Question 1

The name for the time in which large number of immigrants came to the American colonies during the 1600's:

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Great Migration

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Great Awakening

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American Growth Era

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Mass Immigration

Question 2

What term describes the type of population growth that is NOT caused by immigration but by colonists forming families?

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natural increase

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natural decrease

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population decline

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overpopulation

Question 3

By how many times did America's population increase during the 18th century?

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10 times

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2 times

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5 times

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20 times

Question 4

What was another name for the settlers from Ulster?

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Scots-Irish

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Anglicans

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Dutch

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Lombards

Question 5

Name the three largest ethnic groups that came to the colonies in order of population size:

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English, Scots-Irish, and German

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English, German, Scots-Irish

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French, English, German

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Scots-Irish, French, German

Question 6

What was the Great Wagon Road?

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An old Indian trail turned into a wagon trail that led through the wilderness to the backcountry settlements

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A native American trail through that Thomas Walker found and through which Daniel Boone led a group of settlers

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A path carved out by American colonists over the Appalachian Mountains

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America's first federally-funded highway

Question 7

What was the main reason for the Scots-Irish and the Germans coming to America?

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To escape religious intolerance

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To pay off debts for which they had been imprisoned in their home countries

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To establish plantations and grow wealth for their mother countries

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To escape civil wars occurring in their countries

Question 8

What two groups of people settled in the backcountry, or Appalachian expansion, areas?

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German and Scots-Irish

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Dutch and German

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French and English

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English and Dutch

Question 9

What crop did the Scots-Irish immigrants introduce to the European settlers in America?

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potatoes

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apples

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rice

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corn

Question 10

Why were English colonists often prejudiced against German settlers?

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German settlements grew rapidly, they were different, and they spoke a different language

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German settlers were violent and crude.

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German settlers purposely stole business from English settlers.

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Germans were mostly atheist and thus threatened the English settlers' desire to have a society in which they could worship God freely.

Question 11

Which group of colonies was the most diverse?

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Middle

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Southern

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New England

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Western

Question 12

What is the term for West Africans' journey to the New World as slaves?

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Middle Passage

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Barbary Voyage

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Trans-Atlantic Expedition

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Northwest Passage

Question 13

What is subsistence farming?

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growing only enough food to feed your family eat

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growing more than enough food for your family to eat; having extra to be able to sell

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farming large tracts of land and growing one or two cash crops

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farming with horses and growing multiple varieties of crops

Question 14

What was probably one of the most important Native American foods?

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corn (maize)

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oats

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potatoes

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spelt

Question 15

Name three industries and economic sources of New England colonists that is a direct result of their geography:

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fishing, whaling, and ship-building

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sugar cane production and rice growing

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horse breeding, slave trading, and cotton growing

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cash-crop farming and indigo production

Question 16

The nickname for the middle colonies directly due to their geography:

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the Bread Colonies

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the Cotton Colonies

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the Whaling Colonies

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the Starving Colonies

Question 17

Term for large southern farms:

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plantations

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haciendas

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subsistence farms

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backcountry land

Question 18

What crop required floodgates and was grown in the tidewater region of America?

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rice

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corn (maize)

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cranberries

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indigo

Question 19

Two important cash crops for the colonial southern colonies:

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tobacco and indigo

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spices and sorghum

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corn and wheat

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wood and whale oil

Question 20

The term for the network of trade from Europe, to West Africa, to America, and back to Europe.

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triangular trade

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mercantile passage

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triangle of growth

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circular trade

Question 21

Name two ways that backwoodsmen and their families would combine work and play:

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barn-raisings and quiltings

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whale watching and clam bakes

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rice paddy paddling and indigo harvest bonfires

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corn shuckings and needle-in-a-haystack competitions

Question 22

What were two important, human labor-forces on many colonial farms besides the man and his wife?

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children and slaves

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Native Americans and immigrants

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hired hands and immigrants

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homeless people and runaway slaves

Question 23

In which group of colonies was growing rice common?

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Southern

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Western

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Middle

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New England

Question 24

Because southern planters wanted to make a profit growing large cash-crop fields, they resorted to what evil practice?

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slavery

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moonshining

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smuggling

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embezzlement

Question 25

What was the occupation of most of the colonists?

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farming

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banking

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carpentry

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merchant services

Question 26

What two geographic characteristics helped the middle colonies?

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many navigable rivers and thick, rich soil

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few mountains and rivers; thin, rocky soil

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tidewater plains and thick, clay soil

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warm climate and tidewater plains

Question 27

In the British colonies, what group of people was most active in being missionaries to the Indians?

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Puritans

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slaves

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Anglicans

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Catholics

Question 28

A popular term for the colonial frontier:

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back country

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woodlands

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last frontier

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western frontier

Question 29

The middle colonies was called the Bread Colonies because they grew an abundance of these types of crops:

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cereal grains

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cash crops

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legumes

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vegetables

Question 30

Wainwrights used lumber to make what item?

Accepted Answer

wagons

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barrels

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boats

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houses

Question 31

Coopers used lumber to make what item?

Accepted Answer

barrels

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boats

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houses

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wagons

Question 32

This man printed the first Bible in the colonies; he printed it in the language of the Massachusetts Indians:

Accepted Answer

John Eliot

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William Bradford

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John Winthrop

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Roger Williams

Question 33

Indians who converted to Christianity lived in these:

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praying towns

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tent cities

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refugee camps

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Puritan villages

Question 34

The Puritans began allowing slavery after this war:

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Pequot War

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French and Indian War

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Bacon's Rebellion

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King Philip's War

Question 35

King Philip (Metacomet) was the son of this former Narragansett chief:

Accepted Answer

Massasoit

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the Prophet

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Squanto

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Tecumseh

Question 36

The governor of Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion. The governor tried to keep peace with Indians during a difficult time in Virginia and declared Bacon a rebel for his attacks on the Indians.

Accepted Answer

William Berkeley

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John Eliot

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Metacomet

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John Winthrop

Question 37

In which type of colonies did the people elect their own governor and legislature?

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charter

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monarchical

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royal

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proprietary

Question 38

Explain how colonial legislatures used the method known as "the power of the purse".

Accepted Answer

Colonial legislatures paid the governor's salary and financed government activities. Thus if the royal governor did something that the colonial legislatures did not like, they could use the power of withholding money in order to get the governor to do what they wanted.

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Colonial legislatures would bribe the governor and fellow legislatures to write laws that they wanted for personal profit.

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Colonial legislatures were the only ones who could plead with the king for royal grants to stimulate the colony economically.

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Colonial legislatures used their personal wealth to grow the colony.

Question 39

The main source of income for the colonial governments:

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property taxes

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war bonds

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fundraisers

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income taxes

Question 40

Town meetings in America is the purest example of what type of government?

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direct democracy

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socialist

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autocratic government

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republic

Question 41

The only ones who could vote in the colonies; included only free adult white male property owners:

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freeholders

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bailiffs

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justices of the peace

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militiamen

Question 42

A local army commanded by the governor of some charter colonies:

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militia

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swat team

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vigilantes

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police

Question 43

A government official appointed by colonial governors whose job was to judge criminal and civil cases; this official also collected taxes, granted licenses, recorded property deeds, and served other public needs, including the conducting of elections at times

Accepted Answer

justice of the peace

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freeholder

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bailiff

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town crier

Question 44

The basic unit of government in New England in which town meetings were conducted by local freeholders:

Accepted Answer

township

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county

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state

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city

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