Chapter 2 Test

(M) a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great Migration

Half-Way Covenant

(M) first elected assembly in colonies

House of Burgesses

(M) a political movement favoring expanded liberties

Levellers

(M) written in 1215, this document was said to embody English freedom

Magna Carta

(M) first written frame government in British America

Mayflower Compact

(M) argued the Church of England was still too Catholic

Puritans

(M) believed the spirit of God dwelled in all persons

Quakers

(T/F) A Discourse Concerning Western Planting argued that English settlement of North America would strike a blow against Spain.

True

(T/F) Believing that tobacco was harmful to one's health, King James I warned against its use.

True

(T/F) English settlers believed land was the basis of liberty.

True

(T/F) Henry Care believed that the English system of government was the best in the world.

True

(T/F) Treatment of the Indians by members of the Virginia colony was influenced in part by Las Casas's condemnation of Spanish behavior.

True

(M) charter company that established Jamestown

Virginia Company

All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century EXCEPT:

a lower birthrate, which made it difficult to find workers for new industries

As leaders of the Jamestown colony, John Smith:

alienated many of the colonists with his autocratic rule

(M) principles of religious toleration

an Act Concerning Religion

A consequence of the English Civil War of the 1640s was:

an English belief that England was the world's guardian of liberty

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

chose an inland site partyl to avoid the possibility of attack by Spanish warships

Who reeceived most of the profits from trade between Native Americans and colonists?

colonial and European merchants

The Magna Carta:

granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons

(M) granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passage

headright system America

(M) gave 5-7 years of service for passage to America

indentured servant

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

more went to the West Indies than to North America

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

provided land to settlers who paid their own passage

(M) primary crop of the Chesapeake colonies

tobacco

What was Virginia's "gold," which ensured its survival and prosperity?

tobacco

Intermarriage between English colonists and Native Americans in Virginia:

was very rare before being outlawed by the Virginia legislature in 1691

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

Among the colonists, it generated a strong sense of superiority

During the reign of ________, the English government turned its attention to North America by granting charters to Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh for the establishment of colonies there

Elizabeth I

(T/F) Disease killed many Indians, but European settlers were not affected by disease.

False

(T/F) Growing connections with Europeans lessened warfare between Indian tribes.

False

(T/F) In British America, unlike other New World empires, Indians performed most of the labor in the colonies.

False

(T/F) The English Civil War was a bloodless war that restored Catholicism to England.

False

(T/F) Under English law, married women held many legal rights and privileges.

False

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

John Calvin