CC US History Chapter 2: Beginnings of English America

All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century EXCEPT: a. decreased wages in the cities. b. the enclosure movement, which forced thousands of peasants from farms. c. a lower birth rate, which made it difficult to find workers for new industries. d. the invasion of the cities by vagrants, who wandered the roads in search of work. e. increased prices buoyed by the influx of gold and silver from Latin America.

The person who opposed Puritan ministers who distinguished saints from the damned through church attendance and moral behavior rather than through focusing on an inner state of grace.

For most New Englanders, Indians represented:

How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development?

In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England:

In the 1650s, who pushed England toward a policy of expanding territory and commercialism?

In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and eastern Native Americans:

In the Pequot War of 1637:

Just as the reconquest of Spain from the Moors established patterns that would be repeated in Spanish New World colonization, the methods used in which one of the following countries anticipated policies England would undertake in America?

Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England:

The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England returned home:

What granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons?

The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker:

The Virginia House of Burgesses:

What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?

What was Virginia's \"gold,\" which ensured its survival and prosperity?

When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island:

When the Virginia Company gave control of the Virginia colony to the king in 1624:

Which of the following is true of the Puritans of the seventeenth century? a. John Winthrop founded the church. b. They agreed that the Church of England retained too many elements of Catholicism in its rituals and doctrines. c. They differed completely with the views of the Church of England. d. They were completely unified on all issues. e. They came to the colonies because they had no hope of holding any power in England.

Which of the following is true of the Puritans' dealings with Quakers? a. They fought Charles II's efforts to oppress and suppress Quakers. b. They resented the Quakers for their shrewd business practices. c. They welcomed the Quakers and thus were happy to help them set up the Pennsylvania colony. d. They passed a law ordering all Quakers to leave Massachusetts or face imminent death. e. Their officials in Massachusetts punished Quakers financially and physically, even hanging several of them.

Which of the following is true of warfare between colonists and Native Americans during the seventeenth century? a. New England colonists fared far better in warfare than their Virginia counterparts. b. Native Americans actually had more sophisticated and dangerous weaponry than the English. c. Among the colonists, it generated a strong sense of superiority. d. Treaties quickly ended each of the wars. e. Colonists were surprised and disappointed in their inability to defeat Indians easily.

Which of the following statements is true about the early history of Jamestown? a. John Smith took the credit, but he had nothing to do with Jamestown's success. b. The death rate was extraordinarily high. c. The colony's problems were due largely to its leadership: the same people remained in charge for the first two decades and refused to change their methods. d. The first settlers were farmers and laborers who were so eager to make money that they refused to work and could not be controlled. e. The supplies from England were excellent, but the colonists wasted them.

Which one of the following statements is true of Queen Mary of England, who reigned from 1553 to 1558? a. When the Pope refused to allow her to divorce her French royal husband, she founded an independent Church of England. b. Under her authority, colonists established the first permanent English settlement in North America. c. She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England. Correct d. She ascended to the throne immediately after a long period of civil war and successfully unified the nation. e. Her refusal to marry led to her designation as \"the Virgin Queen,\" after whom Virginia was named.

Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s?

Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church?