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

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which was not a reason for England's desire to settle the New World?

A)Jealousy over the riches discovered by Spain in Central America
B)Desire to become independent economically from Spain
C)The ability of the North American continent to provide the wood they needed for their navy
D)The reports of gold in the Appalachian Mountains
E)The ability to move "undesirables" out of Great Britain

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Nathaniel Bacon was a former indentured servant who led a Virginia rebellion.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

Peter Stuyvesant was the defiant governor of Rhode Island.

Question 8

The Indian wars of the mid-1670s cost proportionately more casualties than any other American war.

Question 9

Delaware was originally part of Pennsylvania.

Question 10

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

Question 11

New Netherland became one of the most ethnically diverse American colonies.

Question 12

An Indian attack in 1622 killed about one-fourth of Virginia's settlers,including John Rolfe.

Question 13

Which religious movement in Great Britain desired to return to a more "godly" worship?

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

Question 14

In the 17th century,owning slaves did not signify a moral weakness.It was commonly thought that slavery was a normal institution in an imperfect world.

Question 15

By the mid-1670s,many of Virginia's free white adult males owned no land and squatting became a significant problem.

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

A secondary mission given to the Virginia Company by King James I called for

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

Question 19

The Virginia Company was a joint-stock company.

Question 20

Although English settlers in New England considered the area to be "virgin land," more than 100,000 Native Americans inhabited the region.

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

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

A)adapted an Indian practice of growing tobacco for shipping 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 23

Which colony came into existence due to the overflow of an already established colony?

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

Question 24

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 25

Prior to being established as North Carolina,its population consisted largely of people from

A)Transylvania.
B)Albemarle.
C)Kentucky.
D)Florida.
E)Mississippi.

Question 26

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 27

The proprietors of South Carolina recruited settlers from _______ to settle their colony in an attempt to recreate the success in the new colony.

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

Question 28

The Dutch West India Company had established this settlement to protect the mouth of the Hudson River.

A)Baltimore
B)Boston
C)New Amsterdam
D)Charleston
E)Yorktown

Question 29

What was one major way that the colonists settling in New England differed from 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 middle class and most could pay their own way.
D)They fled from the violence in Great Britain during the Glorious Revolution.
E)There was no difference;they were effectively the same as those who settled Jamestown.

Question 30

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 31

After the failure of the Virginia colony to turn a profit,it

A)was converted to a royal colony and used as a penal colony.
B)was restructured to attract new settlers with a lure of free land.
C)was deserted after a severe drought.
D)was left to die because investors sold their stocks.
E)collapsed after the "Starving Time" and no one survived.

Question 32

Different from the rest of the British Colonies,Maryland,a ________,was owned by Lord Baltimore.

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

Question 33

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 34

In what ways did the northern and southern colonies of Great Britain differ during their early days?

A)The South chose to employ slave labor,while the North did not.
B)The South tended to focus on growing staple crops,whereas the North's economy revolved more around shipping of furs hunted in the West.
C)The South was established earlier than the North and was more concerned with religious freedoms.
D)The North was more involved with negotiating in good faith with the Native Americans in their area.
E)The North had more favorable land for agriculture and far outstripped the South's ability to produce cotton.

Question 35

By the late 1610s,this religious group had been persecuted and fled England,and then later the Netherlands.They finally established a colony in Plymouth.

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

Question 36

Led by John Winthrop,this group of religious reformers desired to establish a new colony that would change the world and reform it.

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

Question 37

_________ differed from other religious colonial leaders in that he encouraged settlers of all faiths as long as they believed in God.

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

Question 38

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)It became a royal colony.
D)It never did.
E)It began to sell captured natives as slaves.

Question 39

How did the English Civil War affect the establishment of colonies?

A)Prior to the war they were mainly founded for religious reasons and afterward to achieve some form of economic gain.
B)After the war they were established at a much larger pace as the vanquished were shipped there as punishment.
C)The colonies expanded faster before the war because there was more need for the lumber and pitch.
D)All colonies were converted to royal charters after the war to prevent them from rebelling again.
E)Previously established colonies were grouped into the New England Confederation,which was governed as one entity.

Question 40

Of all the original British colonies,why was Maryland different from the others?

A)It was controlled by a group of proprietors appointed by the king.
B)It was created as a refuge for British Catholics.
C)It was created as a buffer zone to protect New England from its southern neighbors.
D)It was created after the Glorious Revolution as a prison for convicted revolutionaries.
E)It was the only colony without a royal charter to fail.

Question 41

The majority of those claiming a religious affiliation by 1700 in New England claimed they were

A)Catholic
B)Protestant
C)Puritan
D)Lutheran
E)Separatist

Question 42

The Native American group that kept the Virginia colony from disaster when it was first settled was the

A)Powhatans.
B)Comanche.
C)Cherokee.
D)Shawnee.
E)Chippewa.

Question 43

Because of this product,it became necessary for the American Colonies to increase their labor force.

A)Tobacco
B)Corn
C)Maize
D)Cotton
E)Cattle

Question 44

How was Georgia's establishment different than that of the other British 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 British colonists and Spanish Florida.
D)It had a large French Protestant contingent.
E)Only Catholics were allowed to live there.

Question 45

During the 17th century,this Native American group organized a union so strong that they forced the Anglo settlers in their areas to work with other bands of natives to exploit the fur trade.

A)Comanche
B)Iroquois
C)Chippewa
D)Shawnee
E)Tippewa

Question 46

One primary difference between the English colonies and those of other nations was that English colonists needed

A)furs.
B)tobacco.
C)land.
D)fish.
E)gold.

Question 47

_________________ Africans were forcibly moved in the slave trade while it existed to the American colonies.

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

Question 48

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 49

Which of the following was not a result of Bacon's Rebellion?

A)Jamestown was burned.
B)Governor Berkley was recalled to England.
C)New land was opened up to the settlers.
D)Native Americans were killed to open up new lands to settlers.
E)Large plantation owners became more inclined to purchase slaves than risk hiring poor settlers.

Question 50

During the first few years of the ______________,Chief Powhatan and his tribe 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 51

During their time of a person served for indentured servitude,they were forbidden

A)from marriage.
B)from participating in trade.
C)from owning property.
D)from owning tools.
E)from being punished for bad behavior.

Question 52

Why was indentured servitude originally considered for the American 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.

Question 53

By the early 18th century the _______ were the dominant force in North America.

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

Question 54

The most major impediment to relations with Native Americans during the settlement of the British Colonies was

A)disease.
B)language.
C)culture.
D)lack of food.
E)difference of religions.

Question 55

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

A)None lived in that area.
B)Their founder worked from the start to have good relations with them.
C)When the settlers arrived they purposefully wiped them all out.
D)They settled in an area known for having peaceful natives.
E)They did not seek to convert them Christianity.

Question 56

What was the ratio of slaves who died while aboard ships to the New World to those who survived the trip?

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

Question 57

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 58

This term was used to describe the trip slaves took across the Atlantic Ocean.

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

Question 59

Why did the number of slaves increase in the Middle Colonies and those in the South over those in the North?

A)There were more accepting attitudes to slavery in those regions.
B)They were more agriculturally based.
C)There was more space for them to live.
D)Slave ships put in at their ports more often.
E)There were more churches in the North.

Question 60

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

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

Question 61

Describe the relationships between Indians and the colonists of New England.

Question 62

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
a.Connecticut
b.Georgia
c.Maryland
d.Massachusetts Bay
e.New Jersey
f.Pennsylvania
g.Plymouth
h.Rhode Island
i.Virginia
William Bradford

Question 63

What were the attractions of life in colonial Pennsylvania?

Question 64

Explain the concept of separatism as it related to the Puritans who settled at Plymouth.

Question 65

By the early 18th century,the British had outstripped both the French and the Spanish in the New World by becoming the most populous,prosperous,and powerful.Explain how this happened.

Question 66

Compare the settlements of Virginia and Massachusetts in regard to their founding religion,form of government,and landholding patterns.

Question 67

Which of the following experienced better lives in their nation's colonies as opposed to their mother land?

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

Question 68

Why did the colonies of Spain pale in comparison to those of the English at the turn of the 18th century?

A)They did not have the Protestant work ethic.
B)They were tightly controlled by the authorities in Spain.
C)They were constantly fighting Native American attacks.
D)Their colonies were established in areas unfit for survival.
E)Their mother country was wracked with civil war and their colonies received no oversight from the crown.

Question 69

Why did the colonies of France pale in comparison to those of the English at the turn of the 18th century?

A)They were more concerned with negotiating trade treaties with the Native Americans than creating effective colonies.
B)The mother country was fighting Spain and thus not concerned with colonial administration.
C)They were tightly controlled by the authorities in France.
D)They were settled in areas that were prone to disease;thus they had a low birth rate.
E)Constant attacks by Native Americans kept potential settlers away.

Question 70

Why did settlers in New England have a greater life expectancy than settlers in the colonies south of the Chesapeake Bay?

Question 71

In what ways was English colonization different from that of other European nations?

Question 72

Discuss the relationship between the settlers and the natives in Virginia,Massachusetts,and Carolina.

Question 73

English exploration of the North American continent in the 17th century was hindered by

A)attacks by Native Americans.
B)attacks by the French to protect their land.
C)lack of time due to the large amount of mineral wealth being mined and shipped back to England.
D)the Appalachian Mountains.
E)the lack of approval from the churches.

Question 74

Discuss the transition of New Netherland into New York.

Question 75

What was a major difference between Spanish and English colonists?

A)English colonists did not want to return to England.
B)Spanish colonists did not want to return to Spain.
C)Spanish colonists tended to marry their Native American slaves.
D)English colonists tended to marry their African American slaves.
E)Spanish colonists made Native Americans full citizens in their colonies.

Question 76

Discuss the settlement of the Carolinas.How and why did they divide into two separate colonies?

Question 77

Discuss the impact Bacon's Rebellion had on indentured servitude and African slavery.

Question 78

Discuss the various ways in which domestic political affairs in Britain affected colonization in the New World.

Question 79

Georgia's colonial beginnings are remarkably different from those of other colonies.Discuss how Spain's presence in Florida affected the southern colonies.

Question 80

What does your textbook give as a reason that the English colonies flourished in the late 17th century?

A)Positive relations with the Native Americans
B)Positive relations with the other European colonies
C)Organized loosely to maximize profit
D)Strong royal control
E)Establishment of royal quotas on production