Commonwealth
Oliver Cromwell
Early leader of Jamestown
John smith
Was denounced for Antinomianism
Anne Hutchinson
Leader of Indians near Jamestown
Powhatan
French-born theologian who influenced the puritans
John Calvin
Established Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Proprietor of Maryland
Cecilius Calvert
Governor of Massachusetts
John Winthrop
Pilgrim leader
William Bradford
Wife of John Rolfe
Pocahontas
His settlement at Roanoke island failed
Walter Raleigh
Beheaded during English civil war
Charles I
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
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
Which one of the following statements is TRUE of queen Mary of England, who reigned from 1553 to 1558?
Under her authority, colonists established the first permanent English settlement in North America
Just as the reconquest of Spain from the moors established patterns that would be repeated in Spanish new world colonization, the methods used in which one of the following countries anticipated policies England would undertake in America?
Ireland
During the reign of ____, the English government turned its attention to North America by granting charters to Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh for the established of colonies there
Elizabeth I
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
What contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century?
The enclosure movement, which forced thousands of peasants from farms
As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:
Efforts were made to encourage those who had been evicted to settle in the new world, thereby easing the British population crisis
In Great Britain, the idea of working for wages:
Was associated with servility and the loss of liberty
What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?
Land
Of the half million people who left England between 1607 and 1700:
More than half of them settled in North America
Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England:
Were lower-class men
Which one of the following is TRUE of indentured servants?
Their master could determine whether they could marry
Intermarriage between English colonists and Native Americans in Virginia:
Was common
Which of the following best describes how the English viewed Native American ties to the land?
Although they felt the natives had no claim since they did not cultivate or improve the land, the English usually bought heir land, albeit through treaties they forced on Indians
Which of the following is true of warfare between colonists and native Americans during the seventeenth century?
Among the colonist, it generated a stein sense of superiority
In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and eastern native Americas:
Native Americans never became integrated into the Atlantic economy
As leader of the Jamestown colony, John Smith:
Used rigorous military discipline to hold the colony together
How did the Virginia company reshape the colony's development?
It instituted the headlight system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's passage
The Virginia house of burgesses:
Became the first elected assembly in colonial America
The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas:
Was seen in England as a sign of Anglo-Indian harmony and missionary success
It can be argued that conflict between the English setters 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
Opechancanough
Mounted a surprise attack in 1622 that wiped out one-quarter of Virginia's settlers
When the Virginia company gave control of the Virginia colony to the king in 1624:
Virginia became the first royal colony
Which statement about women in the early Virginia colony is FALSE?
Women consisted of about half the white population
Maryland was similar to Virginia in that:
Tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society
Maryland was established as a refuge for which group?
Catholics
Which 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
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
What was Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop's attitude toward liberty?
He saw two kinds of liberty: natural liberty, the ability to do evil, and moral liberty, the ability to do good
Why did pilgrims flee the Netherlands?
They felt that the surrounding culture was corrupting their children
Where in the Americas did the pilgrims originally plan to go?
Virginia
The mayflower compact established:
A written government for the Plymouth colony
What benefited the pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth?
Native Americans, decimated by disease, left behind cleared fields for farming
Puritan women
Were deemed to be the spiritual equals of men
In Puritan marriages
Reciprocal affection and companionship were the ideal
In Puritan New England
Infant mortality rates were lower than in the Chesapeake colonies, because the environment was healthier
In New England towns
Much of the land remained in commons, for collective use or to be divided among later settlers
In early seventeenth-century Massachusetts, freeman status was granted to adult males who
Where landowning church members
The Massachusetts General court:
Reflected the puritan's desire to govern the colony without outside interference
In what ways was Puritan church membership a restrictive status?
Full membership required demonstrating that one had experienced divine grace
Which one of the following is an accurate statement about the class-based society of the Massachusetts bay colony?
The colony forbade ministers from holding political office
How did most puritans 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
In regards to religious toleration, the puritans:
Saw only their faith as the truth
Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as
Dangerous to social harmony and community stability
Roger Williams argued that
Church and state must be totally separate
When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island
He made sure that it was more democratic then Massachusetts bay
Anne Hutchinson
Opposed Puritan ministers who distinguished saints from the demned through church attendance and moral behavior rather than through focusing on an inner state of grace
John Winthrop followed which one of the following policies toward native Americans?
He insisted that they agree to submit to English authority
In the Pequot war of 1637
Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers teamed with Narragansett allies to set the main Pequot village afire and kill 500 pequots
In the seventeenth century, new England's economy
Involved the export of fish and timber
Boston merchants
Challenged the subordination of economic activity to Puritan control
The half-way convening of 1662
Allowed baptists and Quakers to attend, but not join, Puritan churches
In the battles between parliament and the Stuart kings, English freedom
Was the excuse given for restoring Charles II in 1685
In the 1640s, leaders of the House of Commons
Accused the king of imposing taxes without parliamentary consent
During the English political upheaval between 1640 and 1660
New religious sects began demanding the end of public financing and special privileges for the Anglican Church
Which 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
Which one of the following is an accurate statement regarding the impact on Maryland of seventeenth-century England's Protestant-catholic conflict?
It institutionalized the colony's policy of religious toleration
