Chapter 2-5 THT

  1. The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States was the
  2. Spanish at Santa Fe in 1610
  3. French at Quebec in 1608
  4. English at Jamestown in 1607
  5. English at Massachusetts Bay in 1621
  6. Identify the statement that is false
  7. England’s victory over the Spanish Armada started England on its way to becoming master of the world’s oceans
  8. England never experienced any religious unity or stability as it continued to have years of bloody warfare over religious radicalism
  9. England had a strong, unified national state under a popular monarch
  10. England had a strong, vibrant sense of nationalism and national destiny
  11. The financial means for England’s first permanent colonization in America were provided by
  12. A joint-stock company
  13. A royal proprietor
  14. Queen Elizabeth II
  15. An expanding wool trade
  16. The Indians that had the greatest opportunity to adapt to the European incursion were
  17. Those living on the Atlantic seaboard
  18. Those in Florida
  19. Inland tribes such as the Algonquians
  20. The Pueblos
  21. In 1649, Maryland’s Act of Toleration
  22. Was issued by Lord Baltimore
  23. Gave freedom only to Catholics
  24. Protected Jews and atheists
  25. Guaranteed toleration to all Christians
  26. Identify the statement that is false
  27. The promise of riches, especially tobacco, drew the first settlers to southern colonies
  28. Religious devotion primarily shaped the earliest settlements in the New England colonies
  29. Colonists in both the north and south had strong common regional characteristics that would persist for generations
  30. The colonies in the north and south had different patterns of settlement, different economies, different political systems, and even different sets of values
  31. King James I opposed the Separatists who wanted to break away entirely from the Church of England because he
  32. Realized that if his subjects could defy him as their spiritual leader, they could defy him as their political leader
  33. Strongly believed in the concept of “visible saints”
  34. Never understood the political implications of their actions
  35. Was a strong Catholic and the Separatists doctrine went counter to the strict interpretation of the Bible
  36. 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
  37. Larger
  38. Somewhat smaller
  39. About the same
  40. A great deal smaller
  41. As a colony, Rhode Island became known for
  42. Unified religious beliefs
  43. Support of special privilege
  44. Never having secured a charter from Parliament
  45. Individualist and independent attitudes
  46. The Dominion of New England
  47. Included all the New England colonies
  48. Was created by the English government to streamline the administration of its colonies
  49. Was designed to bolster colonial defense
  50. All of these
  1. As the seventeenth century wore on, regional differences continued to crystalize, most notably
  2. The use of indentured servants
  3. Loyalty to England
  4. The continuing rigidity of Puritanism
  5. The importance of slave labor in the south
  6. Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from
  7. African slaves
  8. White servants
  9. Captured Indians
  10. West Indian natives
  11. For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the middle passage can be best described as
  12. The trip from the interior of Africa to the coast
  13. The easiest part of their journey to America
  14. The gruesome ocean voyage to America
  15. None of these
  16. Urban development in the colonial South
  17. Rivaled that of New England
  18. Kept pace with the growth of large plantations
  19. Was slow to emerge
  20. Occurred without the development of a professional class
  21. The Half-Way Covenant
  22. Strengthened the distinction between the elect and all others
  23. Brought an end to the jeremiads of Puritan ministers
  24. Resulted in a decrease in church members
  25. Admitted to baptism, but not full membership, the unconverted children of existing members
  26. All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence EXCEPT
  27. Distinctive economic structures
  28. The appearance of a recognizable American way of life
  29. Distinctive political structures
  30. Distinctive ethnic or racial structures
  31. In North Carolina, spearheaded by the Scotch-Irish, a small insurrection against eastern domination of the colony’s affair was known as
  32. Bacon’s Rebellion
  33. March of the Paxton Boys
  34. Regulator Movement
  35. Shays’ Rebellion
  36. Identify the statement that is false.
  37. The triangular trade was infamously profitable and made up most of the colonial commerce
  38. A trader would barter rum with African chiefs for captured African slaves
  39. A trader would travel to the West Indies with the African slaves for molasses
  40. A trader would travel to New England with the molasses, where it would be distilled into rum
  41. Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated

  1. Congregationalist
/
  1. The frontier

  1. Anglican
/
  1. New England

  1. Presbyterian
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  1. The South

  1. A-2, B-3, C-1
  2. A-2, B-1, C-3
  3. A-3, B-2, C-1
  4. A-3, B-1, C-2
  1. The jury’s decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because
  2. It supported English law
  3. It pointed the way to open public discussion
  4. The ruling prohibited criticism of political officials
  5. It allowed the press to print irresponsible criticisms of powerful people
  1. The English treatment of the Irish, under the reign of Elizabeth I, can best be described as
  2. Firm but fair
  3. The prime example of salutary neglect
  4. Violent and unjust
  5. Supportive of their Catholic faith
  6. All of the following were true of England as the 17th century opened up EXCEPT
  7. A large population boom
  8. Desolate cities with a decreasing population
  9. Enclosing crop lands, thus forcing small farmers off the land
  10. Increasing unemployment
  11. The guarantee that English settlers in the New World would retain the “rights of Englishmen” proved to be
  12. An empty promise
  13. Unpopular among the settlers
  14. The foundation for American liberties
  15. A catalyst for French colonization of North America
  16. The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
  17. The destruction of the soil
  18. A great demand for controlled labor
  19. Diversification of the colony’s economy
  20. The broad-acred plantation system
  21. Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all
  22. Economically dependent on the export of a staple crop
  23. Proprietary colonies
  24. Founded as refuges for persecuted religious sects in England
  25. Able to live in peace with the Native Americans
  26. All of the following are true of Martin Luther EXCEPT
  27. He protested against Catholic doctrines at Wittenberg in 1517
  28. There was little notice of his reforms in Europe
  29. He denounced the authority of priests and popes
  30. He declared that the Bible was the only source of God’s word
  31. All of the following were true of the Pilgrims EXCEPT they
  32. Were also known as Separatists
  33. Arrived at their original destination with no casualties
  34. Were without legal right to the land and specific authority to establish a government
  35. Chose Plymouth Bay as their landing site in 1620
  36. Among the Puritans, it was understood that
  37. They would establish democratic government in America
  38. Clergymen would hold the most powerful political office
  39. The purpose of government was to enforce God’s laws
  40. All adult white male landowners could vote for political leaders
  41. After the Pequot War, Puritan efforts to convert Indians to Christianity can best be described as
  42. Vigorous but unsuccessful
  43. More zealous that those made by Catholics, but still unsuccessful
  44. Filling “praying towns” with hundreds of Indians
  45. Feeble, not equaling that of the Spanish or the French
  46. The Dutch colony of New Netherland (later New York)
  47. Allowed only Dutch immigrants to settle there
  48. Was established for its quick profit of fur trading
  49. Tolerated Quakers from nearby Pennsylvania
  50. All of these
  51. In the seventeenth century, due to a high death rate, families were both few and fragile in
  52. New England
  53. The Chesapeake colonies
  54. George
  55. Florida
  1. Bacon’s Rebellion was supported mainly by
  2. Young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land
  3. Those protesting the increased importation of African slaves
  4. People from Jamestown
  5. The local Indians
  6. While slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,
  7. It soon became clear that profits were down by 1700
  8. Racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American slave system
  9. Profit soon played a very small role
  10. Europe profited most from the institution
  11. In seventeenth-century colonial America, all of the following are true regarding women EXCEPT
  12. Women had no rights as individuals
  13. Women could not vote
  14. A husband’s power over his wife was not absolute
  15. Abusive husbands were punished
  16. As a result of poor soil, all of the following conditions prevailed in New England EXCEPT that
  17. Reliance on a single, staple crop became a necessity
  18. The areas was less ethnically mixed than its southern neighbors
  19. Frugality became essential to economic survival
  20. Diversification in agriculture and industry were encouraged
  21. As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century
  22. A momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country
  23. The British government was pleased that more workers would be available to fill an increasing need for laborers in Britain
  24. The colonists became more dependent on Britain for the goods that they needed to survive
  25. The British government granted greater autonomy to colonial governments
  26. In contrast to the seventeenth century, by 1775, colonial Americans
  27. Had become more stratified into social classes and had less social mobility
  28. Found that it was easier for ordinary people to acquire land
  29. Had nearly lost their fear of slave rebellion
  30. Had few people who owned small farms
  31. One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the
  32. British demand to halt the importation of slaves
  33. Growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain
  34. Lack of any British rejection of the Molasses Act
  35. The Americans’ unwillingness to trade with the French West Indies
  36. The Great Awakening
  37. Undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies
  38. Split colonial churches into several competing denominations
  39. Was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people
  40. All of these
  41. One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was
  42. One man, one vote
  43. The separation of powers
  44. Self-taxation through representation
  45. Restricting the right to vote to men only
  46. Spain’s dreams of empire began to fade with the
  47. War of Spanish Succession
  48. Defeat of the Spanish Armada
  49. Treaty of Tordesillas
  50. Conquest of Mexico by Portugal
  51. The ______decreed that only eldest sons were eligible to inherit landed estates.
  52. Ancestry laws
  53. Laws of primogeniture
  54. Joint-stock companies
  55. Laws of inheritance
  1. The result of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War in 1644 can best be described as
  2. Returning the Chesapeake Indians to their ancestral lands
  3. Making peaceful coexistence possible between the European and native peoples
  4. Ending any chance of assimilating the native peoples into Virginia society
  5. Bringing together areas of white and Indian settlement
  6. The summoning of Virginia’s House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it
  7. Was abolished by King James I
  8. Was the first of many miniature parliaments to flourish in America
  9. Forced King James I to revoke the colony’s royal charter and grant it self-government
  10. Allowed the seating of nonvoting Native Americans
  11. By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies
  12. Based their economies on the production of staple crops for export
  13. Practiced slavery
  14. Provided tax support for the Church of England
  15. All of these
  16. In Puritan doctrine, the “elect” were also referred to as
  17. Separatists
  18. “Visible saints”
  19. Pilgrims
  20. Anglicans
  21. The Mayflower Compact can be best described as a(n)
  22. Agreement to follow the dictates of Parliament
  23. Constitution that established a working government
  24. Complex agreement to form an oligarchy
  25. Promising step toward genuine self-government
  26. According to Anne Hutchinson, a dissenter in Massachusetts Bay
  27. Predestination was not a valid idea
  28. The truly saved need not bother to obey the laws of God or man
  29. Direct revelation from God was impossible
  30. A person needs only to obey the law of God
  31. King Philip’s War resulted in
  32. The lasting defeat of New England’s Indians
  33. The formation of a powerful alliance among the Indians to resist the English
  34. The last victory for the Indians
  35. None of these
  36. The middle colonies were notable for their
  37. Lack of good river transportation
  38. Unusual degree of democratic control
  39. Lack of industry
  40. Established churches
  41. The headright system, which made some people every wealthy, consisted of
  42. Giving land to indentured servants to get them to come to the New World
  43. Giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America
  44. Discouraging the importation of indentured servants to America
  45. Giving a father’s wealth to the oldest son
  46. All of the following are reasons for increased reliance in slave labor, after 1680, in colonial America EXCEPT
  47. Higher wages in England reduced the number of emigrating servants
  48. The British Royal African company lost its monopoly on the slave trade in colonial America
  49. Americans rushed to cash in on the slave trade
  50. The numbers of indentured servants continued to increase in the colonies
  51. The slave society that developed in North America was one of the few slave societies in history to
  52. Produce a new culture based entirely on African heritage
  53. Rebel against its masters
  54. Develop its own techniques of growing corn and wheat
  55. Perpetuate itself by its own natural reproduction
  1. The Puritan system of congregational church government logically led to
  2. An authoritarian political government
  3. Democracy in political government
  4. The end of town meetings
  5. Complete equality between men and women
  6. The English justified taking land from the native inhabitants on the grounds that the Indians
  7. Were not Christians
  8. Wasted the earth
  9. Refused to sell it
  10. Did not have a legal right to it
  11. The Scots-Irish can best be described as
  12. Pugnacious, lawless, and individualistic
  13. People who did not like to move
  14. Builders of sturdy homes and well-kept farms
  15. Strong supporters of the Catholic Church
  16. 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 ______.
  17. Cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo
  18. Furs and skins, tobacco, iron works
  19. Rice and indigo, lumber and timber, tobacco
  20. Cattle and grain, tobacco, fishing
  21. English officials tried to establish the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because
  22. The church would act as a major prop for royal authority
  23. Such an action would restore enthusiasm for religion
  24. The American colonists supported such a move
  25. Such an action brought in more money to England
  26. The time-honored English ideal, which Americans accepted for some time, regarded education as
  27. Essential training for citizenship
  28. Designed for men and women
  29. Reserved for the aristocratic few
  30. Designed for rich and poor alike
  31. By the mid-eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities EXCEPT
  32. Complete democracy
  33. Protestant in religion
  34. Opportunity for social mobility
  35. Some degree of ethnic and religious toleration

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