Chapter 4

The Navigation Acts of the 1650s and 1660s were designed to regulate colonial trade in order to

Yield revenues for the crown and English merchants

In 1686, England created the Dominion of New England, a new government consolidation that

Placed all colonies north of Maryland under direct control by England

Which statement characterizes Puritan communities in the first half of the seventeenth century?

A high degree of religious conformity

How did the Boston church punish Anne Hutchinson?

Excommunitcation

What was seventeenth-century New England's biggest export?

Fish

What was William Penn's goal for his new colony?

To establish a genuinely Quaker colonies in the Americas

What was the goal of the Puritans who founded Massachusetts Bay colony?

To reform the Church of England

How did King Henry VIII respond to the Protestant Reformation?

he made himself the head of the Church of England

During most of the seventeenth century, New Netherland was

under the control of the Dutch

The Puritans, who described themselves as Separatists, believed that

The Church of England was corrupt beyond redemption