Deck 3: The Emergence of Colonial Societies, 1625-1700

Question 1

Which statement best describes the demography of New England in the early seventeenth century?

A) Because of the harsh North American environment, New Englanders had a shorter life span and raised fewer children to adulthood than people living in England or other colonies.
B) Because of better diets and the slow spread of infection, New Englanders had a longer life span and raised more children to adulthood than people living in England.
C) Rapid population growth in New England resulted more from immigration than from childbearing.
D) Population growth in New England was relatively slow compared with the population explosion England was experiencing.
E) New England became a very diverse society as it practiced religious toleration and believed in the equality of races.

Answer 1

Because of better diets and the slow spread of infection, New Englanders had a longer life span and raised more children to adulthood than people living in England.

Question 2

Why did Puritans decide they needed to leave Great Britain?

A) They decided that there were too many distractions in Great Britain.
B) They learned that the king planned to reestablish Catholicism as the state religion.
C) They realized that North America believed an excellent area to make converts.
D) James I offered the Puritans incentives to settle in North America.
E) Charles I ended his predecessor's practice of tolerating Puritans.

Answer 2

Charles I ended his predecessor's practice of tolerating Puritans.

Question 3

Who were the Antinomians?

A) There were followers of Anne Hutchinson.
B) They were supporters of a pure form of Anglicanism.
C) They were the first Quakers.
D) They were the earliest anti-slavery advocates.
E) They were the first Puritan converts in North America.

Answer 3

There were followers of Anne Hutchinson.

Question 4

Who dissented from the Puritans and followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island?

A) William Penn
B) John Cotton
C) Anne Hutchinson
D) Thomas Hooker
E) John Winthrop

Question 5

Which of the following reduced the Native American population in New England?

A) Diseases introduced by Europeans.
B) The Pequot War
C) King Philip's War
D) All of these choices
E) None of these choices.

Question 6

What was the Great Migration of the 17th century?

A) It was the movement of Africans to the New World.
B) It was the movement of Puritans to New England.
C) It was the movement of Anglicans to Virginia.
D) It was the movement of Catholics to Maryland
E) It was the movement of Huguenots to South Carolina.

Question 7

What happened to tobacco prices around 1660?

A) They began a steady rise after having been stagnant for years.
B) They surged to record levels.
C) They plunged below the break even point for what was needed for a family to survive.
D) They returned to the levels of the 1630s.
E) They began to fluctuate each year.

Question 8

Which of the following epitomized the democratic nature of New England government?

A) Universal suffrage
B) The town meeting
C) The church governing council
D) Communal ownership of property
E) All of these choices

Question 9

Why was Roger Williams forced into exile by the Puritans?

A) He challenged the Puritan belief in predestination.
B) He argued that Puritans should recognize the devil's presence in the New World.
C) He believed in the complete separation of church and state.
D) He claimed that God had spoken to him directly.
E) He asserted that women should be able to serve as clergy.

Question 10

Which statement concerning those accused of witchcraft in the Salem trials is true?

A) They were almost exclusively the poor and powerless in the community.
B) They were young, troubled girls.
C) They were slaves.
D) They tended to be women who had previously been in trouble with the law.
E) They included both low-status individuals and prominent citizens.

Question 11

Which of the following was a result of the Pequot War?

A) Connecticut seized Pequot land and gave it to its colonists.
B) The Pequots temporarily stopped the advances of white settlers.
C) Although defeated, the Pequots praised the colonists for their mercy in sparing civilians.
D) Colonists came to respect Indians for their willingness to defend their rights.
E) None of these choices

Question 12

How did colonial New England farmers alter their ecosystem?

A) They introduced crop rotation and soil conservation techniques.
B) They required Native Americans live on reservations that would specialize in only one product.
C) They ended the time-honored Indian practice of fencing the land, thereby allowing pigs and deer to roam freely.
D) They introduced the one-crop plantation system.
E) They cleared away trees for fields and for use as fuel and building material.

Question 13

Which statement concerning New England wives is true?

A) They typically had no property rights independent of their husbands.
B) They usually had children out of wedlock.
C) They had extensive property rights under English Common Law.
D) They were denied the option of divorce because it was prohibited by their Puritan faith.
E) They were considered equal in authority to their husbands within the family.

Question 14

Why was Harvard College founded?

A) to train physicians.
B) to train lawyers.
C) to train ministers.
D) to train architects.
E) to train teachers.

Question 15

What were the greatest killers in Virginia during the 1600s?

A) Epidemic diseases like typhoid fever and malaria
B) Indian resistance
C) Starvation
D) Spanish and French attacks
E) Old Age

Question 16

Which of the following was not a Quaker belief?

A) The Holy Spirit could inspire every soul.
B) An individual's Inner Light could best be revealed through the ceremony and music of a religious service.
C) An individual's personal opinions should not be mistaken for God's will.
D) Individuals deserved recognition for their spiritual state rather than their wealth or family status.
E) Women and men were equal in their ability to understand the Inner Light.

Question 17

At her 1637 trial, Anne Hutchinson had to defend herself against charges of

A) plotting to overthrow the government of England
B) Heresy
C) fornication with Indians
D) illegally conspiring with John Winthrop to expel all Puritans from the colony
E) being a witch

Question 18

What did Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay colony advocate?

A) He supported distinct roles for the different classes.
B) He supported class struggle.
C) He supported cradle to grave health coverage.
D) He supported survival of the fittest.
E) He supported equality between the sexes.

Question 19

Why did Charles I restore the Virginia assembly?

A) He needed tobacco revenues and the support of Virginia's planters.
B) He wanted to democratize the British colonies.
C) He hoped to strengthen the Anglican church in Virginia.
D) He thought it would prevent Virginia from giving in to Spanish encroachments.
E) He needed a divorce and the only way the Anglican church would grant one was in exchange for the restoration.

Question 20

What of the following was not a characteristic of the government in Pennsylvania under William Penn?

A) A strong executive
B) An assembly with limited power
C) Quaker domination of politics
D) A desire to keep the rabble in check
E) Discrimination against non-Quakers

Question 21

Which statement accurately describes the role of religion in the Chesapeake region in the seventeenth century?

A) It was a driving force in cultural life.
B) It thrived because clergymen flocked to the area.
C) It confronted a chronic shortage of clergymen.
D) It was virtually nonexistent.
E) It was a point of contention that was pulling Chesapeake society apart.

Question 22

MAP QUESTIONS
Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Caribbean that correctly identifies each of the following:

Barbados

Question 23

Which of the following facts characterized life in the Chesapeake region in the early seventeenth century?

A) Settlers had a relatively long life expectancy compared with that in the harsh environment of New England.
B) Women had a somewhat greater status because of their scarcity.
C) It witnessed rapidly developing urban areas.
D) It had a population density which required residents to live in close proximity to neighbors.
E) It had developed a plantation economy dominated by slave labor.

Question 24

Why did class tensions in the Chesapeake region lessen after 1690?

A) More land became available to small farmers.
B) The rise in tobacco prices allowed small farmers a better standard of living.
C) Poor whites shared a common interest with upper-class whites in maintaining social control over blacks.
D) An influx of Native Americans solved the labor shortage.
E) Poor whites shared a common interest with upper-class whites in maintaining social control over Native Americans.

Question 25

Why was the siege of Santa Fe significant?

A) It led to the defeat of the Taos Indians.
B) It was one battle in the continuing war between the Taos and Apache Indians.
C) It led to the expulsion of the Spanish from New Mexico for over a decade.
D) It marked the end of the Spanish empire and the beginning of French predominance.
E) It brought the Spanish into a head-on collision with the French over control of New Mexico's capital, Santa Fe.

Question 26

Why did the Puritans adopt the Halfway Covenant in 1662?

A) They wanted to expand church membership by allowing children of church members to join.
B) They wanted to allow non-Puritans the opportunity to join their church as non-voting members.
C) They wanted to convert Indians by showing them different ways to become Christians.
D) They wanted to establish the rules for governing in the colony before they reached the New World.
E) They wanted to reconcile with the Anglican Church by adopting some of that church's rituals.

Question 27

What was the main purpose of France's North American empire?

A) to convert native Americans to Christianity.
B) to provide furs and agricultural surpluses for the West Indies and timber for the French navy.
C) to pressure the British into ending their expansion.
D) to block attempts by the Dutch to gain a monopoly of the sugar trade.
E) to provide a location for French Protestants to worship without fear of persecution.

Question 28

Why was France able to hold onto its vast North American domain against Spanish and English expansion?

A) The French maintained a large army.
B) They constructed fortified missions.
C) They maintained stable relations with the Native Americans.
D) They were technologically superior.
E) They established stable communities throughout New France.

Question 29

During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, how did native Americans fare in Spain's American territories?

A) Mission life helped them to keep together and preserve their traditional work habits and language.
B) Their population declined as they suffered terrible epidemics.
C) Spanish colonial administrators enslaved Native Americans to work in silver mines.
D) Spanish soldiers slaughtered native Americans whenever they resisted the efforts of missionaries.
E) All of these choices

Question 30

Why was the Act for Religious Toleration of 1649 significant?

A) It protected Puritans in Massachusetts from religious persecution and was America's first law affirming freedom of worship.
B) It allowed Native Americans to perform their own religious rites in "praying towns."
C) It embodied the fundamental anti-authoritarian tenets of the Antinomians.
D) It protected Catholics in Maryland from religious persecution.
E) It promoted social stability in the British West Indies.

Question 31

What became South Carolina's staple crop in the 1600s?

A) Cotton
B) Tobacco
C) Hemp
D) Indigo
E) Rice

Question 32

Who did Spain depend on for colonization?

A) Catholic missionaries
B) Cattle herders
C) Farmers
D) Spanish military forces
E) Fur traders

Question 33

How did Anthony Ashley Cooper accelerate settlement in Carolina?

A) He agreed to accept convicts who were crowding British jails.
B) He hired publicists to advertise in Europe the bounty of Carolina.
C) He offered a headright of 150 acres to planters for each arriving family.
D) He offered $500 to each new settler.
E) He provided five slaves and seed to anyone willing to live there for at least ten years.

Question 34

Besides Great Britain, France, and Spain, what other countries established colonies in North America in the 1600s?

A) Portugal and Italy
B) Sweden and the Netherlands
C) Germany and Finland
D) Prussia and Russia
E) Denmark and Poland

Question 35

What qualification allowed a man to vote for governor and members of the General Court in seventeenth-century Massachusetts?

A) Land ownership
B) Wealth
C) Length of residence in America
D) His ancestry
E) Church membership

Question 36

Which crop changed the British West Indies from a society of independent small landowners utilizing white servant labor to a society of large plantation owners utilizing black slave labor?

A) Tobacco
B) Cotton
C) Peanuts
D) Sugar
E) Wheat

Question 37

Which of the following statements about Virginia is correct in the 17th century?

A) Unlike Massachusetts, it had no established church.
B) It was governed by an appointed royal governor and governor's council and a House of Burgesses elected by landowners.
C) By 1640 the great majority of its plantation laborers were African slaves.
D) It was dominated by small farms and villages.
E) The indentured servants' chances of upward social mobility improved in the second half of the 1600s.

Question 38

How did Bacon's Rebellion transform labor systems in Virginia?

A) It influenced planters to abandon indentured servants in favor of slaves.
B) It proved that Indians were not a viable source of labor.
C) It revealed that planters would have to pay laborers more to work on their plantations.
D) It encouraged landowners to pay their laborers higher wages.
E) It indicated that landowners would have to find some other labor source besides slaves.

Question 39

Which statement accurately describes the county court system in Virginia?

A) It was undemocratic because the justices were chosen by the governor.
B) It was modeled after the court system in England.
C) It was the basic unit of local government and administered local affairs.
D) It had justices of the peace who acted like judges.
E) All of these choices

Question 40

Which colony was intended as a haven for Catholics in the seventeenth century?

A) Maryland
B) Georgia
C) Massachusetts
D) New York
E) Virginia

Question 41

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the southeastern seaboard that correctly identifies each of the following:

Potomac River

Question 42

MAP QUESTIONS
Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Caribbean that correctly identifies each of the following:

Jamaica

Question 43

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of New England that correctly identifies each of the following:

Boston, Massachusetts

Question 44

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of New England that correctly identifies each of the following:

Rhode Island

Question 45

MAP QUESTIONS
Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Caribbean that correctly identifies each of the following:

Santo Domingo (Hispaniola)

Question 46

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of New England that correctly identifies each of the following:

New Haven, Connecticut

Question 47

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the southeastern seaboard that correctly identifies each of the following:

Chesapeake Bay

Question 48

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the southeastern seaboard that correctly identifies each of the following:

Virginia

Question 49

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the southeastern seaboard that correctly identifies each of the following:

Delaware Bay

Question 50

MAP QUESTIONS
Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Caribbean that correctly identifies each of the following:

Nevis

Question 51

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of New England that correctly identifies each of the following:

Connecticut River

Question 52

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of New England that correctly identifies each of the following:

Salem, Massachusetts

Question 53

MAP QUESTIONS
Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Caribbean that correctly identifies each of the following:

Antigua

Question 54

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the southeastern seaboard that correctly identifies each of the following:

Maryland

Question 55

MAP QUESTIONS
Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Caribbean that correctly identifies each of the following:

Cuba

Question 56

MAP QUESTIONS
Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Caribbean that correctly identifies each of the following:

Puerto Rico