Midterm Chapter 2

(Q030) One change in Indian life after the English colonists settled was that

Indian use of alcohol became increasingly common and disruptive to Native American culture.

(Q003) What was the impact of European wood reductions upon Native American tribes?

It reduced the availability of animals for hunting

(Q009) The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at

Jamestown, Virginia

(Q032) Pocahontas married

John Rolfe

(Q033) The Indian leader, ____, led a surprise attack that killed one-quarter of Virginia's settlers in a single day.

Opechancanough

(Q007) Which of the following was a theme of Puritan thought?

People enter this world as either the "elect" or the "damned."

(Q025) Who was the most prominent Native American leader in the original area of English settlement in Virginia?

Powhatan

(Q004) Which of the following was an outcome of the start of Chesapeake tobacco cultivation?

a rush of English newcomers in pursuit of land

(Q016) In 1600s Virginia, a feme sole could perform which of the following tasks?

acquire land

(Q006) Which of the following was a trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?

an increase in urban population

(Q011) Employers saw "masterless men" in England as a

danger to society

(Q008) Which of the following was a characteristic of early New England society?

extensive autonomy and self-government in local affairs

(Q051) Most migrants to seventeenth-century New England came out of the poorer reaches of English society.

false

(Q058) Intermarriage was common between Indians and English settlers.

false

(Q062) Ordinary settlers in Puritan Massachusetts were called "gentlemen" and "ladies" or "master" and "mistress."

false

(Q064) Slavery was never allowed in the devoutly Christian colony of Massachusetts.

false

(Q065) 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

(Q066) All Pilgrims were Puritans

false

(Q068) In 1585, the English attempted to establish Jamestown in North America.

false

(Q070) John Smith married Powhatan's daughter and the married couple eventually visited England together.

false

(Q074) The early settlers of English America enjoyed the least amount of rights compared to colonists of other empires.

false

(Q075) England's king enticed his relatives and allies to the New World by granting them slaves in Europe.

false

(Q076) During the early years of English settlement, the population of beaver diminished as a result of the fur trade.

false

(Q077) In the Chesapeake region, men outnumbered women for most of the seventeenth century by a ratio of approximately twelve to one.

false

(Q043) What marketable staple did the English pursue in New England?

fish

(Q001) Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were

high rates of death and disease

(Q022) The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?

indentured servants

(Q005) Which of the following was a feature of indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?

indentured servants were held in bondage only for a limited period of time

(Q034) The English colonies differed from the Spanish in that Spanish women could

jointly own all the wealth accumulated during marriage

(Q020) The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that

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

(Q031) In the first two years of Jamestown's existence, relations with the Indians were

mostly peaceful interactions and based on simple trade.

(Q041) In what century did England grant most working-class men the right to vote?

nineteenth century

(Q042) Henry Care, author of English Liberties (1680), demonstrates that seventeenth-century identities rested in part on negative images of

other nations

(Q010) 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

(Q014) In 1619, the first elected assembly in colonial America was

the House of Burgesses in Virginia.

(Q044) New Englanders in the 1600s engaged in a profitable trade with

the West Indies

(Q002) One key motivation behind many early English settlers in the American colonies was

the desire to escape from the spiritual corruptions of England

(Q039) Which of the following was promoted by Oliver Cromwell?

the expansion of Protestantism

(Q037) The event that started the Pequot War was

the killing of a fur trader by the Pequots

(Q015) Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was

tobacco

(Q024) Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?

tobacco

(Q045) Seventeenth-century Maryland stood out for its system of absolute rule, but also for its practice of religious toleration.

true

(Q047) The early English colonies in North America and the West Indies were called "plantations."

true

(Q048) Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for advocating freedom of individual conscience and religious choice.

true

(Q049) Anne Hutchinson scandalized Massachusetts's authorities both for her unorthodox religious ideas and for her "unwomanly" engagement in public issues.

true

(Q052) Most immigrants to America from England in the 1600s were poor, young, single men.

true

(Q053) Indenture contracts usually bound indentured servants for periods of five to seven years.

true

(Q054) Because Jamestown was settled next to a malarial swamp, many settlers died.

true

(Q056) At the end of their period of indenture, indentured servants were often given "freedom dues," and became free members of society.

true

(Q057) Harvard College was principally founded to educate young men into the ministry.

true

(Q059) The typical seventeenth-century woman in New England gave birth seven times.

true

(Q060) Colonial Massachusetts was organized into self-governing towns.

true

(Q067) The first Thanksgiving celebrated the Pilgrims' survival and a successful harvest.

true

(Q072) The "Rights of Englishmen" were established in the Magna Carta.

true

(Q073) Most New England colonists sided with Parliament during the English Civil War.

true

(Q079) 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

(Q038) The Levellers

wanted to greatly expand the right to vote

(Q035) 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 of the community

(Q036) To counteract the attraction of Indian life, Puritan leaders suggested that colonists

write captivity narratives describing Indian brutality.

(Q027) Another name for the Church of England was the

Anglican Church

(Q023) Which of the following events happened in the 1630s?

Anne Hutchinson's trial

(Q017) Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for

Catholics

(Q028) Among the suggested reasons why the English should colonize the New World were that

English settlements would reduce the Spanish empire and the influence of Catholicism