Deck 4: Colonization and Conflict in the North 1600-1700

Question 1

As compared to the English Puritans who settled New England, French settlers were

A) not at all religious.
B) also all Protestant.
C) few in number.
D) less likely to return to Europe.

Answer 1

few in number.

Question 2

The series of conflicts in which Iroquois raiders sought new hunting grounds and new captives were known as

A) the Indian Slave Wars.
B) the Beaver Wars.
C) Metacom's War.
D) the Pequot Wars.

Answer 2

the Beaver Wars.

Question 3

Which of the following accurately describes New France in 1700?

A) Most new immigrants to New France were Protestant.
B) The colonial population of New France was the largest in the New World.
C) The colonial population of New France had a hostile relationship with the native population.
D) Most immigrants to New France eventually returned to Europe.

Answer 3

Most immigrants to New France eventually returned to Europe.

Question 4

The "Mayflower Compact"of the Separatists was

A) a basis for government devised without a legal basis to do so.
B) an agreement to organize a colony, as provided in their original charter.
C) a small subgroup that determined on shipboard that pastors would hold ultimate authority in the colony.
D) a small, efficient floral garden intended to show that God's creation in Eden was a model for society.

Question 5

The description of Massachusetts Bay Colony using the biblical metaphor of a "city on a hill"relates to the Puritan founders' idea that the colony should

A) be separate from the world.
B) be located on a readily defensible site.
C) be a refuge for all religious dissenters.
D) serve as an example to the world.

Question 6

Which of the following was NOT one of the ways that the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay differed from the Pilgrims of Plymouth?

A) The Puritans felt a sense of mission to reform England.
B) The Puritans were simpler, less educated folk.
C) The Puritans remained within the established Church of England.
D) The Puritans carried with them a Crown charter for their enterprise.

Question 7

Migrants to New England in the early 1600s differed from those who went to the Chesapeake, in that

A) New England settlement was sponsored by individual proprietors.
B) New England immigrants tended to be motivated by a desire for wealth.
C) New Englanders immigrated in family groups.
D) in the harsher climate of New England, new arrivals often succumbed to disease and death.

Question 8

Which of the following behaviors was typical of a New England wife of the colonial period?

A) engaged in farm work that changed with the seasons
B) traveled with her husband to the mill
C) kept bees and planted vegetable gardens
D) held ministerial post in the Puritan church

Question 9

Which Wampanoag leader led southern New England's native people to attack and destroy more than two dozen towns in Plymouth Colony?

A) Mahican
B) Masasoit
C) Abenaki
D) Metacom

Question 10

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the settlement patterns of early Pennsylvania?

A) Most people lived in cities clustered along the coastline.
B) Like in New England, the town became the focal point of life.
C) The country, with its dispersed farmsteads, became the dominant settlement pattern.
D) Large plantations similar to Virginia's were characteristic of Pennsylvania.

Question 11

After the Glorious Revolution, English efforts to exercise closer control over the North American colonies

A) extended merely to putting teeth into commercial regulations in order to maximize profits from colonial trade.
B) continued to increase throughout the 1700s, eliciting growing American resistance.
C) ended, as the new monarchy sought to consolidate its power at home.
D) grew substantially but subtly, so that British rule was real, though not apparent.

Question 12

Which of the following best describes the result of the Glorious Revolution?

A) increased attempts to centralize England's empire
B) increased tensions between the colonies and England
C) increased power among colonial representative assemblies
D) increased supervision by the monarchs

Question 13

After 1714, which of the following constituted the majority of the population of North America?

A) British
B) French
C) Spanish
D) Indian

Question 14

The ________ League was the Indian Confederacy consisting of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and eventually the Tuscaroras.

Question 15

The offensive launched by Massasoit's son and heir in 1675 was known as ________ War.

Question 16

Compare the French motives for colonizing North America with those of the English.

Question 17

What were the principal religious beliefs of the Puritans?

Question 18

What role did the Congregational church play in the life of New England villages?

Question 19

What kinds of conflicts commonly arose among white settlers in seventeenth-century New England? Which were the most bitter and disruptive?

Question 20

How did migrations to the Chesapeake and New England help to determine the initial character of these two colonial societies?

Question 21

Describe the lives of women in early New England. How closely did they resemble the lives of women in the Chesapeake?

Question 22

How did the Dutch settlements in New York differ from the New England settlements of the same period?

Question 23

How did the pattern of settlement in Pennsylvania differ from that of New England?

Question 24

Both religious and economic factors made it easier for the French than the English to coexist with Indian cultures. Discuss those factors and explain why you agree or disagree.

Question 25

Why did Puritanism appeal to many people in early modern England?

Question 26

Why didn't New England develop a slave-based plantation economy similar to those in the colonial South?

Question 27

Assess the relations between white settlers and Indians in the northern colonies. How do they compare with relations between those two groups in the colonial South?

Question 28

Why did Quaker beliefs and customs challenge traditional English society in so many ways? Why did New England's Puritans (who were, after all, devout reformers themselves) persecute Quakers?

Question 29

How did the Iroquois nation gain strength from its contacts with white colonies?

Question 30

Why were the colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania relatively diverse and tolerant at the end of the seventeenth century?

Question 31

Describe the role of an average woman in New England. How did the Puritan dogma emancipate women?

Question 32

Why were women singled out during the witchcraft trials?