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African slaves were involved in ________ North American settlement effort from as early as the 1520s. |
| | A) | France's |
| | B) | Spain's |
| | C) | Britain's |
| | D) | Portugal's |
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Historian Michael Gannon argues that those Africans from the failed 1526 ________ settlement who survived and stayed behind became "the first Old World settlers in what is now the United States." |
| | A) | Key West |
| | B) | St. Augustine |
| | C) | Jamestown |
| | D) | San Miguel de Gualdape |
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The oldest successful European settlement remains today at |
| | A) | Key West. |
| | B) | St. Augustine. |
| | C) | Jamestown. |
| | D) | San Miguel de Gualdape. |
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In the context of colonialism, the term describing the mother country from which authoritative decisions stem is a |
| | A) | fiefdom. |
| | B) | parliament. |
| | C) | metropole. |
| | D) | progenitor. |
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In 1655, the Dutch effectively eliminated Sweden's imperial claim on the North American continent by successfully challenging Swedish control of the ________ Valley. |
| | A) | Delaware |
| | B) | James |
| | C) | Hudson |
| | D) | Susquehanna |
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The return of England's Stuart kings to the throne in the 1660 historical event known as ________ precipitated the founding of four new American colonies. |
| | A) | the Reformation |
| | B) | the Restoration |
| | C) | the Catholic Reformation |
| | D) | the War of the Roses |
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The "Three Lower Counties" chartered in 1682 were collectively known as |
| | A) | Rhode Island. |
| | B) | South Carolina. |
| | C) | Delaware. |
| | D) | New Jersey. |
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Most slaves brought to the North American colonies came from which of the following locations? |
| | A) | the Caribbean islands and the larger Atlantic rim |
| | B) | South America |
| | C) | Western and Central Africa |
| | D) | Central America |
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Which of the following describes a slave that had been born in the New World? |
| | A) | Acadian |
| | B) | mulatto |
| | C) | mestizo |
| | D) | Creole |
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Historians estimate that between 70 percent and 85 percent of the white colonists who arrived in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake area were |
| | A) | planters. |
| | B) | indentured. |
| | C) | slaveholders. |
| | D) | craftsmen. |
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Today's New York City occupies the Dutch beachhead and trading port of 1624 named |
| | A) | Rockaway. |
| | B) | Plymouth. |
| | C) | New Amsterdam. |
| | D) | New Netherland. |
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by which of the following groups? |
| | A) | Quakers |
| | B) | Puritans |
| | C) | Shakers |
| | D) | Pilgrims |
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Which of the following best represents the definition of "chattel"? |
| | A) | slaves with a specific term of enslavement |
| | B) | slaves that can be owned, bought, and sold |
| | C) | indentured servants |
| | D) | disrespectful or difficult slaves |
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After 1670 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the trend was steadily moving in the direction of a ________ slave status for all blacks. |
| | A) | hereditary |
| | B) | paternal |
| | C) | manumission |
| | D) | familial |
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In 1676 Virginia, the young English planter ________, along with a group of black slaves, led an uprising against colonial officials, accusing them of failing to protect settlers from Indian raids and chillingly demonstrating what might happen when blacks and whites unite. |
| | A) | Marshall |
| | B) | Bacon |
| | C) | Keayne |
| | D) | Hurd |
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Which of the following is true of the 1680 Virginia slave law? |
| | A) | forbade freedom of assembly |
| | B) | forbade the right to carry weapons |
| | C) | forbade the freedom of movement without license |
| | D) | All these answers are correct. |
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The currency of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was based on which of the following? |
| | A) | slaves |
| | B) | silver |
| | C) | cotton |
| | D) | tobacco |
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Active slave unrest and rioting in the early colonial seventeenth century was centered around which of the following cities? |
| | A) | Boston |
| | B) | New York City |
| | C) | Jamestown |
| | D) | Hartford |
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Which of the following colonies was first settled in 1670 by English settlers and their slaves fleeing from multiple problems in Barbados? |
| | A) | Georgia |
| | B) | Virginia |
| | C) | Louisiana |
| | D) | Carolina |
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A piece of Carolina legislation in 1722 authorized ________ to search blacks for weapons and arrest them if they were away from their home plantation without written leave from their masters. |
| | A) | police |
| | B) | vigilantes |
| | C) | slave patrols |
| | D) | the militia |
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In 1719 the French brought rice seed directly from Africa to ________, along with slaves experienced in growing the crop. |
| | A) | Mississippi |
| | B) | Carolina |
| | C) | Louisiana |
| | D) | Virginia |
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Labor shortages in ________ were created by several factors, and the need in the 1660s to clear forests and cultivate larger tobacco crops led to new legal code for slaves. |
| | A) | Carolina |
| | B) | Virginia |
| | C) | Louisiana |
| | D) | Mississippi |
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Control of the servant population of the Virginia colony was universally recognized to be the responsibility of |
| | A) | the courts. |
| | B) | the sheriffs. |
| | C) | the slave owners. |
| | D) | the entire white population. |
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The 1680 Virginia law borrowed heavily from ________ practices in the Caribbean and served as the model for other British colonies in North America. |
| | A) | French |
| | B) | Dutch |
| | C) | English |
| | D) | Spanish |
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The massive area encompassing what we know today as Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia was called ________ by its original Spanish settlers. |
| | A) | New Spain |
| | B) | Georgia |
| | C) | La Florida |
| | D) | St. Augustine |
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The Dutch tradition of "________" required recently freed slaves to pay annual dues to the Dutch West India Company, and it denied their children free status. |
| | A) | half freedom |
| | B) | freedom tax |
| | C) | limited freedom |
| | D) | economic freedom |
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The first of the English colonies to give legal sanction to slavery was which of the following? |
| | A) | New York |
| | B) | Carolina colony |
| | C) | Virginia colony |
| | D) | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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The English founded the colony at ________ in 1607. |
| | A) | Jamestown |
| | B) | Massachusetts Bay |
| | C) | New Amsterdam |
| | D) | New York |
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The first of the new English colonies established by the Stuart monarchy was |
| | A) | Delaware. |
| | B) | Pennsylvania. |
| | C) | Carolina. |
| | D) | New York. |
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The Dutch colony in North America was called |
| | A) | New York. |
| | B) | New Jersey. |
| | C) | New Amsterdam. |
| | D) | New Netherland. |
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