Chapter 3 Summative Quiz Multiple Choice
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1. King James's land grant to the Virginia Company of over 6 million acres allowed English settlers to
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2. How did Powhatan help the English stave off starvation?
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3. Which factor, along with Opecancanough's uprising, led King James to revoke the Virginia Company charter and make Virginia a royal colony in 1624?
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4. Virginia tobacco farmers confronted what major obstacle in the 1600s?
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5. Seventeenth-century Chesapeake society was essentially a society of
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6. How did indentured servitude differ between women and men in the Chesapeake?
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7. What is a yeoman farmer?
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8. The availability of land during the first half of the seventeenth century shaped what kind of society in the Chesapeake?
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9. How had political equality in Virginia actually decreased by 1670?
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10. What happened to the Spanish colonial outposts in New Mexico and Florida?
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11. Which statement describes the sugar economy of Barbados in 1680?
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12. The slave population grew in Barbados because
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