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Question #1

The Navigation Act of 1651 adopted during the rule of Oliver Cromwell:

A. aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch

B. required the Royal Navy to use only Protestant navigators on its ships

C. freed England's North American colonies from economic regulations.

D. added New Netherland to the British Empire.

Question #2

Ideas of race and racism in seventeenth-century England.

A. inspired the creation of an African labor force.

B. had not fully developed as modern concepts.

C. caused many Englishmen to become abolitionists.

D. originated in the writings of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Question #3

William Penn was a member of which religious group?

A. Puritans

B. Anglicans

C. Presbyterians

D. Quakers

Question #4

Bacon's Rebellion was a response to:

A. Indian attacks in New England.

B. increased slavery in the Carolinas.

C. worsening economic conditions in Virginia and tension over land

D. the Glorious Revolution in England.

Question #5

What inspired the 1715 uprising by the Yamasee against English colonists in Carolina?

A. difficulties the Yamesee faced trading with English settlers because of fueds between English agents

B. the English colonists' plan to begin capturing Native Americans to sell as slaves.

C. the colonists refusal to trade with the Yamasee.

D. an alliance of the Yamasee and Creek with the Iroquois Confederacy.