Quiz 4 Chapters 1-4
Economically, it made more sense to contract for indentured servants than to purchase slaves because
Life expectancy rates for both were low.
New Englanders mostly profited from
Selling timber, wood products, and fish.
Roger Williams advocated
Separation of church and state.
The first English colony at Roanoke was
Abandoned by the British because it served no useful economic or military purpose.
Which of the following statements is not an accurate portrayal of the witchcraft scare?
Accusations of witchcraft were indirectly aimed at men who were advocating political change.
Mercantilism defined a nation's wealth by the
Amount of gold and silver it possessed.
How did the British government view the North American colonies in the first half of the eighteenth century?
As equal brothers
How did the British government view the North American colonies in the first half of the eighteenth century?
As equal brothers.
Which of the following about English immigrants to Virginia in the seventeenth century is true?
As many as 90 percent of the migrants to the Chesapeake during that time period came as servants.
The victory of New England Puritans over Metacom and the Wampanoag people was a result of
Assistance from the governor of New York and his Mohawk allies.
The Indians who lived in the New Netherlands used ____________ as a medium of exchange.
Beads made from clamshells.
In its colonial system,
Canada was of questionable value to France.
What crop was cultivated by nearly every Native American farming culture?
Corn.
The Five Nations or Great League of Peace
Curtailed the mourning wars among Iroquois in upper New York.
The expansion of French claims from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico after 1682
Cut off westward expansion of English colonies.
According to the political theorist Edmund Burke, England's colonies in North America
Developed accidentally.
Following the arrival of Cortes, the Spanish and Aztecs
Each statement is accurate.
Which statement about the imperial wars is accurate?
Each statement is accurate.
Why were European diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and influenza so devastating to Native populations?
Each statement is correct.
The House of Burgesses was the first
Elected representative government in the New World.
Puritans wanted to
Eliminate aspects of Roman Catholicism from the Church of England
The Third Anglo-Powhatan War resulted in the
First Indian reservation in America.
For the natives, the encomienda resulted in
Forced labor.
When Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftsbury, founded the Carolina colony, he wanted a
Society with nobles at the top and serfs at the bottom.
What enabled the New World slave system to grow so rapidly?
The European demand for plantation crops.
The Beaver Wars erupted when
The Hurons cut off trade between the Iroquois and the French.
Why did the combination of corn and beans prove so crucial to the diet of early Americans?
The beans added amino acid to the corn, making the combination as nutritious as meat.
The first clear evidence of enslavement of Africans in mainland English colonies is
The fact that Maryland's Assembly guaranteed rights to all Christians except slaves.
What problem did the Half-Way Covenant try to address?
The growing number of Anglo-Indian marriages.
Why did Henry VIII make Protestantism the official religion of England?
The pope would not dissolve his sonless marriage with Catherine of Aragon.
How did the Glorious Revolution shape England's foreign affairs?
The successful completion of the revolution prompted England's leaders to ban any further westward expansion in the colonies.
What happened to the surviving members of the Pequot tribe at the end of the Pequot War in 1638?
They were sold into slavery in the colony of Providence Island.
Why did King Charles charter the Royal Africa Company in 1663?
To carry slaves out of Africa to the British West Indies.
What was the boldest and most radical assertion of Two Treatises of Government?
Identification of a right of revolution against a government that violated the civil rights of its citizens.
Native populations declined because of all of the following reasons except
Increased life spans.
A major result of the Beaver Wars was that
Indians were never able to replace population loss resulting from warfare.
Carolina was the first colony that
Introduced slavery at the outset.
How did the Glorious Revolution affect England and its colonies?
It secured constitutional government for British people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Who wrote Two Treatises of Government?
John Locke.
_________ was a Roanoke Indian who appeared to convert to Christianity but eventually returned to the Indian culture and opposed British colonists.
Manteo
Powhatan, leader of the Powhatan Algonquians in Virginia, expanded his power over other groups of Indians by
Marrying women in different tribes.
Which of its colonies were of the greatest value to France?
Martinique and Guadeloupe.
On the whole, Great Plains Indians
Obtained guns from the French and horses from the Spanish.
Under slave codes prevailing in colonial America
Ownership was hereditary and passed from mother to child.
How did Pennsylvania settlers undermine William Penn's vision for his proprietary colony?
People lived where and how they wanted without cohesion or regard for hierarchy.
Roger Williams, one of the founders of Rhode Island, believed
That the king had no right to grant land owned by Indians.
What was similar about King William's War and Queen Anne's War?
They were essentially struggles for power in Europe, both of which resulted in a stalemate.
According to the author of Two Treatises of Government, what was the purpose of government?
To protect the lives, liberties, and fortunes of people who created it.
What impact did the economic opportunities in Pennsylvania and New York have on Virginia?
Virginians found themselves resorting increasingly to slavery.
Nathaniel Bacon advocated
War against all Indians.
William Penn's colony of Pennsylvania, founded in 1681,
Welcomed members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers.
The term "middle ground" refers to
an area where European and Indian cultures and people coexisted in relative peace.
In 1673 French explorers traveled as far down the Mississippi River as
The Arkansas River.
Anthony Johnson, an African who arrived in Virginia in 1621,
Owned slaves.
African slavery, because it was based on race, was
Perpetual.
British colonies were all
Private ventures financed by individuals or small groups.
Sir Francis Drake is best known as a
Privateer who helped defeat the Spanish Armada.
Why did Carolina's governor complain that slaves were "running dayly" to Florida?
Spaniards paid them wages and introduced them to Catholicism.
Which of the following was not one of the reasons for the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
Spanish colonists were trying to sell Pueblo Indians into slavery.
Squanto, a Patuxet Indian,
Taught Pilgrims how to grow corn.
Most English settlers believed
That Indians were incapable of conversion to the English way of life.