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QUESTIONS

• 1. What state of affairs in England led to civil war?

• 2. How did it affect Virginia?

• 3. What was the unhappy fate of Charles I.?

• 4. What was Virginia's attitude towards the Commonwealth?

• 5. Give an account of the coming of the Cavaliers.

• 6. What effect did it have on the loyalty of the people?

• 7. Why did the Commonwealth have to assert its authority?

• 8. Upon what conditions did Virginia agree to acknowledge its
  authority?

• 9. What did Berkeley do when the House of Burgesses signed the
  treaty?

• 10. What privileges and prosperity did Virginia enjoy under the
  Commonwealth?

• 11. Why was it declared to be "the best poor man's country in the
  world"?