A) For New Englanders to trade molasses for rum with the West Indies.
B) For bringing Protestant refugees to North America for a hefty fee.
C) For carrying indentured German families to America, where they would work off their transportation debt.
D) For unloading the unwanted convicts of London and Amsterdam to ports such as Boston and New York.
F) A) and B)
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A) were almost uniformly Catholics.
B) usually worked in the West Indies before moving to the mainland colonies.
C) were not only poor farmers but also physicians, merchants, and teachers.
D) did little to add to the religious diversity in America.
F) All of the above
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A) the French and Indian War.
B) conflicts with Spain over the abolition of the slave trade.
C) the expropriation of Indian lands after the revolution.
D) the colonial spillover of the French Revolution.
F) C) and D)
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A) Runaways were very rare because slaves knew that attempting to escape would be futile.
B) Some slaves were the offspring of white traders and therefore knew enough English to turn to the legal system, at least until Virginia lawmakers prevented them from doing so.
C) A number of bloody rebellions prompted a wholesale revision of slave codes.
D) It was limited because slaves at the time were too new to the colonies to understand the concept of freedom.
F) B) and C)
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A) The English word "slavery" derives from "Slav," reflecting the slave trade in Slavic peoples until the fifteenth century.
B) Christians never were enslaved.
C) The Roman Empire outlawed it, but it revived, thanks to Columbus.
D) It was nonexistent in Africa until the arrival of European slave traders.
F) None of the above
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A) it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders.
B) it received the right to have its voters elect its own governor and legislative assembly.
C) Plymouth was split off from Massachusetts to become its own independent colony.
D) church membership became the chief legal requirement for voting.
F) B) and C)
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A) Pennsylvania was the only colony in which efforts at conversion focused on turning Native Americans into Quakers.
B) The colony bought all of the land the Native Americans occupied and moved them west of the Appalachians, meaning that Indians were relocated but not decimated.
C) Because Quakers were pacifists, they had to bring in militias from other colonies to take over Native American lands.
D) Pennsylvania purchased Indian land that was then resold to colonists and offered refuge to tribes driven out of other colonies.
F) A) and C)
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A) Maryland, which provided for religious toleration of all Catholics
B) Massachusetts, where freedom of religious expression was a fundamental value of the colony
C) North Carolina, where irreligious settlers moved due to the lax laws
D) Rhode Island, a colony whose founder also embraced religious toleration
F) C) and D)
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A) were well integrated into the British imperial system.
B) benefited from the Walking Purchase of 1737.
C) were viewed in the same way by traders, British officials, and farmers.
D) never warred with the colonists.
F) B) and C)
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A) praised William Penn's Native American policy.
B) condemned the idea of whole families migrating to Pennsylvania.
C) praised the diversity of the immigrants.
D) praised the idea of religion serving as a model for the colony.
F) B) and C)
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A) almost always owned at least three slaves.
B) were in decline as bigger cities like Philadelphia expanded.
C) saw freedom as depending on their political rights, not their ownership of property.
D) viewed land ownership almost as a right, a precondition of freedom.
F) B) and C)
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A) Property registers list white servants with the number of years they were to work, but blacks (with higher valuations) had no terms of service associated with their names.
B) Transcripts from legislative debates in the House of Burgesses show that Virginia lawmakers were debating whether permanent slave status was a good idea.
C) Records of declining tobacco prices show that it had become harder to keep labor, which would have forced planters to turn increasingly to Africans and away from white servants.
D) There is none, because slavery did not fully exist in Virginia until after Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
F) None of the above
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A) for the economic opportunities in New England.
B) to be involved in colonial governments.
C) to become indentured servants in North America.
D) to escape rigid religious restrictions in German-speaking areas of Europe.
F) C) and D)
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A) was a close ally of Sir Edmund Andros, who was trying to regain control of the Dominion of New England.
B) was overthrown and killed in so grisly a manner that the rivalry between his friends and foes polarized New York politics for years.
C) was knighted for his role in supporting the Glorious Revolution.
D) sought to impose Catholic rule but was defeated by a Protestant militia in a short but bloody civil war.
F) A) and C)
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A) After a series of complex negotiations, both groups aided each other's imperial ambitions.
B) The English destroyed the Iroquois Confederacy temporarily but revived it under Sir Edmund Andros's rule after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
C) English oppression drove the Iroquois to the side of the French, who eagerly sought their support.
D) It enabled the Iroquois to build alliances with other tribes against a common enemy.
F) A) and B)
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A) involved swift runners being used to map out land being taken away from Indians.
B) was a deceitful land deal for the Cherokees.
C) was drawn up from William Penn's agreement with the English monarchy.
D) sparked a slave revolt.
F) All of the above
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A) Like the mother country, the colonies had a titled aristocracy.
B) They controlled colonial government.
C) They often encountered financial trouble because they lacked connections to their counterparts back in the mother country.
D) Most of them were as wealthy as, if not wealthier than, the British aristocracy.
F) A) and B)
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A) was the work of the Dutch, who did not trust the English to protect their religious freedom.
B) resulted especially from displeasure among residents of Manhattan.
C) reflected in part an effort by the British to exert their influence and control over the Dutch.
D) affirmed religious toleration for all denominations.
F) B) and C)
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A) The Massachusetts governor.
B) The local pastor.
C) Salem's judge.
D) Tituba.
F) A) and B)
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