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(02.03 MC)This question refers to the following image.Public DomainAs a result of Bacon’s Rebellion, “The fear of civil war among whites frightened Virginia’s ruling elite, who took steps to consolidate power and improve their image: for example, restoration of property qualifications for voting, reducing taxes and adoption of a more aggressive Indian policy.”Source: Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty!, 2024How did English colonization affect the Iroquois Confederacy?

(02.05 MC)This question refers to the following excerpt.”Early American churchmen and churchwomen soon discovered that if they wanted to practice their beliefs unmolested in a diverse society, they had to grant the same right to others. This wisdom did not come easily. Yet over time, along with bickering and competition among denominations, there also were bargains, accommodations, and compromises. In realizing that no single doctrine of faith could dominate Middle Colony society, a heterogeneous people learned, not to cherish their differences, but, at least, to tolerate and live with them.”Source: Patricia U. Bonomi, historian, “Religious Pluralism in the Middle Colonies,” 2008The ideas about religious diversity described in the excerpt were later enhanced by developments such as the

(02.05 LC)Why was the Glorious Revolution significant to the politics of the British colonies?

(02.04 LC)Which of the following most directly explains why the English accepted race-based laws?

(02.04 MC)This refers to the following graph.© 2015 The College BoardA rising demand for sugar, rice, and tobacco led to

(02.01 MC)Use the flowchart to answer the question that follows.Culture Comics produces historical graphic novels and retails them through local shops throughout the United States. The publisher maintains an in-house staff of editors and illustrators but contracts out writing, printing, and distribution. Its printer uses domestically recycled paper but imports ink and much of its printing equipment from overseas. Which part of this scenario does segment B of the diagram reflect?

(02.04 LC)Which of the following serves as direct evidence that enslaved African peoples sought to maintain their traditions?

(02.03 MC)This question refers to the following excerpt.”[T]he Southwest’s people were not strangers to one another at all. Neither distance nor language formed a barrier against communication. People in their settled adobe villages had had centuries to build relationships and customs, of commerce, alliance, peace, and war … If anything, the Spanish invasion intensified Native connections with one another.”Source: Edward Countryman, “The Pueblo Revolt,” online essay for The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American HistoryThe ideas contained in this excerpt most directly contributed to the

(02.05 HC)This question refers to the following excerpt.”KNOW YE…That for the further Well- being and good Government of the said Province, and Territories;…I the said William Penn do declare, grant and confirm, unto all the Freemen, Planters and Adventurers, and other Inhabitants of this Province and Territories, these following Liberties, Franchises and Privileges…Because no People can be truly happy, though under the greatest enjoyment of civil liberties, if abridged of the freedom of their consciences, as to their religious profession and worship: And Almighty God being the only Lord of Conscience, Father of Lights and Spirits; and the Author as well as object of all divine knowledge, faith and worship, who only doth enlighten the Minds, and persuade and convince the understandings of people, I do hereby grant and declare, that no person or persons, inhabiting in this Province or Territories, who shall confess and acknowledge One almighty God, the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World; and profess him or themselves obliged to live quietly under the Civil Government, shall be in any case molested or prejudiced, in his or their person or estate, because of his or their conscientious persuasion or practice, nor be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry, contrary to his or their mind, or to do or suffer any other act or thing, contrary to their religious persuasion.And that all persons who also profess to believe in Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World, shall be capable (notwithstanding their other persuasions and practices in point of conscience and religion) to serve this Government in any capacity, both legislatively and executively.”Source: William Penn, from Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges and Liberties (1701)”Anglicization” meant all of the following except that

(03.02 LC)After the Seven Years’ War, British commitment to enforce Parliament’s policies spurred interest in colonial independence by