US History chapter 2

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Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants would immediately acquire a large estate.

False

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

True

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

True

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

True

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

It reduced the availability of animals for hunting.

Pocahontas married

John Rolfe.

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

True

Towns banished individuals for such offenses as complaining about the colony in their letters home to England.

True

When supplies reached the Roanoke colony in 1590, the inhabitants had mysteriously vanished.

True

"visible saint" was the term Puritans used to describe

a person who had experienced a conversion experience.

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

nineteenth century

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.

New Englanders in the 1600s engaged in a profitable trade with

the West Indies.

In the 1600s in Massachusetts, full church membership was not required to vote in colony-wide elections.

False

In the 1600s, nearly one quarter of English settlers came as indentured servants.

False

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

False

Another name for the Church of England was the

Anglican Church

Employers saw "masterless men" in England as a

danger to society.

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

extensive autonomy and self-government in local affairs

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

false


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