History Chapter 2 Quiz

Anne Hutchinson scandalized Massachusetts's authorities both for her unorthodox religious ideas and for her "unwomanly" engagement in public issues.

True

The "Rights of Englishmen" were established in the Magna Carta.

True

The first Thanksgiving celebrated the Pilgrims' survival and a successful harvest.

True

The typical seventeenth-century woman in New England gave birth seven times.

True

Towns banished individuals for such offenses as complaining about the colony in their letters home to England.

True

In 1619, the first elected assembly in colonial America was

the House of Burgesses in Virginia.

In the religious view of the Puritans, you would get to heaven if

God predestined you to heaven or hell; no earthly act could change that.

The early settlers of English America enjoyed the least amount of rights compared to colonists of other empires.

False

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Mayflower Compact; trial of Anne Hutchinson; Half-Way Covenant

Who was the most prominent Native American leader in the original area of English settlement in Virginia?

Powhatan

Most New England colonists sided with Parliament during the English Civil War.

True

An indenture was

a contract for labor for a period of years

A "visible saint" was the term Puritans used to describe

a person who had experienced a conversion experience.

A key motivation behind early English settlement in the American colonies was

acquisition of land, and thus a measure of personal independence: escape from the material and spiritual corruptions of England: the profits to be made in transatlantic commerce.

The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that

just and equal laws made by male representatives onboard were to rule

The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was:

land ownership

In the first two years of Jamestown's existence, relations with the Indians were

mostly peaceful and based on simple trade.

The event that started the Pequot War was

the killing of a fur trader by the Pequots.

Which of the following was not promoted by Oliver Cromwell?

the return to tolerance toward Irish Catholics

John Rolfe married Powhatan's daughter.

True

Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for advocating freedom of individual conscience and religious choice.

True

In 1585, the English attempted to establish Jamestown in North America.

False

In Puritan Massachusetts, "visible saint" was a term used to describe people who shunned material goods to aid the poor and sick of the colony.

False

In the Chesapeake region, men outnumbered women for most of the seventeenth century by a ratio of approximately twelve to one.

False

Intermarriage between Indians and English settlers was common.

False

Most migrants to seventeenth-century New England came out of the poorer reaches of English society.

False

On completing their terms, each male indentured servant received full church membership and grants of land.

False

Ordinary settlers in Puritan Massachusetts were called "gentlemen" and "ladies" or "master" and "mistress."

False

Seventeenth-century New England quickly developed into a land of large plantations and landless servants.

False

Slavery was never allowed in the devoutly Christian colony of Massachusetts.

False

The Half-Way Covenant (1662) held that membership should come from religious conversion rather than ancestry if one hoped to become one of the elect.

False

Which of the following did not happen in the 1630s?

The House of Burgesses was established.

Which of the following was not a central theme of Puritan thought?

The quest for material prosperity is a sign of moral corruption

Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was

Tobacco

In the 1600s, nearly two-thirds of English settlers came as indentured servants.

True

Indenture contracts usually bound indentured servants for periods of from five to seven years.

True

Most immigrants to America from England in the 1600s were poor, young, single men.

True

One change in Indian life after the English colonists settled was

alcohol became increasingly common and disruptive

Which of the following was not a significant outcome of the start of Chesapeake tobacco cultivation?

campaigns to discourage migration by English women, who, it was feared, would distract male Virginians from their work in the fields

The English "enclosure" movement of the 1500s and 1600s forced small farmers off "commons" land so that the land could be taken up by

sheep

Pocahontas married

John Rolfe

Who was the English-speaking American Indian the Pilgrims encountered at Plymouth Bay in 1620?

Squanto

At the end of their period of indenture, indentured servants were often given "freedom dues" and became free members of society.

True

Because Jamestown was settled next to a malarial swamp, many settlers died.

True

Colonial Massachusetts was organized into self-governing towns.

True

England's ongoing struggle to subdue Ireland delayed its entry into New World colonization.

True

Harvard College was principally founded to educate young men into the ministry.

True

In Puritan New England, a husband's authority in his house was nearly absolute; genuine freedom for a woman was understood to come from her subjection to her husband's will and desires.

True

Seventeenth-century Maryland stood out for its system of absolute rule, but also for its practice of religious toleration.

True

Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants would immediately acquire a large estate.

True

When supplies reached the Roanoke colony in 1590, the inhabitants had mysteriously vanished leaving only a word carved in a tree as a clue to their whereabouts.

True

Which of the following was not a significant feature of indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?

Indentured servants never comprised more than a small percentage of Virginians, the great majority of whom arrived either as free settlers or slaves.

The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?

grandchildren of the English Great Migration

Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were

high rates of death and disease

The Levellers

wanted to greatly expand the right to vote.

In an effort to discourage colonists and prevent newcomers from joining Indian societies, Puritans suggested the "godly society"

write captivity narratives describing the brutality of the Indians.

During the early years of English settlement, some people worried that the need for wood to build and heat homes would deplete the forests; yet the fur trade increased, as did the population of beaver.

False

The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?

Indentured servants

Which of the following was not a characteristic of early New England society?

equality of the sexes in general church affairs, but not in government affairs

Because Puritan Massachusetts was deeply religious, ministers were frequently elected to colonial offices.

False

In the 1600s in Massachusetts, full church membership was not required to vote in colony-wide elections.

False

Another name for the Church of England was the

Anglican Church.

Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for

Catholics

Among the suggested reasons why the English should colonize the New World were

English settlements would strike a blow against the Spanish empire and their influence of Catholicism.

All Pilgrims were Puritans.

False

Which of the following was not a significant trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?

the elimination of gender hierarchies

Which was not a characteristic of Roger Williams's Rhode Island colony?

It required citizens to attend church.

The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at

Jamestown, Virginia

The Indian leader, ____, led a surprise attack that killed one-quarter of Virginia's settlers in a single day.

Opechancanough

Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?

Tobacco

England's king enticed his relatives and allies to the New World by granting them plots of land.

True

The English colonies differed from the Spanish in that Spanish women could

jointly own all the wealth accumulated during marriage.

In 1600s Virginia, a feme sole could do all of the following except

vote

Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts

were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity.

Within the Puritan community, the family was considered the foundation of a strong community while unmarried persons

were viewed as a danger to the social fabric.