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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many acres of land had to be deforested in a year for a town of two hundred homes?

2. What did Massasoit put at the bottom of his last Plymouth land deed?

3. Who had to intercede in an altercation between Standish and fishermen on Cape Ann?

4. What friendly tribe had their wigwams burned by Moseley?

5. What did Bradford study the last days of his life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Thomas Morton represent everything the Pilgrims had come to America to escape?

2. Why did the Plymouth's debilitating food shortages end in the fall of 1623?

3. How did Standish kill Wituwamat and Pecksuot?

4. How were the Indians cut out of the New England real estate market?

5. Why did Philip want the English to draw first blood?

6. What became the focus of the children and grandchildren of the Pilgrims?

7. Why in the early 1640s did the Great Migration come to an end?

8. What happened to the Narragansett fort?

9. Why were the Massachusetts planning to attack Wessagusett and Plymouth?

10. Describe the story that Church tells at the conclusion of his account of the war.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the Plymouth colony and the Massachusetts Bay colony, and explain why or why not the Pilgrims should have settled at Boston rather than Plymouth.

Essay Topic 2

The Pilgrims had a very difficult first year, but they survived where other colonies failed. Explain why the Pilgrims were able to create a successful colony.

Essay Topic 3

Although King Philip's War became a racial war, it was also caused by greed. Explain how greed led Philip and the English into the conflict and what gain the parties expected to obtain from the conflict.

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