History Chapter 4
Which characteristics were present in Puritan communities in the first half of the seventeenth century?
A high degree of religious conformity
Although King James I was antagonistic to Puritanism, he sponsored which innovation that contributed to the spread of their ideals?
An English translation of the Bible
Why did Charles II make William Penn the proprietor of a new colony?
Charles II hoped to rid England of Quakers.
John Winthrop referred to Anne Hutchinson and her followers as antinomians, people who believed that
Christians could be saved by faith alone.
Which statement describes the message of King William's War, an attack by Great Lakes and Canadian French forces on villages in New England and New York, to American colonists?
English military protection from hostile neighbors was still valuable.
How did King Henry VIII respond to the Protestant Reformation?
He made himself the head of the Church of England.
Why was the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company unique?
It allowed the government of the company to be located in the colony.
Who argued that the Puritans should be "a city upon a hill" that would inspire the rest of the world?
John Winthrop
The majority of people who were accused of being witches were part of which demographic?
Older women
Who served as leaders of Quaker congregations?
Ordinary men and women
New England Puritanism owed its religious roots to the
Protestant Reformation of the early sixteenth century.
According to the Puritan doctrine of predestination, how could one achieve salvation after death?
Puritans could do nothing to alter God's ruling on their fate.
The Pilgrims who migrated to Plymouth colony were part of which religious following?
Separatists
Which consequence did religious toleration in Quaker-dominated Pennsylvania have for colonists?
They did not have to pay taxes to maintain a state-supported church.
Compared to the colonies to the north and south, the population of New Netherland was
diverse.
Seventeenth-century New England's most important export was
fish.
According to Puritanism, dissent was a result of
mistaken beliefs.
The goal of the Puritans who founded Massachusetts Bay colony was to
reform the Church of England.
During most of the seventeenth century, New Netherland was
under the control of the Dutch
The Navigation Acts of the 1650s and 1660s were designed to regulate colonial trade in order to
yield revenues for the crown and English merchants
Who left Massachusetts for Connecticut in 1636 after clashing with church leaders over the requirements for church membership?
Thomas Hooker
How did New England communities treat Quakers?
With ruthless severity
Unlike most other immigrant groups in American history, the migration to Puritan New England included
a great number of complete families.
By 1676, King Philip's War left New England settlers with
an enduring hatred of Indians