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Question 1

How were settlement patterns typical of Puritan New England and the Chesapeake different from each other?
 
  A) New England towns needed access to waterways for trade while Chesapeake settlements were
  located further inland.
  B) Settlers in New England were required to live near a meetinghouse while Chesapeake settlers
  pulled outward as they searched for good land.
  C) New Englanders tended to establish more remote farms while people in the Chesapeake lived
  in small clustered towns.
  D) Fortified settlements were more common in New England where settlers frequently clashed
  with Native Americans.

Question 2

What made President Theodore Roosevelt's position on the 1902 coal strike in Pennsylvania unique from previous presidential policies regarding labor interests?
 
  A) He stood up publicly to big business and helped negotiate better conditions for laborers.
  B) His order of sending in federal troops to break up a strike was the first time this was done by a
  president.
  C) He broke up the trust that coal mine owners had set up to protect workers' interests.
  D) He filed a lawsuit in federal court against the mine owners.

Question 3

As shown on this map of western trails, the Santa Fe Trail differed from other western land routes because it __________.
 
  A) opened New Mexico to large numbers of American settlers
  B) became a thriving commercial route for American traders
  C) provided a safer southern route for settlers going to California
  D) connected the United States to Mexico City



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