History Give me Liberty! Powell Quiz 2

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

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

Intermarriage between Indians and English settlers was common.

False

Seventeenth-century New England quickly developed into a land of large plantations and landless servants.

False

Slavery was never allowed in the devoutly Christian colony of Massachusetts.

False

Which was not a characteristic of Roger Williams's Rhode Island colony?

It required citizens to attend church.

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

The House of Burgesses was established.

England's king enticed his relatives and allies to the New World by granting them plots of land.

True

England's ongoing struggle to subdue Ireland delayed its entry into New World colonization.

True

In the 1600s, nearly two-thirds of English settlers came as indentured servants.

True

Indenture contracts usually bound indentured servants for periods of from five to seven years.

True

Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for advocating freedom of individual conscience and religious choice.

True

Seventeenth-century Maryland stood out for its system of absolute rule, but also for its practice of religious toleration.

True

Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were

high rates of death and disease.

The English colonies differed from the Spanish in that Spanish women could

jointly own all the wealth accumulated during marriage.

The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was:

land ownership

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

Which of the following was not promoted by Oliver Cromwell?

the return to tolerance toward Irish Catholics

Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?

tobacco

Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for

Catholics

The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?

Indentured Servants

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

Opechancanough

The "Rights of Englishmen" were established in the Magna Carta.

True

One change in Indian life after the English colonists settled was

alcohol became increasingly common and disruptive.