Give Me Liberty Chapter 2
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
John Calvin
French-born theologian who influenced the Puritans
William Bradford
Pilgrim leader
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
Levellers
a political movement favoring expanded liberties
Half-way Covenant
a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great Migration
Puritans
argued the Church of England was still too Catholic
Henry Care
believed a balanced constitution was essential to liberties
Quakers
believed the spirit of God dwelled in all persons
Virginia Company
charter company that established Jamestown
A consequence of the English Civil War of the 1640s was: a. the establishment of Plymouth Colony. b. the outbreak of war between Spain and England. c. an increase in the power of the Stuart kings. d. an English belief that England was the world's guardian of liberty. e. the signing of the Magna Carta.
d. an English belief that England was the world's guardian of liberty.
John Smith
early leader of Jamestown
Roger Williams
established Rhode Island
House of Burgesses
first elected assembly in colonial America
Mayflower Compact
first written frame of government in British America
indentured servant
gave five to seven years of service for passage to America
John Winthrop
governor of Massachusetts
head-right system
granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passage
Walter Raleigh
his settlement at Roanoke Island failed
Powhatan
leader of Indians near Jamestown
tobacco
primary crop of the Chesapeake colonies
an Act Concerning Religion
principles of religious toleration
Cecilius Calvert
proprietor of Maryland
Anne Hutchinson
was denounced for Antinomianism
Pocahontas
wife of John Rolfe
Magna Carta
written in 1215, this document was said to embody English freedom
In British America, unlike other New World empires, Indians performed most of the labor in the colonies.
False
Like the first Jamestown settlers, the settlers of Massachusetts were mostly families.
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
Growing connections with Europeans lessened warfare between Indian tribes.
False
Squanto
Indian who helped the Pilgrims