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Recent scholarship has suggested that Olaudah Equiano may have been born in the New World rather than in Africa.

A) True
B) False

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What did Neolin tell his people they must reject?


A) a pan-Indian identity
B) European technology and material goods
C) the enslavement of Africans
D) an alliance with the French
E) the use of English in trade negotiations

F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

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What did the British acquire from the Netherlands in the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713?


A) sufficient gold to pay off the British national debt
B) the right to trade at Dutch outposts in what is now South Africa
C) the right to transport slaves from Africa to Spain's New World colonies
D) New Netherland,which was then renamed New York
E) New Holland,which later became known as Australia

F) None of the above
G) A) and D)

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MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -James Oglethorpe


A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal
B) Great Awakening preacher
C) survived the Middle Passage
D) founded the first mission in San Diego
E) founder of Georgia
F) British prime minister
G) Ottawa war leader
H) wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I) English Enlightenment political philosopher
J) founder of the Junto,a club for mutual improvement
K) authors of Cato's Letters
L) victim of Zenger's pen

M) C) and K)
N) A) and D)

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What made Olaudah Equiano an atypical slave?


A) He was fortunate enough to escape.
B) He went directly from West Africa to Virginia.
C) He survived the Middle Passage voyage.
D) He led a rebellion.
E) He was able to purchase his freedom.

F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Deism

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While slavery was expanding in British America,so too was freedom.Compare the simultaneous expansion of freedom and slavery.How was the concept of race increasingly important in this process?

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Seven Years' War

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -the Great Awakening

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Middle Passage


A) Jamaican fugitive slaves
B) bearers of the good news
C) distinct slave dialect
D) no colonial settlement west of the Appalachians
E) the ship voyage for slaves from Africa to the New World
F) right to provide slaves to Spanish America
G) religious traditionalists who did not support revivalism
H) courteous respect
I) Enlightenment religion
J) virtuous elite giving themselves to public service
K) controlling northern New Spain
L) slaves fought in South Carolina

M) E) and F)
N) B) and D)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Republicanism


A) Jamaican fugitive slaves
B) bearers of the good news
C) distinct slave dialect
D) no colonial settlement west of the Appalachians
E) the ship voyage for slaves from Africa to the New World
F) right to provide slaves to Spanish America
G) religious traditionalists who did not support revivalism
H) courteous respect
I) Enlightenment religion
J) virtuous elite giving themselves to public service
K) controlling northern New Spain
L) slaves fought in South Carolina

M) A) and B)
N) G) and L)

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Why did the English government support the establishment of the Georgia colony?


A) It wanted to ban slavery.
B) The English feared a French invasion of the South.
C) The English government wanted Georgia to serve as a buffer between South Carolina and Spain's Florida.
D) The English government wanted a colony to grow rice.
E) It wanted another colony that would focus on tobacco as a cash crop.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Which of the following is a true statement about the Atlantic slave trade's effect in West Africa?


A) It had little effect on West Africa,because more than 90 percent of enslaved people came from East Africa.
B) It helped lead to the rise of militarized states in West Africa,whose large armies preyed upon their neighbors in order to capture slaves.
C) It encouraged the expansion of West Africa's domestic textile industry,which supplied clothing for slaves.
D) It led to an increase in West Africa's population during the 1700s,as slave traders encouraged women to have more children who would then be sold into slavery.
E) It successfully united West African nations to resist European slave traders,who reluctantly ended the trade by 1763.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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The French in North America:


A) had a rapidly expanding empire,in large part because of the strong encouragement the French government gave to citizens wanting to move to the New World.
B) made it a point to avoid competing with the British.
C) won control of the Ohio Valley in the Seven Years' War.
D) were greatly outnumbered by the British on the continent.
E) were notorious for their poor relations with Native Americans.

F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

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