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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. added New Netherland to the British Empire.

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

Question #2

Ideas of race and racism in seventeenth-century England.

A. caused many Englishmen to become abolitionists.

B. had not fully developed as modern concepts.

C. inspired the creation of an African labor force.

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. Quakers

D. Presbyterians

Question #4

Bacon's Rebellion was a response to:

A. the Glorious Revolution in England.

B. Indian attacks in New England.

C. increased slavery in the Carolinas.

D. worsening economic conditions in Virginia and tension over land

Question #5

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

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

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

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

D. the colonists refusal to trade with the Yamasee.