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A) established a Committee of Safety in New York
B) a Protestant who became King of England
C) Metacom
D) formed Covenant Chain with Iroquois
E) elite planter who called for reform in Virginia
F) governor of Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion
G) a Catholic who became King of England
H) wealthy Virginian speaker of the House of Burgesses
I) proprietor of Pennsylvania
J) successful Jewish silversmith
K) overthrown in the Glorious Revolution
L) slave who became free and owned slaves himself
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A) simply brought together old aspects of the laws governing slaves and slavery.
B) completely rewrote and changed the earlier slave laws.
C) embedded the principle of white supremacy in law.
D) made clear that slaves were subject to the will of their masters but not to anyone who could not claim ownership of them.
E) was the work of Nathaniel Bacon.
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A) Philadelphia merchants.
B) Boston political elite.
C) Virginia tobacco farmers.
D) South Carolina rice planters.
E) New York merchants.
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A) For New Englanders to trade molasses for rum with the West Indies.
B) For bringing Protestant refugees to North America for a hefty fee.
C) For carrying indentured German families to America,where they would work off their transportation debt.
D) For unloading the unwanted convicts of London and Amsterdam to ports such as Boston and New York.
E) For pirating against Spain and France,their Catholic archenemies.
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A) was perfectly acceptable when it was used for proper purposes.
B) was punishable by hanging unless it was used to reinforce men's standing and God's will.
C) resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes.
D) was restricted to Salem.
E) was due entirely to exposure to Catholicism.
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A) were almost uniformly Catholics.
B) usually worked in the West Indies before moving to the mainland colonies.
C) were not only poor farmers but also physicians,merchants,and teachers.
D) did little to add to the religious diversity in America.
E) represented only a small fraction of the immigration to the colonies.
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A) Slavery became perpetual,as the children of slaves were slaves too.
B) Africans were less likely to run away than Native Americans.
C) Racism had existed since ancient times in England.
D) Africans fell under the purview of English common law.
E) The word "slave" came from several different West African languages.
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A) Runaways were very rare because slaves knew that attempting to escape would be futile.
B) Some slaves were the offspring of white traders and therefore knew enough English to turn to the legal system,at least until Virginia lawmakers prevented them from doing so.
C) A number of bloody rebellions prompted a wholesale revision of slave codes.
D) It was limited because slaves at the time were too new to the colonies to understand the concept of freedom.
E) All runaways headed for freedom in French Canada.
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A) The English word "slavery" derives from "Slav," reflecting the slave trade in Slavic peoples until the fifteenth century.
B) Christians never were enslaved.
C) The Roman Empire outlawed it,but it revived,thanks to Columbus.
D) It was nonexistent in Africa until the arrival of European slave traders.
E) In every culture in which it existed,it was based on the needs of large-scale agriculture.
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A) established a Committee of Safety in New York
B) a Protestant who became King of England
C) Metacom
D) formed Covenant Chain with Iroquois
E) elite planter who called for reform in Virginia
F) governor of Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion
G) a Catholic who became King of England
H) wealthy Virginian speaker of the House of Burgesses
I) proprietor of Pennsylvania
J) successful Jewish silversmith
K) overthrown in the Glorious Revolution
L) slave who became free and owned slaves himself
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A) it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration,which displeased many Puritan leaders.
B) it received the right to have its voters elect its own governor and legislative assembly.
C) Plymouth was split off from Massachusetts to become its own independent colony.
D) church membership became the chief legal requirement for voting.
E) social tensions generally decreased and a relatively peaceful period ensued.
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A) it was a longer trip from Africa to North America,making slavery less profitable.
B) planters in Virginia and Maryland agreed that indentured servants were far less troublesome.
C) the high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to die within a short time.
D) Parliament passed a law in 1643 that gave tax breaks to British West Indian planters who imported slaves but not to American colonists who imported slaves.
E) those living in the British West Indies opposed slavery until the American colonies won their independence in the Revolutionary War.
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