Which of the following accurately characterizes the religious views of Massachusetts Puritans?

Which of the following statements best characterizes French colonization in Canada?

French colonists were generally more interested in trade than in agricultural production or creating large settlements.

French colonists in the early seventeenth century were most likely to engage in war against which of the following
Native American nations?

Which of the following factors contributed most to the establishment of New Netherlands? The desire to

gain wealth from trade with Indians.

Which of the following did not contribute to the outbreak and continuation of the Beaver Wars?

• he dramatically increased availability of firearms among Native American groups
  
• The spread of disease, which created a need for captives to adopt in order to replace dead kinsmen
  
• The power vacuum created by the collapse of the Iroquois League
  
• The desire of different groups to dominate the fur trade
  

The Congregationalists who founded New England subscribed to all the following beliefs except

• the affairs of individual congregations should be guided by higher governing bodies of ministers and laypersons.
  
• God had predetermined which human beings would and would not be saved.
  
• church membership should be reserved exclusively to those persons who were truly godly.
  
• religious services should be stripped of elaborate ceremonies and the ornate vestments worn by clergy.
  

Which of the following statements about Plymouth Colony is least accurate?

• The colony relied on the benevolence of neighboring Indians to survive its first year.
  
• The colonists drew up a charter of self-government among themselves because they lacked clear right to the land where they settled.
  
• The colony prospered from its outset and did not suffer the high casualties in its first year as the Virginia colony had.
  
• The colony benefited from a wave of disease that had devastated the region's Indian population several years before the Pilgrims' arrival.
  

All the following provinces were independent of Massachusetts by the end of the seventeenth centuryexcept

Which of the following was not an important factor in the establishment of stable, orderly colonies in New England?

• Immigration by families instead of by single individuals
  
• The placement of all political power in the hands of ministers
  
• The creation of close-knit rather than dispersed communities
  

• The fact that most adult men owned their own property
  

Believing that church membership standards should be more lenient and that non–church members should have more political power, who established the first English settlement in Connecticut?

During the war against the Pequots, the New England colonists shocked their Indian allies by

setting fire to a Pequot village and deliberately slaughtering hundreds of men, women, and children.

Which of the following statements about Metacom's War is least accurate?

• It was inspired in part by the destruction of Indians' fields by colonists' livestock.
  
• It pitted the colonists against their long-time allies, the Wampanoags.
  
• It devastated the Indian antagonists but caused little damage to the colonies
  
• It resulted in part from ministers' successful efforts to convince Indians to settle in Christian-praying towns.
  

A notable feature of the mid-Atlantic colonies was their

religious and ethnic diversity

How did New Netherlands become New York?

The English ignored Dutch claims and sent an invading fleet to conquer it.

Mainstream Quaker beliefs included all the following except

• the rejection of personal property and material wealth.
  
• egalitarianism and the rejection of signs of deference to social superiors.
  
• allowing women to serve in positions of religious leadership.
  
• pacifism and fair dealings with Native Americans.
  

Which of the following events did not result in the colonies after the Glorious Revolution?

• The Dominion of New England was disbanded.
  
• The Navigation Acts regulating colonial trade were repealed
  
• In more and more colonies, a royally appointed governor shared power with representative assemblies
  
• The Crown forced Massachusetts to accept religious toleration of non-Puritans and to base voting rights on property instead of church membership.
  

Jesuit missionaries in New France tried to convert Indians to Protestantism before English Catholics could "corrupt" them.

The Huron readily adopted French customs and had became thoroughly Christianized before 1640.

By the late seventeenth century, New France had begun to recognize the strategic importance of the Mississippi River Valley.

A chief difference between the Pilgrims of Plymouth and the Congregationalists of Massachusetts is that the Congregationalists did not officially break from the Church of England.

Because of its Puritan leanings, the Massachusetts Bay Colony failed to secure a royal charter from the king of England.

The Congregational Church in New England wielded greater temporal power and owned more property than did the Anglican and Catholic churches in Europe.

Women in English colonies generally enjoyed fewer property rights than women in Spanish ones.

No man was ever charged with witchcraft in colonial New England.

Puritans constituted a significant portion of the first English settlers in New Jersey.

Despite his proprietary claims to Pennsylvania, William Penn ended up spending time in a debtors' prison.

Which of the following statements about eighteenth-century Spanish colonization in Texas is false?

• The Spanish established settlements in Texas largely to block encroachment by the French.
  
• The process of colonization was taken up largely by Franciscans who created missions to convert the natives of the region.
  
• By the middle of the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Spanish colonists had taken up residence in the bustling settlements of Texas.
  
• Despite the efforts of Spanish colonists, many native peoples resisted Spanish discipline and sometimes
  
• continued to trade with the French.
  

Ecueracapa was an important leader of which Indian people who aggressively expanded into Texas in the eighteenth century and allied themselves with the Spanish in 1786?

Laguna Santero is notable for his accomplishments in

Which of the following statements best describes eighteenth-century New France?

It survived by establishing a middle ground between French colonists and the numerous nearby Indians.

How did the French colony of Louisiana differ from New France?

Unlike in New France, Africans and African Americans made up a substantial part of Louisiana's population, sometimes even the majority of the population.

Which of the following statements about eighteenth-century imperial rivalries is least accurate?

• Wars between imperial powers in Europe often spilled over into wars between their American colonies.
  
• Control over trade was perhaps more important than control over peoples and territories as an object ofthe rivalries.
  
• France faced a disadvantage in its rivalry with England due to its much smaller colonial population.
  
• France faced a disadvantage in its rivalry with England due to the inability of French colonists to win allies among Indian peoples.
  

European immigrants to America in the eighteenth century were least likely to settle in the backcountry of which of
the following colonies?

Generally speaking, how did backcountry settlements in eighteenth-century America differ from established eastern ones?

The backcountry witnessed the development of ethnic enclaves where different groups lived, traded, and worshiped among their own kind.

Which of the following statements about eighteenth-century American cities is most accurate?

• By the middle of the eighteenth century, most cities housed large-scale domestic industries creating goods for a mass market.
  
• The most important colonial cities were established deep in the interior of the colonies where they could be accessed by the most farmers.
  
• The cities experienced greater ethnic uniformity and lower rates of poverty than was seen in the countryside but had access to fewer entertainments.
  
• Cities offered a number of different economic opportunities for colonial women, though less than 10 percent of women in cities worked outside their own homes.
  

In 1775 black Americans constituted roughly what percentage of the American population?

All the following factors contributed to the growth of black families after the middle of the eighteenth century except the

• increased importation of slaves from Africa.
  
• climbing rate of natural reproduction.
  
• balancing of gender ratios in slave communities.
  

• growing size of southern plantations.
  

The largest slave revolt in colonial American history was the Stono Rebellion, which took place in

Which of the following statements about the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening is most accurate?

• Both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening depicted God as an awesome deity who granted salvation to only a select few.
• The spread of the Enlightenment in the early eighteenth century revolutionized how almost all Americans of the time understood the world around them.
  
• Both rational Christianity and the evangelicalism of the Great Awakening spurned the principles of the Enlightenment.
  
• The Great Awakening reached large numbers of common colonials, whereas the Enlightenment reached a relatively small elite.

How did colonial American society differ most from English society?

Poverty was a much more significant problem in the underdeveloped economy of America than it was in
the flourishing economy of England.

The political system of the colonies

replicated England's three-tiered model of government with representation for the king, the elite, and
the common people

Spanish settlements in California were established in large part to counter potential settlements by Russian colonists.

In general, women in Spanish America enjoyed far fewer legal and property rights than women in English America.

Black slaves in French Louisiana could obtain their freedom by serving in the colonial militia.

The spread of Native American crops contributed to a general global increase in population.

Eighteenth-century Boston boasted straight, neatly paved streets and three-story brick buildings that
distinguished it from more "medieval" cities like Philadelphia.

Because slavery was not profitable in the North, almost no black people lived in eighteenth-century northern cities like
Philadelphia and New York.

Generally speaking, slaves in the low country enjoyed greater autonomy and experienced less contact with whites than
did slaves in the Chesapeake.

By the early eighteenth century, most black slaves in America had converted to Christianity.

Black slaves born in America were more likely than African-born slaves to attempt collective escapes and to establish
Maroon communities.

In early eighteenth-century America, church attendance was significantly higher in the North than it was in the South.