US History Chapter 2 Practice Quiz

A key motivation behind early English settlement in the American colonies was:

1. acquisition of land, and thus a measure of personal independence. 2. escape from the material and spiritual corruptions of England. 3. the profits to be made in transatlantic commerce.

Massachusetts Bay Colony founded

1630

Maryland founded

1632

Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts to Rhode Island

1636

Anne Hutchinson placed on trial in Massachusetts

1637

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

1639

Body of Liberties

1641

A "visible saint" was the term Puritans used to describe:

A person who had experienced divine grace, often during a lightening storm.

Which of the following was not a characteristic of early New England society?

Equality of the sexes in church affairs, but not in government affairs.

In the religious view of the Puritans, you would get to heaven if:

God predestined you to heaven or hell; no earthly act could change that.

The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?

Grandchildren of the English Great Migration

Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were:

High rates of death and disease

The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?

Indentured servants

Which of the following was not a significant feature of indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?

Indentured servants never comprised more than a small percentage of Virginians, the great majority of whom arrived either as free settlers or slaves.

Which was not a characteristic of Roger Williams's Rhode Island colony?

It required citizens to attend church.

The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at:

Jamestown, Virginia.

The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that:

Just and equal laws made by male representatives onboard were to rule.

The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was:

Land ownership

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Mayflower Compact, Trial of Anne Hutchinson, Half-Way Convenant

Who was the most prominent Native American leader in the original area of English settlement in Virginia?

Powhatan

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

Who was the English-speaking American Indian the Pilgrims encountered at Plymouth Bay in 1620?

Squanto

In 1619, the first elected assembly in colonial America was:

The House of Burgesses in Virginia

Which of the following did not happen in the 1630s?

The House of Burgesses was established

Which of the following was not a significant trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?

The elimination of gender hierarchies.

Which of the following was not a central theme of Puritan thought?

The quest for material prosperity is a sign of moral corruption.

Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was:

Tobacco

Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?

Tobacco

In 1600s Virginia, a femme sole could do all of the following except:

Vote

Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts:

Were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity