Deck 2: The Planting of English America

Question 1

In 1588 Elizabeth I succeeded which English king?

A) Charles I
B) James I
C) Henry VIII
D) Mary I
E) George IV

Answer 1

Henry VIII

Question 2

All of the following were possessed by England, which were also the strengths that Spain displayed on the eve of its colonizing adventure a century earlier, except

A) a strong and powerful navy.
B) a unified national state under a popular monarch.
C) a measure of religious unity.
D) a manageable population with a strong and stable economy.
E) vibrant sense of nationalism and national destiny.

Answer 2

a manageable population with a strong and stable economy.

Question 3

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Henry VIII's reign, (B) founding of Jamestown colony, (C) Restoration, (D) defeat of the Spanish Armada, (E) colony of Georgia founded.

A) A, B, C, D, E
B) C, A, D, B, E
C) D, A, B, C, E
D) A, D, B, C, E
E) E, D, A, C, B

Answer 3

A, D, B, C, E

Question 4

After John Smith's kidnapping, Pocahontas served

A) as an intermediary between the Indians and the settlers.
B) as an instructor to the English on good ecological practices.
C) as a traitor to her father, Powhatan.
D) as an object of sexual assault by the English.
E) all of these.

Question 5

England's new self-confidence, thirst for adventure and strong sense of nationalism in the early 1600s made the nation similar to:

A) France.
B) China.
C) Ireland.
D) Spain.
E) Venice.

Question 6

The first English attempt at colonization was in

A) Newfoundland.
B) Florida.
C) Jamestown.
D) Roanoke Island.
E) Massachusetts Bay.

Question 7

When Lord De La Warr took control of Jamestown in 1610, he

A) halted the rapid population decline.
B) re-established better relations with the Indians.
C) brought many Irish immigrants with him.
D) died within a few months of his arrival.
E) imposed a harsh military regime on the colony.

Question 8

The person who saved the British colony of Jamestown from early collapse was

A) Sir Walter Raleigh.
B) Sir Francis Drake.
C) Lord De La Warr.
D) John Smith.
E) James Rolfe.

Question 9

The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by

A) starvation, disease, and frequent Indian raids.
B) economic prosperity.
C) constant fear of Spanish invasion.
D) major technological advancement.
E) peace with the Native Americans.

Question 10

England's defeat of the Spanish Armada

A) led to a Franco-Spanish alliance that prevented England from establishing its own American colonies.
B) allowed England to take control of Spain's American colonies.
C) demonstrated that Spanish Catholicism was inferior to English Protestantism.
D) put England on its way to becoming master of the world oceans.
E) occurred despite weather conditions that favored Spain.

Question 11

The younger sons of England's large landholders were victims of the old legal custom of:

A) primitivism.
B) pragmatism.
C) primogeniture.
D) privatization.
E) feudalism.

Question 12

All of the following provided motives for English colonization except

A) relief of unemployment.
B) thirst for adventure.
C) desire for markets.
D) desire for religious freedom.
E) desire to exploit slave labor.

Question 13

The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States was

A) Santa Fe.
B) Quebec.
C) Jamestown.
D) Massachusetts Bay.
E) Saint Augustine.

Question 14

Sir Francis Drake established a reputation as

A) a "sea dog" who plundered the treasure ships returning from Spanish colonies in the Americas.
B) the founder of a colony in Newfoundland.
C) the merchant who established the first American colony in Jamestown.
D) the first explorer to circumnavigate the world.
E) the adventurer whose colony at Roanoke Island mysteriously disappeared in the 1580s.

Question 15

Despite an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to starve because

A) they had neither weapons nor fishing gear.
B) their fear of Indians prevented them from venturing too far from the town.
C) they wasted time looking for gold.
D) they lacked leaders to organize efficient hunting and fishing parties.
E) there were not enough gentlemen to organize the work force.

Question 16

Spain's empire passed its peak and began its slow decline with the

A) War of Spanish Succession.
B) defeat of the Spanish Armada.
C) loss of Brazil.
D) Treaty of Tordesillas.
E) conquest of Mexico by Portugal.

Question 17

The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by

A) a joint-stock company.
B) a royal proprietor.
C) Queen Elizabeth II.
D) the law of primogeniture.
E) an expanding wool trade.

Question 18

On the eve of its colonizing adventure, England possessed

A) a unified national state.
B) a measure of religious unity.
C) a sense of nationalism.
D) a popular monarch.
E) all of these.

Question 19

The word that best describes England's efforts in the 1500s to compete with the sprawling Spanish Empire is

A) feeble.
B) successful.
C) non-existent.
D) strong.
E) neutral.

Question 20

The English treatment of the Irish, under the reign of Elizabeth I, can best be described as

A) firm but fair.
B) better than their treatment of any English subjects.
C) the prime example of salutary neglect.
D) violent and unjust.
E) supportive of their Catholic faith.

Question 21

Maryland's Act of Toleration

A) was issued by Lord Baltimore.
B) abolished the death penalty.
C) gave freedom only to Catholics.
D) protected Jews and atheists.
E) extended temporary protection to Catholics.

Question 22

After the first purchase of slaves in 1619 by Jamestown settlers, additional purchases of Africans were relatively few in Virginia's early decades because

A) they were poor workers.
B) many colonists were morally opposed to slavery.
C) their labor was not needed.
D) indentured servants refused to work with them.
E) they were too costly compared to indentured servants.

Question 23

One of the earliest and most important exports from the Carolinas was

A) tobacco.
B) naval stores.
C) fish.
D) Indian slaves.
E) corn.

Question 24

The result of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War in 1644 can best be described as

A) halting white settlement on the frontier.
B) returning the Chesapeake Indians to their ancestral lands.
C) making peaceful coexistence possible between the European and native peoples.
D) ending any chance of assimilating the native peoples into Virginia society.
E) bringing together areas of white and Indian settlement.

Question 25

The biggest force disrupting Native American life was

A) horses.
B) the English language.
C) disease.
D) firearms.
E) the formation of new tribes.

Question 26

Benjamin Franklin observed which of the following in his letter to Peter Collinson about English and Native cultures?

A) Never had there been anyone who successfully crossed from one to the other.
B) Both societies seemed to blend and mesh harmoniously.
C) English settlers were impossible to convert to Indian customs.
D) Even with the most thorough English upbringing, Native children quickly returned to their tribes when the opportunity arose.
E) English society had much to learn from Natives.

Question 27

Two major exports of the Carolinas were

A) rice and Indian slaves.
B) sugar and corn.
C) tobacco and furs.
D) black slaves and cotton.
E) sugar and cotton.

Question 28

Some Africans became especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas because they

A) had experience working in dry, desertlike areas.
B) were experienced in rice cultivation.
C) were knowledgeable regarding cotton production.
D) proved able to increase their numbers through natural reproduction.
E) were skilled fishermen.

Question 29

The Indians who had the greatest opportunity to adapt to the European incursion were

A) those living on the Atlantic seaboard.
B) those in Florida.
C) inland tribes such as the Algonquians.
D) those in Latin America.
E) the Pueblos and other peoples of the Southwest.

Question 30

At the outset, Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland colony because he

A) hoped to secure freedom of worship for his fellow Catholics.
B) was a committed atheist.
C) wanted the colony's Jews to be able to practice their faith.
D) hoped to maintain a Catholic majority.
E) was asked to do so by the king.

Question 31

The statutes governing slavery in the North American colonies originated in

A) England.
B) Virginia.
C) Brazil.
D) the Caribbean Islands
E) Canada.

Question 32

Under the Barbados slave code of 1661, slaves were

A) guaranteed the right to marry.
B) denied the most fundamental rights.
C) protected from the most vicious punishments.
D) given the opportunity to purchase their freedom.
E) assigned specific monetary value.

Question 33

The colony the Carolinas were most closely connected with was

A) Pennsylvania.
B) New York.
C) New England.
D) Virginia.
E) the English West Indies.

Question 34

Sugar was called a rich man's crop for all of the following reasons except that it

A) had to be planted extensively.
B) required the clearing of much land.
C) could be purchased only by the wealthy.
D) required an elaborate refining process.
E) was a capital-intensive agricultural business.

Question 35

Which of the following was NOT true about tobacco in the colonial Chesapeake?

A) It was difficult to plant and process.
B) If planted too aggressively it could ruin the soil.
C) It chained Virginia to the fluctuating price of a single crop.
D) Tobacco promoted the immense-acreage plantation system.
E) It led settlers to push westward and brush up against Indian land.

Question 36

What accounts for the change in the way of life for the Lakota (Sioux) as they moved from a sedentary forest-dwelling people to nomadic hunters living on the Great Plains?

A) They lost most means of economic sustenance.
B) They began to live in larger agricultural towns.
C) They began to engage in warfare with other Indians.
D) They lost their oral traditions.
E) They acquired horses from the Spanish.

Question 37

The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following except

A) the destruction of the soil.
B) a great demand for controlled labor.
C) soaring prosperity in the colony.
D) diversification of the colony's economy.
E) the broad-acred plantation system.

Question 38

English colonists in the Americas introduced their own local form of representative government for the first time with

A) Virginia's House of Burgesses.
B) the Mayflower Compact.
C) the Virginia joint-stock company
D) The revocation of the Virginia charter by King James I.
E) their victory in the Second Anglo-Powhatan War of 1644.

Question 39

The busiest seaport in the southern colonies was

A) St.Augustine.
B) Jamestown.
C) Savannah.
D) Baltimore.
E) Charles Town.

Question 40

A major reason for the founding of the Maryland colony was to

A) establish a defensive buffer against Spanish colonies in the South.
B) create a refuge for the Catholics.
C) help the Protestants.
D) establish a system of parliamentary representation.
E) repudiate the feudal way of life.

Question 41

Georgia's founders were determined to

A) conquer Florida and add it to Britain's empire.
B) create a haven for people imprisoned for debt.
C) make Georgia a haven for persecuted Catholics.
D) restrict the colony to British citizens.
E) establish slavery.

Question 42

England's growing rivalry with Spain in the late 1500s took the form of

A) religious hostility between Protestantism and Catholicism.
B) English suppression of Spanish-assisted Irish rebels.
C) raids by English "sea dogs" on Spanish colonies and ships.
D) a competition to place their own puppet monarch on the French throne.
E) a economic war to control trade with the East Indies.

Question 43

The attitude of Carolinians toward Indians can best be described as

A) friendly.
B) neutral.
C) hostile.
D) promoting interracial marriage.
E) none of these.

Question 44

The inhabitants of North Carolina were regarded by their neighbors as all of the following except

A) riffraff.
B) resistant to authority.
C) too religious.
D) hospitable to pirates.
E) poverty-stricken outcasts.

Question 45

In American history, 1619 is important because in that year

A) blacks from Africa were first brought to English America.
B) tobacco was first cultivated in Jamestown.
C) the House of Burgesses was established for the Virginia colony.
D) Jamestown was founded.
E) Puritans arrived in Massachusetts Bay.

Question 46

Georgia grew very slowly for all of the following reasons except

A) its unhealthy climate.
B) early restrictions on black slavery.
C) Spanish attacks.
D) John Oglethorpe's leadership.
E) lack of a plantation economy.

Question 47

Analyze the original motives and goals for the English colonization of North America? Which of those goals were achieved, and which failed? Should the colonization movement be regarded as a success from the standpoint of England; from the standpoint of the colonists? Why?

Question 48

Originally, the Virginia Company intended to

A) find a passage through America to the Indies.
B) grow rice as a cash crop.
C) guarantee its settlers the same rights as other English citizens.
D) realize a quick profit from its investment.
E) search for gold.

Question 49

Write your definition of progress.Then use this definition to argue that the English colonization of North America did or did not represent a step in advancing economic, social, and economic progress.

Question 50

The Iroquois Confederacy succeeded by

A) centralizing power in the hands of a primary chief.
B) uniting all Indian tribes of the Northeast.
C) allying itself firmly with the French against the British.
D) adopting colonial principles of parliamentary representation.
E) maintaining each tribe's independence while developing a common policy toward outsiders.

Question 51

The Iroquois leader of the early 1800s who helped his nation revive its ancient customs was

A) Powhatan.
B) Handsome Lake.
C) Deganawidah
D) Hiawatha
E) Pontiac.

Question 52

Arrange the following events in chronological order: the founding of (A) Georgia, (B) the Carolinas, (C) Virginia, (D) Maryland.

A) A, C, B, D
B) B, D, C, A
C) C, D, B, A
D) D, C, B, A
E) C, B, A, D

Question 53

All of the following created severe problems for the Iroquois except

A) evangelical religious revivals.
B) whiskey.
C) diseases.
D) muskets.
E) political divisions during the American Revolution.

Question 54

North Carolina was different from its Southern neighbor by virtue of its

A) climate.
B) vegetation.
C) democratic principles.
D) aristocratic principles.
E) successful resistance against slave labor.

Question 55

Like Virginia, Maryland

A) cultivated tobacco on plantations.
B) was founded as a religious refuge.
C) created a high demand for labor.
D) was founded by a joint-stock company.
E) had a house of Burgesses.

Question 56

By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies

A) based their economies on the production of staple crops for export.
B) practiced slavery.
C) provided tax support for the Church of England.
D) had few large cities.
E) all of these.

Question 57

Compare and contrast the history of English colonization with that of the Spanish? Were the English justified in their common belief that their form of imperialism was more "enlightened" than that of Spain's? Justify your answer.

Question 58

Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all

A) dependent on the export of commercial agricultural crops.
B) proprietary colonies.
C) founded after the restoration of Charles II to the throne.
D) founded as refuges for persecuted religious sects in England.
E) able to live in peace with the Native Americans.

Question 59

Compare and contrast the southern colonies of Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia in terms of motives for colonization, economic and social organization, political development, and history regarding slaves and slavery? What explains the similarities and differences?

Question 60

The colony of Georgia was founded

A) by a joint-stock company.
B) as a defensive buffer for South Carolina.
C) by eight proprietors chosen by Charles II.
D) in the seventeenth century.
E) by King George III.

Question 61

What were the defining characteristics of the original English colonists' relations with the Indians? How did English treatment of Indians differ from that of Spain (See Chapter 1)?

Question 62

What was the essential cause of the introduction of African slavery into North America? Why was slavery slow to take root in the seventeenth-century southern colonies except South Carolina?

Question 63

Was "the South" already a distinct region within English North America not long after its settlement? What were the common features of the southern colonies, and in what ways did they differ from each other?