Deck 3: The English Colonial Enterprise

Question 1

According to the video in the introduction,what was a common characteristic of the English colonies?

A) obedient
B) loyal
C) self-reliant
D) religious

Answer 1

self-reliant

Question 2

Which of the following groups represented the majority of the people who participated in the Great Migration during the seventeenth century?

A) Africans
B) Indians
C) Anglicans
D) Puritans

Answer 2

Puritans

Question 3

Why did the Chesapeake and the South attract so few settlers?

A) Land was more expensive.
B) Puritan orthodoxy stifled dissent.
C) Diseases were more deadly.
D) There were already too many people.

Answer 3

Diseases were more deadly.

Question 4

Which colony became a haven for Roman Catholics persecuted in England?

A) Georgia
B) Massachusetts
C) Virginia
D) Maryland

Question 5

Which of the following was placed under the direct authority of the British Crown?

A) Maryland
B) Pennsylvania
C) New Jersey
D) New England

Question 6

According to the introductory video in section 3.3,what was a potential downside of sending dissidents to the English colonies?

A) The colonists might settle in New Spain.
B) The colonists were more likely to rebel.
C) Britain could lose its empire to Spain.
D) Britain could lose its empire to France.

Question 7

Which of the following correctly pairs the colony with the person who shaped its establishment or development?

A) Virginia-James Oglethorpe
B) Maryland-George Calvert
C) Georgia-John Winthrop
D) Pennsylvania-William Bradford

Question 8

The Pilgrims and the Puritans both had differences with the __________.

A) Virginia Company
B) Great Migration
C) Roman Catholic Church
D) Anglican Church

Question 9

According to the introductory video in section 3.4,who were the majority of the passengers on the Middle Passage?

A) royal officials
B) indentured servants
C) English dissidents
D) African slaves

Question 10

According to the introductory video in section 3.1,the agreement that the English colonists drew up affirmed the principle that the __________.

A) individual must always submit to the common will
B) common good was a collective responsibility
C) ends justify the means in matters of religion
D) government should include both men and women

Question 11

Which of the following preoccupied England in the seventeenth century?

A) famine
B) epidemic
C) foreign invasion
D) civil war

Question 12

Most of the English colonists who went to America in the seventeenth century were attracted by the availability of __________.

A) cheap land
B) educational opportunities
C) urban conveniences
D) noble titles

Question 13

Religion played a central role in the founding of which colony?

A) Pennsylvania
B) New York
C) Virginia
D) Carolina

Question 14

According to the introductory video in section 3.3,the majority of the people who went to the English colonies in America were the most __________ elements of society.

A) loyal
B) undesirable
C) orthodox
D) complacent

Question 15

Which group formed the core of the colonial labor system in the American South?

A) African slaves
B) Indian slaves
C) contract workers
D) indentured servants

Question 16

In contrast to slavery,indentured servitude was __________.

A) hereditary
B) involuntary
C) lifelong
D) contractual

Question 17

In Pennsylvania and Maryland,authority rested with the colony's __________.

A) sponsors
B) merchants
C) priests
D) soldiers

Question 18

According to the introductory video in section 3.2,the __________controlled New York before it became an English colony.

A) French
B) Dutch
C) Spanish
D) Portuguese

Question 19

Which country controlled the territory south of Georgia?

A) Netherlands
B) France
C) Portugal
D) Spain

Question 20

Which colony was established by exiles from the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

A) South Carolina
B) Rhode Island
C) Virginia
D) Georgia

Question 21

Which of the following made negotiating treaties between the English and the Indians difficult?

A) The English refused to negotiate with the Indians.
B) Indian chiefs refused to negotiate with the English.
C) Tribal borders did not align with colonial borders.
D) English law did not recognize written contracts.

Question 22

According to the Past and Present video in section 3.6,tribes that occupied a region at the time of the English arrival in the Americas had __________.

A) always lived in that region
B) taken that land from another tribe
C) written proof of ownership
D) sold their land to the Spanish

Question 23

Which colony encroached on the lands of the Powhatan Indians in the seventeenth century?

A) Rhode Island
B) Massachusetts
C) Virginia
D) Plymouth

Question 24

Which of the following was a way that the English colonists acquired Indian territory?

A) signing treaties with Indian chiefs
B) marrying into Indian tribes
C) negotiating indenture contracts
D) regulating the Middle Passage

Question 25

The Indian population in the areas settled by the English had been sharply reduced by __________.

A) diseases brought by earlier Europeans
B) wars of conquest led by conquistadors
C) a drought that led to widespread famine
D) a volcanic eruption along the Atlantic

Question 26

In his remarks to John Smith around 1609,who does Chief Powhatan blame for the tense relations between the Indians and colonists?

A) George Calvert
B) John Smith
C) William Berkeley
D) King Philip

Question 27

In contrast to Chief Powhatan's generation,Metacomet's generation believed that __________ was the best way to deal with the English colonists.

A) warfare
B) diplomacy
C) cooperation
D) surrender

Question 28

According to the How Do We Know? video in section 3.6,the Pilgrims drafted a document that expressed a commitment to __________.

A) equality for women
B) racial supremacy
C) indigenous rights
D) the general good

Question 29

King Philip's War was waged against the colonists from which country?

A) Portugal
B) France
C) Spain
D) England

Question 30

Compare and contrast the different types of colonies established by the English in North America.

Question 31

Metacomet was the leader of the __________ Indians in the late seventeenth century.

A) Micmac
B) Mohawk
C) Powhatan
D) Wampanoag

Question 32

Compare and contrast the different groups of people who arrived in America in the seventeenth century.

Question 33

The figure depicted in the image became well known after he __________.

A) married a former indentured servant
B) signed the first treaty with the colonists
C) converted to Christianity
D) started a war with the colonists

Question 34

According to the introductory video in section 3.5,who was Pocahontas's father?

A) John Smith
B) John Rolfe
C) Powhatan
D) King Philip

Question 35

According to the Arguing History video in section 3.6,defenders of slavery described the practice as __________.

A) a necessary evil
B) the will of God
C) the law of nature
D) a Christian duty

Question 36

Which of the following figures symbolizes the harmonious relations between the Indians and the colonists in the seventeenth century?

A) John Winthrop
B) John Smith
C) Metacomet
D) Pocahontas

Question 37

Who would have been most likely to support the British colonial government's Indian policy in Virginia?

A) William Berkeley
B) John Smith
C) new settlers
D) former indentured servants

Question 38

What accounts for the success of the English in colonizing the eastern seaboard of North America?

Question 39

Where did King Philip's War take place?

A) Britain
B) Spain
C) New England
D) the Chesapeake

Question 40

After King Philip's War ended,Metacomet's severed head was publicly displayed in which colony?

A) Virginia
B) Plymouth
C) Maryland
D) Georgia