·
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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