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1. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes one effect of Enlightenment on America. 

A. American thinkers agreed with John Locke's idea that political authority was divinely ordained. 
B. Cotton Mather and the Boston physician Nicholas Boyleston fought against smallpox inoculation. 
C. Some ministers combined Lockean political principles with Calvinist theology in order to attack the role of bishops and vest power in the laity. 
D. European Enlightenment ideas had little impact on Americans until 1750. 

2. Most colonists' reaction to the Navigation Acts was to... 

A. comply with its laws out of fear of reprisals. 
B. welcome these measures as a way of strengthening the bonds of empire, which would protect them from the French and Spanish. 
C. bribe customs officials to ignore the regulations. 
D. resent and resist the trade restrictions. 

3. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes immigration during the 1840s and 1850s? 

A. Most immigrants settled in the South to take advantage of jobs in industry and agriculture. 
B. Most of the Irish who arrived were poverty-stricken peasants. 
C. The largest group of immigrants came from eastern and southern Europe. 
D. The poorest immigrants came from Wales and Scotland.