The attitude of King James I towards tobacco:
showed that, in the end, he valued revenue more than good health
Initially, Lord Baltimore intended that Maryland be a haven for:
Catholics
Unlike their southern counterparts, the first Englishmen who established colonies in New England were:
in search of land and riches
In 1624, Virginia became:
a royal colony
The individual largely responsible for Maryland's settlement was:
Sir George Calvert
The man who taught Virginians how to grow tobacco was:
John Rolfe
English settlers in seventeenth-century America could be characterized best in terms of their
striking social diversity
After 1618, the Virginia Company's principal means of attracting new settlers was:
payment of one's passage to the colony of the company
In 1622, Native American tribes in Virginia:
attacked the English settlements
The joint-stock company:
encouraged investment in colonial enterprises with "limited liability" for the investors
Jamestown might have gone the way Roanoke had it not been for the perseverance of:
Captain John Smith
Those who migrated to the Chesapeake Bay area as indentured servants were:
normally single, lower-class males in their teens or early twenties
Upon arriving in the New World. English settlers:
generally adapted old beliefs to the new environment in order to survive
The document in which the Pilgrims established a civil government for their Plymouth colony had become known as the
Mayflower Compact
The selection of a site for Jamestown was primarily based on settlers'
fear of surprise attacks
The _____ Company was responsible for the settlement of Jamestown:
Virginia
In which one of the following colonies was the death rate for the early colonists the most severe?
Virginia
The first three years of Jamestown's history witnessed:
terrible hardship and suffering
In which one of the following colonies were religious reasons the least important in explaining the founding of that colony?
Virginia
Jamestown's prosperity was ensured by:
tobacco cultivation
The Pilgrims, who left Holland to settle in America
had few alternatives because they were being harassed by the Dutch government
Under the "headright" system in Virginia
all new arrivals who had paid their trans-Atlantic fares received 50-acre land grants
Lord Baltimore's settlement in Maryland:
never succeeded in becoming a feudal society
To resolve the problem of the cast expenses that New World settlement required, English merchant-capitalists introduced the concept of:
the joint-stock company
Indentured servants:
were working of the costs of their passages to America
