Chapter 2 Quiz US history
(Q002) One key motivation behind many early English settlers in the American colonies was
(Q002) One key motivation behind many early English settlers in the American colonies was
(Q041) In what century did England grant most working-class men the right to vote?
19th century
(Q025) Who was the most prominent Native American leader in the original area of English settlement in Virginia?
Powhatan
(Q021) Who was the English-speaking American Indian the Pilgrims encountered at Plymouth Bay in 1620?
Squanto
(Q049) Anne Hutchinson scandalized Massachusetts's authorities both for her unorthodox religious ideas and for her "unwomanly" engagement in public issues
True
(Q016) In 1600s Virginia, a feme sole could perform which of the following tasks?
acquire land
(Q050) Seventeenth-century New England quickly developed into a land of African-based slavery
false
(Q051) Most migrants to seventeenth-century New England came out of the poorer reaches of English society.
false
(Q061) In the 1600s in Massachusetts, full church membership was not required to vote in colony-wide elections.
false
(Q062) Ordinary settlers in Puritan Massachusetts were called "gentlemen" and "ladies" or "master" and "mistress."
false
(Q064) Slavery was never allowed in the devoutly Christian colony of Massachusetts
false
(Q080) On completing their terms, each male indentured servant received full church membership and grants of land.
false
(Q040) The English belief in freedom as a common heritage helped to cast imperial wars against Spain as struggles between
freedom and tyranny
(Q001) Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were
high rates of death and disease.
(Q020) The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that
just and equal laws made by male representatives onboard were to rule over others.
(Q042) Henry Care, author of English Liberties (1680), demonstrates that seventeenth-century identities rested in part on negative images of
other nations
(Q024) Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?
tobacco
(Q048) Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for advocating freedom of individual conscience and religious choice.
true
(Q054) Because Jamestown was settled next to a malarial swamp, many settlers died
true
(Q055) In Puritan New England, a husband's authority in his house was nearly absolute; genuine freedom for a woman was understood to come from her subjection to her husband's will and desires.
true
(Q057) Harvard College was principally founded to educate young men into the ministry.
true
(Q035) Within the Puritan community, the family was considered the foundation of a strong community while unmarried persons
were viewed as a danger to the social fabric of the community.
(Q036) To counteract the attraction of Indian life, Puritan leaders suggested that colonists
write captivity narratives describing Indian brutality
(Q022) The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?
indentured servants
(Q019) Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts
were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity
(Q017) Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for
Catholics
(Q070) John Smith married Powhatan's daughter and the married couple eventually visited England together.
false
(Q013) Which was a characteristic of Roger Williams's Rhode Island colony?
It was a refuge for religious nonconformists.
(Q009) The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at
Jamestown, Virginia.
(Q073) Most New England colonists sided with Parliament during the English Civil War.
true
