Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Early Colonization Test notes


·         The Dutch settled New Netherlands primarily to
o   Expand their commercial and mercantile network
·         Which of the following statements about Africans brought as slaves to the British North American colonies is true?
o   They maintained cultural practices brought from Africa
o   They greatly outnumbered Europeans in every colony south of the Mason-Dixon line by 1776
o   They had a lower life expectancy in the Chesapeake than in South Carolina or the West Indies
o   They were primarily a labor source for the Chesapeake plantations by 1630
·         The headright system
o   Enabled wealthy property owners to acquire more land by paying the passage of indentured servants
·         In 1676, Bacon's Rebellion signaled that
o   Colonial governors struggled to contain domestic unrest
·         Which of the following statements best expresses a tenet of the Puritan faith?
o   An omnipotent God predestined some individuals for salvation
·         Which of the following best explains the witchcraft phenomenon that swept New England in the late 17th century?
o   New England colonies were more superstitious than the other colonies
·         Which of the following statements about life in the colonial south is true?
o   Life expectancy was lower than in the New England colonies
o   Disease took more lives than in the New England colonies
o   Patriarchal authority exerted far less control than in New England
o   The rivers were critically important to the regional economy
·         English Protestants who wished not only to rid the Church of England of its Catholic traditions, but also to reform English society; they came to New England to set up a model community as an example to the rest of Europe.
o   Puritans
·         The area that had the longest life expectancy and the fastest growing population growth through natural increase was
o   New England
·         The early House of Burgesses was not truly representative because
o   Only wealthy white landowners over 21 could vote
·         The purpose of the Puritans "City on a Hill" was:
o   To build a godly community that would be example to England
·         Some enterprising planters increased the size of their plantations by taking advantage of:
o   the headright system
·         Who might have said this quote:" so lamentable was our scarcity, that we were constrained to eat dogs, cats, rats, snakes, horsehide and what not"
o   Settlers at Jamestown 1607-1608
·         Both the Spanish and the French understood all of these in dealing with the Indians
o   The importance of allies
o   Killing the leader of the natives
o   using superior technology
o   marrying native Indian women
·         Which of the following statements about Virginia is correct?
o   It was governed by an appointed royal governor and governor=s council and a House of Burgesses elected by landowners
·         A cause of the Pequot War of 1637 was:
o   the rapid expansion of colonist farther inland
·         Governor William Bradford, of the Plymouth Colony's biggest fear was
o   non-Puritan settlements corrupting the Puritan life style
·         A man's right to vote for governor and members of the General Court in seventeenth-century Massachusetts was based on
o   church membership
·         A result of the Salem Witch trials would be
o   The vision of a city on a hill was coming to an end
·         All of the following contributed to the decline of Native Americans in New England
o   smallpox, diphtheria, measles, and tuberculosis.
o   the seizure of Indian land to pay off debts.
o   the destruction of the ecosystem by English crops and livestock.
·         All of the following statements about English Puritans are correct
o    they were Calvinists
o   they accepted the doctrine of predestination
o   the majority of them did not want to separate from the Church of England but to reform it from within
o   they rejected magnificent cathedrals and ornate rituals in favor of plain sermons in ordinary churches
·         One of the significant differences between European society and most pre-Columbian Native American cultures was that
o   Native Americans lacked the concept that property ownership conferred perpetual and exclusive control of land
·         The Half-Way Covenant was adopted because
o   too few second- and third-generation Puritans were willing to testify publicly about their conversion experiences
·         Which of the following statements about Maryland is correct
o   It became the first colony to allow some religious freedom with the Toleration Act
·         Which colonies had the most ethnically, religiously, and racially diverse population in North America.
o   New Netherland-New York
·         Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony for advocating
o   the separation of church and state
·         In the 17th century, the Chesapeake Bay settlements expanded it's territorial holdings more quickly than the Massachusetts Bay settlement primarily because
o   farming of the chief Chesapeake export, tobacco, required a great deal of land
·         Which of the following religions had the most influence upon the daily life of the colonists of the seventeenth century?
o   The Puritans in New England
·         All of the following were examples of conflicts between colonists and Native American tribes
o   Bacon's Rebellion
o   King Phillip's War
o   Powhattan Wars
·         The first important cash crop in the American colonies was
o   Tobacco
·         The charter of the Virginia Company
o   Gave setters the rights of Englishmen
·         The importance of the Mayflower Compact was that
o   it created a process of self government for Plymouth Colony
·         The Navigation Acts had all of the following effects on the colonies
o   the Acts encouraged economic diversification
o   the Acts laid the foundation for the growth of colonial shipping building
o   as a result of the Acts many colonists enjoyed increased prosperity
o   led to the growth of port cities such as Boston, New York and Philadelphia
·         The urban paradox can best be summarized by this statement
o   the cities of the English colonies had most of the wealth and most of the poor
·         The rise of the "colonial elite" can best be attributed to:
o   the dramatic increase in colonial shipping
·         Which statement below best describes the importance of John Rolfe to the Virgina colony
o   he found that Caribbean tobacco could grow in Virginia
·         After the decline in tobacco prices colonist in Maryland
o   diversified their farms to corn and cattle
·         As a result of the Glorious Revolution all of these events happened in the American colonies
o   William and Mary ruled as King and Queen of England
o   Edmund Andros was arrested while attempting to sneak out of Boston
o   Leisler's Rebellion resulted in their leader being hanged for treason
·         During the period known as Royal Centralization, the Dominion of New England was
o   created by James II to consolidate his hold on the nothern colonies and eliminate their colonial assemblies
·         Which was one of the results of King Willliam's and Queen Ann's wars
o   they heightened the colonial settlers of their British identity

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