HIST 1700 Ch. 2 – Flashcards
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The economic livelihood of the Virginia colony in the 1700s depended on which of the following products?
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Tobacco
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Which of the following was a consequence of Bacon's Rebellion of the 1670s?
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Slavery began to replace indentured servitude.
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Which of the following characteristics was a common feature of royal colonies throughout English America in the seventeenth century?
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An elected assembly
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Which of the following statements describes life in the Chesapeake region after 1660?
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A wealthy, planter-merchant elite dominated the Chesapeake economy and owned almost half the land in Virginia.
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Lord Baltimore, the proprietor of Maryland, established that colony as a haven for
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Catholics
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How were the Spanish conquistadors, Nathaniel Bacon's frontiersmen, and the Puritans were similar?
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They all tried to Christianize the native population.
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Two hundred thousand Spaniards from Castile migrated to America in the 1500s in order to escape
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high taxes on agriculture and military service.
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How was colonization similar for the French and Spanish?
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The French and Spanish aimed to Christianize the native peoples.
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes life in the seventeenth-century North American plantation colonies?
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Disease took such a toll that most children lost at least one parent before their thirteenth birthday.
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When they settled in the New World in 1630, the Puritans' first priority was to
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create a reformed society that would model true Christianity in America.
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Which of the following developments fostered the flow of migrants into the Virginia colony between 1617 and 1622?
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The Virginia Company began to allow individual settlers to own land.
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Portuguese colonists in Brazil in the sixteenth century created an industry based on which of these resources?
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Sugar
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How were the Indian uprising in 1622 and Bacon's Rebellion in 1675-1676 similar?
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The rebellions led to changes in the structure of the colony's government.
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Which of the following New England colonies required church membership in order to be able to vote?
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Massachusetts Bay
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The main motive for King Philip II's attack on England in 1588 was to
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eradicate Protestantism in England and Holland.
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For which of the following reasons was Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1636?
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He questioned the English seizure of native people's lands.
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Why was William Berkeley significant in the Chesapeake region in the seventeenth century?
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His political favoritism during his governorship aroused great resentment in Virginia.
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Which of the following describes the colony of Maryland, founded in 1632?
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Tobacco production shaped its economy and social structures.
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Which of the following factors encouraged migrants to New France in the seventeenth century?
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Generous terms for indentured servitude
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What accounted for the uneasy relations that persisted between Powhatan's people and the Jamestown settlers for more than a decade after 1607?
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Both groups' inability to reach an agreement about who would pay tribute to whom
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Which of the following native groups capitalized on its geographic location in central New York and remained a significant political force in North America long after colonization?
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Iroquois
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Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts Bay for
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questioning the idea that good works led to salvation.
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Which of the following statements describes Africans in Virginia after the 1660s?
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Africans found themselves more entrenched in slavery as a permanent condition.
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Which of the following statements describes the English migrants who initially settled in the Jamestown colony in the early 1600s?
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Early Jamestown settlers expected to profit from gold and Indian labor.
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The worldview of devout Puritans, such as Cotton Mather, was based on which of the following?
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The notion that supernatural forces caused unusual events
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Which of the following describes the Dutch colony of New Netherland in the seventeenth century?
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The venture failed to attract many settlers.
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Why was the influx of American gold and silver into the English economy during the sixteenth century significant?
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It stimulated further economic expansion.
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Why did the largest landholdings in seventeenth-century New England towns usually belong to wealthier families?
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Men of higher social status tended to receive the largest land grants from their towns.
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John Winthrop's phrase "City upon a Hill" referred to which of the following colonies?
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Massachusetts Bay
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Which of the following was true of the English outwork textile industry that emerged around 1500?
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Landless peasants in small cottages spun and wove wool into cloth.
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Which of the following was the outcome of the surprise Indian attack on the Virginia colony in 1622?
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James I revoked the Virginia Company's charter and made it a royal colony.
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What effect did American tobacco have in England during the early colonial period?
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The English developed a huge appetite for tobacco, which stimulated the English economy and bolstered England's treasury.
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Which of the following was an outcome of Elizabeth I's compromise on the Church of England in the late 1500s?
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It angered English people who supported radical Protestantism.
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Why did Plymouth begin to thrive after its first year while Jamestown struggled for many years?
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The religious discipline of the Plymouth settlers encouraged their stronger work ethic.
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In North America's plantation colonies, most indentured servants
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did not escape from poverty
