Deck 2: Transplantations and Borderlands Key

Question 1

Captain John Smith helped the Jamestown settlement survive by

A) imposing work and order on the colonists.
B) dividing decision-making authority among the colonists to improve morale.
C) waging all-out war with the local Indians.
D) introducing tobacco to the colonists.
E) importing African slaves to rebuild the fort.

Answer 1

imposing work and order on the colonists.

Question 2

The "starving time" in Jamestown during the winter of 1609-1610 was partly the result of

A) an influx of rats from settlers' ships that ate much of the stored grains.
B) a barricade set up by the Indians, which kept the colonists from hunting and cultivating food inland.
C) the extermination of the Indians who used to grow crops.
D) the sinking of the colonists' supply ship in the Atlantic.
E) a drought that led to crop failures.

Answer 2

a barricade set up by the Indians, which kept the colonists from hunting and cultivating food inland.

Question 3

Which of the following statements regarding Sir William Berkeley is FALSE?

A) He sent explorers across the Blue Ridge Mountains.
B) He encouraged Virginia to develop westward.
C) His relations with Indians were violent and bloody.
D) He was a dominant political figure in Virginia for more than three decades.
E) He extended political representation for frontier settlers.

Answer 3

He extended political representation for frontier settlers.

Question 4

In 1620,the Puritan Pilgrims who came to North America

A) hoped to create their ideal close-knit Christian community.
B) enjoyed a particularly mild winter their first year.
C) came over the objections of the Virginia colony.
D) were seeking to escape military service in England.
E) intended to settle at Cape Cod.

Question 5

The first blacks imported to Virginia in 1619

A) may have been considered indentured servants by the colonists.
B) sparked an immediate rapid stream of African slaves to the British colonies.
C) followed Indians into slavery.
D) were preferred to European indentured servants.
E) arrived as independent landowners.

Question 6

Which of the following does NOT describe the site chosen for the Jamestown settlement?

A) It bordered the territories of powerful Indian tribes.
B) It was inaccessible by ship.
C) It was low and swampy and subject to outbreaks of malaria.
D) It was located on a peninsula.
E) It was inland so as to offer security from natives.

Question 7

The cultivation of tobacco around Jamestown resulted in all the following EXCEPT

A) improved relations with the local Indians.
B) the search for new sources of labor.
C) rising prosperity for the colony.
D) the rapid wearing out of the soil.
E) the expansion of European settlement into the interior.

Question 8

Which of the following statements best characterizes the first years of Jamestown's existence?

A) A majority of its colonists enjoyed significant economic success.
B) The settlement was often assaulted by Spanish invaders.
C) The settlement was notable for its toleration of political freedom.
D) The settlement survived despite an enormous loss of life.
E) The settlement was notable for its peaceful relations with local Indians.

Question 9

In its beginning,the Maryland colony

A) was a refuge for English Catholics.
B) experienced considerable conflict with nearby French settlers.
C) was led by Captain John Smith.
D) allowed no Protestant settlers.
E) experienced tremendous warfare with local Indians.

Question 10

The initial Jamestown colonists focused primarily on

A) converting the local Indians to Christianity.
B) the search for gold.
C) developing peaceful relations with the Indians in the area.
D) the long-term success of the settlement.
E) building a family-centered community.

Question 11

The suppression of Bacon's Rebellion helped spur

A) calls for independence from England.
B) tobacco production.
C) slavery in Virginia.
D) European investment.
E) the triangular trade.

Question 12

Bacon's Rebellion

A) was a conflict between eastern and western political forces in Virginia.
B) saw the royal governor of Virginia forced to resign.
C) spread throughout several colonies.
D) spelled the demise of the Virginia Company.
E) carried on for several years.

Question 13

Warfare between Englishmen and Powhatan Indians in Virginia

A) was first triggered by the kidnapping of Pocahontas.
B) continued without interruption until the early eighteenth century.
C) was primarily a result of religious tensions between natives and settlers.
D) was uncommon until the early eighteenth century.
E) included an Indian attack on Jamestown that killed hundreds of colonists.

Question 14

The Virginia Company developed the "headright system" to

A) require families to migrate together.
B) raise revenue from the sale of land.
C) discourage poor people from moving to the colony.
D) cause conflict among the neighboring Indian tribes.
E) attract new settlers to the colony.

Question 15

The Powhatan Indian Pocahontas

A) was kidnapped by John Rolfe.
B) married Englishman John Smith.
C) refused to convert to Christianity.
D) was the cause of a war between the Powhatan Indians and Virginian colonists.
E) created an interest in England in "civilizing" Indians.

Question 16

The first profitable economic development in Jamestown resulted from

A) the cultivation of cotton.
B) the discovery of gold and silver.
C) development of fisheries and lumber.
D) fur trade with the Indians.
E) the production of tobacco.

Question 17

By 1670,political representation for colonists in Virginia

A) favored western counties over eastern counties.
B) expanded to include landholding black men.
C) had grown more restrictive.
D) was open to all white men over the age of twenty-one.
E) involved elections taking place every two years.

Question 18

When the House of Burgesses was created in Virginia in 1619,

A) it gave settlers full political control of their colony.
B) colonists were given a share of local political representation.
C) landowning women colonists were allowed to vote.
D) it recommended that Virginia declare independence from England.
E) it put an end to a violent uprising by disgruntled colonists.

Question 19

The Virginia Company

A) had its charter revoked by James I.
B) was absorbed by the crown because it was becoming too powerful.
C) never sanctioned military action against the Native Americans of Virginia.
D) deeply opposed the importation of Africans to the colonies.
E) found most of its Virginia ventures to be very profitable.

Question 20

In 1608,Puritan Separatists that left England

A) could not legally do so without the king's permission.
B) were encouraged by the Church of England to emigrate.
C) emigrated quietly to northern France.
D) chartered a colony in Plymouth.
E) sought refuge in Virginia.

Question 21

The Fundamental Constitution for the Carolina colony

A) made no provisions for a colonial parliament.
B) sought to create a society of general equality among Englishmen.
C) was influenced by the English philosopher John Locke.
D) initially did not include slavery.
E) All these answers are correct.

Question 22

When it was established in 1644,the colony of Rhode Island

A) organized the first fully democratic government in North America.
B) banned Jews from immigrating.
C) had strong ties to the church in the Massachusetts colony.
D) was notable for its religious toleration.
E) had no ties to the Massachusetts colony.

Question 23

The development of the Carolina colony was notable in that

A) its founders had discouraged the use of slaves.
B) it advocated independence from England well before any other mainland colony.
C) its economy was grounded in tobacco production.
D) the northern and southern regions were economically and socially distinct from each other.
E) the colony was able to attract large numbers of settlers from nearby colonies.

Question 24

The New York colony

A) banned slavery from its inception.
B) made a commitment to representative assemblies.
C) saw its population grow slowly for its first fifty years.
D) emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch.
E) had its founding proprietors from the Carolina colony.

Question 25

King Charles I's treatment of Puritans could be characterized as

A) unlikely to involve imprisonment for religious beliefs.
B) relatively tolerant.
C) more likely to advance Puritan thought in England.
D) governed by economic motives.
E) extremely hostile.

Question 26

The Puritan founders in Massachusetts who described their colony as a "city upon a hill"

A) sought to create a community in which all people were treated as equals.
B) wanted to construct their community on high ground to save it from Indian attacks.
C) wanted to create a community that would be open to all peoples of all faiths.
D) wanted to differentiate their community from the materialism and acquisitiveness of New Haven.
E) felt they were creating a holy community that would be a model for the world.

Question 27

In the 1640s,during the English Civil War,the Cavaliers were

A) the forces of Parliament, who were largely Puritans.
B) Scottish and Irish gentry desiring to secede from England.
C) both the forces of Parliament and supporters of King Charles I.
D) supporters of King Charles I.
E) neither the forces of Parliament nor supporters of King Charles I.

Question 28

During the early years,the survival and growth of the Plymouth colony

A) was due in large part to the assistance of the natives.
B) led the colonists to grow rich from the surrounding productive farmlands.
C) was critically important for trade routes with Jamestown to the south.
D) nevertheless saw two-thirds of its population die.
E) saw the colonists carry out warfare that wiped out much of the local Indian population.

Question 29

In 1637,hostilities broke out between English settlers in the Connecticut Valley and which local Native American tribe?

A) Pequots
B) Sioux
C) Powhatans
D) Seminoles
E) Wampanoags

Question 30

The Massachusetts Bay Puritans

A) created a colonial "theocracy."
B) lived as grim and joyless people.
C) took vows of poverty as evidence of their commitment to their faith.
D) fought with the surrounding Indians almost immediately.
E) introduced freedom of worship to the New World.

Question 31

Which of the following was NOT a Restoration colony?

A) New York
B) Carolina
C) Pennsylvania
D) New Jersey
E) Maryland

Question 32

The Puritan merchants who founded the Massachusetts Bay colony

A) established their capital in Salem.
B) were given their colonial charter by Charles II.
C) took over what had been a royal colony.
D) were led by Miles Standish.
E) carried out the largest single migration in the seventeenth century.

Question 33

Over time in the seventeenth century,an increasing number of New England Puritans came to view Indian society

A) as helpful neighbors and partners in commerce.
B) as worth preserving.
C) with fear and contempt.
D) with condescending admiration.
E) as part of the godly community.

Question 34

In King Philip's War,Indians made effective use of a relatively new weapon,the

A) artillery cannon.
B) flintlock rifle.
C) Gatling gun.
D) matchlock rifle.
E) repeating revolver.

Question 35

Thomas Hooker is associated with establishing the colony of

A) Connecticut.
B) Vermont.
C) Maine.
D) New Hampshire.
E) Rhode Island.

Question 36

In 1638,Anne Hutchinson was deported from the Massachusetts colony because she

A) was a single mother who refused to marry.
B) challenged the prevailing assumptions of the proper role of women in society.
C) argued that only the "elect" were entitled to any religious or political authority.
D) was accused of practicing witchcraft.
E) preached against what she called the "Antinomian heresy."

Question 37

One reason Roger Williams was deported from the Massachusetts colony was that he

A) attempted to take over the leadership of the colony.
B) proclaimed that the Indians had no right to the land occupied by the colonists.
C) advocated the principle of plural marriage.
D) was a confirmed Separatist.
E) argued that the colony should maintain allegiance to the Church of England.

Question 38

The proprietors who founded the Carolina colony

A) quickly made it a financial success.
B) banned the importation of indentured servants.
C) ruled the colony with dictatorial powers.
D) guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians.
E) rejected the headright system.

Question 39

Like New York,the New Jersey colony

A) had few slaves during its early existence.
B) quickly developed a strong local government.
C) had great ethnic and religious diversity.
D) developed an important class of large landowners.
E) was characterized by a unified and generally peaceful society.

Question 40

The English Restoration began with the reign of

A) Elizabeth I.
B) Oliver Cromwell.
C) Charles II.
D) George I.
E) James II.

Question 41

Originally,the Georgia colony excluded

A) indentured servants.
B) slaves.
C) free Africans.
D) both free Africans and slaves.
E) neither free Africans nor slaves.

Question 42

Unlike Puritans,the Quakers

A) rejected the doctrine of original sin.
B) paid their clergy handsomely.
C) were not persecuted by the English government.
D) accepted the concept of predestination.
E) All these answers are correct.

Question 43

The tobacco culture of Virginia created great pressure for territorial expansion.

Question 44

Georgia was founded

A) by Quaker missionaries.
B) to provide a refuge for Catholics.
C) as a haven for religious dissenters.
D) to quickly make money for its investors.
E) to create a military barrier against the Spanish.

Question 45

John Smith imposed order on the Jamestown settlement,but he thought it wise not to antagonize local Indians.

Question 46

Virginia did not become a royal colony until the eve of the American Revolution.

Question 47

Bacon's Rebellion was undertaken to do away with slavery in Virginia.

Question 48

The Jamestown settlement was an instant success.

Question 49

The rebellion led by Jacob Leisler took place in

A) New Jersey.
B) Connecticut.
C) Massachusetts.
D) Rhode Island.
E) New York.

Question 50

The colony established by people seeking to separate from Pennsylvania was

A) Kentucky.
B) New York.
C) Maryland.
D) Delaware.
E) New Jersey.

Question 51

The English colonial settlements in the Caribbean

A) had a smaller percentage of slaves than that held by the North American colonies.
B) were forced to deal with larger native populations than settlements on the mainland.
C) developed significant economic success through the production of tobacco.
D) developed their settlements along the same lines as those of the Chesapeake.
E) concluded it was cheaper to buy new African slaves than to protect those they owned.

Question 52

In the seventeenth century,English Quakers

A) believed all could attain salvation.
B) were pacifists.
C) had no paid clergy.
D) granted women a position within the church generally equal to that of men.
E) All these answers are correct.

Question 53

The first Africans to arrive in Virginia in 1619 were likely thought of as indentured servants by the colonists,rather than as slaves.

Question 54

The "middle grounds" refers to a region of colonial North America in which

A) Indian tribes were largely able to keep European colonists out.
B) French colonists managed to hold the balance of power.
C) no single European or Indian group held clear dominance.
D) English colonists quickly became the dominant power.
E) Spanish colonists were long the dominant power.

Question 55

William Penn

A) suppressed the local Indians in Pennsylvania with a strong military presence.
B) was a man of great wealth who converted to Quakerism.
C) established a moderately successful but never cosmopolitan colony.
D) never visited Pennsylvania.
E) used unscrupulous and deceptive advertising to attract settlers.

Question 56

The founders of Maryland encouraged both Protestants and Catholics to migrate to the colony.

Question 57

What became the dominant crop of the Caribbean colonies?

A) beans
B) corn
C) cotton
D) tobacco
E) sugar

Question 58

The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689

A) enhanced the influence of Catholicism in England.
B) helped put in place the Dominion of New England.
C) kept the English crown among Englishmen.
D) saw an English king, James II, flee to the European continent.
E) had no effect on colonial governments.

Question 59

Which of the following statements regarding the Navigation Acts (1660s and 70s)is FALSE?

A) All European goods sent to the colonies had to pass through England and were subject to taxes.
B) Certain colonial products could be exported only to England.
C) English colonists could only produce products that were also sold in England.
D) Duties were imposed on the coastal trade among the English colonies.
E) English colonies were closed to all trade except that carried by English ships.

Question 60

The Dominion of New England

A) was called into being by King Charles II.
B) called for a single royal governor.
C) was limited to what now constitutes New England.
D) preserved existing colonial legislative assemblies.
E) declared the Navigation Acts null and void.

Question 61

Describe how the relationship between Europeans and Indians changed as a result of colonization.

Question 62

Quakers is a term applied to a dissenting English Protestant sect,the Society of Friends.

Question 63

James I of England may have believed in the divine right of kings,but he was not particularly harsh in his treatment of Puritans.

Question 64

Both the Pequot War and King Philip's War ended disastrously for the Indians.

Question 65

During its early years,the Pennsylvania colony often faced financial ruin.

Question 66

The Navigation Acts were designed primarily to control migration into the Americas.

Question 67

Residents of Massachusetts generally had greater freedom of worship than the Puritans had had in England.

Question 68

Why did slavery emerge as a major labor source in the North American colonies by the end of the seventeenth century?

Question 69

What were the critical differences between the English settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts?

Question 70

Bacon's Rebellion accelerated the development of slavery in Virginia.

Question 71

What role did the Caribbean colonies play in the development of British North America?

Question 72

The Dominion of New England supported the colonists' claims for the "rights of Englishmen."

Question 73

Philosopher John Locke helped draw up the Fundamental Constitution for Carolina.

Question 74

One result of the Restoration was the development of new colonies in North America.

Question 75

Compare the experiences of the Roanoke colony with those of the Jamestown colony,and explain what factors led to the failure of the former and the eventual success of the latter.

Question 76

Like Pennsylvania,Georgia was founded as a religious colony.

Question 77

California was first colonized by Spain,which used local Indians as its main source of labor.

Question 78

Which people,Europeans or Indians,enjoyed greater benefit from the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century exchange of technology of weaponry and agriculture?

Question 79

Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams were both executed for their dissent on the major tenets of Puritanism.

Question 80

The Mayflower Compact set forth the principles of the Puritan religion.