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The arrival of the first Native Americans in North America coincided with
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the beginning of the last ice age.
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Indians are descended from
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Asians
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Paleo-Indians spread over the North American continent
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in small kinship groups
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Among the Archaic Indians, men had primary responsibility for
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Hunting, fishing, tool making, and war
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The Anasazi culture of the Southwest declined because of
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drought
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Native American peoples practiced
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both war and diplomacy
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Cahokia was
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a populous mound city
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The Pueblo Indians lived
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in the Southwest
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In the period before 1492, most Europeans were
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peasant farmers
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The nation that led in Atlantic exploration in the fifteenth century was
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Portugal
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The Renaissance furthered
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the rise of learning
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The rise of the middle classes in Europe in the period before the Age of Discovery went hand in hand with
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the expansion of the cities
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The Spanish empire in America was NOT based on
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the idealism of the conquistadores
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In their explorations the conquistadores sought
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wealth
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What was responsible for the drastic decline of the Indian population after contact with the Europeans?
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Disease
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The Columbian exchange provided what for the Europeans?
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Corn
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The Treaty of Tordesillas
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divided ownership of the Americas between the Portuguese and the Spanish
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The Reformation in Europe
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was led by the Protestants
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The Puritans wished to reform the Church of England by
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purifying the church of Roman Catholic rituals
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Samuel de Champlain
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established the French colony of Canada
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Raleigh's purposes in founding the Roanoke colony did NOT include
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extermination of the Indians
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Joint stock companies in England aided the colonization effort by
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raising funds
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The prosperity of the Chesapeake colonies resulted from
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the cultivation of tobacco
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Plymouth was settled by the
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Pilgrims
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In coming to America, the Pilgrims sought
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religious freedom for themselves
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The concept of a "city on a hill" referred to the Puritans' desire to
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be a model of Christianity
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Harvard College was founded to train
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ministers
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New England local government was based on
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towns
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The first colony to practice some form of religious toleration was
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Rhode Island
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During the seventeenth century, the greatest extremes of inequality were found in
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the West Indies
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The most visible environmental effect of English land use in the American colonies was
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deforestation
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After 1660, the English
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established new colonies
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Which of the following was NOT one of the middle colonies? New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, or Delaware
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Maryland
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The Glorious Revolution in England resulted in the most violence in which American colony?
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New York
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The colony of South Carolina grew wealthy by cultivating
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rice
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What was NOT one of the causes of the Salem witchcraft panic
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belief in science
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The most important administrative agency set up by William and Mary to run the colonies was
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the Board of Trade
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What group had the LEAST to do with the day-to-day administration of local government in the colonies?
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The colonial courts
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Colonial legislatures and royal governors contested
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Control of revenue, introduction of legislation, choice of the speaker of the assembly, and land grants
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The colony that had a black majority in the eighteenth century was
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South Carolina
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What was NOT one of the major causes of the increase in colonial population?
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Intermarriage with the Indians
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Women and men in the colonies
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generally worked separate from one another
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Colonial cities in the eighteenth century
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increased in population
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What group of colonists did not live in ethnic enclaves?
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The English
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Benjamin Franklin
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believed in improvement of living conditions
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In the Great Awakening,
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some congregations split into two opposing camps
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The French and Indian War
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gained the British control of Canada
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The Albany Plan of Union
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was intended to enable the colonies to work together during the French and Indian War
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The reason why the British defeated the French in the French and Indian War was that
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the French could not resupply themselves, the British controlled the seas, the Indians decided on neutrality, and the colonist and the British cooperated.
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George Grenville's plan to "reform" the colonies would have
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forced the colonies to obey the Navigation Acts
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