Chapter 2 (True or False) | Mid-Term 1301
Like the first Jamestown settlers, the settlers of Massachusetts were mostly families.
False
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
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
Growing connections with Europeans lessened warfare between Indian tribes.
False
In British America, unlike other New World empires, Indians performed most of the labor in the colonies.
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
