1. After receiving rights to huge tracts of land in the Middle Atlantic region of North America from King Charles II, William Penn rejected the Church of England and turned Pennsylvania into a refuge for

2. What two colonies united in 1702 to form the colony of New Jersey?

3. King James II of England and King Louis XIV of France both believed their reigns were granted by what authority?

4. The first sustained war between the French and English in North America was known as

5. Which European immigrants joined the English in settling colonial frontiers throughout North America by the mid-eighteenth century?

6. Why did many English colonists grow frustrated with the British crown and British proprietors in the early decades of the eighteenth century?

7. The Caribbean shipped rum, molasses, and slaves to North American for what in return?

8. What was the central principle of mercantilism, a trade plan adopted by both the French and English in the seventeenth century?

9. How did American merchants respond to the 1733 Molasses Act passed by Parliament to disrupt the molasses trade between France and the North American colonies?

10. What long-established system of labor began to die out by the early eighteenth century?

11. Which group of immigrants were known as “redemptioners”—workers whose passage was paid by a shipping agent who then found an employer to pay off the fee in return for several years of work?

12. Why did slavers in the Carolinas grant slaves far more rights than they had in the Chesapeake or West Indies?