2. Colonial America (1607-1754)

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The experiences of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson demonstrate

the strict adherence to Puritan orthodoxy required in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

The consumer revolution of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, which brought finished goods from London to the colonies,

tied England and its colonies closer together in a shared world of literature and fashion.

The closest modern-day equivalent of a joint-stock company is

A corporation, with shares spread among many investors

The Mayflower Compact established

A social contract among the Pilgrims, which became a foundation of representative democracy

King Philip's War and the Anglo-Powhatan Wars show that

Although the English colonies in the Chesapeake and New England differed in many ways, white settlers in both regions pursued wars of extermination against Native Americans

Sir Walter Raleigh was a promoter for the Roanoke Colony, which is most notable for

Disappearing

The career of the privateer Sir Francis Drake shows that

During the early Age of Exploration, England preferred to reap the rewards of the New World through piracy rather than by starting a colony of its own

Puritans differed from Separatists in that

Puritans wanted to purify the Church of England, Separatists wanted to separate from it entirely

Before the late 1600s, Virginia planters generally preferred white indentured servants to enslaved Africans as a source of labor because

Indentured servants were cheaper than slaves

The perilous and frequently deadly forced journey made by enslaved Africans across the Atlantic in ships was known as the

Middle Passage.

In 1607, the Virginia Company founded Jamestown on the east coast of what is today the United States, with the intention of

Quickly extracting natural resources from the Americas and making its investors wealthy

The Massachusetts Bay Colony practiced

Strict adherence to the Puritan faith

The father of Pocahontas, Powhatan was

The leader of Algonquian Indians living in Tidewater Virginia

John Smith was most famous as

The leader of the Jamestown colony who helped it survive by prescribing strict discipline

The members of the Virginia House of Burgesses were mainly

Wealthy white planters, demonstrating the sharp social stratification in colonial Virginia

The 1739 Stono Rebellion in South Carolina demonstrates that

Whites responded to threats of revolt by passing ever-stricter slave codes

Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop envisioned the colony as

a "city upon a hill," providing an example of reformed Protestantism to the world

The Great Awakening was a period of

increased religious fervor

Historians believed that Bacon's Rebellion

led planters to transition from using indentured servants to using enslaved Africans as a source of labor

The triangular trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas sent

raw materials to Europe, finished goods to Africa, and slaves to the Americas

All of the following were principles of the Enlightenment except

romanticism.


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