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“The free fruition of such liberties immunities and privileges as humanity, civility,
and Christianity call for as due to every man in his place and proportion without . . .
infringement hath ever been and ever will be the tranquility and stability of Churches
and Commonwealths. . . .
7. No man shall be compelled to go out of the limits of this plantation upon any
offensive wars. . . . But only upon such vindictive and defensive wars in our own behalf . . .
50. All jurors shall be chosen continually by the freemen of the town where they dwell.
88. Servants that have served diligently and faithfully to the benefit of their masters
seven years, shall not be sent away empty.
89. If any people of other Nations professing the true Christian Religion shall flee to
us from the tyranny or oppression of their persecutors, or from famine, wars . . . They
shall be entertained and succored amongst us, according to that power and prudence,
God shall give us.
91. There shall never be any bond slavery . . . amongst us unless it be lawful captives
taken in just wars, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us.”
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641

1. Which of the following most directly contributed to the ideas in the excerpt?
(A) English colonization attracted large groups of men.
(B) New England colonists lived apart from Native Americans.
(C) All British North American colonies participated in the Atlantic slave trade.
(D) Communities in New England developed around small towns.

2. The excerpt is most clearly an example of which of the following developments in
New England during the early seventeenth century?
(A) The creation of self-governing political institutions
(B) A decline in trade networks throughout the Atlantic world
(C) An increase in the number of villages dependent on the labor of enslaved
Africans
(D) An increase in the number of towns led by a planter elite
3. The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly reflect which of the following charac-
teristics of the British North American colonies during the seventeenth century?
(A) European conflicts led to increased Anglicization over time.
(B) Regional differences in culture led to the creation of different economic and
political systems.
(C) Competition over natural resources led to fewer conflicts with Native
Americans.
(D) Wars with European rivals created a sense of colonial unity.

Questions 4–6 refer to the excerpt.
“The concept of discovery functioned as the expression of an ideology by which
Europeans divided the world between civilized and savage peoples. Civilized peoples
lived within sovereign societies of their own making. Savage peoples lived as part of

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