Colonial America Flashcard

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True or False: The First English Settlement in North America was Roanoke.

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True

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True or False: Wampanoag natives helped the Jamestown Settlers survive the Starving Times.

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True

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Indentured servants were different from slaves because they worked for a limited number of years before being free.

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They worked for a limited number of years before being free.

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Which colony allowed settlers to practice any religion freely?

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Rhode Island

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How were the Navigation Acts an application of England’s use of mercantilism?

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They prevented the colonies from importing any goods from foreign countries.

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Which of the following occurred as an act against The Navigation Acts? Options: decreased use of triangular trade, passage of the English Bill of Rights, Smuggling goods out of the colonies became common, stricter royal management of individual colonies

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Smuggling goods out of the colonies became common

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Which of the following was part of the triangular trade during the 17th century?
Options:
English cash crops being shipped to New England,
West Indian molasses and sugar being shipped to Africa,
New England manufactured goods being shipped to England,
African slaves being shipped through the middle passage to the West Indies

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African slaves being shipped through the middle passage to the West Indies

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Which group enjoyed barely any legal rights? Options: Africans, Germans, Scots-Irish, women

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women

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Who was a key figure in the American Enlightenment?

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Benjamin Franklin

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What was a British strategy to reduce conflict with Native Americans? Options: recruiting French colonists, forbidding settlement west of the Appalachians, raising taxes on goods, building forts

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forbidding settlement west of the Appalachians