Chapter 2-5 THT
- The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States was the
- Spanish at Santa Fe in 1610
- French at Quebec in 1608
- English at Jamestown in 1607
- English at Massachusetts Bay in 1621
- Identify the statement that is false
- England’s victory over the Spanish Armada started England on its way to becoming master of the world’s oceans
- England never experienced any religious unity or stability as it continued to have years of bloody warfare over religious radicalism
- England had a strong, unified national state under a popular monarch
- England had a strong, vibrant sense of nationalism and national destiny
- The financial means for England’s first permanent colonization in America were provided by
- A joint-stock company
- A royal proprietor
- Queen Elizabeth II
- An expanding wool trade
- The Indians that had the greatest opportunity to adapt to the European incursion were
- Those living on the Atlantic seaboard
- Those in Florida
- Inland tribes such as the Algonquians
- The Pueblos
- In 1649, Maryland’s Act of Toleration
- Was issued by Lord Baltimore
- Gave freedom only to Catholics
- Protected Jews and atheists
- Guaranteed toleration to all Christians
- Identify the statement that is false
- The promise of riches, especially tobacco, drew the first settlers to southern colonies
- Religious devotion primarily shaped the earliest settlements in the New England colonies
- Colonists in both the north and south had strong common regional characteristics that would persist for generations
- The colonies in the north and south had different patterns of settlement, different economies, different political systems, and even different sets of values
- King James I opposed the Separatists who wanted to break away entirely from the Church of England because he
- Realized that if his subjects could defy him as their spiritual leader, they could defy him as their political leader
- Strongly believed in the concept of “visible saints”
- Never understood the political implications of their actions
- Was a strong Catholic and the Separatists doctrine went counter to the strict interpretation of the Bible
- With the franchise in Massachusetts extended to all adult males who belonged to Puritans congregations, the proportion of qualified voters (about 2/5) in this colony as compared to England was
- Larger
- Somewhat smaller
- About the same
- A great deal smaller
- As a colony, Rhode Island became known for
- Unified religious beliefs
- Support of special privilege
- Never having secured a charter from Parliament
- Individualist and independent attitudes
- The Dominion of New England
- Included all the New England colonies
- Was created by the English government to streamline the administration of its colonies
- Was designed to bolster colonial defense
- All of these
- As the seventeenth century wore on, regional differences continued to crystalize, most notably
- The use of indentured servants
- Loyalty to England
- The continuing rigidity of Puritanism
- The importance of slave labor in the south
- Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from
- African slaves
- White servants
- Captured Indians
- West Indian natives
- For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the middle passage can be best described as
- The trip from the interior of Africa to the coast
- The easiest part of their journey to America
- The gruesome ocean voyage to America
- None of these
- Urban development in the colonial South
- Rivaled that of New England
- Kept pace with the growth of large plantations
- Was slow to emerge
- Occurred without the development of a professional class
- The Half-Way Covenant
- Strengthened the distinction between the elect and all others
- Brought an end to the jeremiads of Puritan ministers
- Resulted in a decrease in church members
- Admitted to baptism, but not full membership, the unconverted children of existing members
- All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence EXCEPT
- Distinctive economic structures
- The appearance of a recognizable American way of life
- Distinctive political structures
- Distinctive ethnic or racial structures
- In North Carolina, spearheaded by the Scotch-Irish, a small insurrection against eastern domination of the colony’s affair was known as
- Bacon’s Rebellion
- March of the Paxton Boys
- Regulator Movement
- Shays’ Rebellion
- Identify the statement that is false.
- The triangular trade was infamously profitable and made up most of the colonial commerce
- A trader would barter rum with African chiefs for captured African slaves
- A trader would travel to the West Indies with the African slaves for molasses
- A trader would travel to New England with the molasses, where it would be distilled into rum
- Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated
- Congregationalist
- The frontier
- Anglican
- New England
- Presbyterian
- The South
- A-2, B-3, C-1
- A-2, B-1, C-3
- A-3, B-2, C-1
- A-3, B-1, C-2
- The jury’s decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because
- It supported English law
- It pointed the way to open public discussion
- The ruling prohibited criticism of political officials
- It allowed the press to print irresponsible criticisms of powerful people
- The English treatment of the Irish, under the reign of Elizabeth I, can best be described as
- Firm but fair
- The prime example of salutary neglect
- Violent and unjust
- Supportive of their Catholic faith
- All of the following were true of England as the 17th century opened up EXCEPT
- A large population boom
- Desolate cities with a decreasing population
- Enclosing crop lands, thus forcing small farmers off the land
- Increasing unemployment
- The guarantee that English settlers in the New World would retain the “rights of Englishmen” proved to be
- An empty promise
- Unpopular among the settlers
- The foundation for American liberties
- A catalyst for French colonization of North America
- The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
- The destruction of the soil
- A great demand for controlled labor
- Diversification of the colony’s economy
- The broad-acred plantation system
- Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all
- Economically dependent on the export of a staple crop
- Proprietary colonies
- Founded as refuges for persecuted religious sects in England
- Able to live in peace with the Native Americans
- All of the following are true of Martin Luther EXCEPT
- He protested against Catholic doctrines at Wittenberg in 1517
- There was little notice of his reforms in Europe
- He denounced the authority of priests and popes
- He declared that the Bible was the only source of God’s word
- All of the following were true of the Pilgrims EXCEPT they
- Were also known as Separatists
- Arrived at their original destination with no casualties
- Were without legal right to the land and specific authority to establish a government
- Chose Plymouth Bay as their landing site in 1620
- Among the Puritans, it was understood that
- They would establish democratic government in America
- Clergymen would hold the most powerful political office
- The purpose of government was to enforce God’s laws
- All adult white male landowners could vote for political leaders
- After the Pequot War, Puritan efforts to convert Indians to Christianity can best be described as
- Vigorous but unsuccessful
- More zealous that those made by Catholics, but still unsuccessful
- Filling “praying towns” with hundreds of Indians
- Feeble, not equaling that of the Spanish or the French
- The Dutch colony of New Netherland (later New York)
- Allowed only Dutch immigrants to settle there
- Was established for its quick profit of fur trading
- Tolerated Quakers from nearby Pennsylvania
- All of these
- In the seventeenth century, due to a high death rate, families were both few and fragile in
- New England
- The Chesapeake colonies
- George
- Florida
- Bacon’s Rebellion was supported mainly by
- Young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land
- Those protesting the increased importation of African slaves
- People from Jamestown
- The local Indians
- While slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,
- It soon became clear that profits were down by 1700
- Racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American slave system
- Profit soon played a very small role
- Europe profited most from the institution
- In seventeenth-century colonial America, all of the following are true regarding women EXCEPT
- Women had no rights as individuals
- Women could not vote
- A husband’s power over his wife was not absolute
- Abusive husbands were punished
- As a result of poor soil, all of the following conditions prevailed in New England EXCEPT that
- Reliance on a single, staple crop became a necessity
- The areas was less ethnically mixed than its southern neighbors
- Frugality became essential to economic survival
- Diversification in agriculture and industry were encouraged
- As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century
- A momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country
- The British government was pleased that more workers would be available to fill an increasing need for laborers in Britain
- The colonists became more dependent on Britain for the goods that they needed to survive
- The British government granted greater autonomy to colonial governments
- In contrast to the seventeenth century, by 1775, colonial Americans
- Had become more stratified into social classes and had less social mobility
- Found that it was easier for ordinary people to acquire land
- Had nearly lost their fear of slave rebellion
- Had few people who owned small farms
- One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the
- British demand to halt the importation of slaves
- Growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain
- Lack of any British rejection of the Molasses Act
- The Americans’ unwillingness to trade with the French West Indies
- The Great Awakening
- Undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies
- Split colonial churches into several competing denominations
- Was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people
- All of these
- One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was
- One man, one vote
- The separation of powers
- Self-taxation through representation
- Restricting the right to vote to men only
- Spain’s dreams of empire began to fade with the
- War of Spanish Succession
- Defeat of the Spanish Armada
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Conquest of Mexico by Portugal
- The ______decreed that only eldest sons were eligible to inherit landed estates.
- Ancestry laws
- Laws of primogeniture
- Joint-stock companies
- Laws of inheritance
- The result of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War in 1644 can best be described as
- Returning the Chesapeake Indians to their ancestral lands
- Making peaceful coexistence possible between the European and native peoples
- Ending any chance of assimilating the native peoples into Virginia society
- Bringing together areas of white and Indian settlement
- The summoning of Virginia’s House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it
- Was abolished by King James I
- Was the first of many miniature parliaments to flourish in America
- Forced King James I to revoke the colony’s royal charter and grant it self-government
- Allowed the seating of nonvoting Native Americans
- By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies
- Based their economies on the production of staple crops for export
- Practiced slavery
- Provided tax support for the Church of England
- All of these
- In Puritan doctrine, the “elect” were also referred to as
- Separatists
- “Visible saints”
- Pilgrims
- Anglicans
- The Mayflower Compact can be best described as a(n)
- Agreement to follow the dictates of Parliament
- Constitution that established a working government
- Complex agreement to form an oligarchy
- Promising step toward genuine self-government
- According to Anne Hutchinson, a dissenter in Massachusetts Bay
- Predestination was not a valid idea
- The truly saved need not bother to obey the laws of God or man
- Direct revelation from God was impossible
- A person needs only to obey the law of God
- King Philip’s War resulted in
- The lasting defeat of New England’s Indians
- The formation of a powerful alliance among the Indians to resist the English
- The last victory for the Indians
- None of these
- The middle colonies were notable for their
- Lack of good river transportation
- Unusual degree of democratic control
- Lack of industry
- Established churches
- The headright system, which made some people every wealthy, consisted of
- Giving land to indentured servants to get them to come to the New World
- Giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America
- Discouraging the importation of indentured servants to America
- Giving a father’s wealth to the oldest son
- All of the following are reasons for increased reliance in slave labor, after 1680, in colonial America EXCEPT
- Higher wages in England reduced the number of emigrating servants
- The British Royal African company lost its monopoly on the slave trade in colonial America
- Americans rushed to cash in on the slave trade
- The numbers of indentured servants continued to increase in the colonies
- The slave society that developed in North America was one of the few slave societies in history to
- Produce a new culture based entirely on African heritage
- Rebel against its masters
- Develop its own techniques of growing corn and wheat
- Perpetuate itself by its own natural reproduction
- The Puritan system of congregational church government logically led to
- An authoritarian political government
- Democracy in political government
- The end of town meetings
- Complete equality between men and women
- The English justified taking land from the native inhabitants on the grounds that the Indians
- Were not Christians
- Wasted the earth
- Refused to sell it
- Did not have a legal right to it
- The Scots-Irish can best be described as
- Pugnacious, lawless, and individualistic
- People who did not like to move
- Builders of sturdy homes and well-kept farms
- Strong supporters of the Catholic Church
- By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on ______, the Chesapeake colonies relied on ______, and the southern colonies relied on ______.
- Cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo
- Furs and skins, tobacco, iron works
- Rice and indigo, lumber and timber, tobacco
- Cattle and grain, tobacco, fishing
- English officials tried to establish the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because
- The church would act as a major prop for royal authority
- Such an action would restore enthusiasm for religion
- The American colonists supported such a move
- Such an action brought in more money to England
- The time-honored English ideal, which Americans accepted for some time, regarded education as
- Essential training for citizenship
- Designed for men and women
- Reserved for the aristocratic few
- Designed for rich and poor alike
- By the mid-eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities EXCEPT
- Complete democracy
- Protestant in religion
- Opportunity for social mobility
- Some degree of ethnic and religious toleration
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