Chapter 2 American History
All Pilgrims were Puritans.
False
Because Puritan Massachusetts was deeply religious, ministers were frequently elected to colonial offices.
False
Early New Englanders established trade relations with local Indians| early Virginians did not.
False
In 1585, the English attempted to establish Jamestown in North America.
False
In Puritan Massachusetts, "visible saint" was a term used to describe people of outstanding kindness and generosity.
False
In the 1600s in Massachusetts, full church membership was not required to vote in colony-wide elections.
False
Intermarriage between Indians and English settlers was common.
False
Most migrants to seventeenth-century New England came out of the poorer reaches of English society.
False
New England quickly developed into a land of large plantations and landless servants.
False
Ordinary settlers in Puritan Massachusetts were called "gentlemen" and "ladies" or "master" and "mistress."
False
Slavery was never allowed in the devoutly Christian colony of Massachusetts.
False
The Half-Way Covenant (1662) held that believers in the divine right of kings were good.
False
In the religious view of the Puritans, you would get to heaven if:
God predestined you to heaven or hell| no earthly act could change that
Who was the English-speaking American Indian the Pilgrims encountered at Plymouth Bay in 1620?
Squanto
In 1619, the first elected assembly in colonial America was:
The House of Burgesses in Virginia
Which of the following did not happen in the 1630s?
The House of Burgesses was established
Which of the following was not a central theme of Puritan thought?
The quest for material prosperity is a sign of moral corruption.
Anne Hutchinson offended colonial leaders and was banished from Massachusetts because she claimed God spoke directly to her.
True
At the end of their period of indenture, indentured servants were often given "freedom dues" and became free members of society.
True
Because Jamestown was settled next to a malarial swamp, many settlers died.
True
Colonial Massachusetts was organized into self-governing towns.
True
England's ongoing struggle to subdue Ireland delayed its entry into New World colonization.
True
Harvard College was principally founded to educate young men into the ministry.
True
In Puritan New England, a husband's authority in his house was nearly absolute| genuine freedom for a woman was understood to come from her subjection to her husband's will and desires.
True
In the 1600s, nearly two-thirds of English settlers came as indentured servants.
True
Indentures usually bound indentured servants for periods of from five to seven years.
True
John Rolfe married Powhatan's daughter.
True
Most New England colonists sided with Parliament during the English Civil War.
True
Most immigrants to America from England in the 1600s were poor, young, single men.
True
Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for advocating freedom of individual conscience and religious choice.
True
Seventeenth-century Maryland stood out for its system of absolute rule, but also for its practice of religious toleration
True
The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?
grandchildren of the English Great Migration
Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were:
high rates of death and disease
The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?
indentured servants
The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that:
just and equal laws made by male representatives onboard were to rule.
The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was:
land ownership
The English "enclosure" movement of the 1500s and 1600s forced small farmers off "commons" land so that the land could be taken up by:
sheep
Which of the following was not a significant trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?
the elimination of gender hierarchies
Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was:
tobacco
Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?
tobacco
In 1600s Virginia, a femme sole could do all of the following except:
vote
Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts:
were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity.
Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for:
Catholics
Which of the following was not a significant feature of indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?
Indentured servants never comprised more than a small percentage of Virginians, the great majority of whom arrived either as free settlers or slaves
Which was not a characteristic of Roger Williams's Rhode Island colony?
It required citizens to attend church
The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at:
Jamestown, Virginia
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Mayflower Compact| trial of Anne Hutchinson| Half-Way Covenant
Who was the most prominent Native American leader in the original area of English settlement in Virginia?
Powhatan
The "Rights of Englishmen" were established in the Magna Carta.
True
The first Thanksgiving celebrated the Pilgrims' survival and a successful harvest.
True
The typical seventeenth-century woman in New England gave birth seven times.
True
Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants would immediately acquire a large estate.
True
A "visible saint" was the term Puritans used to describe:
a person who had experienced divine grace, often during a lightning storm.
A key motivation behind early English settlement in the American colonies was:
a. acquisition of land, and thus a measure of personal independence. b. escape from the material and spiritual corruptions of England. c. the profits to be made in transatlantic commerce.
Which of the following was not a significant outcome of the start of Chesapeake tobacco cultivation?
campaigns to discourage migration by English women, who, it was feared, would distract male Virginians from their work in the fields
Which of the following was not a characteristic of early New England society?
equality of the sexes in church affairs, but not in government affairs