Deck 3: The Emergence of Colonial Societies

Question 1

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Roger Williams. Rhode Island

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Question 2

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Restoration

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Question 3

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William Berkeley, Nathaniel Bacon, Bacon's Rebellion

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Question 4

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Lord Baltimore, Maryland Colony

Question 5

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Chesapeake Bay

Question 6

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Royal Colony

Question 7

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Harvard College

Question 8

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Great Migration to New England

Question 9

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Third Anglo-Powhatan War

Question 10

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Typhoid fever and malaria

Question 11

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John Winthrop, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 12

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Act for Religious Toleration

Question 13

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"Saints", New England Way, conversion experience

Question 14

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House of Burgesses, county-court system

Question 15

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Anne Hutchinson, Antinomians

Question 16

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Racial Slavery

Question 17

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Proprietors, proprietary colony

Question 18

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Elizabeth Clarke Freake

Question 19

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Charles I

Question 20

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Town meeting

Question 21

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Carolina, Anthony Ashley Cooper

Question 22

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New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant

Question 23

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Halfway Covenant

Question 24

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Salem Witchcraft Trials

Question 25

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Rice production

Question 26

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Pequot War

Question 27

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B eaver wars

Question 28

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Coureurs de bois

Question 29

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Metacom, King Philip's War

Question 30

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Franciscan missionaries

Question 31

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Pop é and the Pueblo Revolt

Question 32

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Outlivers

Question 33

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Robert Cavelier de La Salle

Question 34

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Sugar Revolution

Question 35

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Indian Slave Trade

Question 36

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Diego de Vargas

Question 37

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William Penn and the Quakers (Society of Friends)

Question 38

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P atroons

Question 39

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New Sweden

Question 40

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Company of New France, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, mercantilism

Question 41

Which 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 42

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.

Question 43

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 44

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 45

What was the Great Migration of the 17^th 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 46

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.

Question 47

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 48

What characterized the first generation of New England land settlement?

A) It was characterized by communal ownership of property.
B) It was characterized by a few elite families acquiring rights to most of the property.
C) It was characterized by farms scattered around the countryside, away from village centers.
D) It was characterized by large cities connected by private stagecoach lines.
E) It was characterized by houses tightly clustered near the town center with just enough cropland to feed each family.

Question 49

Which country had the greatest number of people emigrate in the seventeenth century?

A) France
B) Spain
C) England
D) Germany
E) Ireland

Question 50

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 51

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 breakeven 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 52

Which statement below best illustrates the different experiences of Chesapeake and New England settlers 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 the warmer Chesapeake climate.
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 in the Chesapeake.
C) Rapid population growth in New England resulted from immigration and slavery; whereas the Chesapeake grew only from childbearing and importing slaves.
D) Population growth in New England was relatively slow compared with the population explosion the Chesapeake experienced.
E) Compared to the Chesapeake, New England became a very diverse society as it practiced religious toleration and believed in the equality of races.

Question 53

Why did Charles I restore the Virginia assembly in 1639?

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 54

What did Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay colony advocate?

A) He argued that God intended for some people to be rich and others poor.
B) He supported class struggle and thought tension and jealousy were natural.
C) He believed that the community should provide cradle-to-grave health coverage.
D) He argued that society functioned best when individuals took care of themselves rather than serving one another.
E) He supported equality between the sexes and believed women's roles were as vital as men's to society.

Question 55

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 56

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 57

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
"A Model of Christian Charity"

Question 58

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 59

A sign of early New England's democratic approach to government, town meetings

A) decided who would be allowed to vote.
B) were phased out after New England broke from Great Britain.
C) were centered in buildings that served as both church and town hall.
D) conducted all aspects of administering the town.
E) could decide whether to let newcomers move to the area or share in land distribution.

Question 60

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 with the help of clergy and through elaborate religious services, rituals and ceremony.
C) Individuals should be trusted to speak and share their divine inspiration.
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 61

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

A) Planters shifted from indentured servants to 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 62

Why did the year 1663 mark a turning point for New France?

A) The French crown took direct control and made it a royal colony.
B) France and England signed a peace treaty and became trading partners.
C) The trading company that had founded the colony finally began to earn a profit.
D) The English turned their attention southward and allowed the French colonists several generations of peace and security.
E) Sieur de La Salle arrived and began converting the Indians to Christianity.

Question 63

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 64

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 and prominent citizens, mostly middle aged wives and widows.

Question 65

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 66

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

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

Question 67

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

A) Widows enjoyed greater economic power in the Chesapeake than women did in other regions.
B) There were more men in the Chesapeake than women.
C) Male and female life expectancy in the 1600s Chesapeake was twenty years lower than in New England.
D) Chesapeake colonists began to live longer as they developed immunities to disease.
E) All of these choices

Question 68

Besides Great Britain, France, and Spain, which 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 69

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 70

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 71

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 72

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 73

Which of the following statements about Virginia is correct in the 17^th 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 74

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 75

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 76

Which of the following is not a true statement about King Philip's War?

A) It was triggered by the hanging in Plymouth of three Wampanoags for killing a Christian Indian and threats to arrest Metacom.
B) It was a battle between French and Spanish forces for Florida and parts of the Southwest.
C) Indian raiders completely destroyed 12 of the 52 towns they attacked.
D) Metacom's forces were winning until Mohawk Iroquois and other local Indians joined the English in the battle.
E) Metacom's wife and child, along with hundreds of other Indians, were sold into slavery by the English after the war.

Question 77

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 78

How did the nature of slavery change in the Chesapeake between 1640 and 1700?

A) It no longer included indentured servants.
B) Slaves coexisted with free blacks for the first time.
C) People began to argue that slaves should not be held for life.
D) Colonies passed laws making slavery a lifelong condition, inherited based on whether a person's mother was a slave or not.
E) As costs declined dramatically, slaves were affordable to rich and poor planters alike.

Question 79

What impact did increasing English settlement in New England have on Native Americans?

A) Colonial farmers cleared fields and trees in ways that chased away the deer and eliminated the wild plants Native Americans relied on.
B) English colonists helped Native Americans expand the size of their livestock herds by introducing them to the practice of fencing in animals.
C) Native Americans blamed the Puritan god for causing their land and population crises.
D) Native Americans embraced the changing ecosystem and raised new forms of grasses, as well as horses, pigs and cattle.
E) Colonial missionaries outlawed Native religions and insisted that all Indians in the region practice only Christianity.

Question 80

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 racial identity as free people with upper-class whites which differentiated them from unfree non-whites.
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.