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- 1. Which of the following was a major geographic advantage enjoyed by English
- colonists on the east coast of North America?
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- (A) a vast network of bays and rivers
- (B) an easily defensible mountainous terrain
- (C) a healthy climate provided by high elevation
- (D) land that had been cleared for farming by many generations of earlier
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- (E) a warm climate for most of the year
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- (A) These waterways facilitated trade.
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- 2. Between 1609 and 1619, the colony of Jamestown could be most accurately
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- (A) a dismal failure
- (B) a vast source of profit for the London company
- (C) a hospitable environment that attracted too many settlers
- (D) a haven for English debtors
- (E) the only slave colony in the western hemisphere
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- (A) Until 1619, the troubled Jamestown settlement was regarded as a failure.
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- 3. To attract settlers to New France, the French government offered:
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- (A) free transportation
- (B) representative assemblies
- (C) feudal land grants
- (D) religious freedom
- (E) liberal suffrage requirements
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- (C) The French government offered large land grants to attract settlers to New
- France, which had a sparse population.
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- 4. In an English proprietary colony, the proprietor could:
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- (A) grant land only with the King's permission
- (B) grant land only with Parliament's consent
- (C) grant land only if he remained in England
- (D) grant land only is he resided in the colony
- (E) appoint his own governor and grant land
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- (E) The proprietor could grant land and appoint governors.
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- 5. "For we must consider that we shall be a City upon a hill; the eyes of all
- people are upon us." This statement was most likely made by:
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- (A) William Penn
- (B) William Bradford
- (C) John Winthrop
- (D) John Smith
- (E) Lord Baltimore
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- (C) John Winthrop made this statement in 1637. He described the Puritan
- community in Massachusetts Bay as a "city upon a hill" because Puritans viewed
- the settlement as an example for the world.
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- 6. Roger Williams was thought dangerous to the colony of Massachusetts Bay in
- the 1630s because:
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- (A) his primary allegiance was to the colony of Rhode Island
- (B) he was a follower of Hutchinson
- (C) he advocated unification with the Church of England
- (D) he insisted that the land occupied by the Massachusetts Bay settlement
- belonged to the Indians
- (E) his religious philosophy seemed close to Catholicism
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- (D) He insisted it was their land.
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- 7. The Sugar Act passed by Parliament in 1764:
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- (A) lowered the duties on exported molasses
- (B) favored the southern colonies
- (C) discriminated against the southern colonies
- (D) threatened the existence of slavery in all English colonies
- (E) raised the duties on imported molasses
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- (A) This act lowered the duties, but insisted that the duties be collected.
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- 8. A historian analyzing the CAUSES of the American Revolution might mention
- all of the following EXCEPT:
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- (A) the breakdown of the British mercantile system
- (B) the anger of colonists about new regulations after 1763
- (C) the influence of political propaganda
- (D) the influence of enlightenment ideology
- (E) the influence of the French Revolution
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- (E) This Revolution happened later.
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- 9. Before 1820, most farmers in the Ohio Valley sent their products to market
- by way of the:
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- (A) Great Lakes
- (B) Ohio River
- (C) Erie Canal
- (D) Cumberland Road
- (E) Oregon Trail
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- (B) Most farmers in the Ohio Vally sent goods to market on river flatboats
- down the Ohio. The Erie Canal was not completed until 1820.
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