Question 1

Use the following to answer questions :
-English laws passed in the 1650s and 1660s requiring that English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships in order to benefit English merchants, shippers, and seamen.

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A)  Algonquian Indians
B)  Bacon's Rebellion
C)  Barbados
D)  headright
E)  House of BurgessesF) indentured servantsG) JamestownH) Navigation ActsI) Pueblo RevoltJ) royal colonyK) slaveryL) Virginia CompanyM) B) and E)
N) A) and H)

Question 2

Why did planters maintain the servant system through the 1680s?

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A)   Servants made excellent workers.
B)   Family labor made slaves unnecessary.
C)   Planters did not want their young children to work.
D)   Free people preferred to work for themselves.E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 3

Why did Nathaniel Bacon's demands distress the royal government and the elite planters of Virginia?

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A)   His plan transferred power to newcomers and small farmers.
B)   The demands were unfair to Indians and set slaves free.
C)   His plan lowered the price of land and hurt landlords' investments.
D)   The demands challenged the king and Parliament's right to rule.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 4

How had political equality in Virginia actually decreased by 1670?

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A)   Laws incorporated literacy tests for voting rights.
B)   Only members of the Anglican Church could vote.
C)   Only male landowners and heads of households could vote.
D)   The king and royal government denied free elections.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 5

Which statement characterizes most hired workers in the Chesapeake?

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A)   Workers earned two to three times more in the Chesapeake than in England.
B)   They refused to work as indentured servants because the rewards were too small.
C)   Workers avoided tobacco labor because they could not make enough money.
D)   They quickly returned to England in order to escape the harsh working conditions.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 6

What happened in Virginia after Nathaniel Bacon's death?

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A)   Governor Berkeley and his loyalists returned to power.
B)   Royal officials nullified Bacon's Laws.
C)   Indentured servitude ceased to exist in the colony.
D)   Tensions lessened between the servant and slave classes.E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 7

Use the following to answer questions :
-Fifty acres of free land granted by the Virginia Company to planters for each indentured servant they purchased.

Accepted Answer

A)  Algonquian Indians
B)  Bacon's Rebellion
C)  Barbados
D)  headright
E)  House of BurgessesF) indentured servantsG) JamestownH) Navigation ActsI) Pueblo RevoltJ) royal colonyK) slaveryL) Virginia CompanyM) H) and I)
N) E) and H)

Question 8

Use the following to answer questions :
-An effective revolt of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, under the leadership of Popé, against the Spanish in 1680. Particularly targeting symbols of Christianity, they succeeded in killing two-thirds of Spanish missionaries and driving the Spaniards out of New Mexico.

Accepted Answer

A)  Algonquian Indians
B)  Bacon's Rebellion
C)  Barbados
D)  headright
E)  House of BurgessesF) indentured servantsG) JamestownH) Navigation ActsI) Pueblo RevoltJ) royal colonyK) slaveryL) Virginia CompanyM) D) and I)
N) C) and H)

Question 9

How did the Indian leader Popé respond to Spanish exploitation and the work of Spanish missionaries in New Mexico in 1680?

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A)   He and his people converted to Christianity.
B)   Popé adopted some, but not all, tenets of Christianity.
C)   He and his people fled New Mexico to escape the Spanish.
D)   Popé organized a violent revolt against the Spanish.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 10

The slave population grew in Barbados because

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A)   of the large number of families.
B)   of the low mortality rate.
C)   planters imported more slaves from the Americas.
D)   planters imported more slaves from Africa.E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 11

Which profitable export crop depended on the expertise of slaves brought from West Africa to Carolina?

Accepted Answer

A)   Tobacco
B)   Cotton
C)   Indigo
D)   RiceE) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 12

The early English colonists who arrived at Jamestown in 1607 found themselves subordinate to, and under the initial protection of, the Algonquians and their leader, Powhatan. This relationship had changed by 1622. Explain why the Native Americans were initially important to the survival of the Chesapeake newcomers, what benefits the newcomers derived from their association with the Algonquians, and how and why their relationship changed by 1622.

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Question 13

In the sixteenth century, Spain and Portugal established sugar plantations in the Americas based on an entrenched system of coerced African labor. England followed their example by the seventeenth century. Discuss England's development of sugar plantations and the use of African slave labor in the Caribbean and in the Carolinas. Explain how the tobacco economy of the Chesapeake transitioned to the same system of slavery.

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Question 14

Before 1650, relative equality existed among free families in Chesapeake. Around 1650, Chesapeake society splintered into two social groups who mistrusted each other. Identify the social groups and the causes of this polarity.

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Question 15

On what basis could a student of history conclude that the slave-labor system reduced the tensions between poor white farmers and prosperous planters in the Chesapeake region after 1670?

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Question 16

King James I of England granted a charter to the Virginia Company of London to establish a colony in the New World. In a very real sense, this was an illegitimate grant on the part of James I. Provide a rationale for the statement that James's grant was illegitimate. Identify and discuss the benefits a corporate colony was supposed to provide to the monarchy and the Virginia Company. Finally, explain why King James I revoked the charter in 1624 and made Virginia a royal colony.

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Question 17

How did tobacco farming shape Chesapeake settlement?

Accepted Answer

A)   Chesapeake settlers established a large number of towns for trading tobacco.
B)   Tobacco farmers sought land that fronted a navigable river to ease transport.
C)   Farmers settled small plots of land and cultivated all of it at once.
D)   Tobacco farming did not exhaust the soil, so farmers rarely moved once settled.E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Exam 3: The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

What happened in Virginia after Nathaniel Bacon's death?

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Why did planters maintain the servant system through the 1680s?

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Before 1650, relative equality existed among free families in Chesapeake. Around 1650, Chesapeake society splintered into two social groups who mistrusted each other. Identify the social groups and the causes of this polarity.

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Which profitable export crop depended on the expertise of slaves brought from West Africa to Carolina?

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Why did Nathaniel Bacon's demands distress the royal government and the elite planters of Virginia?

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On what basis could a student of history conclude that the slave-labor system reduced the tensions between poor white farmers and prosperous planters in the Chesapeake region after 1670?

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How had political equality in Virginia actually decreased by 1670?

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Which statement characterizes most hired workers in the Chesapeake?

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Use the following to answer questions : -Fifty acres of free land granted by the Virginia Company to planters for each indentured servant they purchased.

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How did the Indian leader Popé respond to Spanish exploitation and the work of Spanish missionaries in New Mexico in 1680?

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The slave population grew in Barbados because

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Use the following to answer questions : -English laws passed in the 1650s and 1660s requiring that English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships in order to benefit English merchants, shippers, and seamen.

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How did tobacco farming shape Chesapeake settlement?

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Exam 3: The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

What happened in Virginia after Nathaniel Bacon's death?

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Why did planters maintain the servant system through the 1680s?

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Before 1650, relative equality existed among free families in Chesapeake. Around 1650, Chesapeake society splintered into two social groups who mistrusted each other. Identify the social groups and the causes of this polarity.

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Which profitable export crop depended on the expertise of slaves brought from West Africa to Carolina?

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Why did Nathaniel Bacon's demands distress the royal government and the elite planters of Virginia?

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On what basis could a student of history conclude that the slave-labor system reduced the tensions between poor white farmers and prosperous planters in the Chesapeake region after 1670?

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How had political equality in Virginia actually decreased by 1670?

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Which statement characterizes most hired workers in the Chesapeake?

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Use the following to answer questions : -Fifty acres of free land granted by the Virginia Company to planters for each indentured servant they purchased.

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How did the Indian leader Popé respond to Spanish exploitation and the work of Spanish missionaries in New Mexico in 1680?

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How did tobacco farming shape Chesapeake settlement?

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