Chapter 2

Which of the following statements about the Hartford and New Haven colonies is not correct?

The Fundamental Articles of New Haven in 1639 guaranteed religious freedom.

Which statement regarding the Puritans' emigration from England is not correct?

The Puritans sought to find a colony where all people would be free to worship as they wished.

Which of the following statements regarding the Massachusetts Bay Company is not correct?

The organizers received a grant for an area almost identical to the present-day Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Which of the following statements about the establishment of the Carolina colony is not correct?

The proprietors hoped to populate the colony with inexpensive expeditions from England.

Which statement regarding incentives to colonization offered by Carolina's proprietors is not correct?

The proprietors' campaign of promotions and incentives drew an abundance of settlers.

Which statement about the Dominion of New England and Sir Edmund Andros is not accurate?

The success of the Dominion of New England was hampered by the appointment by Charles II of the unpopular Andros as governor.

Under the new policies of the Virginia Company in 1609, poor people were ____

given free passage if they agreed to serve the company for seven years.

Thanks to a new charter granted in 1609 by James I, the Virginia Company had ___

greater land and power over the colony.

Why did the settlers of the Maryland colony promote religious tolerance?

They could not adequately populate the colony with only English Catholics.

Which of the following statements about societies that existed around the borders of British settlement is accurate?

They were places where European and Indian cultures interacted and neither side had a military advantage.

For which of the following reasons did England pass the Navigation Acts?

To ensure profit from the growing commercial success of the colonies.

Why did the Puritans sign the Mayflower Compact?

To establish a government for themselves.

Virginia's first profitable crop was ___

Tobacco.

True or false: Contest for control of North America was most clearly visible in the areas around the borders of British settlement.

True

Who among the following was an outspoken evangelist who started and led a Quaker colony in America after receiving a royal grant?

William Penn

Who did the "Glorious Revolution" bring to power in England?

William and Mary

Which of the following was a major factor in the inability of early settlers to build a real community in Jamestown?

Women had not been recruited for the expedition.

What was one major difference between tidewater and backcountry landowners in mid-seventeenth-century Virginia?

policy toward natives

Africans in the Caribbean colonies of the 1600s typically did all of the following, except ___

adopt Christianity.

What did not influence the rise of slavery in the Caribbean during the 1600s?

A belief that Africans made ideal agricultural workers.

What is an indenture?

A contract that binds someone to work for set period of time.

Where was the Mayflower Compact drawn up?

Aboard the Pilgrims' ship.

A good example of the "middle grounds" in seventeenth-century America was the ___

area along the western borders of English settlement.

Which of the following was a major contributing factor to the "starving time" in Jamestown?

An Indian barricade kept colonists from moving inland.

What was the result of the treaty in which the English agreed not to settle west of of the Blue Ridge Mountains?

As the result of population growth, the English broke their promise.

In 1688, when members of Parliament feared that James II would be succeeded by a ______ king, they invited his daughter Mary and her husband, William, to reign jointly.

Catholic

In the English Civil War, the king's supporters were known as the ______, and supporters of Parliament were known as the ______.

Cavaliers; Roundheads

The Pequot War was the result of hostilities between the Pequot Indians and English settlers in the ___

Connecticut Valley.

Religious dissenters in Massachusetts Bay formed colonies that later became ___

Connecticut.

Which statement regarding New York in the 1600s is not correct?

Despite the colony's great diversity, James made a disastrous attempt to impose Catholic rule on its inhabitants.

In 1629, England's king Charles I ______, a state of affairs that remained in effect until 1640.

dissolved Parliament

What did the Quakers have in common with the Puritans?

Establishment of a religious refuge in North America.

True or false: Because Protestants were outnumbered by Catholics in Maryland, its founders established a policy of religious toleration that assured freedom of worship to all Christians.

False

True or false: The colonies in Connecticut were established to promote religious tolerance and freedom.

False

Which statement regarding the grant of land given by Charles II to William Penn is not correct?

Fearing that Penn would develop dictatorial powers, the king sharply limited his authority in the colony.

From the Spanish colony in ______, Spanish traders and missionaries began moving northward into ______.

Florida; Georgia

The ______ ________ occurred in 1688, when William and Mary became joint sovereigns of England in a bloodless coup.

Glorious Revolution

In order to entice colonists to Virginia, the Virginia Company promised white male colonists a share in self-government, which resulted in the creation of the ______, the first elected legislature in the United States.

House of Burgesses

Which of the following was a result of Bacon's Rebellion?

Increased reliance on black slaves for labor.

Which of the following most accurately describes life in the middle grounds?

Indians and Europeans made concessions to each other and carved out ways of living with each other.

How did the creation of the Dominion of New England impact colonies in New England (and eventually those in New York and New Jersey)?

It limited the authority of the colonists by increasing British authority to enforce laws.

Which of the following best describes the headright system?

It was an effort by the Virginia Company to entice new workers to the colony.

Which statement regarding the early government of New York is not correct?

James governed the colony personally until he became king in 1685.

In 1630, ______ commanded an expedition of 17 ships and 1,000 people bound for New England, the largest single migration of its kind in the seventeenth century.

John Winthrop

Which statement explains how Bacon's Rebellion spurred the rise of slavery in Virginia?

Landed elites imported more slaves because they feared growth among the white lower classes.

Which of the following statements about the Quakers is not correct?

Like the Puritans, the Quakers subscribed to the ideas of predestination and original sin.

Which of the following was a serious problem for the settlers at Jamestown?

Many colonists became sick because they lacked prior exposure to malaria and other local diseases.

Which statement about the rise of slavery in the Caribbean is not correct?

Moral considerations initially prevented the English from adopting slavery, but eventually they relented.

Between 1660 and 1673, the English government passed three ______ Acts to regulate trade in the colonies.

Navigation

Which of the following was a way new settlers could receive headrights from the Virginia Company?

Paying for the passage of another settler.

Which statement about William Penn and the profitability of the Pennsylvania colony is not correct?

Penn was discouraged by years of economic turmoil in Pennsylvania and its lack of big cities.

Which statement about the agricultural economy of the seventeenth-century Caribbean colonies is not correct?

Planters were reluctant to plant sugarcane.

Which best describes the ratio of Catholic settlers to Protestants in Maryland?

Protestants outnumbered Catholics.

As Berkeley expanded his powers in the colony, which of the following occurred?

Recent settlers in the frontier were underrepresented in the House of Burgesses.

Which statement about events leading up to the English Civil War is not correct?

Recognizing his mistakes with Parliament, Charles I in 1640 signed the Magna Carta.

Who among the following dominated Virginia politics as a royal governor of Virginia for more than thirty years?

Sir William Berkeley

The winter of 1609-1610 at Jamestown became known as the "______ time."

Starving

Why was the institution of slavery different in New York than in other colonies?

The Dutch West India Company granted slaves "half freedom."

As head of a parliamentary committee investigating ______, James Oglethorpe became appalled by the plight of ______, and he founded Georgia partly to provide a refuge and new start for them.

prisons; honest debtors and other vulnerable people

The backcountry gentry most resented Berkeley's ____

refusal to allow settlers to move farther west.

The Puritans were called "Separatists" because they ___

sought to separate from the Church of England.

Frontier areas in which settlers and Indians vied for control, with neither side able to establish clear dominance, are described as ___

the "middle grounds."

A 1637 war in Connecticut between English settlers and Indians in the region was known as ___

the Pequot War.

During the early history of Jamestown, power in the region was held by ___

the Powhatan Confederacy.

Contest for the control of North America was most evident in ___

the middle grounds.

The Pequot War resulted in ___

the near elimination of local Indian tribes in the Connecticut Valley.

What was the main point of contention between backcountry and tidewater Virginians?

westward expansion