Deck 2: England and Its American Colonies, 1607-1732

Question 1

Sir Edwin Sandys took over the Virginia Company in 1618 and instituted important changes that stabilized the colony.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

After being banished from Massachusetts because of his strict interpretation of the Puritan faith, Roger Williams founded Rhode Island.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Although English settlers along the American coast may have expected the area to be uninhabited wilderness, the region was already well populated.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A charge given to the Virginia Company by King James I, which was quickly abandoned, was

A)that war be waged against the French.
B)that privateers attack and seize Spanish shipping from Central America.
C)the conversion of the godless Native Americans to Christianity.
D)the seizure of lands from the French in Quebec.
E)the destruction of the Huguenots in Florida for heresy.

Question 5

Puritan Roger Williams was considered dangerous by Puritan leaders because he insisted that all faiths-including Native American faiths-should be treated equally.

Question 6

The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina established a formal nobility and provided for religious toleration.

Question 7

The rapid growth of slavery in the Americas was driven by profits and racist attitudes that viewed Africans as property rather than human beings.

Question 8

As a result of the Glorious Revolution, England abolished the monarchy and became a republic.

Question 9

The Virginia Company was a joint-stock company.

Question 10

The most important organizational innovation of the Age of Exploration was the joint-stock company.

Question 11

By the time of the English colonization of the Americas, the monarchy shared power with __________, a government body of both appointed and elected members.

A)the House of Burgesses
B)Parliament
C)Congress
D)the Assembly of Peers
E)the Peerage

Question 12

Englishmen had a very well-developed sense of liberty as a result of the Magna Carta and the establishment of Parliament.

Question 13

By the mid-1670s, many of Virginia's free white adult men owned no land, and squatting, wandering, and poaching became significant problems.

Question 14

Which of the following was a primary goal the English government had for the American colonies?

A)To provide England with raw materials
B)To establish a global trade network with Native Americans
C)To establish a new nation
D)To establish a penal colony to ease overcrowding of English prisons
E)To create a space for religious freedom

Question 15

Which religious movement in England desired to return to a more simple, basic type of worship?

A)Dunkers
B)Puritans
C)Calvinists
D)Lutherans
E)Separatists

Question 16

An attack led by Indians in 1622 killed about one fourth of Virginia's settlers along the James River.

Question 17

An example of the political turmoil that induced English citizens to consider moving to the new British colonies during the 1600s was

A)frequent wars between the English and the Scots.
B)political intrigue amongst the nobles seeking to overthrow the Commonwealth.
C)the violence that erupted when the Long Parliament was disbanded and new elections were demanded.
D)the struggle for authority between King Charles I and Parliament.
E)the execution of Queen Elizabeth for adultery.

Question 18

New Netherland became a very ethnically diverse region of the American colonies.

Question 19

Due to its harsh winters, New England's death rate was higher than that of Maryland or Virginia.

Question 20

English settlers arriving in Virginia in 1607 prospered quickly because of the abundance of fertile lands and wild game.

Question 21

Settling with the Narragansett Indian tribe, this religious reformer established Rhode Island.

A)John Smith
B)Roger Williams
C)John Winthrop
D)Benjamin Franklin
E)Anne Hutchinson

Question 22

Why didn't the colony of Maryland succeed as a Catholic colony?

A)Catholics were heavily persecuted by the natives of the region.
B)Parliament refused to fund a "popish" colony.
C)Too few Catholics settled there.
D)Settlers felt that they were too far from Rome.
E)Most Catholics knew little about farming.

Question 23

One of the major problems affecting the Virginia colony when it was first settled was that

A)its supplies were lost at sea when the Mayflower sank.
B)its first settlers were either townsmen or gentlemen who didn't know how to farm.
C)it was almost destroyed when the Spanish discovered the colony and set fire to it.
D)Native Americans raided its supplies to survive the winter, leaving the colonists without sufficient food.
E)colonists were too busy finding gold to plant food to survive.

Question 24

__________ differed from other religious colonial leaders in that he encouraged settlers of all faiths to establish themselves in his colony.

A)William Penn
B)Roger Williams
C)John Winthrop
D)John Wesley
E)Thomas Hooker

Question 25

Maryland was different from the rest of the English colonies in that it was a __________ colony, owned by Lord Baltimore.

A)proprietary
B)royal
C)penal
D)secular
E)slave-owning

Question 26

During the first few years of the __________, the peoples of the Powhatan Confederacy kept the settlers from starving to death.

A)Maryland colony
B)Plymouth colony
C)New Netherland colony
D)Jamestown colony
E)Massachusetts Bay colony

Question 27

Led by James Oglethorpe, this colony was settled for military and philanthropic reasons.

A)Connecticut
B)Georgia
C)South Carolina
D)Maryland
E)Maine

Question 28

Pilgrim Separatists aboard the Mayflower signed a "democratic" document called the __________ in which they agreed to abide by laws made by leaders of their own choosing.

A)Articles of Confederation
B)Pilgrim Contract
C)Bill of Concessions
D)Mayflower Compact
E)Anglican Confessional

Question 29

The Virginia colony began to grow and eventually prosper when John Rolfe

A)began growing tobacco for export to England.
B)discovered gold on the Yorktown Peninsula.
C)married Pocahontas and established an alliance with her father, ending the wars between the colony and the Powhatans.
D)established the headright system in the colony to bring the population under his control.
E)introduced slavery to make up for the labor shortage.

Question 30

Which colony came into existence due to the recruitment of planters from the already established Caribbean colony of Barbados?

A)Massachusetts
B)Maryland
C)Pennsylvania
D)South Carolina
E)Connecticut

Question 31

Pennsylvania colonists had a different experience with the Native Americans than most other colonies.Why?

A)Relatively few Native Americans lived in that area.
B)The colony's founder purchased Native American lands and learned some of their language.
C)When the settlers arrived, they purposefully wiped out all of the Native Americans.
D)The colonists settled in an area known for having peaceful natives.
E)The colonists did not seek to convert them to Christianity.

Question 32

Led by John Winthrop, this group of religious reformers desired to establish a new colony that would be a model Christian community.

A)Puritans
B)Separatists
C)Dunkers
D)Quakers
E)Jesuits

Question 33

Sir Edwin Sandys established __________ in the Virginia colony in an attempt to make it more profitable.

A)slavery
B)headrights
C)trading posts
D)ports
E)naval bases

Question 34

What was one major way that the colonists settling in New England differed from those in the original Jamestown colony?

A)They sought freedom of religion from the Catholicism of Great Britain.
B)They were more interested in making a profit off of the land than were those in Jamestown.
C)They were of the middle class, and most could pay their own way.
D)They fled from the violence in Great Britain during the Glorious Revolution.
E)Many of them were elite plantation owners.

Question 35

By the late 1610s, what religious group had been persecuted, fled to Holland, then finally established the colony of Plymouth?

A)Puritans
B)Separatists
C)Dunkers
D)Quakers
E)Calvinists

Question 36

The first Jewish colonists who arrived in the New World were primarily of __________ descent.

A)Iranian
B)Spanish-Portuguese
C)French
D)English
E)Germanic-Russian

Question 37

What was one of the reasons the colony of Georgia grew?

A)It became a joint-stock corporation.
B)It was given to 21 trustees to oversee.
C)Idealistic rules were abandoned.
D)Rum was outlawed.
E)It began to sell captured natives as slaves.

Question 38

What were "praying towns"?

A)Another name for the first Puritan communities in the New World
B)Communities established by Puritans in England to avoid persecution
C)Another name for the earliest Quaker communities
D)A derogatory reference to unsuccessful Pilgrim settlements
E)Villages created by Puritans to separate "Christianized" Indians from their "heathen" brethren

Question 39

How was Georgia's establishment different than that of the other English colonies?

A)It was one of the first.
B)All forms of religion were permitted.
C)It was established as a military buffer between the colonists and Spanish Florida.
D)It had a large French Protestant contingent.
E)Only Catholics were allowed to live there.

Question 40

The proprietors of South Carolina recruited settlers from __________ to settle their colony and avoid labor issues.

A)Barbados
B)Cuba
C)the Canary Islands
D)the Isle of Man
E)Virginia

Question 41

During their time of service, indentured servants

A)were never allowed to marry.
B)could not engage in trade.
C)could not own property.
D)could not be whipped.
E)could sue their master.

Question 42

Compare and contrast the New England, middle, Chesapeake, and Carolina colonies of the seventeenth century.How did they differ in population, economies, and ways of life?

Question 43

American colonists were __________ than their counterparts in Europe.

A)worse off economically
B)generally more prone to illness
C)better fed, clothed, and housed
D)more likely to marry young
E)more likely to remain single

Question 44

The English colonial region with the most success at enslaving Native Americans in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was

A)the Carolinas
B)New England
C)the Chesapeake
D)Florida
E)Maryland

Question 45

The death of John Sassamon, a Christian Indian, in 1674 spurred

A)the Pequot War.
B)King Philip's War.
C)Queen Anne's War.
D)the French and Indian War.
E)Bacon's Rebellion.

Question 46

What was a crucial advantage that the English colonies had over other European colonists?

A)better geography
B)better work ethic
C)better relations with the Native American populace
D)self-governance
E)better crop land

Question 47

Once freed, what were a former indentured servant's "freedom dues"?

A)A generous grant of land from his former master
B)Some money, tools, clothing, and food; perhaps a little land
C)The right to marry, which was forbidden while under contract
D)The ability to collect back pay
E)The right to vote

Question 48

By the early eighteenth century, the English had surpassed other European colonization efforts and became the most populous, prosperous, and powerful entity in North America.Explain how this happened.

Question 49

Which of the following statements regarding slavery in the colonies is correct?

A)Regulations against slavery in Georgia were largely followed after the colony's founding.
B)Slavery resulted in African words, such as tote and banana, entering the English language.
C)Slavery in English North America was very similar from region to region.
D)The arrival of African slaves preceded the recruitment of indentured servants.
E)In the eighteenth century, slavery was much more common in the North than in the South.

Question 50

Which of the following was a reason for English colonial success?

A)A hands-on style of management by Parliament
B)A hands-on style of management by the king
C)The ability of the colonies to engage in free trade with numerous nations
D)The organization by the colonists of profit-making entities with little government interference
E)The heavy subsidization of the colonies by taxpayers in England

Question 51

How did the native populations of given regions (Mexico, Chesapeake, New England, Southwest, etc.) affect European colonization efforts in those same regions?

Question 52

In what ways was English colonization different from Spanish colonization? Or French or Dutch colonization?

Question 53

The trans-Atlantic voyage that brought African slaves to the Americas was known as the

A)slave trade.
B)Underground Railroad.
C)Black Diaspora.
D)Middle Passage.
E)Triangular Trade.

Question 54

In New York, a group of Native Americans joined together to resist Anglo encroachment. They were known as the

A)Chippewa Confederation.
B)Iroquois League.
C)Shawnee Nation.
D)United Cherokees.
E)Ojibwa Organization.

Question 55

Because of the __________ crop, the need for a substantial labor force in Virginia became increasingly obvious.

A)tobacco
B)corn
C)maize
D)cotton
E)wheat

Question 56

More than __________ Africans were forcibly shipped from Africa to North and South America during the course of the Atlantic slave trade.

A)100,000
B)1 million
C)10 million
D)50 million
E)100 million

Question 57

How many Africans died aboard ships making the Middle Passage?

A)1 in 3
B)1 in 6
C)1 in 10
D)1 in 25
E)1 in 100

Question 58

By the early eighteenth century, the __________ were the dominant force in North America.

A)French
B)Spanish
C)Dutch
D)English
E)Mexicans

Question 59

What made settlement in the middle colonies (NY, NJ, PA) so attractive to diverse European peoples?

Question 60

Why was indentured servitude necessary for the prosperity of the Chesapeake colonies?

A)It allowed people to practice freely whatever religion they wanted.
B)England could get rid of undesirable citizens.
C)There was a shortage of laborers.
D)Nobody wanted to move to the colonies due to the continuous attacks by Native Americans.
E)Cotton was very labor intensive, and a cheap source of labor was needed to maximize profits.