chapter 2

Which of the following statements about the Hartford and New Haven colonies is not correct?

The Fundamental Articles of New Haven in 1639 guaranteed religious freedom.

Which statement regarding the Puritans' emigration from England is not correct?

The Puritans sought to found a colony where all people would be free to worship as they wished

Which best explains the connection between tobacco and territorial expansion in the Chesapeake area?

The profitability of tobacco crops spurred demand for more land.

Which of the following statements about the establishment of the Carolina colony is not correct?

The proprietors hoped to populate the colony with inexpensive expeditions from England.

Which statement about the Dominion of New England and Sir Edmund Andros is not accurate?

The success of the Dominion of New England was hampered by the appointment by Charles II of the unpopular Andros as governor.

True or false: Because Protestants were outnumbered by Catholics in Maryland, its founders established a policy of religious toleration that assured freedom of worship to all Christians

false

True or false: The colonies in Connecticut were established to promote religious tolerance and freedom.

false

The occurred in 1688, when William and Mary became joint sovereigns of England in a bloodless coup.

glorious revolution

Why did the settlers of the Maryland colony promote religious tolerance?

They could not adequately populate the colony with only English Catholics.

Which of the following statements about societies that existed around the borders of British settlement is accurate?

They were places where European and Indian cultures interacted and neither side had a military advantage.

Who did the "Glorious Revolution" bring to power in England?

William and Mary

Which of the following was a major factor in the inability of early settlers to build a real community in Jamestown?

Women had not been recruited for the expedition.

What is an indenture?

a contract that binds someone to work for set period of time

Between 1660 and 1673, the English government passed three ______ Acts to regulate trade in the colonies.

navigation

Spanish missionaries and traders in the Southeast posed ______ to British colonial ambitions in North America.

a more direct threat than their compatriots in the Southwest

Which two of the following were incentives to colonization offered by the Carolina proprietors?

1) a measure of political freedom, with a representative assembly2) religious freedom for all Christians

Which of the following statements are true regarding the consolidation of New England under James II?

1. James II created a single Dominion of New England to increase control over the colonists2. The governments of Massachusetts, the rest of the New England colonies, and New York and New Jersey were combined

Which of the following groups were excluded from Georgia by James Oglethorpe and the trustees who established the colony?

Africans, free or slave, whose presence might spark revoltsCatholics, for fear that they might align with the Spanish

A good example of the "middle grounds" in seventeenth-century America was the

area along the western borders of English settlement.

Religious dissenters in Massachusetts Bay formed colonies that later became

Connecticut

The Pequot War was the result of hostilities between the Pequot Indians and English settlers in the

Connecticut Valley.

Which statement regarding New York in the 1600s is not correct?

Despite the colony's great diversity, James made a disastrous attempt to impose Catholic rule on its inhabitants.

What did the Quakers have in common with the Puritans?

establishment of a religious refuge in North America

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the area between the Carolinas and Florida was the site of which of the following?

English- Spanish tensions Spanish efforts to build forts Spanish- French tensions

Which of the following most accurately describes life in the middle grounds?

Indians and Europeans made concessions to each other and carved out ways of living with each other.

How did the creation of the Dominion of New England impact colonies in New England (and eventually those in New York and New Jersey)?

It limited the authority of the colonists by increasing British authority to enforce laws.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the Massachusetts Bay Company?

It was established by a charter granted by Charles I.

Which statement regarding the early government of New York is not correct?

James governed the colony personally until he became king in 1685.

In 1630, ______ commanded an expedition of 17 ships and 1,000 people bound for New England, the largest single migration of its kind in the seventeenth century

John Winthrop

Which of the following statements about the Quakers is not correct?

Like the Puritans, the Quakers subscribed to the ideas of predestination and orginal sin

Which of the following was a serious problem for the settlers at Jamestown?

Many colonists became sick because they lacked prior exposure to malaria and other local diseases

A dissenting English protestant sect, the Quakers, was responsible for the efforts that eventually established the colony of

Pennsylvania

Which best describes the ratio of Catholic settlers to Protestants in Maryland?

Protestants outnumbered Catholics.

As head of a parliamentary committee investigating ______, James Oglethorpe became appalled by the plight of ______, and he founded Georgia partly to provide a refuge and new start for them

prisons; honest debtors and other vulnerable people

A 1637 war in Connecticut between English settlers and Indians in the region was known as

the Pequot War.

During the early history of Jamestown, power in the region was held by

the Powhatan Confederacy

Which of the following best accounts for the smaller slave population in the eighteenth-century North?

the lack of a plantation-based economy

The Pequot War resulted in

the near elimination of local Indian tribes in the Connecticut Valley.

Virginia's first profitable crop was

tobacco

True or false: Contest for control of North America was most clearly visible in the areas around the borders of British settlement.

true

Which of the following were among the reasons the Puritan Separatists from England chose to leave their new home in Holland?

- Their children began to drift away from their church. - They could only obtain jobs that paid poorly.