Deck 2: New World Experiments: England’s Seventeenth-century Colonies

Question 1

In which colony was the death rate for the early colonists most severe?

A) Massachusetts
B) New York
C) Rhode Island
D) Virginia
E) Pennsylvania

Answer 1

Virginia

Question 2

English settlers in seventeenth-century America could best be characterized in terms of their ________.

A) striking social diversity
B) similarity to French and Spanish migrants of the same period
C) unity of purpose and motivation
D) desire to help each other
E) homogeneity

Answer 2

striking social diversity

Question 3

The founding of Pennsylvania was tied to the ________.

A) Quaker movement
B) Restoration
C) Glorious Revolution
D) institution of the joint-stock company
E) agricultural revolution

Answer 3

Quaker movement

Question 4

In 1624,Virginia became ________.

A) an independent commonwealth
B) a proprietary colony
C) a royal colony
D) part of Maryland
E) the primary destination for female settlers

Question 5

In which colony were religious reasons least important in its founding?

A) Massachusetts
B) Rhode Island
C) Maryland
D) Virginia
E) Pennsylvania

Question 6

Jamestown's prosperity was ensured by ________.

A) the discovery of gold
B) the development of fur trading
C) royal financial support
D) tobacco cultivation
E) potato cultivation

Question 7

Joint-stock companies allowed for _______.

A) concentrated wealth in the hands of a few
B) more successful colonization
C) more investors
D) more profit
E) more royal control

Question 8

Jamestown might have gone the way of Roanoke had it not been for the perseverance of ________.

A) John Winthrop
B) John Smith
C) Pocahontas
D) Richard Hakluyt
E) Cotton Mather

Question 9

The selection of a site for Jamestown was based primarily on the settlers' ________.

A) fear of surprise attacks
B) desire for a healthful place to live
C) belief that friendly Indians lived nearby
D) need for close proximity to the open ocean
E) fear of diseases in the swamps

Question 10

Initially,Lord Baltimore intended that Maryland be a haven for ________.

A) Quakers
B) Puritans
C) Catholics
D) Baptists
E) Separatists

Question 11

Georgia was founded as a refuge for ________.

A) religious dissenters
B) the poor of London
C) Native Americans
D) former slaves
E) French exiles

Question 12

The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed that the best way to reform the Church of England was to ________.

A) separate from it and reform it from the outside
B) rely on help from the English monarchy
C) remain in the Church and reform it from the inside
D) refuse to associate with it in any way
E) actively work to destroy the tenets with which they disagreed

Question 13

King Charles I disbanded Parliament in 1629 because he could not deal with intense criticism from the ________.

A) Puritans
B) Baptists
C) Catholics
D) Anglicans
E) Presbyterians

Question 14

James Oglethorpe was responsible for the founding of ________.

A) New Jersey
B) Carolina colony
C) Georgia
D) Maryland
E) Connecticut

Question 15

Under the headright system in Virginia,________.

A) every adult male could vote
B) every child was guaranteed a primary education
C) 50 acres were granted for each new settler, free or indentured
D) new immigrants were guaranteed a year's provisions
E) every new settler was entitled to one slave

Question 16

The ________ Company was responsible for the settlement of Jamestown.

A) New England
B) Royal African
C) Virginia
D) American
E) New World

Question 17

William Penn acquired the Three Lower Counties to provide Pennsylvania with

A) Philadelphia.
B) settlers.
C) access to the Atlantic.
D) arable land lacking in Pennsylvania.
E) mineral resources.

Question 18

Seventeenth-century English Puritans ________.

A) were only a tiny minority of all Englishmen
B) were committed to significant institutional change
C) were firmly supportive of the status quo
D) accepted the tenets of Catholicism with reservations
E) were neurotic and self-righteous

Question 19

The document in which the Pilgrims established a civil government for their Plymouth colony has become known as the ________.

A) Bill of Rights
B) Mayflower Compact
C) Statement of Principles
D) Cambridge Agreement
E) Plymouth Agreement

Question 20

The man who taught Virginians how to grow tobacco was ________.

A) Captain John Smith
B) Powhatan
C) John Rolfe
D) Sir Edwin Sandys
E) the Duke of Marlboro

Question 21

To its founding leaders,____________ would be a "City on a Hill."

A) Rhode Island
B) Connecticut
C) Maryland
D) Pennsylvania
E) Massachusetts

Question 22

Which is the only category in which seventeenth-century colonists in Massachusetts were more successful than Virginia's colonists?

A) relating to the Indians
B) establishing the Anglican Church
C) finding a profitable staple crop
D) adopting a concept of community welfare
E) collecting taxes to pay for community services

Question 23

Large numbers of the first English settlers in the Carolinas came from ________.

A) Ireland
B) Barbados
C) Rhode Island
D) Jamaica
E) the Virgin Islands

Question 24

Why did the original boundaries of Maryland present a problem to colonists?

A) They were vaguely defined.
B) They accidentally crossed into Virginia.
C) They did not extend to the coast.
D) They cut through territory of the Algonquin.
E) They extended much further than Charles I had planned.

Question 25

Those who migrated to the Chesapeake Bay area as indentured servants were ________.

A) usually from the dregs of English society
B) English farmers who saw a better future in the New World
C) normally single males in their teens or early twenties
D) married individuals who came with their families
E) generally convicted criminals who traded jail time in England for indentures

Question 26

The first three years of Jamestown's history witnessed ________.

A) terrible hardship and suffering
B) the discovery of gold and silver
C) successful attempts at growing many profitable crops
D) the establishment of a representative form of government
E) the erection of the first Christian church in North America

Question 27

Which of these was true of the relationship between political events in England and English colonization in North America?

A) The two were unrelated.
B) Events in England impacted the direction of colonization repeatedly.
C) After about 1650, events in England had no effect on the colonies.
D) Colonization caused the fall of two English governments in the 1600s.
E) Because of the difficulty of ocean journeys, events in England produced no effects in the colonies.

Question 28

The colony of Pennsylvania was established as a religious sanctuary for ________.

A) Puritans
B) Catholics
C) Baptists
D) Quakers
E) Presbyterians

Question 29

In the early days of the Virginia Colony,which is the best description of its settlers?

A) They were about evenly divided between men and women.
B) They were well-prepared to establish a colonial outpost.
C) They preferred to search for riches rather than farm.
D) They had few troubles except for unfriendly Indians.
E) They organized a successful community government.

Question 30

Because of its policy of religious toleration,________ attracted unusual numbers of independent-minded people.

A) Maryland
B) Connecticut
C) Pennsylvania
D) New York
E) Rhode Island

Question 31

The Pilgrims who left Holland to settle in America ________.

A) were non-Separatists from the Church of England
B) feared their way of life was being undermined by the ways of their Dutch hosts
C) had few alternatives because they were harassed by the Dutch
D) arrived in Virginia, even though their destination was Massachusetts Bay
E) were Catholic radicals eager to overthrow England's monarchy

Question 32

How did someone become a member of a church in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

A) They became part of whatever church was in their community.
B) A person who already belonged to the church had to provide testimony for anyone new who wanted to join.
C) A new member needed the testimony of neighbors before acceptance in a church.
D) A person had to perform community service before being allowed to join a community church.
E) The church community would vote in order to decide whether to let a new member in.

Question 33

The founding of Georgia can be described as _______.

A) religiously-motivated
B) political
C) economically-motivated
D) idealistic
E) strategic

Question 34

Indentured servants ________.

A) were working off the cost of their passage to America
B) served the same number of years regardless of age or experience
C) had no more legal rights than slaves
D) were never legally emancipated
E) usually lived long enough to complete their terms of service

Question 35

Which of these was ultimately most important in leading to divisions among settlers in Pennsylvania?

A) Penn's support for Quakerism
B) the colony's location
C) the institute of proprietorship
D) Penn's propaganda
E) the granting of headrights

Question 36

Lord Baltimore's settlement in Maryland ________.

A) became a successful feudal outpost in America
B) declared war on Virginia in 1639
C) never succeeded in becoming a feudal society
D) became a haven for persecuted Protestants
E) successfully put into effect his vision

Question 37

In 1622,the Native American tribes of Virginia ________.

A) attacked the English settlements
B) formed an alliance with the Native American tribes of New England
C) established permanently good relations with the English settlers
D) learned from the English settlers how to grow tobacco
E) migrated westward to avoid future contact with settlers

Question 38

What eventually solved the economic problems of seventeenth-century Virginia?

A) the cultivation of tobacco
B) the reorganization of the joint-stock company
C) a successful agreement with the Native Americans
D) trading with Barbados
E) stopping the import of goods from England

Question 39

Which identifies why the Mayflower Compact is considered an important historical document?

A) It was the first example of colonists describing the hardships endured on a voyage to the New World.
B) It was a legal document that authenticated the Pilgrims' right to settle in New England.
C) It included a list of the passengers on the Mayflower who became the first New England colonists.
D) It was the first example of colonists forming their own government in North America.
E) It was the first example of colonists negotiating a treaty with Native Americans in North America.

Question 40

The English takeover of New Netherland (which was subsequently renamed New York)________.

A) had little immediate effect on the colony
B) was followed by the expulsion of the Dutch
C) led to the prompt creation of a legislature
D) met with armed resistance by the Dutch
E) sparked a war between the English and the Dutch

Question 41

Seventeenth-century Quakers were known for their ________.

A) aggressive and overbearing personalities
B) belief in humility and pacifism
C) concept of predestination
D) unwillingness to seek the conversion of others
E) belief in the necessity of an educated clergy

Question 42

What problems did early settlers in Virginia have to overcome? What factors attracted settlers to that area?

Question 43

Anne Hutchinson's skillful self-defense at her trial before the magistrates of Massachusetts Bay was ruined by ________.

A) her affinity for the dictum of works
B) her claim of personal revelation
C) her reliance on the Scriptures
D) her rejection of free grace
E) the fact that she was female

Question 44

Why did the new colonists of Georgia demand slaves?

A) Farmers were given so many acres of land that they felt they could not farm efficiently without slaves.
B) The main crop of Georgia-tobacco-could be cultivated only with slave labor.
C) The colonists felt that since they had no voice in government, they needed a class of people even lower on the social rung than they were.
D) The English settlers in Georgia were used to having slaves and demanded that they could not get along without them.
E) The colonists believed that they could compete economically with South Carolina only if they were allowed to have slaves.

Question 45

Which best describes how the colony of New York was settled?

A) New York originally was settled by the Duke of York and subsequently became Dutch.
B) New York originally was settled by the Dutch and then taken by force by the English.
C) New York was settled exclusively by the Dutch.
D) New York was settled originally by African Americans who were later pushed out by the English.
E) New York was settled originally by the French who were later pushed out by the Dutch.

Question 46

The lives of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson provide strong evidence that ________.

A) Puritans seldom disagreed on matters of theology
B) Massachusetts Bay officials insisted on freedom of religious thought and expression
C) Massachusetts Bay faced difficulties in creating a society based on a religious principle
D) Massachusetts Bay Colony sent preachers to frontiers as missionaries to the Indians
E) most Puritans had wanted to break away from the Church of England

Question 47

How did the religious beliefs of the Quakers compare to those of the Puritans?

A) Both rejected the Church of England and wanted to separate and form their own new religions.
B) The Quakers rejected the Church of England in favor of their own form of worship; the Puritans merely wanted to reform the Church of England.
C) Both considered all people equal in the sight of the Lord and saw no need for a learned ministry.
D) The Quakers did not seek converts, but simply wanted to practice their own beliefs peacefully; the Puritans sought to convert people throughout England.
E) Unlike the Quakers, the Puritans felt that there was no need for spiritual leaders, since one person's interpretation of the Bible was as valid as anyone else's.

Question 48

How did Roger Williams' religious ideas clash with those of the Puritans?

A) Williams believed that settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who had unconventional religious views should be punished by the colonial leaders.
B) Williams felt that it was not enough to purify the Church of England from within, but to separate from it.
C) Williams did not believe that the Puritans should separate from the Church of England, but rather to try to improve it.
D) Williams did not support religious toleration and insisted that the members of the Church of England try to preserve their own freedom of worship.
E) Williams believed that colonial leaders could not also be religious leaders.

Question 49

Which statement provides the best interpretation of this sentence from text page 53? "The diversity of early English colonization must be emphasized precisely because it is so easy to overlook."

A) Most historians did not realize how similar the English colonies were when they were initially settled.
B) The reasons that people settled the English colonies were so complex that they have only begun to be understood recently.
C) Settlers of the English colonies tended to overlook the hardships that they would face because they were so eager for religious freedom.
D) The experiences of the early English colonists cannot be separated from their experiences back in England.
E) Because most of the colonists were English, and eventually formed a single nation, many assume that they were originally more alike than different.

Question 50

How did affairs in England impact changes in the colonies in the 1600s?

Question 51

Analyze the dynamic between religious and economic motivations in the establishment and development of the English colonies in the seventeenth century.

Question 52

Why was William Penn's Frame of Government remarkable for its time?

A) It included more personal liberties than other English colonies.
B) It denied the right of due process for citizens.
C) It established the Quaker religion in Pennsylvania.
D) It granted freedom of conscience to all except Catholics.
E) It prevented the religious rule of the Church of England.

Question 53

Which made the economy of Carolina different from the other southern colonies?

A) Carolina's economy was based on slavery and cotton.
B) Carolina's economy was as diverse as that of the Middle Colonies.
C) Carolina's economy became dependent on rice as a staple.
D) Carolina's economy was based on selling slaves and rum.
E) Carolina's economy was based on sugar, which was easy to grow in the colony.