in the 1630s by:
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- (A) gaining more wealth than was thought proper for a woman
- (B) insisting that women should be allowed to attend church services
- (C) challenging the authority of Puritan ministers by advancing her own
- interpretation of theology
- (D) refusing to hold religious meetings in her home
- (E) declaring that no one's life was predetermined by God
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- (C) Hutchinson challenged the clergy.
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- 6. Under the laws in effect in the Massachusetts Bay colony:
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- (A) magistrates were always ministers
- (B) ministers could not serve as government officials
- (C) all adult residents of the colony had a vote in the General Court
- (D) Congregationalism and Presbyterianism were outlawed
- (E) toleration of Quakers was mandatory
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- (B) The roles of church and state were separate by law.
- Ministers could not serve as magistrates or public officials.
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- 7. A member of the House of Burgesses in colonial Virginia can be most
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- (A) a colonial legislator
- (B) a representative on Parliament
- (C) a county sheriff
- (D) an owner of a small plantation
- (E) an advocate of independence
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- (A) A member of the House of Burgesses was an elected representative to the
- legislature of the Virginia colony.
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- 8. As Governor-General of the Dominion of New England from 1685 to 1688,
- Edmund Andros offended colonists by:
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- (A) abolishing popular assemblies in all colonies in the Dominion
- (B) quartering British troops in the homes of colonists
- (C) prohibiting the importation of tea from French and Dutch colonies
- (D) prohibiting expansion into uninhabited western lands
- (E) forcing colonists to pay excise taxes on newspapers
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- (A) Andros also took away charters.
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