Chapter 2 Flashcards

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In the 17th century, New England’s economy

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Centered on family farms and also involved the export of fish and timber

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Which one of the following is true of indentured servants?

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Their masters could determine whether they could marry

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The Diggers of Great Britain

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Influenced the development of the American colonies, because some of their members and ideas crossed the Atlantic to the New World

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Which of the following is true of the Puritans of the 17th century?

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They agreed that the Church of England retained too many elements of Catholicism in its rituals and doctrines

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Most 17th century migrants to North America from England

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Were lower-class men

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The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker

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Founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut

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Maryland was similar to Virginia in that?

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Tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society

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

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Because of religious differences: England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was devoutly Catholic

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Which of the following is true of the Puritans’ dealings with Quakers?

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Their officials in Massachusetts punished Quakers financially and physically, even hanging several of them

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In 1607, the colonists who sailed to Jamestown on three small ships

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Chose an inland site partly to avoid the possibility of attack by Spanish warships

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John Winthrop followed which one of the following policies toward Native Americans

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He insisted that they agree to submit to English authority

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In Puritan marriages

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Reciprocal affection and companionship were the ideal

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The Massachusetts General Court

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Reflected the Puritans’ desire to govern the colony without outside interference

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A consequence of the English Civil War of the 1640s was?

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An English belief that England was the world’s guardian of liberty

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Which one of the following is true of poverty in 17th century Great Britain?

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About half of the population lived at or below the poverty line by the end of the 17th century

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Why was the death rate in early Jamestown so high?

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It lay beside a malarial swamp

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Which of the following best describes how the English viewed Native American ties to the land?

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Although they felt the natives had no claim since they did not cultivate or improve the land, the English usually bought their land, albeit through treaties they forced on Indians

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Anne Hutchinson

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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

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Which English group did the most to reshape Native American society and culture in the 17th century?

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Settlers farming the land

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How did most Puritans view the separation of church and state?

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They allowed church and state to be interconnected by requiring each town to establish a church and levy a tax to support the minister

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When the Virginia Company gave control of the Virginia colony to the kind in 1624

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Virginia became the first royal colony

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Which one of the following statements is true of Queen Mary of England, who reigned from 1553 to 1558?

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She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England

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Which colony adopted the Act Concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration?

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Maryland

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As leader of the Jamestown Colony, John Smith

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Used rigorous military discipline to hold the colony together

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In the early 17th century Massachusetts, freeman status was granted to adult males who?
Were landowning church members
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Of the half million people who left England between 1607 and 1700
More went to the West indies than to North America
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Why did the Pilgrims flee the Netherlands?
They felt that the surrounding culture was corrupting their children
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Tobacco production in Virginia
Enriched an emerging class of planters and certain members of the colonial government
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Puritan women
Were said to achieve freedom by embracing subjection to their husbands authority
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Why did Puritans decide to emigrate from England in the late 1620s and 1630s?
The Church of England was firing their minister and censoring their writings
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Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as?
Dangerous to social harmony and community stability
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Maryland's founder, Cecilius Calvert
Wanted Maryland to be like a feudal domain, with power limited for ordinary people
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To entice settlers to Virginia, the Virginia Company established the headright system, which?
Provided land to settlers who paid their own and others passage
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In what way was Puritan church membership a restrictive status?
Full membership required demonstrating that one had experienced divine grace
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Which one of the following is an accurate statement about the class-based society of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
The General Court banned ordinary people from wearing the garb of gentlemen
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In regard to religion
Native Americans showed indifference to European religious conflict
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How did Richard Hakluyt explain his claim that there was a connection between freedom and colonization?
English colonization would save the New World from Spanish tyranny
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What was Virginia's "gold," which ensured its survival and prosperity?
Tobacco
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The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England returned home
Were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company's interest in searching for gold as opposed to building a functioning society
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Which one of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order by the dates they were founded, from the earliest to the latest?
Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island
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Which of the following is true of warfare between colonists and Native Americans during the 17th century?
Among the colonists, it generated a strong sense of superiority
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Which of the following is NOT a way that colonists undermined traditional Native American agriculture and hunting?
Their refusal to build fences and permanent structures created conflict with Native American hunting methods
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How did indentured servants display a fondness for freedom?
Some of them ran away or were disobedient toward their masters
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Virginia's colonial policy of requiring Native Americans to move to reservations
Followed a precedent established by the English in Ireland
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The Mayflower Compact established
A civil government for the Plymouth Colony
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Roger Williams argued that?
Church and state must be totally separated
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The Magna Carta
Granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons
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What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?
Land
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What was Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop's attitude toward liberty?
He saw two kinds of liberty: natural liberty, the ability to do evil, and moral liberty, the ability to do good
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In Great Britain, the idea of working for wages
Was associated with servility and the loss of liberty
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Opechancanough
Mounted a surprise attack in 1622 that wiped out one-quarter of Virginia's settlers
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The Native American leader Powhatan
Managed to consolidate control over some thirty nearby tribes
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During the reign of _______, the English government turned its attention to North America by granting charters to Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh for the establishment of colonies there
Elizabeth I
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As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the 16th & 17th centuries
Efforts were made to persuade or even force those who had been evicted to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis
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The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas
Was seen in England as a sign of Anglo-Indian harmony and missionary success
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How did John Winthrop view a woman's liberty?
Once a woman married a man, she was his subject
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Why did Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh fail in their attempts to colonize the New World?
The government provided insufficient financial support
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The Levellers
Called for the strengthening of freedom and democracy at a time when those principles were seen as possibly contributing to anarchy
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Boston merchants
Challenged the subordination of economic activity to Puritan control
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In the 1640s, leaders of the House of Commons
Accused the kind of imposing taxes without parliamentary consent
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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?
Ireland
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In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and eastern Native Americans
Native Americans initially welcomed the colonists' goods
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When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island
He made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay
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During the English political upheaval between 1640 and 1660
New religious sects began demanding the end of public financing and special privileges for the Anglican Church
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It can be argued that conflict between the English settlers and local Indians in Virginia became inevitable when?
The Native Americans realized that England wanted to establish a permanent and constantly expanding colony, not just a trading post
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For most New Englanders, Indians represented
Savagery
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In the Pequot War of 1637
Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers teamed with Narragansett allies to se the main Pequot village afire and kill 500 Pequots
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Which of the following statements is true about the early history of Jamestown?
The death rate was extraordinarily high
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How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development?
It instituted the headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's passage
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The Half-Way Covenant of 1662
Did not require evidence of conversion to receive a kind of church membership
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Intermarriage between English colonists and Native Americans in Virginia
Was very rare before being outlawed by the Virginia legislature in 1691
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Which statement about women in the early Virginia colony is FALSE?
Women consisted of about half the white population
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In New England towns
Much of the land remained in common, for collective use or to be divided among later settlers
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A central element in the definition of English liberty was
The right to trial by jury
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In the battles between Parliament and the Stuart kings, English freedom
Remained an important and a much-debated concept even after Charles I was beheaded
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All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century EXCEPT
A lower birth rate, which made it difficult to find workers for new industries
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Puritans followed the religious ideas of the French-born theologian
John Calvin
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Where in the Americas did the Pilgrims originally plan to go?
Virginia
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In the 1650s, who pushed England toward a policy of expanding territory and commercialism?
Oliver Cromwell
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Maryland was established as a refuge for which group?
Catholics
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In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England
Was more family-oriented
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What benefited the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth
Native Americans, decimated by disease, left behind cleared fields for farming
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In regard to religious toleration, the Puritans
Saw only their faith as the truth
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Which one of the following is an accurate statement regarding the impact on Maryland of 17th century England's Prostestant-Catholic conflict?
The English government temporaily repealed Calvert's ownership of Maryland and the colony's policies of religious toleration
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The Puritans believed that male authority in the household was
To be unquestioned
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At Anne Hutchinson's trial
She violated Puritan doctrine by claiming that God spoke to her directly rather than through ministers or the Bible
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During the 17th century, indentured servants
Had a great deal of trouble acquiring land
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Who received most of the profits from the trade between Native Americans and colonists?
Colonial and European merchants
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In Puritan New England
Infant mortality rates were lower than in the Chesapeake colonies, because the environment was healhier
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The Virginia House of Burgesses
Was created as part of the Virginia Company's effort to encourage the colony's survival
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Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church?
He wanted a divorce, and the Pope refused to grant it