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Which of the following was the largest slave rebellion in the British North American colonies prior to the Revolutionary war?
Stono Rebellion
Who as governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, claimed the Puritans should establish a "City upon a Hill"?
John Winthrop
Which region of the British North American colonies, nicknamed the "bread colonies" was the most ethnically,religiously, and demographically diverse?
The middle colones
Which of the following regions had the longest growing seasons, primarily cultivated rice and indigo and had a majority African slave population?
The southernmost Atlantic colonies
From 1600 to 1750, the Dutch, French, and English in colonial North America
became involved in numerous colonial-Indian conflicts that had spread from Europe
The most economically profitable commerce between European colonies in North America and native populations between the 16th and 18th centuries was based on
The fur trade
Before 1750, what was the most frequent reaction of British colonists in North America to increased trade regulations and a growing mistrust of England's commitment to support the colonies?
Increased smuggling
Which of the following is NOT an example of England exerting greater control over its North American colonies?
Salutary Neglect
During the 17th century, which of the following was the primary cash crop of the Chesapeake colonies?
Tobacco
Eighteenth-century Spanish contact with native communities in North America, through both missionaries and the establishment of presidios was most prevalent in
California
Which 18-century European nation's settlers most categorically rejected North American Indian culture and worldviews?
England
Which of the following best describes American Indian alliances with North American colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries?
The alliances were shifting, complex and fragile
IN addition to deadlier weapons, which European trade good had the most destructive effect on American Indian communities?
Alcohol
Which American Indian confederation, reaching from the St. Lawrence Valley to the eastern Great Lakes, successfully resister both native and colonial challenges during the 18th century?
The Ojibwa
Which of the following terms best describes the maritime economic system of global exchange?
The Atlantic world
Historians describe the colonial system of the European "mother country," regulating trade of its manufactured goods in exchange for raw materials from its North American colonies as
mercantilism
Which colony int he mid-17th century passed legislation protecting the rights of Catholic colonists to worship freely?
Maryland
In the British North American colonies between 1607 and 1750, political communities based on English models, economic ties, and legal structures led to
Anglicization in the British colonies
Starting in the early 18th century, some southern British colonies adopted slave codes from Barbados that
led to the emergence of strict racial categories in colonial society
By the mid-18th century, British colonies in North America began to develop similar
Governance, with control over the lower houses in colonial legislature
With the exception of the Dominion of New England, British governmental oversight of the North American colonies prior to 1750 was
laissez-faire, or hands off
Colonial intellectual resistance to 18th-century British imperial control was often based on
the Enlightenment
Which 18th-century religious movement in the British colonies most clearly signified growing religious independence, diversity, and uniqueness?
The great awakening
Which mid-Atlantic British colony was noted for its promotion of religious freedom, good relations with local Indians, and Quaker idealism?
Pennsylvania
Which system employed by the Spanish advanced the goals of both converting American Indians to Christianity and exploiting their labor?
Encomienda
Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century French and Dutch colonial relationships with American Indians were based primarily on
trade alliances centering on the fur trade
Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century English colonization differed from the Spanish,Dutch, and French because England
eventually established colonies based primarily on agriculture
Which of the following groups of colonial settlers largely avoided intermarriage or cross-racial sexual unions with native populations?
The English
The Atlantic slave trade grew dramatically in the 18th century because of
the difficulty of effectively enslaving native peoples
Which British North American colony violently confronted the Powhatan Indians and justified their actions by their strong belief in their racial and cultural superiority?
Virginia