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The Navigation Acts enacted by the English Parliament


A) strangled many colonial American tobacco plantations.
B) encouraged the colonists to create an important shipbuilding industry of their own.
C) damaged the business of New England merchants in favor of English merchants.
D) were passed only through the vigorous political support of Virginian planters.
E) sought to strengthen the British relationship with the Dutch.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and D)

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What steps did England take to establish greater control over her North American colonies? Why were these steps not always successful?

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In the seventeenth century, English colonists recognized that corn


A) could only be grown in the New World.
B) was their most financially valuable crop.
C) produced yields greater than any of the European grains.
D) was a particularly difficult crop to cultivate.
E) could not be grown in the swampy land around Jamestown.

F) A) and C)
G) B) and C)

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The tobacco culture of Virginia created great pressure for territorial expansion.

A) True
B) False

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________, the leader of the Massachusetts Bay colony, sought to have his people serve as a "city upon a hill."

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The Powhatan Indian Pocahontas


A) married Englishman John Smith.
B) was kidnapped by John Rolfe.
C) created an interest in England in "civilizing" Indians.
D) was the cause of a war between the Powhatan Indians and Virginian colonists.
E) refused to convert to Christianity.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

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Like Pennsylvania, Georgia was founded as a religious colony.

A) True
B) False

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White settlers learned crucial agricultural techniques such as annual burning and the planting of beans to keep insect infestations at bay.

A) True
B) False

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