Chapter 2 US History 1301 Quiz – Flashcards
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
Which of the following statements is NOT true of Africans as slaves?
answer
They had a long history with Christianity in Africa.
question
The Jamestown colony finally attained a measure of prosperity from
answer
tobacco.
question
The Mayflower Compact:
answer
provided the original government for the Plymouth colony.
question
The English Puritans:
answer
opposed Catholic elements in the Church of England.
question
The English Civil War affected the American colonies by:
answer
permitting the colonies to essentially govern themselves.
question
When Massachusetts leader John Winthrop spoke of "a city upon a hill," he was referring to that colony's desire to:
answer
serve as a model Christian community.
question
Charles I:
answer
disbanded Parliament from 1629 to 1640.
question
The Glorious Revolution of 1688:
answer
increased the power of Parliament.
question
Bacon's Rebellion:
answer
brought indentured servants and small farmers together against the colony's rich planters and political leaders.
question
The headright system adopted for the Virginia colony consisted of:
answer
giving fifty acres of land to anyone who would transport himself to the colony and fifty more for any servants he might bring.
question
Maryland sought to learn from the mistakes of Jamestown by:
answer
recruiting a more committed group of colonists.
question
For the Pequots, the result of the 1637 war that they fought with New England settlers was:
answer
slaughter and enslavement.
question
By the early eighteenth century, the English colonies in North America:
answer
were the most populous and prosperous on the continent.
question
The major cause of King Philip's War was:
answer
Indian resentment over forced conversions to Christianity.
question
James I:
answer
confronted a Church of England divided between Puritans and Anglicans.
question
The early settlers of New England differed from those of the Chesapeake by being primarily:
answer
middle-class.
question
By the early 1700s, English merchants in the Carolinas had established a thriving trade with southern Indians for:
answer
deerskins.
question
Anne Hutchinson was kicked out of Massachusetts for:
answer
challenging the authority of male ministers.
question
The first Jews in the colonies:
answer
arrived in New Netherland.
question
All of the following are true of the English Quakers, EXCEPT that they:
answer
followed charismatic preachers.
question
After 1644, the right to vote in Massachusetts Bay was restricted to those who:
answer
were members of a Puritan church.
question
In the "starving time" of 1609-1610, Jamestown settlers:
answer
ate horses, dogs, rats, boots, and mice.
question
The colony of Pennsylvania was:
answer
open to all religious believers.
question
The man who became head of the Virginia Company of London in 1618 and instituted a series of reforms to save the colony was:
answer
Sir Edwin Sandys.
question
Roger Williams believed:
answer
that it was wrong to confiscate Indian lands.
question
Which of the following statements is true of the institution of slavery in the American colonies?
answer
Family slavery was having slaves and masters living under the same roof.
question
Maryland was established in 1634 as a refuge for:
answer
English Catholics.
question
In 1624, a British court dissolved the struggling Virginia Company and Virginia:
answer
became a royal colony.
question
The colonies established after the Restoration were all:
answer
proprietary colonies.
question
One outstanding characteristic of Jamestown in its initial years was:
answer
the high mortality rate among its settlers.
question
As Jamestown's leader, Captain John Smith:
answer
made the colonists work in order to eat.
question
The stockholders who invested in the Virginia Company were motivated primarily by:
answer
financial profit.
question
A large number of South Carolina's original settlers were British planters from:
answer
Barbados.
