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- All of the following were major exports from the Carolina Colony early in its development EXCEPT
- The Glorious Revolution in England began with the removal of this English King?
- True or False: Pennsylvania established an official church within the colony?
- Which First Great Awakening minister preached a sermon "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God"?
- Which Enlightenment concept represented the idea that humans are capable of using their faculty of reason to gain knowledge?
- True or False: During the consumer revolution of the late seventeenth century, tea became the drink of the British Empire.
- Who led the English Parliamentary forces against King Charles 1 during the English Civil War?
- The British lack of strict enforcement of the Navigation Acts was known as salutary neglect.
- True or False: Columbus made a total of four voyages to the New World.
- The First Continental Congress met in this colonial city?
- True or False: Olmecs built aqueducts to transport water into their cities.
- True or False: Massachusetts openly welcomed Quakers to settle in the western half of the colony.
- In the wake of the Glorious Revolution, this philosophe published his Two Treatises of Government?
- True or False: Henry VIII broke ties with the Catholic Church so he could get divorced from his wife.
- True or False: Deists believed that strict church doctrine was more important than an individual's moral compass.
- By the 1750s, Georgian slave plantations were producing large quantities of what product?
- True or False: England lacked the financial resources to conduct overseas projects in the early 1500's.
- True or False: The African slave trade was already in full swing by the time the Portuguese began exporting slaves.
- True or False: James II was beheaded during the Glorious Revolution.
- In 1630, English Puritans founded this North American colony?