Chapter 2 True/False

True

"A Discourse Concerning Western Planting" argued that English settlement of North America would strike a blow against Spain

False

Growing connections with Europeans lessened warfare between Indian tribes.

True

Henry Care believed that the English system of government was the best in the world.

True

Oliver Cromwell's Parliament passed the first Navigation Act, aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch.

True

Religious toleration violated the Puritan understanding of moral liberty.

True

Treatment of the Indians by members of the Virginia colony was influenced in part by Las Casas's condemnation of Spanish behavior.

False

Disease killed many Indians, but European settlers were not affected by disease.

True

English settlers believed land was the basis of liberty.

False

In British America, unlike other New World empires, Indians performed most of the labor in the colonies.

False

The English Civil War was a bloodless war that restored Catholicism to England.