Question 1

The tobacco culture of Virginia created great pressure for territorial expansion.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The Navigation Acts enacted by the English Parliament

Accepted Answer

A)  strangled many colonial American tobacco plantations. 
B)  encouraged the colonists to create an important shipbuilding industry of their own. 
C)  damaged the business of New England merchants in favor of English merchants. 
D)  were passed only through the vigorous political support of Virginian planters. 
E)  sought to strengthen the British relationship with the Dutch. 
A)  strangled many colonial American tobacco plantations. 
B)  encouraged the colonists to create an important shipbuilding industry of their own. 
C)  damaged the business of New England merchants in favor of English merchants. 
D)  were passed only through the vigorous political support of Virginian planters. 
E)  sought to strengthen the British relationship with the Dutch.

Question 3

The Powhatan Indian Pocahontas

Accepted Answer

A)  married Englishman John Smith. 
B)  was kidnapped by John Rolfe. 
C)  created an interest in England in "civilizing" Indians. 
D)  was the cause of a war between the Powhatan Indians and Virginian colonists. 
E)  refused to convert to Christianity. 
A)  married Englishman John Smith. 
B)  was kidnapped by John Rolfe. 
C)  created an interest in England in "civilizing" Indians. 
D)  was the cause of a war between the Powhatan Indians and Virginian colonists. 
E)  refused to convert to Christianity.

Question 4

Like Pennsylvania, Georgia was founded as a religious colony.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

What steps did England take to establish greater control over her North American colonies? Why were these steps not always successful?

Accepted Answer

England took several steps to establish

Question 6

In the seventeenth century, English colonists recognized that corn

Accepted Answer

A)  could only be grown in the New World. 
B)  was their most financially valuable crop. 
C)  produced yields greater than any of the European grains. 
D)  was a particularly difficult crop to cultivate. 
E)  could not be grown in the swampy land around Jamestown. 
A)  could only be grown in the New World. 
B)  was their most financially valuable crop. 
C)  produced yields greater than any of the European grains. 
D)  was a particularly difficult crop to cultivate. 
E)  could not be grown in the swampy land around Jamestown.

Question 7

White settlers learned crucial agricultural techniques such as annual burning and the planting of beans to keep insect infestations at bay.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

________, the leader of the Massachusetts Bay colony, sought to have his people serve as a "city upon a hill."

Accepted Answer

The answer of ________, the leader of the Massachusetts Bay...

The tobacco culture of Virginia created great pressure for territorial expansion.

The Navigation Acts enacted by the English Parliament

The Powhatan Indian Pocahontas

Like Pennsylvania, Georgia was founded as a religious colony.

What steps did England take to establish greater control over her North American colonies? Why were these steps not always successful?

In the seventeenth century, English colonists recognized that corn

White settlers learned crucial agricultural techniques such as annual burning and the planting of beans to keep insect infestations at bay.

________, the leader of the Massachusetts Bay colony, sought to have his people serve as a "city upon a hill."

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The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America’s Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Antebellum Culture and Reform

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

Reconstruction and the New South

The Conquest of the Far West

Industrial Supremacy

The Age of the City

From Crisis to Empire

The Progressives

America and the Great War

The “New Era”

The Great Depression

The New Deal

The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

America in a World at War

The Cold War

The Affluent Society

Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

The Crisis of Authority

From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

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Exam 2: Transplantations and Borderlands

The tobacco culture of Virginia created great pressure for territorial expansion.

The Navigation Acts enacted by the English Parliament

The Powhatan Indian Pocahontas

Like Pennsylvania, Georgia was founded as a religious colony.

What steps did England take to establish greater control over her North American colonies? Why were these steps not always successful?

In the seventeenth century, English colonists recognized that corn

White settlers learned crucial agricultural techniques such as annual burning and the planting of beans to keep insect infestations at bay.

________, the leader of the Massachusetts Bay colony, sought to have his people serve as a "city upon a hill."

The Collision of Cultures

Society and Culture in Provincial America

The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America’s Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Antebellum Culture and Reform

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

Reconstruction and the New South

The Conquest of the Far West

Industrial Supremacy

The Age of the City

From Crisis to Empire

The Progressives

America and the Great War

The “New Era”

The Great Depression

The New Deal

The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

America in a World at War

The Cold War

The Affluent Society

Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

The Crisis of Authority

From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

The Age of Globalization

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