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Question 1

1. By the seventeenth century, Spain had
   A. monopolized New World trade
   B. reached the height of its power and begun to decline
   C. failed in its effort to build a New World empire
   D. swept across northern Africa and seized control of the slave trade
   E. pioneered new routes to the East Indies

Answer 1

(Correct Answer: B. By this point, England was catching up to the Spanish in terms of naval power, and Spanish power in the Americas had reached its highest point.)

Question 2

2. Which of the following was not a religious dissenter in Massachusetts Bay? 
A. William Bradford 
B. Roger Williams
C. John Davenport 
D. Anne Hutchinson 
E. Thomas Hooker

Answer 2

(Correct Answer: A. Bradford was a gover­nor of Massachusetts Bay for twenty years; all of the others left for religious reasons and founded colonies elsewhere.)

Question 3

3. A colony designated as a refuge for English Catholics was 
A. North Carolina 
B. Pennsylvania 
C. South Carolina 
D. Maryland 
E. Virginia

Answer 3

(Correct Answer: D. George Calvert settled this colony in 1632 for exactly that purpose.)

Question 4

4. English people came to the New World because of
   A. their dislike for the Church of England
   B. overcrowding in English cities
   C. economic opportunity
   D. A and C
   E. All of the above

Answer 4

(Correct Answer: E. The overcrowding of cities was an additional factor in convincing some English people to “try their lot” in the New World.)

Question 5

5. The very first Americans 
A. lived in South America 
B. were nomadic wanderers 
C. lived in permanent sites 
D. were subsistence farmers 
E. predated Spain's arrival in the New World by only two centuries

Answer 5

(Correct Answer: B. Almost all early Native American tribes were nomadic in nature.)