Unit 1 Us History Honors Test Chapter 2
What allowed enslaved workers to complete their assignments daily and then have time to themselves?
Task System
Which statement best describes the precedent established by interaction between the English and Powhatan during the first half of the seventeenth century?
The English and American Indians began a lucrative trade relationship that led to English domination of North America.
Which of the following highlights Benjamin Franklin's high regard for civic virtue?
His founding of the Junto
Anne Hutchinson was a follower of which Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritan minister?
John Cotton
Who founded Connecticut?
Thomas Hooker
What was the significance of the House of Burgesses?
It was the first European representative body in the New World.
What was the name of the largest slave uprising in the British North American Colonies?
Stono's Rebellion
Which of the following was not part of William Penn's vision for his colony?
The exclusion of groups based on sex and race
Which of the following is an accurate overall description of Bacon's Rebellion?
A clash between the eastern shore's landed gentry who controlled the colonial government and the poorer, frontier-based small farmers, along with slaves and servants
Which of the following was a major complaint of Nathaniel Bacon and his followers?
All American Indian tribes were a threat to English colonists and must be eliminated.
What best describes the way the Stono Rebellion ultimately ended?
An impromptu militia of white planters used weapons to wound and maim the rebellious slaves.
Which of the following statements best describes the role of Nathaniel Bacon during the late seventeenth century?
Bacon came from a family of wealth and privilege but rallied poor farmers to oppose the wealthy and elite leaders in Virginia.
Which of the following describes a long-term result of Bacon's Rebellion?
By the end of the seventeenth century, African slaves had largely replaced indentured servants as the main labor force for the wealthy planter class.
What was the source of tension between England and Spain in the sixteenth century?
Competition for wealth and religious differences
The prospect of religious freedom had what result on the Pennsylvania colony?
Diverse immigrants coming to the colony in large numbers
Many historians believe the Great Awakening helped set the stage for the American Revolution. Which of these ideas best supports that argument?
Evangelical teaching during the Great Awakening proposed that each individual believer was equal before God, which made it easier to accept the radical implications of democracy.
At her trial, Anne Hutchinson most likely sealed her fate when she referred to which of the following?
Her belief that she had learned God's will through an immediate revelation
What was the first representative legislative body of Virginia (created in 1619)?
House of Burgesses
How did the Great Awakening affect laws in those states that supported an official religion through taxation?
Members of the "new" religions resented being assessed for a church they did not attend, so they called for an end to the practice.
What economic activity in South Carolina relied on slave labor?
Farming of labor-intensive cash crops like rice
Who were the "New Lights"?
Followers of Great Awakening evangelical preachers whose sermons were notable for their emotion and dramatic appeal
Which was not an impact of the Stono Rebellion on the social structure in South Carolina during the middle of the eighteenth century?
Freedom for those who instigated the rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon carried out which of the following actions?
He burned the capital city of Jamestown.
Which statement best describes Benjamin Franklin's religious outlook?
He was skeptical of organized religion and focused instead on moral virtue.
How was Franklin's Academy of Pennsylvania unique among the early colonial universities, such as Harvard and Yale?
It focused on business and public service instead of religious training.
Who were the "Old Lights"?
Ministers and their parishioners who insisted upon sober and rational religious practices and rejected the style of the evangelical preachers
What was the immediate impact of the Stono Rebellion on South Carolina?
New laws that attempted to further restrict the autonomy of enslaved people
What happened to Anglo-Powhatan relations after the death of Opechancanough?
Opechancanough's successor negotiated a peace treaty with the English.
When granted a tract of land, William Penn founded the English colony of
Pennsylvania
The colony of Jamestown was located in a region controlled by the American Indian leader
Powhatan
What did not motivate South Carolina slaves to remain subservient to their masters?
Relative autonomy on Sundays
During the late sixteenth century, the English established a colony that later failed at
Roanoke
Which of the following was a covert way in which enslaved people resisted their forced labor?
Sabotaging farm tools to slow down work
What was the fate of Anne Hutchinson?
She and some of her children were killed by Siwanoy Indians on Long Island.
Why did Anne Hutchinson persist in holding meetings to discuss the Bible and doctrinal truths after she had been ordered by the General Court to stop this practice?
She felt a duty to attend to the spiritual needs of those who came to her meetings.
What sentence was pronounced on Anne Hutchinson?
She was sentenced to be jailed and then banished from the colony.
Who was the governor of Virginia at the time of Bacon's Rebellion?
Sir William Berkeley
Which of these was not a way in which the ministry of the Great Awakening challenged social conventions?
Sometimes children were allowed to preach from the pulpit.
Which European rival to the British issued a proclamation enticing slaves to run away to Florida for freedom?
Spain
Why did the General Council prohibit Anne Hutchinson from holding meetings in 1637?
The Puritan authorities took issue with a woman holding controversial meetings to discuss the Bible and Puritan doctrine.
After the "starving time" in the winter of 1609-1610, there was a brief period of peaceful coexistence between the English and Powhatans. What was the main reason for this time of peace?
The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas
Which of the following describes a significant result of Bacon's Rebellion?
The wealthy planter class gained greater control of Virginia politics and economics.
How did local ministers feel about George Whitefield and other traveling preachers coming to their towns uninvited?
They worried that revivalists undermined their spiritual authority.
The economy of the Pennsylvania colony can primarily be described as
a diversified combination of agriculture and commerce
The "headright system" established in 1616 by the Virginia Company of London is best described as
a grant of 50 acres of land to people who paid for their own or someone else's passage to Virginia
John Rolfe was responsible for
bringing tobacco to Virginia as a cash crop
Because of their emphasis on social and religious equality, in the 1600s Quakers were
considered dangerous radicals by many religious groups
Throughout his life, Benjamin Franklin held all the following roles except
farmer
Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack is an example of his
radical political beliefs
George Whitefield was immensely popular as a preacher in the colonies because
he appealed to the emotions of his listeners, many of whom experienced the "new birth" of evangelical conversion
The cornerstone of William Penn's religiously tolerant colony was the
lack of an established church
Which European empire was the first to grow wealthy from its New World possessions during the sixteenth century?
spain
The event that directly led to the Second Anglo-Powhatan War was
the Jamestown Massacre in 1622
It has been argued that the Great Awakening contributed to a decline in the importance of established religion during the second part of the eighteenth century, because
the revivals had weakened the hold of established churches in colonial America
All the following were reasons American Indian groups were willing to engage with William Penn except
they saw an opportunity for conquest over the English colonizers
The first profitable cash crop established in the Virginia colony was
tobacco