Give Me Liberty Chapter 2

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Puritans believed that the Church of England was not in need of reform.

False

Roger Williams imagined Rhode Island as a feudal domain.

False

The English Civil War was a bloodless war that restored Catholicism to England.

False

The Pilgrims intended to set sail for Cape Cod in 1620.

False

The Virginia Company accomplished its goals for the company and for its settlers.

False

Under English law, married women held many legal rights and privileges.

False

John Calvin

French-born theologian who influenced the Puritans

William Bradford

Pilgrim leader

A Discourse Concerning Western Planting argued that English settlement of North America would strike a blow against Spain.

True

After the English Civil War, it was generally believed that freedom was the common heritage of all Englishmen.

True

Believing that tobacco was harmful to one's health, King James I warned against its use.

True

Early settlers of Jamestown preferred gold to farming.

True

English settlers believed land was the basis of liberty.

True

Henry Care believed that the English system of government was the best in the world.

True

Indians mostly traded furs and animal skins for European goods.

True

Jamestown was originally settled only by men.

True

Nearly two-thirds of English settlers arrived as indentured servants.

True

Oliver Cromwell's Parliament passed the first Navigation Act, aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch.

True

Puritans relied on and deeply valued education.

True

Religious toleration violated the Puritan understanding of moral liberty.

True

The English increasingly viewed America as a land where a man could control his own labor and thus gain independence.

True

Treatment of the Indians by members of the Virginia colony was influenced in part by Las Casas's condemnation of Spanish behavior.

True

Levellers

a political movement favoring expanded liberties

Half-way Covenant

a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great Migration

Puritans

argued the Church of England was still too Catholic

Henry Care

believed a balanced constitution was essential to liberties

Quakers

believed the spirit of God dwelled in all persons

Virginia Company

charter company that established Jamestown

A consequence of the English Civil War of the 1640s was: a. the establishment of Plymouth Colony. b. the outbreak of war between Spain and England. c. an increase in the power of the Stuart kings. d. an English belief that England was the world's guardian of liberty. e. the signing of the Magna Carta.

d. an English belief that England was the world's guardian of liberty.

John Smith

early leader of Jamestown

Roger Williams

established Rhode Island

House of Burgesses

first elected assembly in colonial America

Mayflower Compact

first written frame of government in British America

indentured servant

gave five to seven years of service for passage to America

John Winthrop

governor of Massachusetts

head-right system

granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passage

Walter Raleigh

his settlement at Roanoke Island failed

Powhatan

leader of Indians near Jamestown

tobacco

primary crop of the Chesapeake colonies

an Act Concerning Religion

principles of religious toleration

Cecilius Calvert

proprietor of Maryland

Anne Hutchinson

was denounced for Antinomianism

Pocahontas

wife of John Rolfe

Magna Carta

written in 1215, this document was said to embody English freedom

In British America, unlike other New World empires, Indians performed most of the labor in the colonies.

False

Like the first Jamestown settlers, the settlers of Massachusetts were mostly families.

False

Disease killed many Indians, but European settlers were not affected by disease.

False

Even Jewish people enjoyed religious freedom under Maryland's Act Concerning Religion.

False

Growing connections with Europeans lessened warfare between Indian tribes.

False

Squanto

Indian who helped the Pilgrims


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