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Unit 1 ch.1-5 Test

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of 143 available terms
(1 exact duplicate found)

5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Salem Witch Trials
  2. lawyers
  3. council
  4. Benjamin Franklin
  5. Columbus
  1. a The upper house of colonial legislature, appointed by the crown or the proprietor
  2. b Author, scientist, printer; "the first civilized American"
  3. c Late seventeenth-century judicial even that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige
  4. d Italian-born explorer who thought that he had arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on unknown continents
  5. e A once-despised profession that rose in prestige after 1750 because its practitioners defended colonial rights

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. The harsh system of laws governing African labor, first developed in Barbados, and later officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696
  2. Colonial printer whose case helped begin freedom of the press
  3. Riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English colony
  4. Disease originating in the Americas that was transmitted back to Europeans after 1942
  5. German monk who began Protestant Reformation

5 True/False Questions

  1. Great Puritan MigrationMass flight by religious dissidents from the persecutions of Archbishop Laud and Charles I

          

  2. North CarolinaItalian-born navigator sent by English to explore North American coast in 1498

          

  3. St. AugustineFounded in 1565, the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in United States territory

          

  4. Molasses ActItalian-born explorer who thought that he had arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on unknown continents

          

  5. ChesapeakeExtended period when glaciers covered most of the North American continent