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.