Colonial Test

Why was the death rate in early Jamestown so high?

It lay beside a malarial swamp

Why commodity drove the african slave trade in brazil and the west indies during the 17th century?

sugar

Why did the puritans decide to emigrate from England in the late 1620's and 1630's?

the Church of England was firing their ministers and conceding their their writings

Which of the following is true of the puritans of the seventeenth century?

they agreed that the Church of England retained too many elements of Catholicism in its rituals and doctrines

In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region life in New England:

was more family oriented

How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development

(It instituted the headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's passage.

Anne Hutchinson:

Engaged in Antinomianism, a sexual practice that Puritans considered threatening to traditional gender relations

Tobacco production in Virginia

Enriched an emerging class of planters and certain members of the colonial government

The separation of the church and state:

Existed only in few colonies

The Puritans minister Thomas Hooker:

Founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut

During the seventeenth century, indentured servants:

Had a great deal of trouble acquiring land

Maryland was established as a refuge for which group?

Catholics

Roger Williams argues that:

Church and state must be totally separated

In the pequot war of 1637

Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers teamed with narragansett allies to set the main pequot village afire and kill 500 pequots

Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as:

Dangerous to social harmony and stability

The half way covenant of 1662

Did not require evidence of conversion to receive a kind of church membership

Which one of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order by the dates they were founded, from the earliest to latest?

Jamestown, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Rhode Island

What was the impact of King Philip's war (1675-1676)

New england's tribes united against the colonists\

William Penn was a member of which religious group?

Quakers

What was William penn's most fundamental principle?

Religious freedom

In regards to religious toleration, the Puritans:

Saw only their fate as the truth

Which one of the following is true of indentured servants?

Their masters could determine whether they could marry

Which of the following statements is true about the early history of jamestown?

The death rate was extraordinarily high

According to the economic theory known as mercantilism

The government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power

Slavery developed more slowly in north america than in the english west indies because:

The high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to die within a short time

Bacon's Rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia?

The replacing of indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia's plantations

Maryland was similar to Virginia in that:

Tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society

As leader of, John Smith:

Used rigorous military discipline to hold the colony together

Where in the americas did the pilgrims originally plan to go?

Virginia

Maryland's founder, Cecilius Calvert:

Wanted Maryland to be like a feudal domain, with power limited for ordinary people.

The Virginia House of Burgesses:

Was created as part of the Virginia Company's effort to encourage the colony's survival

The mayflower compact established:

a civil government for Plymouth colony

What did english settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?

land