U.S. History Test 1 (Ch.2)

Which of the following is true of warfare between colonists and Native Americans during the seventeenth century? Select one: a. Treaties quickly ended each of the wars. b. Colonists were surprised and disappointed in their inability to defeat Indians easily. c. Among the colonists, it generated a strong sense of superiority. d. New England colonists fared far better in warfare than their Virginia counterparts. e. Native Americans actually had more sophisticated and dangerous weaponry than the English.

Among the colonists, it generated a strong sense of superiority.

In the 1650s, who pushed England toward a policy of expanding territory and commercialism? Select one: a. James I b. John Smith c. Oliver Cromwell d. Charles I e. Charles II

Oliver Cromwell

Which of the following is true of the Puritans of the seventeenth century? Select one: a. They differed completely with the views of the Church of England. b. They came to the colonies because they had no hope of holding any power in England. c. John Winthrop founded the church. d. They agreed that the Church of England retained too many elements of Catholicism in its rituals and doctrines. e. They were completely unified on all issues.

They agreed that the Church of England retained too many elements of Catholicism in its rituals and doctrines.

When the Virginia Company gave control of the Virginia colony to the king in 1624: Select one: a. it did so under pressure from the king, who was trying to consolidate his ownership of all colonies. b. this meant that control over the colony would rest entirely in royal hands, ending the local control that had existed under the Virginia Company. c. its white population had quintupled since settlement began in 1607. d. Virginia became the first royal colony. e. James wanted to change the colony's name to Jamesland, but Parliament rejected it.

Virginia became the first royal colony.

The Virginia House of Burgesses: Select one: a. was created as part of the Virginia Company's effort to encourage the colony's survival. b. was dissolved by King James because he objected to all representative government. c. was included in the original charter for the Jamestown Colony. d. banned the importation of servants. e. had more power than the governor.

was created as part of the Virginia Company's effort to encourage the colony's survival.

What was Virginia's "gold," which ensured its survival and prosperity? Select one: a. fur b. tobacco c. sugar d. indigo e. cotton

tobacco

In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England: Select one: a. did not involve class-based hierarchies. b. centered on an economy based on one cash crop. c. was more family-oriented. d. allowed for equal legal rights for women and men. e. was not as deeply religious.

was more family-oriented.

Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church? Select one: a. The Pope had banned England from exploring the New World because the Church already had limited land ownership there to Spain and Portugal. b. He wanted a divorce, and the Pope refused to grant it. c. He wanted to be pope, and the College of Cardinals refused to elect an English Catholic. d. He thought the Catholic Church was corrupt and he wanted to protect the English people from its abuses. e. He was trying to unify Great Britain.

He wanted a divorce, and the Pope refused to grant it

Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s? Select one: a. Because one of Henry VIII's beheaded wives was a Spanish princess, and the Spanish government announced it would be at war with England until Henry apologized. b. Because both the English and Spanish royal families laid claim to the Irish throne. c. Because Spain had allied with France to invade English colonies in the New World. d. Because of religious differences: England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was devoutly Catholic. e. Because of the Spanish Armada's successful invasion of Great Britain in 1588.

Because of religious differences: England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was devoutly Catholic.

In the Pequot War of 1637: Select one: a. the Pequots took over the old Pilgrim colony and made it their own. b. Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers teamed with Narragansett allies to set the main Pequot village afire and kill 500 Pequots. c. the Pequots defeated the Puritans in a battle that temporarily drove back the Massachusetts Bay settlers to only three coastal towns. d. the barbarity of the Native Americans surprised the colonists. e. the Narragansetts joined the Pequots to fight the Puritans, leading to the elimination of both tribes.

Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers teamed with Narragansett allies to set the main Pequot village afire and kill 500 Pequots.

Just as the reconquest of Spain from the Moors established patterns that would be repeated in Spanish New World colonization, the methods used in which one of the following countries anticipated policies England would undertake in America? Select one: a. India b. Scotland c. Wales d. China e. Ireland

Ireland

How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development? Select one: a. It created an executive committee that really ran the colony and a committee of colonists who thought they were running it. b. It instituted the headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's passage. c. It gave control back to the king, who straightened out its problems. d. It fired John Smith and brought in a more popular leader. e. It required all settlers to grow tobacco, a highly profitable crop.

It instituted the headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's passage.

In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and eastern Native Americans: Select one: a. Native Americans soon saw that the colonists' goods were shoddier than their own. b. the arrival of new English goods had no impact on how Indians lived. c. Native Americans initially welcomed the colonists' goods. d. Native Americans sought to keep English goods from influencing their religious ceremonies. e. Native Americans never became integrated into the Atlantic economy.

Native Americans initially welcomed the colonists' goods.

Which one of the following statements is true of Queen Mary of England, who reigned from 1553 to 1558? Select one: a. She ascended to the throne immediately after a long period of civil war and successfully unified the nation. b. She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England. c. Under her authority, colonists established the first permanent English settlement in North America. d. Her refusal to marry led to her designation as "the Virgin Queen," after whom Virginia was named. e. When the Pope refused to allow her to divorce her French royal husband, she founded an independent Church of England.

She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England.

Which of the following is true of the Puritans' dealings with Quakers? Select one: a. They welcomed the Quakers and thus were happy to help them set up the Pennsylvania colony. b. They fought Charles II's efforts to oppress and suppress Quakers. c. Their officials in Massachusetts punished Quakers financially and physically, even hanging several of them. d. They passed a law ordering all Quakers to leave Massachusetts or face imminent death. e. They resented the Quakers for their shrewd business practices.

Their officials in Massachusetts punished Quakers financially and physically, even hanging several of them.

Which of the following statements is true about the early history of Jamestown? Select one: a. The supplies from England were excellent, but the colonists wasted them. b. John Smith took the credit, but he had nothing to do with Jamestown's success. c. The death rate was extraordinarily high. d. The first settlers were farmers and laborers who were so eager to make money that they refused to work and could not be controlled. e. The colony's problems were due largely to its leadership: the same people remained in charge for the first two decades and refused to change their methods.

The death rate was extraordinarily high.

All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century EXCEPT: Select one: a. increased prices buoyed by the influx of gold and silver from Latin America. b. a lower birth rate, which made it difficult to find workers for new industries. c. decreased wages in the cities. d. the invasion of the cities by vagrants, who wandered the roads in search of work. e. the enclosure movement, which forced thousands of peasants from farms.

a lower birth rate, which made it difficult to find workers for new industries.

The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker: Select one: a. defended the rights of conscience in a spirited debate with Puritan leaders about church-state relations. b. founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut. c. insisted that Massachusetts pay Indians for land the colony took from them. d. tried to minister to Puritan women who fell victim to the big city of Boston, for which his name eventually became associated with prostitutes. e. was Anne Hutchinson's minister and thus created problems for the Puritan leadership.

founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut.

The Magna Carta: Select one: a. was, like the English Constitution, unwritten. b. was an agreement between King Henry VIII and the Anglican Church. c. guaranteed religious freedom in Great Britain. d. granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons. e. was seen as embodying English freedom, until Parliament repealed it in 1722.

granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons.

When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island: Select one: a. he felt that too much democracy would be bad because it might interfere with religious freedom. b. he required voters there to be members of a Puritan church. c. the king refused to give it a charter, and it remained a renegade colony until Williams died. d. the colony became a haven for Protestants of all kinds, but it banned Jews. e. he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.

he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.

What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty? Select one: a. a wage-paying job b. the English Bill of Rights c. church membership d. land e. literacy

land

Anne Hutchinson: Select one: a. engaged in Antinomianism, a sexual practice that the Puritans considered threatening to traditional gender relations. b. would have been left alone if she had not also run for a seat in the General Court. c. opposed Puritan ministers who distinguished saints from the damned through church attendance and moral behavior rather than through focusing on an inner state of grace. d. was no threat to the Puritan establishment because women were so clearly considered inferior. e. angered Puritan authorities by supporting the claims of Roger Williams.

opposed Puritan ministers who distinguished saints from the damned through church attendance and moral behavior rather than through focusing on an inner state of grace.

For most New Englanders, Indians represented: Select one: a. culture. b. survival. c. savagery. d. teachers. e. curiosities.

savagery

The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England returned home: Select one: a. built the second permanent British settlement in North America after Roanoke. b. were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company's interest in searching for gold as opposed to building a functioning society. c. included representatives of several other countries, part of England's effort to build a strong network of supporters in case of Spanish attack. d. included women and children, because the Virginia Company realized that a stable society would improve the settlers' chances of success, economic and otherwise. e. were only half of those who originally set sail; the rest turned around and went back.

were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company's interest in searching for gold as opposed to building a functioning society.

Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England: Select one: a. sought to escape the Black Death then ravaging England. b. were lower-class men. c. arrived with other members of their families. d. were single, middle-class men. e. had been released from debtors' prisons.

were lower-class men.