US History Chapter 2
Even Jewish people enjoyed religious freedom under Maryland's Act concerning Religion.
False.
Under English law, married women held many legal rights and privileges.
False.
Who would most admire today's America with its constitutional protections of equal rights for all?
Levellers.
Who was most likely to build the best relationships with the Native Americans?
Pilgrims.
Which of the following statements is true of Queen Mary of England, who reigned from 1553 to 1558?
She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England.
How did most Puritans view the separation of church and state?
They allowed church and state to be interconnected by requiring each town to establish a church and levy a tax to support the minister.
A Discourse concerning Western Planting argued that English settlement of North America would strike a blow against Spain.
True.
The English increasingly viewed America as a land where a man could control his own labor and thus gain independence.
True.
Where in the Americas did the Pilgrims originally plan to go?
Virginia.
Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as:
dangerous to social harmony and community stability.
The Virginia Company can be called a failure primarily because:
it ultimately did not make money.
The Massachusetts General Courts:
reflected the Puritans' desire to govern the colony without outside interference.
In regard to geography, English colonies:
were in colder climates than Spanish colonies.
In early seventeenth-century Massachusetts, freeman status was granted to adult males who:
were landowning church members.
Maryland was established as a refuge for which group?
Catholics.
When comparing English colonies to Spanish ones:
England sent more people to the Americas in the seventeenth century.
How did Richard Hakluyt explain his claim that there was a connection between freedom and colonization?
English colonization would save the New World from Spanish tyranny.
How did indentured servants display a fondness for freedom?
Some of them ran away or were disobedient toward their masters.
Why did Puritans decide to emigrate from England in the late 1620s and 1630s?
The Church of England was firing their ministers and censoring their writings.