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Question

1. When Great Britain took over the Dutch colony that became New York.

1. The British ended the Dutch tradition of allowing freedom for married women.

2. African Americans retained the same freedoms they had enjoyed under Dutch rule.

3. The local population declined due to England's new and repressive rule.

4. The British eliminated all of the religious freedoms that the Dutch had allowed.

2. Despite the dangers, many English were drawn to North America because

1. Economic conditions in England were bad.

2. There was a constant demand for cheap labor in North America.

3. It was a natural extension of the migration at home of an increasingly mobile English population.

4. Land was believed to be plentiful in North America.

5. All of the Above.

3. How was the Spanish Empire governed initially?

1. The Catholic Church played a significant role in the administration of Spanish colonies, frequently exerting its authority on matters of secular issues, and encouraging the inhumane treatment of Indians.

2. Successive kings kept elected assemblies involved in Spain's new world empire.

3. The Spanish crown replaced the Conquistadors with a more stable government headed by lawyers and bureaucrats. At least in theory, the government of Spanish America reflected the absolutism of the newly unified nation at home.

4. Royal officials were generally appointees from within the colony.

4. As leader of the Jamestown colony, John Smith

1. Used an elaborate reward system to persuade the colonists to work.

2. Alienated many of the colonists by his autocratic rule.

3. Was a failure and had to return to England.

4. Improved relations with the Native Americans by marrying Pocahontas.

5. Native American religious ceremonies

1. Were related to the Native American belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things.

2. Were designed to show that supernatural forces mustn't control man.

3. Did not exist until arriving Europeans insisted on knowing about Native American customs.

6. North America was established due in part to whose efforts?

1. Governor Andros and Prince Charles

2. Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert

3. The Queen Mum and the Duke of York

4. Sir Henry Ford and Adlai Stevenson

7. The Glorious Revolution of 1688

1. Was the work of an ambitious Danish Prince out to avenge his father's murder by a British noblemen.

2. Ended Parliamentary rule in Great Britain until Queen Anne's War in 1702.

3. Resulted mainly from English aristocrats who feared that the birth of James II's son would lead to a Catholic succession.

4. Had no impact on the British colonies in America.

8. The English promoted the spread of Protestantism for what particular purpose?

1. The Reformation heightened the English government's sense of Catholic Spain as its friend.

2. Support for Catholicism was deeply ingrained in English popular culture.

3. England expressed its imperial ambitions in terms of an obligation to liberate the New World from the tyranny of the pope.