Chapter Two (Unit One) – Flashcards
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Lord Baltimore's settlement in Maryland
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never succeeded in becoming a feudal society
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King Charles I disbanded Parliament in 1629 because he could not deal with the intense criticism from the
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Puritans
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In 1622, the Native American tribes of Virginia
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attacked the English settlements
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Because of its policy of religious toleration, ______ attracted unusual numbers of independent-minded people
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Rhode Island
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What eventually solved the economic problems of 17th-century Virginia?
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cultivation of tobacco
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Which describes the Puritan attitude toward the Church of England in the early seventeenth century?
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They wanted to improve the Church of England from within
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Seventeenth-century Quakers were known for their
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beliefs in personal humility and pacifism
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To resolve the problem of the vast expenses New World settlement required, English merchant-capitalists introduced the concept of
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the joint-stock company
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Initially, Lord Baltimore intended that Maryland be a haven for
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Catholics
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The colony of Pennsylvania was established as a religious sanctuary for
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Quakers
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Which identifies why the Mayflower Compact is considered an important historical document?
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It was the first example of colonists forming a basic government in North America
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How did the religious beliefs of the Quakers compare to those of the Puritans?
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The Quakers rejected the Church of England in favor of their own form of worship; the Puritans merely wanted to reform the Church of England
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Which statement provides the best interpretation of this sentence from text page 57? "The diversity of early English colonization must be emphasized precisely because it is so easy to overlook"
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The different reasons settlers came to each English colony cannot be considered separately from their experiences once they had arrived
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The selection of a site for Jamestown was based primarily on the settlers
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fear of surprise attacks
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English settlers in seventeenth-century America could be characterized best in terms of their
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striking social diversity
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The lives of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson provide strong evidence that
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Massachusetts Bay faced difficulties in creating the perfect society in America
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In which colony was the death rate for the early colonists most severe?
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Virginia
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How did someone become a member of a church in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
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A person had to perform community service before being allowed to join a community church
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Which is the only category in which seventeenth-century colonists in Massachusetts were more successful than Virginia's colonist?
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adopting a concept of community welfare
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The first three years of Jamestown's history witnessed
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terrible hardship and suffering
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Why was William Penn's Frame of Government remarkable for its time?
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It included more personal liberties than other English colonies
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Those who migrated to the Chesapeake Bay area as indentured servants were
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normally single, lower-class males in their teens or early twenties
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Jamestown might have gone the way of Rhode Island had it not been for the perseverance of
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Captain John Smith
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Which best summarizes the pattern of English kings in colonizing North America?
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they followed a precise plan of geographic development
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Jamestown's prosperity was ensured by
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tobacco cultivation
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The document in which the Pilgrims established a civil government for their Plymouth colony has become known as the
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Mayflower Compact
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Which best describes how the colony of New York was settled?
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New York was originally settled by the Dutch and then taken force by the English
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Upon arriving in the New World, English settlers
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generally adapted old beliefs to the new environment
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The Pilgrims, who left Holland to settle in America
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feared their way of life was being undermined by the ways of their Dutch hosts
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The man who taught Virginians how to grow tobacco was
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John Rolfe
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Which was NOT a major factor stimulating English migration to the New World?
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laws that forced migration of the poorer classes
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The attitude of King James I toward tobacco
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showed hat, in the end, he valued revenue more than good health
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Large numbers of the first English settlers in the Carolinas came from
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Barbados
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The ______ Company was responsible for the settlement of Jamestown in Virginia
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Virginia
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The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed that the best way to reform the Church of England was to
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remain in the Church and reform it from the inside
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In 1624, Virginia became
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a royal colony
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Why did the original boundaries of Maryland present a problem to colonists?
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They were vaguely defined
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Which made the economy of Carolina different from the other Southern colonies
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Carolina's economy became dependent on rice as a staple
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In which colony were religious reasons least important in its founding?
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Virginia
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To its founding leaders, _______ would be a City on a Hill
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Massachusetts
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Under the "headright" system in Virginia
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all new arrivals received 50-acre land grant after they had paid for their passage
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Why did the new colonists of Georgia demand slaves?
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The main crop of Georgia, tobacco, could be cultivated only with slave labor
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The purpose of these new English companies to finance settlements was
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to encourage "limited liability" for the investors
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Anne Hutchinson's skillful self-defense at her trial before the magistrates of Massachusetts Bay was ruined by
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her reliance on the scriptures
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Seventeenth-century English Puritans
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were committed to significant institutional change
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Indentured Servants
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were working off the coast of their passage to America
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