Question 1

Why were Powhatan and his people suspicious of English intentions?

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A)   Colonists often resorted to violence toward the Indians.
B)   Powhatan believed the English worshiped the devil.
C)   Colonists frequently intermarried with Indian women.
D)   The English colonists often adopted Indian children.E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 2

King James's land grant to the Virginia Company of over 6 million acres allowed English settlers to

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A)   poach on Spanish claims and on Indian lands.
B)   ally with France to weaken Spain's control over Europe.
C)   challenge the Catholic Church's authority to legitimize conquests.
D)   declare war against Powhatan and the Roanoke Indians.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 3

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) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

Why did Richard Hakluyt support English colonization?

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A)   It would enhance England's power among European nations.
B)   Colonies would provide a place for the unemployed to work.
C)   It would give England strategic political outposts.
D)   The sons of the nobility could achieve political power overseas.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 5

Identify two ways in which the features of the government of Virginia-the first established under the Virginia Company-changed when King James I revoked its corporate charter in 1624 and made Virginia a royal colony.

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Question 6

How did tobacco farming shape Chesapeake settlement?

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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) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 7

Which of the following British colonies brought in the greatest profit in 1700?

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A)   Barbados
B)   Newfoundland
C)   Virginia
D)   CarolinaE) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 8

What did Opecancanough do only four years after the death of his brother Powhatan?

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A)   Sell Indian land to the English
B)   Convert to Christianity
C)   Wage an attack on the English
D)   Form an allegiance with SpainE) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 9

Because of their determination to profit from tobacco farming,Chesapeake colonists did not reproduce the rural landscape of their homeland in England,and their patterns of community life were not as they had been accustomed to in England.Write an essay in which you describe colonist life in seventeenth-century Chesapeake in the first thirty to forty years of settlement by discussing settlement patterns and the daily lives of colonists,including social and religious aspects.

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Question 10

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 11

"Irish Nell told [his mother] the day she expected to be married,she was early up intending to clear the house out,and a Gentleman ...asked her if she was the Girl that was to be married that day to the negro? She said Yes,he then chid her,and told her,she would put a mark by that upon her Children and bring them into Slavery,that if she would marry a white man her Children might be of Credit in the world,otherwise they wou'd be in Slavery,upon which she fell a crying,and said it was to her Choice,she wou'd rather have Charles than have your Lordship." Why did the witnesses' testimony in "Analyzing Historical Evidence: Enslavement by Marriage" accuse Irish Nell of putting "a mark ...upon her Children?"

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A)   Because she married an African,her free white children from her first marriage had to become slaves.
B)   Because she married an African,all of her future descendants would be slaves.
C)   Because she had a child out of wedlock,she subjected this child to public shame.
D)   Because she wanted to marry unencumbered,she sold her own children into slavery.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 12

Spanish missionaries considered European ideas about civilization to be

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A)   incompatible with the teachings of Christianity.
B)   necessary for the full conversion of Indians to Christianity.
C)   different and separate from the task of converting Indians.
D)   no better than the Indians' ideas about civilization.E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 13

A servant labor system in the British colonies was made possible by the New World's labor shortage and

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A)   the decrease in job opportunities in England.
B)   the many English people who fled to escape religious persecution.
C)   the racial equality that forbade African slavery.
D)   the crown's endorsement of Spain's labor system.E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 14

What was an employer required to give a servant after she or he completed an indenture?

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A)   A share of the master's crop
B)   Free land
C)   Freedom dues
D)   NothingE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 15

Virginia tobacco farmers confronted what major obstacle in the 1600s?

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A)   A lack of affordable land
B)   Too few workers
C)   The lack of a market for their crops
D)   The need for expensive machineryE) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 16

According to Map 3.1: Chesapeake Colonies in the Seventeenth Century,what river led most directly to the earliest established Chesapeake settlements?

Accepted Answer

A)   James River
B)   Potomac River
C)   Rappahannock River
D)   Susquehanna RiverE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 17

How did Powhatan help the English stave off starvation?

Accepted Answer

A)   He taught them to grow tobacco for trade.
B)   He showed them how to hunt big game.
C)   He brought corn to the colony for barter.
D)   He gave the colonists wheat for cooking.E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 18

How did indentured servitude differ between women and men in the Chesapeake?

Accepted Answer

A)   Women could set the price of their labor.
B)   Only men did the most grueling work.
C)   Women had more rights than men.
D)   Women servants could not marry.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 19

Provide the rationale behind the following statement: Both economically and socially,seventeenth-century South Carolina was a frontier outpost of the West Indian sugar economy.

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Question 20

By 1700,the British Caribbean annually exported nearly 50 million pounds of

Accepted Answer

A)   rice.
B)   sugar.
C)   tobacco.
D)   indigo.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Exam 3: The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century 1601-1700

Identify two ways in which the features of the government of Virginia-the first established under the Virginia Company-changed when King James I revoked its corporate charter in 1624 and made Virginia a royal colony.

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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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King James's land grant to the Virginia Company of over 6 million acres allowed English settlers to

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How did Powhatan help the English stave off starvation?

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Which of the following British colonies brought in the greatest profit in 1700?

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Provide the rationale behind the following statement: Both economically and socially,seventeenth-century South Carolina was a frontier outpost of the West Indian sugar economy.

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A servant labor system in the British colonies was made possible by the New World's labor shortage and

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What did Opecancanough do only four years after the death of his brother Powhatan?

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How did tobacco farming shape Chesapeake settlement?

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How did indentured servitude differ between women and men in the Chesapeake?

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By 1700,the British Caribbean annually exported nearly 50 million pounds of

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

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According to Map 3.1: Chesapeake Colonies in the Seventeenth Century,what river led most directly to the earliest established Chesapeake settlements?

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Why did Richard Hakluyt support English colonization?

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Virginia tobacco farmers confronted what major obstacle in the 1600s?

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