Chapter 3 Quiz: The English Come to Stay 1600-1660
What did the first English arrivals seek to secure on their arrival in Plymouth?
A community of religious purity.
Which of the following contributed to an environment that allowed slavery to take root in the English colonies?
A weak colonial government.
What was a notable characteristic of Jamestown during its first decade?
An appallingly high mortality rate.
Infant mortality in the Chesapeake region during the first century of English colonization was
Approximately one half of all children born.
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.
To increase the number of workers in Virginia, company officials
Awarded 50 acres of land to those who came or brought another person to Virginia.
The Massachusetts Bay Company, founded in 1629, was
Based on the model of the Virginia Company.
The Swiss Protestant Reformer John Calvin
Believed God ordained who would be saved even before they were born.
The New England colonies benefited from
Better relations with Indians than Chesapeake colonists.
Anne Hutchinson was forced out of Massachusetts for
Criticism of its clergy and the Puritan doctrine of "preparation."
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.
Those known as Separatists
Gave up on reforming the Church of England.
English men and women from the lowest ranks of society who agreed to work in exchange for passage money to the colonies were known as
Indentured servants.
Although settled two decades later, New England was able to keep pace with the Chesapeake colonies because
Its people lived in a healthier region.
Economically, it made more sense to contract for indentured servants than to purchase slaves because
Life expectancy rates for both were low.
Powhatan, leader of the Powhatan Algonquians in Virginia, expanded his power over other groups of Indians by
Marrying women in different tribes.
One way New Englanders differed from Chesapeake colonists is that they
Migrated as families rather than as individuals.
The success of the Plymouth colony demonstrated that
New England could be inhabited by Europeans and that effective diplomatic relations with Indians were crucial.
Why were religious dissenters so frequently persecuted in late-sixteenth-century and early-seventeenth-century European nations like England?
Religion was a state matter.
By the second half of the sixteenth century, Northern Europeans considered Africans
Sexually promiscuous and brutish.
The Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower were
Supposed to go to the Chesapeake area to help develop Virginia.
Primary factors dictating how quickly English colonists adopted African slavery included
The need for plantation laborers and availability of slaves at a good price.
The first clear evidence of the enslavement of Africans in mainland English colonies is
The purchase of Africans from a Dutch trader in Virginia in 1619.
What happened to the surviving members of the Pequot tribe at the end of the Pequot War in 1638?
They were sold into slavery in the colony of Providence Island.
By an Act of Toleration, settlement in Maryland was open to
Those who believed in Jesus Christ.
Why did King James I grant charters to investors in Plymouth and London in 1606 to establish colonies in North America?
To provide income for merchants since peace with Spain had curtailed raids against that nation's ships.
Unlike Virginia, the colony of Maryland
Was the property of an individual and his heirs.
To address the colony's labor problem, Virginia governor John Rolfe
asked England to send its poor across the Atlantic.
