Chapter 2 Review Questions - US History
(Q028) Among the suggested reasons why the English should colonize the New World were that
English settlements would reduce the Spanish empire and the influence of Catholicism.
(Q032) Pocahontas married
John Rolfe.
(Q003) What was the impact of European wood reductions upon Native American tribes?
It reduced the availability of animals for hunting.
(Q013) Which was a characteristic of Roger Williams's Rhode Island colony?
It was a refuge for religious nonconformists.
(Q005) Which of the following was a feature of indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?
Indentured servants were held in bondage only for a limited period of time.
(Q030) One change in Indian life after the English colonists settled was that
Indian use of alcohol became increasingly common and disruptive to Native American culture.
(Q022) The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?
indentured servants
(Q034) The English colonies differed from the Spanish in that Spanish women could
jointly own all the wealth accumulated during marriage.
(Q014) In 1619, the first elected assembly in colonial America was
the House of Burgesses in Virginia.
(Q036) To counteract the attraction of Indian life, Puritan leaders suggested that colonists
write captivity narratives describing Indian brutality.
(Q029) An indenture was
a contract for labor for a period of years.
(Q016) In 1600s Virginia, a feme sole could perform which of the following tasks?
acquire land
(Q011) Employers saw "masterless men" in England as at
danger to society.
(Q024) Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?
tobacco
(Q038) The Levellers
wanted to greatly expand the right to vote.
(Q009) The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at
Jamestown, Virginia.
(Q027) Another name for the Church of England was the
Anglican Church.
(Q023) Which of the following events happened in the 1630s?
Anne Hutchinson's trial
(Q033) The Indian leader, ____, led a surprise attack that killed one-quarter of Virginia's settlers in a single day.
Opechancanough
(Q007) Which of the following was a theme of Puritan thought?
People enter this world as either the "elect" or the "damned."
(Q025) Who was the most prominent Native American leader in the original area of English settlement in Virginia?
Powhatan
(Q041) In what century did England grant most working-class men the right to vote?
nineteenth century
(Q018) In the religious view of the Puritans, you would get to heaven if
God predestined you to heaven or hell and no earthly act could change that.
(Q040) The English belief in freedom as a common heritage helped to cast imperial wars against Spain as struggles between
freedom and tyranny.
(Q026) The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?
grandchildren of the English Great Migration
(Q001) Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were
high rates of death and disease.
(Q017) Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for
Catholics.
(Q043) What marketable staple did the English pursue in New England?
fish
(Q020) The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that
just and equal laws made by male representatives onboard were to rule over others.
(Q015) Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was
tobacco.
(Q019) Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts
were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity.
(Q035) Within the Puritan community, the family was considered the foundation of a strong community while unmarried persons
were viewed as a danger to the social fabric of the community.
(Q021) Who was the English-speaking American Indian the Pilgrims encountered at Plymouth Bay in 1620?
Squanto
(Q012) A "visible saint" was the term Puritans used to describe
a person who had experienced a conversion experience.
(Q004) Which of the following was an outcome of the start of Chesapeake tobacco cultivation?
a rush of English newcomers in pursuit of land
(Q006) Which of the following was a trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?
an increase in urban population
(Q008) Which of the following was a characteristic of early New England society?
extensive autonomy and self-government in local affairs
(Q031) In the first two years of Jamestown's existence, relations with the Indians were
mostly peaceful interactions and based on simple trade.
(Q042) Henry Care, author of English Liberties (1680), demonstrates that seventeenth-century identities rested in part on negative images of
other nations.
(Q010) 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
(Q044) New Englanders in the 1600s engaged in a profitable trade with
the West Indies.
(Q002) One key motivation behind many early English settlers in the American colonies was
the desire to escape from the spiritual corruptions of England.
(Q039) Which of the following was promoted by Oliver Cromwell?
the expansion of Protestantism
(Q037) The event that started the Pequot War was
the killing of a fur trader by the Pequots.
