Chapter 3

What did the first English arrivals seek to secure on their arrival in Plymouth?

A community of religious purity.

What was a notable characteristic of Jamestown during its first decade?

An appallingly high mortality rate

How did puritans understand religious dissent?

As a replay of original sin

Which of the following about English immigrants to Virginia in the seventeenth century is true?

As many as 90 percent of the migrants to the Chesapeake during that time period came as servants.

The survival of the Plymouth colony was made possible by

Assistance from friendly Indians

The Swiss Protestant Reformer John Calvin

Believed God ordained who would save even before they were born

Despite the economic boom for Virginia and Maryland produced by tobacco exports,

Death rates remained high for infants and adults

Puritans wanted to

Eliminate aspects of Roman Catholicism from the Church of England

The Third Anglo-Powhatan War resulted in the

First Indian reservation in America

English men and women from the lowest ranks of society who agreed to working in exchange for passage money to the colonies were known as

Indentured servants

The result of the Puritans' attack on the Pequot village of Mystic on May 26, 1637, was

Pequot men, women, and children were murdered by Puritans.

Roger Williams advocated

Separation of church and state

By the second half of the sixteenth century, Northern Europeans considered Africans

Sexually promiscuous and brutish

By an Act of Tolerance, settlement in Maryland was open to

Those who believed in Jesus Christ

Jamestown was the

first successful English colony in North America

Puritan families valued

harmony and order in the home

Although settled two decades later, New England was able to keep pace with the Chesapeake colonies because

its people lived in a healthier region

One way New Englanders differed from Chesapeake colonists is that they

migrated as families rather than as individuals

New Englanders mostly profited from

selling timber, wood products, and fish

Squanto, a Patuxet Indian,

taught the pilgrims how to grow corn