Us History Chapter 2 Quiz

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Anne Hutchinson:

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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:

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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:

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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?

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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?

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English colonization would save the New World from Spanish tyranny.

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How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony’s development?

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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:

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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:

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was more family oriented.

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In early-seventeenth-century Massachusetts, freeman status was granted to adult males who:

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were landowning church members.

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In New England towns:

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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:

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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:

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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?

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He insisted that they agree to submit to English authority.

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Maryland was similar to Virginia in that:

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tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society.

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Maryland’s founder, Cecilius Calvert:

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did not want ordinary people to get involved in politics.

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Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England:

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were men from the lower classes.

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Of the half million people who left England between 1607 and 1700:

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more went to the West Indies than to North America.

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Opechancanough:

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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:

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John Calvin.

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Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as:

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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:

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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:

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granted many liberties, but mainly to barons.

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The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas:

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was seen in England as a sign of Anglo-Indian harmony and missionary success.

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The Massachusetts General Court:

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reflected the Puritans’ desire to govern the colony without outside interference.

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The Mayflower Compact established:

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a civil government for the Plymouth Colony.

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The Native American leader Powhatan:

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managed to consolidate control over some thirty nearby tribes.

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The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker:

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founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut.

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The Puritans believed that male authority in the household was:

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to be unquestioned.

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The Virginia House of Burgesses:

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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:

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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:

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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?

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land

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What good fortune helped the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth?

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Native Americans had recently cleared the fields for planting.

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When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island:

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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:

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Virginia became the first royal colony.

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Where in the Americas did the Pilgrims originally plan to go?

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Virginia

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Which colony adopted the Act concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration?

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Maryland

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Which of the following is NOT a way that colonists undermined traditional Native American agriculture and hunting?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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The death rate was extraordinarily high.

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Which one of the following is true of the Puritans of the seventeenth century?

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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?

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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?

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Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island

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Which one of the following spurred increased European interest in colonizing North America?

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national glory and religious rivalries

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Why did Puritans decide to emigrate from England in the late 1620s and 1630s?

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The Church of England was firing their ministers and censoring their writings.

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Why did the Pilgrims flee the Netherlands?

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They felt that the surrounding culture was corrupting their children.