Ch. 4 Northern Colonies in the 17th Century

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How did the English monarchs James I and Charles I react to the ideas of Puritan reformers?

Both enforced conformity to the Church of England

John Winthrop referred to Anne Hutchinson and her followers as antinomians, people who believed that

Christians could be saved by faith alone

The goal of the Puritans who founded Massachusetts Bay colony was to

reform 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

Which major change occurred in New Netherland in 1664?

New Netherland became New York

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

Why did Puritans keep churches out of the civil government of New England?

Puritans did not want to emulate the Church of England

Seventeenth-century New England's most important export was

fish

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

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

James II was a zealous supporter of which religion?

Catholicism

Why did Charles II make William Penn the proprietor of a new colony?

Charles II hoped to rid England of Quakers

Which problem did the Halfway Covenant address?

Declining church membership

How did the Boston church punish Anne Hutchinson?

Excommunication

Members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, believed that

God spoke to each individual through an "inner light"

Which action taken by King Charles I in 1629 convinced many Puritans their only hope of avoiding religious oppression in England was to emigrate?

He dissolved Parliament, in which many Puritans served

How did King Henry VIII respond to the Protestant Reformation?

He made himself the head of the Church of England

Which statement explains the diversity in the New Netherland colony?

Immigrants came from a variety of countries and had a variety of religious backgrounds

Why was the town meeting significant in seventeenth-century New England?

Its democratic participation was unprecedented during the seventeenth century

Who argued that the Puritans should be "a city upon a hill" that would inspire the rest of the world?

John Winthrop

Why did the Wampanoag Indians attack New England settlements in 1675?

New Englanders had been steadily encroaching on land the Indians needed to survive

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

Which statement characterizes sixteenth-century English Puritanism?

Puritans wanted to rid the Church of England of many features of Catholicism

The Pilgrims who migrated to Plymouth colony were part of which religious following?

Separatists

Which factor allowed New England's population to continue to grow steadily during the seventeenth century?

The cold weather minimized the spread of life-threatening illnesses

Why did the English continue the Dutch policy of religious toleration in seventeenth-century New York?

The diversity of the population prevented them from imposing a uniform religion

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

How did Puritans react when King Charles I dissolved Parliament in 1629?

They prepared to leave England because they had lost their political voice

Which statement describes what happened to Puritans in England during the mid-seventeenth century?

They ruled the nation from 1649 to 1660

Who left Massachusetts for Connecticut in 1636 after clashing with church leaders over the requirements for church membership?

Thomas Hooker

After Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691, the defining characteristic of Massachusetts citizenship became

Wealth

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

The Puritans, who described themselves as Separatists, believed that

the Church of England was corrupt beyond redemption

Following the settlement at Plymouth, larger Puritan settlements in New England were sponsored by

the Virginia Company

Most Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay colony were either farmers or

tradesmen

During most of the seventeenth century, New Netherland was

under the control of the Dutch

According to Puritanism, dissent was a result of

mistaken beliefs

Compared to the colonies to the north and south, the population of New Netherland was

diverse

William Penn's goal for his new colony was to

establish a genuinely Quaker colony in the Americas

The official Indian policy in seventeenth-century Pennsylvania

instructed agents to respect the land claims of nearby tribes

By the 1680s, New England's religious consensus had weakened to the point that

only 15 percent of adult males were church members in some towns

In 1686, England created the Dominion of New England, a new government consolidation that

placed all colonies north of Maryland under more direct control by England

In 1688, The Glorious Revolution in England influenced American colonists to

rise up against royal authority in the northern colonies

By the end of the seventeenth century, colonial commerce was characterized by

strong ties to England because of royal supervision of merchants and shippers


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