1. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the British colonial frontier before 1750? 
A. Hundreds of British colonists moved into the area west of the Appalachians. 
B. The Iroquois covenant chain broke down, and the confederacy's power diminished. 
C. A lack of natural transportation routes kept the British east of the Appalachians. 
D. The French abandoned their fur-trading forts in the Ohio region. 

2. 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.

3. The Puritans in late sixteenth-century England... 
A. denied the concept that everyone had a calling" from God. 
B. incorporated into their religion many of the traditional Roman Catholic practices, such as burning incense and praying to dead saints. 
C. championed literacy so that everyone could read and interpret the Bible. 
D. gave final authority over religious doctrine to bishops and synods.