Give Me Liberty Chap. 2
(Q079) When supplies reached the Roanoke colony in 1590, the inhabitants had mysteriously vanished leaving only a word carved in a tree as a clue to their whereabouts.
True
(Q015) Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was
tobacco.
(Q032) Pocahontas married
John Rolfe.
(Q045) Seventeenth-century Maryland stood out for its system of absolute rule, but also for its practice of religious toleration.
True
(Q044) New Englanders in the 1600s engaged in a profitable trade with
the West Indies.
(Q023) Which of the following events happened in the 1630s?
Anne Hutchinson's trial
(Q066) All Pilgrims were Puritans.
False
(Q068) In 1585, the English attempted to establish Jamestown in North America.
False
(Q074) The early settlers of English America enjoyed the least amount of rights compared to colonists of other empires.
False
(Q075) England's king enticed his relatives and allies to the New World by granting them slaves in Europe.
False
(Q076) During the early years of English settlement, the population of beaver diminished as a result of the fur trade.
False
(Q013) Which was a characteristic of Roger Williams's Rhode Island colony?
It was a refuge for religious nonconformists.
(Q033) The Indian leader, ____, led a surprise attack that killed one-quarter of Virginia's settlers in a single day.
Opechancanough
(Q008) Which of the following was a characteristic of early New England society?
equality of the sexes in general church affairs, but not in government affairs
(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
(Q034) The English colonies differed from the Spanish in that Spanish women could
jointly own all the wealth accumulated during marriage.
(Q031) In the first two years of Jamestown's existence, relations with the Indians were
mostly peaceful interactions and based on simple trade.
(Q038) The Levellers
wanted to greatly expand the right to vote.
(Q060) Colonial Massachusetts was organized into self-governing towns.
True
(Q048) Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for advocating freedom of individual conscience and religious choice.
True
(Q049) Anne Hutchinson scandalized Massachusetts's authorities both for her unorthodox religious ideas and for her "unwomanly" engagement in public issues.
True
(Q054) Because Jamestown was settled next to a malarial swamp, many settlers died.
True
(Q055) 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
(Q057) Harvard College was principally founded to educate young men into the ministry.
True
(Q059) The typical seventeenth-century woman in New England gave birth seven times.
True
(Q067) The first Thanksgiving celebrated the Pilgrims' survival and a successful harvest.
True
(Q071) Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants would immediately acquire a large estate.
True
(Q042) Henry Care, author of English Liberties (1680), demonstrates that seventeenth-century identities rested in part on negative images of
other nations.
(Q039) Which of the following was promoted by Oliver Cromwell?
the expansion of Protestantism
(Q019) Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts
were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity.
(Q051) Most migrants to seventeenth-century New England came out of the poorer reaches of English society.
False
(Q058) Intermarriage was common between Indians and English settlers.
False
(Q062) Ordinary settlers in Puritan Massachusetts were called "gentlemen" and "ladies" or "master" and "mistress."
False
(Q064) Slavery was never allowed in the devoutly Christian colony of Massachusetts.
False
(Q065) The Half-Way Covenant (1662) held that membership should come from religious conversion rather than ancestry if one hoped to become one of the elect.
False
(Q021) Who was the English-speaking American Indian the Pilgrims encountered at Plymouth Bay in 1620?
Squanto
(Q073) Most New England colonists sided with Parliament during the English Civil War.
True
(Q014) In 1619, the first elected assembly in colonial America was
the House of Burgesses in Virginia.
(Q002) One key motivation behind many early English settlers in the American colonies was
the desire to escape from the spiritual corruptions of England.
(Q036) To counteract the attraction of Indian life, Puritan leaders suggested that colonists
write captivity narratives describing Indian brutality.
(Q050) Seventeenth-century New England quickly developed into a land of African-based slavery.
False
(Q027) Another name for the Church of England was the
Anglican Church.
(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.
(Q003) What was the impact of European wood reductions upon Native American tribes?
It reduced the availability of animals for hunting.
