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When comparing English colonies to Spanish ones:
- a.only Spain was interested in finding gold.
- b.England used Native Americans more for labor.
- c.England sent more people to the Americas in the seventeenth century.
- d.Spain relied much more on indentured servant labor.
- e.only England was interested in converting the Native Americans.
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Religious dissension in England the first half of the seventeenth century resulted in:
- a.a civil war.
- b.war with Spain.
- c.the pope visiting the monarchy in London.
- d.England not focusing on the monarchy.
- e.Henry VIII restoring Catholicism.
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Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church?
- a.The Pope had banned England from exploring the New World because the Church already had limited land ownership there to Spain and Portugal.
- b.He wanted a divorce, and the Pope refused to grant it.
- c.He was trying to unify Great Britain.
- d.He wanted to be pope, and the College of Cardinals refused to elect an English Catholic.
- e.He thought the Catholic Church was corrupt and he wanted to protect the English people from its abuses.
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All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century EXCEPT:
- a.a lower birth rate, which made it difficult to find workers for new industries.
- b.the enclosure movement, which forced thousands of peasants from farms.
- c.increased prices buoyed by the influx of gold and silver from Latin America.
- d.decreased wages in the cities.
- e.the invasion of the cities by vagrants, who wandered the roads in search of work.
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At the heart of the English Civil War was:
- a.which family would rule the English throne.
- b.whether Puritans should separate from the Church of England.
- c.who should control the colonies in the New World.
- d.whether England should be an ally of Spain.
- e.a question of sovereignty in who would make decisions for the government.
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Guns made the West African slave kingdoms more powerful. What happened as a result?
- a.They eventually stopped selling slaves.
- b.They killed more slaves than they captured.
- c.Europeans rarely ventured into the interior of West Africa.
- d.They also used European armies to capture slaves.
- e.Despite having guns, they accumulated very little wealth from selling slaves.
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Why was slavery less prevalent in the northern colonies?
- a.Northern whites were not as racist as southern whites.
- b.It was too expensive to transport slaves to the North.
- c.The small farms of the northern colonies did not need slaves.
- d.More reformers lived in the North.
- e.The northern colonies used Indian labor instead.
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In the northern colonies, slaves:
- a.lived in segregated but prosperous communities.
- b.became more important in New England after the Half-Way Covenant.
- c.were far less important to New England than the Middle Colonies.
- d.were forbidden by law to display any aspect of African culture in public.
- e.faced far harsher treatment than they did in the South.
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What did JuníperoSerra hope to do in California?
- a.convert Indians to Christianity and to settled farming
- b.explore the Sacramento River basin to find gold
- c.claim the land for Spain and earn the praise of Queen Isabella
- d.stop the common practice of using Indians as forced laborers
- e.take over the Russian trading post at what is now Santa Barbara
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Which one of the following did NOT contribute to the expansion of the public sphere during the eighteenth century?
- a.the establishment of literary and philosophical clubs
- b.widespread literacy
- c.the proliferation of newspapers and libraries
- d.the trial of John Peter Zenger
- e.the founding of the California missions
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