NAME: ________________________
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5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- Salem Witch Trials
- lawyers
- council
- Benjamin Franklin
- Columbus
- a The upper house of colonial legislature, appointed by the crown or the proprietor
- b Author, scientist, printer; "the first civilized American"
- c Late seventeenth-century judicial even that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige
- d Italian-born explorer who thought that he had arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on unknown continents
- e A once-despised profession that rose in prestige after 1750 because its practitioners defended colonial rights
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- The harsh system of laws governing African labor, first developed in Barbados, and later officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696
- Colonial printer whose case helped begin freedom of the press
- Riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English colony
- Disease originating in the Americas that was transmitted back to Europeans after 1942
- German monk who began Protestant Reformation
5 True/False Questions
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Great Puritan Migration → Mass flight by religious dissidents from the persecutions of Archbishop Laud and Charles I
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North Carolina → Italian-born navigator sent by English to explore North American coast in 1498
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St. Augustine → Founded in 1565, the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in United States territory
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Molasses Act → Italian-born explorer who thought that he had arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on unknown continents
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Chesapeake → Extended period when glaciers covered most of the North American continent
Regenerate Test