History 120 Ch 2

Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for

Catholics.

Because Puritan Massachusetts was deeply religious, ministers were frequently elected to colonial offices. (T/F)

False

Intermarriage between Indians and English settlers was common. (T/F)

False

Indenture contracts usually bound indentured servants for periods of from five to seven years. (T/F)

True

Seventeenth-century Maryland stood out for its system of absolute rule, but also for its practice of religious toleration. (T/F)

True

The "Rights of Englishmen" were established in the Magna Carta. (T/F)

True

When supplies reached the Roanoke colony in 1590, the inhabitants had mysteriously vanished leaving only a word carved in a tree as a clue to their whereabouts. (T/F)

True

In 1600s Virginia, a feme sole could do all of the following except

Vote

An indenture was

a contract for labor for a period of years

Which of the following was NOT a significant outcome of the start of Chesapeake tobacco cultivation?

campaigns to discourage migration by English women, who, it was feared, would distract male Virginians from their work in the fields

A key motivation behind early English settlement in the American colonies was

1. the profits to be made in transatlantic commerce. 2. acquisition of land, and thus a measure of personal independence. 3. escape from the material and spiritual corruptions of England.

Which of the following was Not a significant feature of indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?

Indentured servants never comprised more than a small percentage of Virginians, the great majority of whom arrived either as free settlers or slaves.

The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at

Jamestown, Virginia.

The Indian leader, ________, led a surprise attack that killed one-quarter of Virginia's settlers in a single day.

Opechancanough

The English "enclosure" movement of the 1500s and 1600s forced small farmers off "commons" land so that the land could be taken up by

Sheep

Who was the English-speaking American Indian the Pilgrims encountered at Plymouth Bay in 1620?

Squanto

Which of the following did not happen in the 1630s?

The House of Burgesses was established.

Which of the following was NOT a central theme of Puritan thought?

The quest for material prosperity is a sign of moral corruption.

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of early New England society?

equality of the sexes in general church affairs, but not in government affairs

The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?

grandchildren of the English Great Migration

In the first two years of Jamestown's existence, relations with the Indians were

mostly peaceful and based on simple trade.

Which of the following was not a significant trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?

the elimination of gender hierarchies

The event that started the Pequot War was

the killing of a fur trader by the Pequots.

Which of the following was NOT promoted by Oliver Cromwell?

the return to tolerance toward Irish Catholics