Question 1

Compare and contrast the Spanish treatment of native peoples in the Southwest with relations between Indians and English settlers in the colonial American Southeast.

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Question 2

Why did Georgia's idealistic founders fail in their plan to create a small farmer's utopia?

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Question 3

What was the most lucrative New World product by the later 1600s?

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A)  silver 
B)  sugar 
C)  tobacco 
D)  rice

Question 4

The primary objective of mercantilism was to

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A)  promote free trade policies. 
B)  develop industries in the Americas. 
C)  build national self-sufficiency through a favorable balance of trade. 
D)  encourage development of a textile industry in Europe.

Question 5

While the rising demand for slaves in the Chesapeake played some role in the large growth of the Atlantic slave trade between the mid-1500s and the late 1800s, it was the spread of plantation economies in other places that spurred and sustained the traffic in human beings. Which were these other places?

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A)  the Caribbean and South America 
B)  South Africa and India 
C)  the Middle East and North Africa 
D)  British North America

Question 6

The phase of the enslavement process after slaves had been procured along the African coast and before they were sold in the Americas involved a long sea voyage across the Atlantic known as the ________.

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Question 7

Unlike the English, the Spanish projected a place in their colonies for ________.

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Question 8

The medieval religious order that would become key to the settlement of Spanish North America was the ________.

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Question 9

Women in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake

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A)  usually outnumbered men. 
B)  usually outlived men. 
C)  had a good chance of improving their status through marriage. 
D)  had a good chance of ending up as unmarried landless vagabonds.

Question 10

Explain how sugar and tobacco played similar roles in Virginia and in the Caribbean colonies.

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Question 11

Discuss the causes of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia. Compare and contrast the causes and character of that rebellion with the causes and character of Coode's Rebellion in Maryland.

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Question 12

Describe how the Virginia colony was transformed from a colony in which most unfree laborers were white servants to one in which black slavery was firmly established.

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Question 13

After 1680, Chesapeake planters began to rely more heavily on black slave labor than on indentured white servants because

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A)  declining death rates made indentured servants more profitable than slaves. 
B)  the flow of white servant immigrants was increasing. 
C)  the pool of available black labor was widening. 
D)  whites were developing a more egalitarian society.

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT an accurate description of immigrants to Virginia during the tobacco boom of the 1620s?

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A)  They were mostly young, single males. 
B)  Most came as indentured servants. 
C)  Nearly all were recruited from peasant villages where they had lived all their lives. 
D)  They died relatively soon after coming.

Question 15

Until the fourteenth century Europe imported sugar from

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A)  North Africa, Persia, and India-and it was scarce and exotic. 
B)  the inhabitants of Madeira and the Canary Islands-and it was inferior in quality. 
C)  the natives of the Caribbean-and it was used at first in religious ceremonies. 
D)  the trade with West African countries-and it was unappreciated.

Question 16

The king who was restored to the throne after the English Civil War was ________.

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Question 17

In 1619 the Virginia Colony began the tradition of self-government in America by authorizing a(n) ________, or the House of Burgesses

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Question 18

Discuss the ways in which the character and composition of the black population and the institution of slavery in the Chesapeake changed between the middle of the seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth century.

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Question 19

Was it inevitable that black slavery emerged as the dominant labor system in the Chesapeake? In South Carolina? Could planters in either colony have adopted alternatives-free white workers? White indentured servants? Indian slaves or servants?

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Question 20

British authorities based their colonial trade policies, as embodied in the Navigation Acts, on the theory of

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A)  mercantilism: insuring self-sufficiency by monopolizing trade. 
B)  industrialism: promoting English industrial development. 
C)  imperialism: keeping the American colonies weak and dependent. 
D)  developmentalism: stimulating colonial economic diversification.

Exam 3: Colonization and Conflict in the South 1600-1750