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New England Puritans sought primarily to create which of the following in Massachusetts?

A model community promoting government by strict religious principles

In which of the following British North American colonies was slavery legally established by the early 1700's?

All the colonies

Which of the following characterizes the relationship between church and state for the Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century?

Church membership was required for voting and holding public office.

The confederacy formed to "exasperate the Indians against the English" was motivated primarily by which of the following?

Dispossession of Wampanoag land and threats to their sovereignty

Which of the following best characterizes relations between the English and American Indians in New England following Metacom's War?

Dramatic decline and dispersion of the American Indian population

The map best illustrates which of the following?

European anxieties about conflict with Native Americans

The system of indentured labor used during the Colonial period had which of the following effects?

It enabled poor people to seek opportunity in America.

Which of the following was true of colonial New England?

Life was centered in clustered villages with farmland surrounding the villages.

Participation in the "civil body politic" referenced in the excerpt would have been most available to which of the following?

Male church members

Which of the following groups most typically created settlements like those depicted in the map?

Migrants pursuing economic prosperity

Which of the following best describes the primary purpose of the document from which the excerpt was taken?

Organizing a system of rules and order in the colony

All of the following groups of non-English colonists migrated into the British North American colonies in large numbers throughout the eighteenth century EXCEPT

Russians

The ideas introduced in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following patterns among the British North American colonies?

The establishment of local representative assemblies

Which of the following most directly hindered the expansion of the settlement depicted on the map?

The strength of the neighboring Native American confederation

The expansion of European settlement in the Americas most directly led to which of the following developments?

The use of enslaved Native Americans and Africans to meet the labor demands of colonial agricultural production

Which of the following was a characteristic of colonial Pennsylvania?

There was no established church.

Which of the following statements about Africans brought as slaves to the British North American colonies is true?

They maintained cultural practices brought from Africa.

Which of the following best explains why some European colonists intermarried with Native Americans?

To create economic and diplomatic relationships between Europeans and Native Americans

Which of the following explains the most likely reason why English colonists wanted to come to North America?

To seek economic opportunity and improved living conditions

The early success of the Pennsylvania colony was due in large part to which of the following?

William Penn's careful planning and his policy of selling land to settlers

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, was founded by

a joint stock company anxious to return a profit to investors

The Quakers were unique among the religious groups that settled in North America during the seventeenth century because they

allowed women to speak publicly in their religious meetings and to be missionaries

As it evolved in the seventeenth century, the region illustrated in the map came to

develop influential institutions of self-government

The Dutch settled New Netherland primarily to

expand their commercial and mercantile network

In the period 1650-1750, all of the following contributed to British North American colonists' sense of identity as British subjects EXCEPT the

expansion of the colonies into western frontier regions

The major purpose of England's mercantilist policy was to

increase England's prosperity

Colonial cities functioned primarily as

mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods

Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century were primarily seeking to

profit economically

In the Colonial period, Quakers were known for all of the following EXCEPT their

refusal to pay taxes

Compared with French and Spanish interactions with American Indians, English interaction with American Indians more often promoted

separation between the groups

In the seventeenth century, the earliest British colonies in Virginia were saved from economic ruin by

the introduction of tobacco cultivation

The introduction of tobacco during the early 1600s in the Virginia colony led to the

use of indentured servants, and later enslaved Africans, for agricultural labor

In the eighteenth century, colonial Virginia and colonial Massachusetts were most alike in that both

were royal colonies