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What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty? land As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries efforts were made to persuade or even force those who had been evicted to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis Which one of the following spurred increased European interest in colonizing North America national and religious rivalries Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s because of religious differences: England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was devoutly Catholic Queen Mary of England, predecessor of Elizabeth I temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England. Which of the following was true of agriculture in the colonies during the eighteenth century Because New York's landlords had taken over so much land, agriculture grew more slowly in New York than in other colonies. What role did Native Americans play in British imperial wars during the eighteenth century? They did much of the fighting in the wars. Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691 it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders Bacon's Rebellion was a response to worsening economic conditions in Virginia Carolina grew slowly until rice as a staple crop was discovered to be extremely profitable As English colonial society became more structured in the eighteenth century, what were the effects on women Women's work became more clearly defined as tied closely to the home By the eighteenth century, colonial farm families almost always owned at least three slaves Which of the following was true of the colonial elite they controlled colonial government

By the eighteenth century, consumer goods such as books and ceramic plates were increasingly available in the colonies According to laws in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake free blacks had the right to sue and testify in court. Ideas of race and racism in seventeenth-century England had not fully developed as modern concepts The Scottish and Scotch-Irish immigrants to the colonies were often physicians, merchants, and teachers The German migration to the English colonies led to the formation of many farming communities Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England a woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband In what ways did England reduce colonial autonomy during the 1680s A royal governor actually held power under the Dominion of New England The Glorious Revolution of 1688 resulted mainly from the fears of English aristocrats that the birth of James II's son would lead to a Catholic succession Bacon's Rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia the replacing of indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia's plantations Which of the following was true of small farmers in 1670s Virginia The lack of good land, high taxes on tobacco, and falling prices reduced their prospects What ironic consequence did William Penn's generous policies, such as religious toleration and inexpensive land, have They contributed to the increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on African slave labor To Quakers, liberty was: a universal entitlement How did English rule affect the Iroquois Confederacy After a series of complex negotiations, both groups aided each other's imperial ambitions "enumerate" goods:

were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that could only be exported to English ports. According to the economic theory known as mercantilism the government should regulate colonial exports to promote national power What was the impact of King Philip's War Native Americans war tactics caused them to be viewed as brutal savages by most New Englanders. Deists shared the ideas of eighteenth-century European Enlightenment thinkers, namely that science could uncover God's laws that governed the natural order...