HIST-120 Chapter 2

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

Jamestown, Virginia.

Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for

Catholics

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

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

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

True

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

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

An indenture was

a contract for labor for a period of years.

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

the elimination of gender hierarchies

Which of the following was not promoted by Oliver Cromwell?

the return to tolerance toward Irish Catholics

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

True

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

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

False

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

False

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

True

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

Squanto

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

The House of Burgesses was established.

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

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

True

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 Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?

grandchildren of the English Great Migration