Author Question: All of the following were characteristics of the original thirteen colonies except a. Puritans ... (Read 138 times)

stevenposner · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

All of the following were characteristics of the original thirteen colonies except

a. Puritans carved tight, pious, and relatively democratic communities in New England.
b. the belief they were a single people with a common destiny, who ought to break from Britain.
c. the southern colonies consisted of large landholders, mostly Anglican, on plantations using slave labor.
d. there were internal conflicts over economic interests, ethnic rivalries, and religious practices.
e. the middle colonies were the most diverse with estates interspersed with modest homesteads.

Question 2

The colonists who ultimately embraced the vision of America as an independent nation had in common all of the following characteristics except

a. the desire to create an agricultural society.
b. a shared goal of living unfettered by the tyrannies of royal authority, official religion, and social hierarchies.
c. a growing reverence for ideals such as liberty.
d. an unwillingness to subjugate others.
e. a majority were English speaking with English customs.