Chapter 2 Quiz HIST 1301

Which one of the following is true of poverty in seventeenth-century Great Britain?

a. About half of the population lived at or below the poverty line by the end of the seventeenth century.

The Massachusetts General Court:

a. reflected the Puritans' desire to govern the colony without outside interference.

How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development?

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

Puritans followed the religious ideas of the French-born theologian:

a. John Calvin.

Which one of the following is true of the Puritans' dealings with Quakers?

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

Maryland's founder, Cecilius Calvert:

a. did not want ordinary people to get involved in politics.

The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker:

a. founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut.

Which one of the following spurred increased European interest in colonizing North America?

a. national glory and religious rivalries

It can be argued that conflict between the English settlers and local Indians in Virginia became inevitable when:

a. the Native Americans realized that England wanted to establish a permanent and constantly expanding colony, not just a trading post.

In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England:

a. was more family oriented.

The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England returned home:

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

Which one of the following is true of warfare between colonists and Native Americans during the seventeenth century?

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

How did Richard Hakluyt explain his claim that there was a connection between freedom and colonization?

b. English colonization would save the New World from Spanish tyranny.

John Winthrop followed which one of the following policies toward Native Americans?

b. He insisted that they agree to submit to English authority.

Which colony adopted the Act concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration?

b. Maryland

Which one of the following is true of the Puritans of the seventeenth century?

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

How did most Puritans in the colonies view the separation of church and state?

b. They allowed church and state to be interconnected by requiring each town to establish a church and levy a tax to support the minister.

Why did the Pilgrims flee the Netherlands?

b. They felt that the surrounding culture was corrupting their children.

In 1607, the colonists who sailed to Jamestown on three small ships:

b. chose an inland site partly to avoid the possibility of attack by Spanish warships. Correct

Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as:

b. dangerous to social harmony and community stability.

As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:

b. efforts were made to encourage the poor and jobless to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis.

In Puritan New England:

b. infant mortality rates were lower than in the Chesapeake colonies, because the environment was healthier.

What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?

b. land

The Native American leader Powhatan:

b. managed to consolidate control over some thirty nearby tribes.

Of the half million people who left England between 1607 and 1700:

b. more went to the West Indies than to North America.

In New England towns:

b. much of the land remained in commons, for collective use or to be divided among later settlers.

To entice settlers to Virginia, the Virginia Company established the headright system, which:

b. provided land to settlers who paid their own passage.

At Anne Hutchinson's trial:

b. she violated Puritan doctrine by claiming that God spoke to her directly rather than through ministers or the Bible.

The Puritans believed that male authority in the household was:

b. to be unquestioned.

Maryland was similar to Virginia in that:

b. tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society.

The Virginia House of Burgesses:

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

What good fortune helped the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth?

c. Native Americans had recently cleared the fields for planting.

Why did Puritans decide to emigrate from England in the late 1620s and 1630s?

c. The Church of England was firing their ministers and censoring their writings.

Which one of the following is true about the early history of Jamestown?

c. The death rate was extraordinarily high.

The Magna Carta:

c. granted many liberties, but mainly to barons.

When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island:

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

Virginia's colonial policy of requiring Native Americans to move to reservations:

c. resulted from a treaty that Native Americans were forced to sign.

The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas:

c. was seen in England as a sign of Anglo-Indian harmony and missionary success.

Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England:

c. were men from the lower classes.

Where in the Americas did the Pilgrims originally plan to go?

d. Virginia

When the Virginia Company gave control of the Virginia colony to the king in 1624:

d. Virginia became the first royal colony.

The Mayflower Compact established:

d. a civil government for the Plymouth Colony.

Opechancanough:

d. mounted a surprise attack in 1622 that wiped out one-quarter of Virginia's settlers.

Anne Hutchinson:

d. 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.

In early-seventeenth-century Massachusetts, freeman status was granted to adult males who:

d. were landowning church members.

Which one of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order by the dates they were founded, from the earliest to the latest?

e. Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island

Which of the following is NOT a way that colonists undermined traditional Native American agriculture and hunting?

e. Their refusal to build fences and permanent structures created conflict with Native American hunting methods.