The Glorious Revolution of 1688: resulted mainly from the fears of English aristocrats that the birth of James II’s son would lead to a Catholic succession.
What was William Penn’s most fundamental principle? religious freedom
Which of the following best sums up population diversity in colonial British America? Great Britain originally promoted emigration to the colonies as a means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century, opening the colonies to a more diverse group of settlers.
How did the new Massachusetts charter of 1691 change that colony’s government? It made Massachusetts a royal colony rather than under the control of Puritan “saints.
According to the economic theory known as mercantilism: the government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power
In what ways did England reduce colonial autonomy during the 1680s? It created the Dominion of New England, run by a royal appointee without benefit of an elected assembly.
How did the colonial elite view their role in society? It meant the power to rule—the right of those blessed with wealth and prominence to dominate others.
According to New England Puritans, witchcraft: resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes.
Slave labor in the Chesapeake region increasingly supplanted indentured servitude during the last two decades of the seventeenth century, in part because: improving conditions in England reduced the number of transatlantic migrants.
Bacon’s Rebellion was a response to: worsening economic conditions in Virginia.
What sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the mid-seventeenth century? the restoration of the monarchy in 1660
The Virginia slave code of 1705: embedded the principle of white supremacy in law.
“Anglicization” meant all of the following EXCEPT: colonists were determined to speak English as perfectly as those who lived in England.
Ideas of race and racism in seventeenth-century England: had not fully developed as modern concepts
The English Bill of Rights of 1689: listed parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury.
By the eighteenth century, colonial farm families: viewed land ownership almost as a right, a precondition of freedom.
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina: proposed a feudal society in the New World, complete with hereditary nobility.
To Quakers, liberty was: a universal entitlement.
The first English Navigation Act, adopted during the rule of Oliver Cromwell: aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch.
“Enumerated” goods were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that first had to be imported to England.