Chapter 3
What did the first English arrivals seek to secure on their arrival in Plymouth?
A community of religious purity.
What was a notable characteristic of Jamestown during its first decade?
An appallingly high mortality rate
How did puritans understand religious dissent?
As a replay of original sin
Which of the following about English immigrants to Virginia in the seventeenth century is true?
As many as 90 percent of the migrants to the Chesapeake during that time period came as servants.
The survival of the Plymouth colony was made possible by
Assistance from friendly Indians
The Swiss Protestant Reformer John Calvin
Believed God ordained who would save even before they were born
Despite the economic boom for Virginia and Maryland produced by tobacco exports,
Death rates remained high for infants and adults
Puritans wanted to
Eliminate aspects of Roman Catholicism from the Church of England
The Third Anglo-Powhatan War resulted in the
First Indian reservation in America
English men and women from the lowest ranks of society who agreed to working in exchange for passage money to the colonies were known as
Indentured servants
The result of the Puritans' attack on the Pequot village of Mystic on May 26, 1637, was
Pequot men, women, and children were murdered by Puritans.
Roger Williams advocated
Separation of church and state
By the second half of the sixteenth century, Northern Europeans considered Africans
Sexually promiscuous and brutish
By an Act of Tolerance, settlement in Maryland was open to
Those who believed in Jesus Christ
Jamestown was the
first successful English colony in North America
Puritan families valued
harmony and order in the home
Although settled two decades later, New England was able to keep pace with the Chesapeake colonies because
its people lived in a healthier region
One way New Englanders differed from Chesapeake colonists is that they
migrated as families rather than as individuals
New Englanders mostly profited from
selling timber, wood products, and fish
Squanto, a Patuxet Indian,
taught the pilgrims how to grow corn