Deck 3: England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion

Question 1

The policy of mercantilism entails all of the following except that colonies should

A) exist for the benefit of the mother country.
B) act as a source of raw materials for the mother country.
C) act as markets for the mother country.
D) develop manufacturing to export products to the mother country.
E) trade to increase overall wealth.

Answer 1

develop manufacturing to export products to the mother country.

Question 2

The leader of the 1676 Virginia rebellion was

A) Thomas Berkeley.
B) Nathaniel Bacon.
C) Jacob Leisler.
D) Edward Randolph.
E) William Berkeley.

Answer 2

Nathaniel Bacon.

Question 3

Which of the following was not stated in the Navigation Act passed in 1651?

A) Non-European goods could be imported into the colonies only in English-owned ships.
B) English coastal trade was forbidden to foreigners.
C) The crews of ships trading with the colonies had to be at least half English.
D) Goods from Asia and the East could be imported to America only after passing through England.
E) Foreigners could not trade between one English port and another.

Answer 3

Goods from Asia and the East could be imported to America only after passing through England.

Question 4

Colonists in New York were angry with James, Duke of York, because he

A) abolished the elected assembly.
B) granted religious freedom to all.
C) restricted trade opportunities.
D) gave liberal land grants.
E) prohibited the sale of alcohol.

Question 5

In North America, educational opportunities

A) were very limited in areas where slavery was predominant.
B) existed only in the French colony of Quebec.
C) were denied to women and working-class men in all the Puritan colonies.
D) were nonexistent.
E) were more widespread in the South than elsewhere.

Question 6

The Catholic successor to Charles II of England who was overthrown in the Revolution of 1689 was

A) William of Orange.
B) Mary of Scotland.
C) James II.
D) Charles I.
E) Philip II.

Question 7

The Glorious Revolution in England led to the elevation of as king of England.

A) William III
B) James II
C) Edward VI
D) Charles I
E) Henry VIII.

Question 8

Colonists in North America reacted to the Glorious Revolution

A) with indifference.
B) by overthrowing the governors of the Dominion of New England and Maryland.
C) with public protests against the new king.
D) by attacking Dutch settlements in Delaware.
E) by launching Indian wars.

Question 9

The large-scale warfare between European settlers and the Indians of New England that began in 1675 was called

A) King James's War.
B) Metacom's War.
C) Bacon's Rebellion.
D) Leisler's Rebellion.
E) Stono's Rebellion.

Question 10

The greatest challenge to the Spanish came in which of the following territories?

A) California
B) New Mexico
C) West Indies
D) Florida
E) Brazil

Question 11

By 1700, the population of England's mainland colonies was doubling every ____ years.

A) 2
B) 5
C) 15
D) 25
E) 40

Question 12

The Pueblo Revolt reveals which of the following?

A) Spanish priests reacted violently to Native Americans who abandoned Christianity.
B) Spanish priests were fairly inactive in New Mexico.
C) Spanish monarchs had complete control north of Mexico.
D) Spain was not dedicated to any territory outside of Florida.
E) Spain was poised for success in California.

Question 13

The Staple Act of 1663 regulated goods

A) going to America.
B) coming from America.
C) involved in the coastal trade.
D) between England and India.
E) all of these choices

Question 14

The English colonies in North America were united by all but which of the following?

A) a uniform language based on the London English dialect
B) traditional English inheritance laws
C) an uncomplicated legal system with few professional lawyers
D) military concepts based on volunteer militia and the use of terror tactics
E) widespread ownership of land

Question 15

The extended life expectancy and healthiness of the New England population

A) produced a feeling of public optimism and cheerfulness.
B) led to an increase in procrastination and laziness among the working class.
C) created a large number of elderly dependents and caused economic stagnation.
D) enhanced the power of women in society.
E) limited opportunities for young men who wanted to hold political office.

Question 16

The leader of the large-scale rebellion in New York in 1689 was

A) Thomas Berkeley.
B) Jacob Leisler.
C) Edward Randolph.
D) Francis Nicholson.
E) William Bradford.

Question 17

Seventeenth-century philosophers discussed the struggle between

A) the government and the people.
B) the government and the church.
C) power and liberty.
D) upper and middle classes.
E) republicanism and capitalism.

Question 18

Sir William Berkeley

A) was the Virginia governor at the time of Metacom's War.
B) was noted for putting down Bacon's Rebellion and hanging twenty-three rebels.
C) enjoyed hearing of problems in New England.
D) favored a defensive strategy against the Indians.
E) all of these choices

Question 19

The autocratic governor of New York and the Dominion of New England was

A) Sir Edmund Andros.
B) Jacob Leisler.
C) Increase Mather.
D) Sir Robert Walpole.
E) William Berkeley

Question 20

For the most part, England's North American colonies responded to the Navigation Acts.

A) with little interest.
B) very unfavorably.
C) by ignoring them.
D) very enthusiastically.
E) with open rebellion.

Question 21

France's success in the interior depended most upon

A) force.
B) intelligent negotiation.
C) mass migrations from France.
D) a large mission system.
E) slavery.

Question 22

Which of the following is not true of Metacom's (King Philip's) War?

A) It was started by non-Christian Indians who feared that their culture was being destroyed by contact with whites.
B) The Puritan army either massacred or sold into slavery hundreds of Christian and non-Christian Indians.
C) The Indians proved to be better shots than the whites and virtually destroyed a dozen settlements.
D) It involved only the Wampanoags.
E) The war divided the New England colonies internally.

Question 23

By 1675, about ____ of those Indians living in southeastern New England were in various stages of conversion to Christianity.

A) a handful
B) one-quarter
C) half
D) three-quarters
E) all

Question 24

By the mid-1700s, most of the English colonies in North America were

A) proprietary colonies with tax-supported established churches.
B) royal colonies with appointed governors and elected assemblies.
C) united in their support of the Board of Trade's reorganization of colonial governments.
D) heavily dependent upon slave labor for agricultural production.
E) paying high taxes to the British treasury.

Question 25

The "Five Nations" of the colonial period were

A) England, Spain, France, Holland, and Sweden.
B) a European mutual defense league dedicated to reducing the power of Spain.
C) the first South American countries to win independence from European colonial powers.
D) the lost tribes of Israel.
E) an Iroquois confederation.

Question 26

When William III and Mary II became the monarchs of England, Parliament

A) executed Charles I and his entire family.
B) offered toleration of Protestants and guaranteed Protestant royal succession.
C) expelled the Quakers, Jews, and other dissidents from England.
D) revoked the charters of all the proprietary colonies in North America.
E) abolished the monarchy.

Question 27

Only ____ avoided war with the Indians during the 1640s.

A) the Chesapeake.
B) New England.
C) New Netherland.
D) New France.
E) New Spain.

Question 28

Colonists objected to the Dominion of New England because

A) it established an autocratic government without an elected assembly.
B) the royal governor was not given enough authority to enforce the Navigation Acts effectively.
C) it forced both Puritans and non-Puritans to pay taxes to support the Congregational Church.
D) it forced Native Americans on to reservations.
E) all of these choices

Question 29

The Pueblo Revolt in Spanish New Mexico

A) permanently freed the Navajos and Apaches from Spanish authority.
B) virtually destroyed the Hopi tribe.
C) was more successful than any other Indian rebellion in American history.
D) was staged by Mexican peasants who wanted a more democratic government.
E) threatened the British settlements.

Question 30

All of the following explored the Mississippi River except

A) Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville.
B) Father Jacques Marquette.
C) Louis Joliet.
D) René-Robert Cavelier.
E) Father Hennepin.

Question 31

All of the following were critics of Britain's central government except

A) John Trenchard.
B) Robert Walpole.
C) Henry St. John.
D) Alexander Pope.
E) Thomas Gordon.

Question 32

The French in the Great Lakes and Ohio River areas

A) launched a war of extermination against all Indians.
B) supplied the Algonquian with weapons and alcohol to limit the expansion of the Iroquois and the British.
C) were forced to withdraw by the depletion of fur-bearing animals and the decline of trade.
D) exchanged their claims to the territory for access to English fishing sites on the Atlantic coast.
E) sold their claims to the Spanish.

Question 33

Colonists viewed military service as

A) a temporary, voluntary experience.
B) a lifelong commitment and career choice.
C) the public duty of each young man when he reached the age of 18.
D) the responsibility of men who actually lived in England rather than in the colonies.
E) the highest honor that the empire could offer them.

Question 34

Which of the following events occurred first?

A) creation of the Board of Trade
B) creation of the Bank of England
C) passage of the Act of Union
D) the Salem Witch Trials
E) Queen Anne's War

Question 35

The Salem Witchcraft Trials ended when

A) several accusers admitted that they were lying.
B) the town of Salem was abandoned.
C) the governor's wife was accused of witchcraft.
D) the court rejected the use of "spectral" evidence.
E) the king sent troops to arrest the judges responsible for the trials.

Question 36

The lowest minister-to-resident ratio among the English colonies was found in

A) the sugar islands.
B) the Chesapeake.
C) New York.
D) New England.
E) Georgia.

Question 37

As a result of the witchcraft trials in Salem,

A) the Puritans lost control of the government of Massachusetts.
B) a majority of colonial citizens became convinced that witchcraft was being practiced in every colony.
C) the Great Awakening began.
D) twenty people were executed either by hanging or by crushing.
E) the governor's wife was executed for witchcraft.

Question 38

The Great Swamp Fight was a conflict between Puritans and

A) Iroquois.
B) Wampanoags.
C) Narragansetts.
D) Hurons.
E) Apache.

Question 39

Nathaniel Bacon was

A) the governor of Virginia who successfully opened up the tidewater area for settlement.
B) the only congregational minister to openly protest against the slave trade.
C) a rebellious Virginia planter who murdered peaceful Indians and burned Jamestown.
D) a protégé of William Berkeley.
E) a minister of the Great Awakening.

Question 40

Which of the following accurately distinguishes between the original Whigs and Tories?

A) The Whigs wore hairpieces; the Tories did not wear hairpieces.
B) The Whigs were Irish politicians; the Tories were English politicians.
C) The Whigs were a country party that favored limiting the king's power; the Tories were a court party that favored legitimate royal succession.
D) The Whigs were Catholics; the Tories were Anglicans.
E) The Whigs sought peaceful relations with the Indians; the Tories advocated war against the Indians.

Question 41

The French explorer Sieur de la Salle sailed down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and named the area Louisiana.

Question 42

By 1700, the Spanish missionaries no longer obeyed the Spanish government.

Question 43

The Navigation Acts were attempts to give England sole control over the trade of its North American colonies.

Question 44

Mercantilists assumed that the colonies only existed to enrich the mother country.

Question 45

Most of the New England colonies had proprietary governments.

Question 46

African slaves comprised ____ percent of Virginia's population by the 1730s.

A) 10
B) 20
C) 30
D) 40
E) 50

Question 47

In the British colonies life expectancy was longest in

A) the Caribbean
B) the Chesapeake region
C) South Carolina
D) Canada
E) New England

Question 48

Thomas Mayhew, Sr., Thomas Mayhew, Jr. and John Elliot

A) led vicious raids against the Indians in New England.
B) attempted to convert Indians to Protestantism.
C) encouraged intermarriage between Indians and Englishmen.
D) recognized and respected the power of Indian religious leaders.
E) became governors of Massachusetts.

Question 49

The Glorious Revolution led to the ascension of Oliver Cromwell as leader of England.

Question 50

The Toleration Act of 1689 allowed Catholics to worship publicly.

Question 51

Sir Edmund Andros was a Protestant missionary who set up a model mission community in Massachusetts.

Question 52

The nation that funded their national debt and greatly increased their borrowing power was

A) The Netherlands.
B) England.
C) France.
D) Sweden.
E) Spain.

Question 53

One Native American strategy of survival was the assimilation of women and children from one tribe to another.

Question 54

The governmental body charged with overseeing the Navigation Acts in the colonies was the Lords of Trade.

Question 55

When Nathaniel Bacon was elected to the Virginia assembly, William Berkeley

A) had him arrested.
B) welcomed him as a hero.
C) had him killed.
D) refused to allow him to take his seat.
E) dissolved the local political system.

Question 56

The 1691 charter for the colony of Massachusetts

A) established religious requirements for voting.
B) granted toleration to all Protestants.
C) granted religious toleration to Catholics.
D) recognized Indian land rights.
E) denied the authority of the King.

Question 57

England's "mixed and balanced" constitution meant that

A) government by King, Lords, and Commons balanced power.
B) Parliament governed America.
C) liberty for all Englishmen was assured.
D) an absolute monarchy ruled the empire.
E) power was concentrated in the aristocracy.

Question 58

After the Glorious Revolution, colonists assumed that their governments would be

A) dictatorships.
B) direct democracies.
C) representative governments.
D) proprietary governments.
E) abolished.

Question 59

Women stood the best chance of inheriting property in

A) New England.
B) the sugar islands.
C) the Middle Atlantic colonies.
D) the Chesapeake.
E) New York

Question 60

The only important local institution in the sugar islands and in South Carolina was the

A) parish.
B) town hall.
C) county.
D) burgess.
E) assembly.

Question 61

The Navigation Act of 1660 dealt primarily with products going into the colonies.

Question 62

In 1603, England was a weak power on the fringes of Europe.

Question 63

John Eliot was the most successful of the early Protestant missionaries to the Native Americans.

Question 64

The Navigation Acts were tremendously successful and accomplished just what they were designed to do.

Question 65

The Board of Trade, which replaced the Lords of Trade in 1696, had extensive powers to enforce the Navigation Acts.

Question 66

Public support for the clergy was much stronger in the North than in the South.

Question 67

Spain and France were more concerned with religious missionary activity in their colonies than was England.

Question 68

The French were much more skilled-and successful-in dealing with Native Americans than the British.

Question 69

The Glorious Revolution reaffirmed absolutism in English America.

Question 70

Early mercantilists felt that the supply of wealth was unlimited.

Question 71

Young men dominated New England colonial society.

Question 72

Uncertainty in the sugar and tobacco colonies led to widespread despondency among the population.

Question 73

King William's War occurred before Queen Anne's War.

Question 74

The Glorious revolution had no effect on Europe.

Question 75

The farther south one went in the English colonies in North America, the more diverse the population.

Question 76

The Hat Act prohibited the manufacture of hats in the colonies.

Question 77

Trade with Europeans led to major social problems within Native American communities.

Question 78

High literacy prevailed wherever slavery predominated.

Question 79

Merchants were consistent in their support for the government of the Dominion of New England.

Question 80

The area of most interest to the Lords of Trade was New England.