1  New Peoples

1.  English
2.  Scots and Scots-Irish
3.  250,000
4.  2,500,000
5.  D - Western colonies


2  New England

1.  A - Farming
2.  D - Town hall
3.  B - 33%
4.  D - Triangular trade


3  The Middle Colonies

1.  Philadelphia
2.  Quakers
3.  Scots-Irish
4.  Dutch


4  The Southern Colonies

1.  B - Rural
2.  Tidewater
3.  Yeoman farmers
4.  Indigo
5.  Charleston, South Carolina
6.  Shenandoah Valley
7.  Leather made from the skin of deer or sheep
8.  Quilt-making


5  Society, Schools, and Culture

1.  The ability of anyone in an established colony to find a new home on the frontier
2.  Harvard College
3.  Yale University
4.  Grammar school
5.  D - Ye Olde Deluder Satan Act
6.  Harvard College (Boston, Massachusetts)
7.  1683
8.  Benjamin Franklin
9.  Reverend Cotton Mather
10.  Andrew Hamilton
11.  Great Awakening


6  Emergence of Colonial Government

1.  Magna Carta
2.  Common law
3.  C - Mayflower Compact
4.  Lords of Trade and Plantations
5.  1691
6.  John Locke


7  The French and Indian War

1.  France
2.  Fort Duquesne
3.  Albany Congress
4.  Seven Years' War


8  An Exceptional Nation?

1.  B - 175
2.  John Locke
3.  B - False
4.  B - False


9  The Witches of Salem

1.  C - Spectral evidence
2.  D - Ultimately failed because so few people believed in witchcraft
3.  A - True
4.  B - Parable
5.  Answers will vary

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