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Chapter 1: Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas

True/False Quiz

True/False Quiz
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	France dominated the exploration and colonization of the Americas in the sixteenth century.    True  False

	England's delay in New World colonization was largely the consequence of its navy's defeat by the Spanish Armada in 1588.    True  False

	The introduction of tobacco as a cash crop helped save the Jamestown colony.    True  False

	Under Queen Elizabeth I, the Anglican Church became the official Church of England.    True  False

	Puritans believed in predestination.    True  False

	Puritans, who favored a form of church organization in which authority emanated up from the local congregations, rather than from the top down, were called Arminians.    True  False

	In Puritan Massachusetts Bay, clergymen were not allowed to hold public office such as seats on the General Court.    True  False

	The Dutch originally established the colony that later became New York.    True  False

	Pennsylvania was England's first proprietary colony in North America.    True  False

	Queen Elizabeth I took little interest in England's colonization of the New World.    True  False

	Most English settlers who came to America in the seventeenth century were primarily motivated by religious persecution.    True  False

	The first Pilgrim governor was Thomas Morton.    True  False

	Pennsylvania was the only proprietary colony that was not founded as a refuge for a dissenting religious group then being persecuted in England.    True  False

	William Penn never visited Pennsylvania.    True  False

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