NY Regents US History and Government The Colonial Period — practice questions
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Practice NY Regents US History and Government The Colonial Period in the app →Where was the first permanent English settlement in America founded in 1607?Which colony did the Pilgrims found in 1620?What share of the settlers in the colonies south of New England came as indentured servants?What had the American population risen to by 1690?How long did the Dutch hold New Netherland before it was taken by conquest?Which crop became Virginia's chief source of revenue within a decade of its first London shipment?Which college was founded in Massachusetts in 1636?What verdict did the jury return in the libel trial of Peter Zenger?Who paid for the emigration from England to the colonies in the 17th century?What token payment did Lord Baltimore make to the King each year for his Maryland grant?Why did James Oglethorpe and his colleagues establish Georgia?For which opinions was Roger Williams banished from the Massachusetts colony?How did the settlers of the Connecticut River Valley widen the franchise?Why did no towns dot the Virginia tobacco country?What did the London Company instruct its Virginia governor to do in 1618?What was the Mayflower Compact that the Pilgrims adopted aboard ship?Why did New England colonists turn to mills, shipbuilding and the sea rather than to farming?What kept the colonists building compactly along the coast for a hundred years?Which New England colony did not follow Massachusetts in providing compulsory elementary education?How did colonial assemblies force appointed governors to bend to their will?In which two colonies was the self-government provision left out of the grant?