US History Ch 2 – Flashcards
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The attitude of King James I towards tobacco:
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showed that, in the end, he valued revenue more than good health
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Initially, Lord Baltimore intended that Maryland be a haven for:
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Catholics
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Unlike their southern counterparts, the first Englishmen who established colonies in New England were:
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in search of land and riches
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In 1624, Virginia became:
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a royal colony
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The individual largely responsible for Maryland's settlement was:
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Sir George Calvert
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The man who taught Virginians how to grow tobacco was:
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John Rolfe
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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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After 1618, the Virginia Company's principal means of attracting new settlers was:
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payment of one's passage to the colony of the company
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In 1622, Native American tribes in Virginia:
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attacked the English settlements
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The joint-stock company:
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encouraged investment in colonial enterprises with "limited liability" for the investors
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Jamestown might have gone the way Roanoke had it not been for the perseverance of:
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Captain John Smith
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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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Upon arriving in the New World. English settlers:
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generally adapted old beliefs to the new environment in order to survive
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The document in which the Pilgrims established a civil government for their Plymouth colony had become known as the
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Mayflower Compact
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The selection of a site for Jamestown was primarily based on settlers'
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fear of surprise attacks
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The _____ Company was responsible for the settlement of Jamestown:
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Virginia
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In which one of the following colonies was the death rate for the early colonists the most severe?
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Virginia
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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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In which one of the following colonies were religious reasons the least important in explaining the founding of that colony?
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Virginia
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Jamestown's prosperity was ensured by:
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tobacco cultivation
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The Pilgrims, who left Holland to settle in America
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had few alternatives because they were being harassed by the Dutch government
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Under the "headright" system in Virginia
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all new arrivals who had paid their trans-Atlantic fares received 50-acre land grants
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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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To resolve the problem of the cast expenses that New World settlement required, English merchant-capitalists introduced the concept of:
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the joint-stock company
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Indentured servants:
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were working of the costs of their passages to America
