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Anne Hutchinson: |
opposed Puritan ministers who distinguished saints from the damned through church attendance and moral behavior rather than through focusing on an inner state of grace. |
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As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: |
efforts were made to encourage the poor and jobless to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis. |
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At Anne Hutchinson’s trial: |
she violated Puritan doctrine by claiming that God spoke to her directly rather than through ministers or the Bible. |
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How did most Puritans in the colonies view the separation of church and state? |
They allowed church and state to be interconnected by requiring each town to establish a church and levy a tax to support the minister. |
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How did Richard Hakluyt explain his claim that there was a connection between freedom and colonization? |
English colonization would save the New World from Spanish tyranny. |
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How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony’s development? |
It instituted the headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another’s passage. |
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In 1607, the colonists who sailed to Jamestown on three small ships: |
chose an inland site partly to avoid the possibility of attack by Spanish warships. |
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In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England: |
was more family oriented. |
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In early-seventeenth-century Massachusetts, freeman status was granted to adult males who: |
were landowning church members. |
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In New England towns: |
much of the land remained in commons, for collective use or to be divided among later settlers. |
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In Puritan New England: |
infant mortality rates were lower than in the Chesapeake colonies, because the environment was healthier. |
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It can be argued that conflict between the English settlers and local Indians in Virginia became inevitable when: |
the Native Americans realized that England wanted to establish a permanent and constantly expanding colony, not just a trading post. |
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John Winthrop followed which one of the following policies toward Native Americans? |
He insisted that they agree to submit to English authority. |
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Maryland was similar to Virginia in that: |
tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society. |
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Maryland’s founder, Cecilius Calvert: |
did not want ordinary people to get involved in politics. |
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Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England: |
were men from the lower classes. |
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Of the half million people who left England between 1607 and 1700: |
more went to the West Indies than to North America. |
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Opechancanough: |
mounted a surprise attack in 1622 that wiped out one-quarter of Virginia’s settlers. |
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Puritans followed the religious ideas of the French-born theologian: |
John Calvin. |
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Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as: |
dangerous to social harmony and community stability. |
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The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England returned home: |
were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company’s interest in searching for gold as opposed to building a functioning society. |
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The Magna Carta: |
granted many liberties, but mainly to barons. |
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The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas: |
was seen in England as a sign of Anglo-Indian harmony and missionary success. |
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The Massachusetts General Court: |
reflected the Puritans’ desire to govern the colony without outside interference. |
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The Mayflower Compact established: |
a civil government for the Plymouth Colony. |
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The Native American leader Powhatan: |
managed to consolidate control over some thirty nearby tribes. |
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The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker: |
founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut. |
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The Puritans believed that male authority in the household was: |
to be unquestioned. |
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The Virginia House of Burgesses: |
was created as part of the Virginia Company’s effort to encourage the colony’s survival. |
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To entice settlers to Virginia, the Virginia Company established the headright system, which: |
provided land to settlers who paid their own passage. |
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Virginia’s colonial policy of requiring Native Americans to move to reservations: |
resulted from a treaty that Native Americans were forced to sign. |
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What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty? |
land |
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What good fortune helped the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth? |
Native Americans had recently cleared the fields for planting. |
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When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island: |
he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay. |
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When the Virginia Company gave control of the Virginia colony to the king in 1624: |
Virginia became the first royal colony. |
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Where in the Americas did the Pilgrims originally plan to go? |
Virginia |
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Which colony adopted the Act concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration? |
Maryland |
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Which of the following is NOT a way that colonists undermined traditional Native American agriculture and hunting? |
Their refusal to build fences and permanent structures created conflict with Native American hunting methods. |
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Which one of the following is true of poverty in seventeenth-century Great Britain? |
About half of the population lived at or below the poverty line by the end of the seventeenth century. |
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Which one of the following is true of warfare between colonists and Native Americans during the seventeenth century? |
Among the colonists, it generated a strong sense of superiority. |
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Which one of the following is true about the early history of Jamestown? |
The death rate was extraordinarily high. |
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Which one of the following is true of the Puritans of the seventeenth century? |
They agreed that the Church of England retained too many elements of Catholicism in its rituals and doctrines. |
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Which one of the following is true of the Puritans’ dealings with Quakers? |
Their officials in Massachusetts punished Quakers financially and physically, even hanging several of them. |
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Which one of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order by the dates they were founded, from the earliest to the latest? |
Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island |
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Which one of the following spurred increased European interest in colonizing North America? |
national glory and religious rivalries |
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Why did Puritans decide to emigrate from England in the late 1620s and 1630s? |
The Church of England was firing their ministers and censoring their writings. |
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Why did the Pilgrims flee the Netherlands? |
They felt that the surrounding culture was corrupting their children. |