What was the primary cause of population growth in the mid-seventeenth century English colonies?

A. Migration
B. Childbirth
C. Medical advances
D. Slavery


Answer: B

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A. Dust Bowl B. flooding in the Tennessee River basin C. lack of an adequate domestic water supply in southern California D. build-up of salt deposits on the Colorado River

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The Massachusetts Bay Puritans

A. introduced freedom of worship to the New World. B. took vows of poverty as evidence of their commitment to their faith. C. created a colonial "theocracy." D. lived as grim and joyless people. E. fought with the surrounding Indians almost immediately.

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Which of the following would the participants at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 support?

a)  extension of the right to vote to women b)  expansion of the Cult of Domesticity c)  protection of the separate spheres d)  exclusion of women from public meetings

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The Hopewell culture developed in what is today ________

A) the Southwest B) Ohio C) northern Mexico D) Florida

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