Deck 2: Transplantation 1600-1685

Question 1

What situation interrupted France's efforts to establish a foothold in North America?

A) religious warfare between Catholics and Protestants
B) war with Italy
C) political strife
D) inability to establish transportation to the New World

Answer 1

religious warfare between Catholics and Protestants

Question 2

Who founded a permanent settlement in Quebec in 1608?

A) Thomas Dudley
B) Jesuit missionaries
C) Samuel de Champlain
D) Vasco de Gama

Answer 2

Samuel de Champlain

Question 3

Which product fueled the demand for furs in Europe in the early 1600s?

A) beaver fur hats
B) fur coats
C) mink hats
D) otter fur pouches

Answer 3

beaver fur hats

Question 4

What was the first permanent French settlement in Canada?

A) St. Lawrence
B) Quebec
C) Toronto
D) Newfoundland

Question 5

What is the meaning of the term filles du Roi?

A) prostitutes
B) orphan girls
C) girls of the valley
D) king's daughters

Question 6

The total number of French settlers in Canada:

A) was less than the total number of England's North American settlers.
B) was greater than the total number of England's North American settlers.
C) equaled the number of English settlers in Canada.
D) equaled the number of English settlers in North America.

Question 7

Women who chose not to marry in the French Canadian settlements chose to do what instead?

A) become land owners
B) return to France
C) become an Ursuline or other type of nun
D) marry an Indian

Question 8

The Dutch won their independence from:

A) France.
B) England.
C) Spain.
D) Denmark.

Question 9

The Dutch Republic was:

A) predominantly Catholic.
B) predominantly Protestant.
C) about an equal mix of Catholics and Protestants.
D) predominantly a secular country.

Question 10

By 1600, which group had become the leading economic power in Europe?

A) the French
B) the Dutch
C) the English
D) the Irish

Question 11

Which of the following regions had the greatest population in 1700?

A) New England
B) Lower South
C) New France
D) Middle colonies

Question 12

The instrument of colonial dominance for the Dutch was the:

A) West India Company.
B) New Netherland Company.
C) Dutch East India Company.
D) Cape of Good Hope Company.

Question 13

Large, landed estates that were offered to wealthy Dutchmen from the West India Company in the 1630s were called:

A) indentures.
B) patroonships.
C) seigneurs.
D) pays de Illinios.

Question 14

The Virginia Company was composed primarily of merchants from:

A) London.
B) Williamsburg.
C) Manchester.
D) Norfolk.

Question 15

What was the first settlement established by the Virginia Company?

A) Roanoke
B) Newfoundland
C) Norfolk
D) Jamestown

Question 16

Who was the leader of the Jamestown settlement?

A) Raleigh
B) James
C) Smith
D) Champlain

Question 17

What was the House of Burgesses?

A) a large trading center in Virginia
B) the home of the colonial governor
C) the first legislative body in English America
D) the colonial courthouse

Question 18

Who was Pocahontas' husband?

A) John Smith
B) John Rolfe
C) Powhatan
D) Opechancanough

Question 19

Who was Pocahontas' father?

A) Eneck-chak
B) Opechancanough
C) Powhatan
D) Pocahata

Question 20

What were the greatest causes of death in the Virginia Company's settlements?

A) Indian attacks
B) battles with the French
C) starvation and disease
D) severe weather problems

Question 21

From where did the Jamestown settlement obtain the seeds for its successful tobacco crop?

A) Trinidad
B) Cuba
C) Mexico
D) Haiti

Question 22

Falling tobacco prices in the eighteenth century caused the colonists to:

A) stop producing tobacco.
B) produce less tobacco.
C) produce more tobacco.
D) stop shipping tobacco to England.

Question 23

Indentured servants received what for their labor?

A) a steady wage
B) nothing
C) a portion of the crops they harvested
D) free passage to America

Question 24

Calvert intended for Maryland to be a:

A) Protestant stronghold.
B) tobacco trading center.
C) slave trading center.
D) refuge for Catholics.

Question 25

This figure ruled England as a protectorate for nearly a decade:

A) George Calvert.
B) Oliver Cromwell.
C) John Smith.
D) Walter Raleigh.

Question 26

Which law, passed in 1649, called for freedom of worship for all Christians?

A) The Act for Religious Toleration
B) The Separatist Act
C) The Freedom of Religion Act
D) The Scrooby Act

Question 27

Marriages between Virginians and Indians were:

A) uncommon.
B) common.
C) illegal.
D) banned by the church.

Question 28

Widows in the English colonies:

A) were barred from inheriting their husbands' lands.
B) controlled their deceased husbands' lands until their eldest son reached 21.
C) usually never remarried.
D) usually returned to Europe.

Question 29

The Puritans:

A) were anti-Protestant.
B) wanted to reform the Anglican Church.
C) called for a mix of Catholic and Protestant beliefs.
D) were favored by Queen Elizabeth over all others.

Question 30

The first New England settlement, founded in 1620, was:

A) Plymouth Colony.
B) Chesapeake Bay Colony.
C) Sagadahoc River Colony.
D) Connecticut Valley Colony.

Question 31

The first document to establish self-government-and the decisions of the majority-in North America was:

A) the Mayflower Compact.
B) the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
C) Penn's Code.
D) the Burgesses Law.

Question 32

The Wampanoag leader was named:

A) Squanto.
B) Samoset.
C) Eneck-Chak.
D) Massasoit.

Question 33

The Pequot War began primarily along the:

A) Hudson River Valley.
B) St. Lawrence Seaway.
C) Connecticut River Valley.
D) Boston Harbor.

Question 34

Freemen in the General Court in Massachusetts were those male property holders who:

A) were church members.
B) owned slaves.
C) had royal titles.
D) were church clergy.

Question 35

The settlers in which area adopted the Fundamental Orders?

A) New York
B) Maryland
C) Virginia
D) Connecticut

Question 36

Roger Williams founded:

A) New Hampshire.
B) Connecticut.
C) Rhode Island.
D) Boston.

Question 37

Who argued for a separation of church and state?

A) John Winthrop
B) Jonathan Edwards
C) Roger Williams
D) Charles I

Question 38

An antinomian is someone who:

A) believes in Satan.
B) claims to be free from obedience to moral law.
C) believes in a separation of church and state.
D) believes in autocratic rule.

Question 39

Anne Hutchinson held religious meetings in:

A) Providence.
B) Manhattan.
C) Boston.
D) Plymouth.

Question 40

Governor Winthrop generally:

A) supported Anne Hutchinson's activities.
B) was ignorant of Anne Hutchinson's activities.
C) was upset by Anne Hutchinson's activities.
D) considered Anne Hutchinson an ally.

Question 41

John Davenport and a group of Puritans founded:

A) Long Island.
B) New Haven.
C) Providence.
D) Plymouth.

Question 42

What happened in 1642 that slowed the number of settlers to New England?

A) the spread of smallpox in New England
B) a widespread war with Indians in New England
C) initiation of naval warfare with Spain
D) the outbreak of the English Civil War

Question 43

Unlike the Virginia settlers, most New Englanders settled in America with:

A) no family.
B) their families.
C) little money.
D) slaves in tow.

Question 44

Compared to families in the Chesapeake region, New England families:

A) had more children.
B) had shorter lives.
C) were less common because there was a lower ratio of women to men.
D) suffered more from malaria.

Question 45

In early New England, women's economic contributions:

A) didn't matter much.
B) were central to a family's success.
C) were the only thing that kept a family alive.
D) were nonexistent.

Question 46

Those who oversaw the day-to-day affairs of most Massachusetts towns were called:

A) selectmen.
B) assemblymen.
C) colonial governors.
D) town criers.

Question 47

Relative to Virginia's economy, New England's economy was:

A) more agricultural.
B) less diversified.
C) more rural.
D) more diversified.

Question 48

London merchants generally ________ New England trade.

A) benefited from
B) complained about
C) were unaffected by
D) ignored

Question 49

New England merchants focused on trade with:

A) England.
B) continental Europe.
C) French colonies.
D) the West Indies.

Question 50

The English took Jamaica from whom in 1655?

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

Question 51

The first Europeans in the Caribbean concentrated on:

A) exporting slaves.
B) mining.
C) agriculture.
D) timber export.

Question 52

The switch to sugar as the primary crop in the West Indies led to:

A) less use of African slaves.
B) more use of African slaves.
C) no changes in the slave trade.
D) large scale English immigration.

Question 53

Which of the following was not one of the ways that slaves managed to preserve some elements of a normal life under the brutal conditions of slavery and the slave codes?

A) They formed families.
B) They preserved some African traditions.
C) They built churches to worship in.
D) They celebrated with African music.

Question 54

Which of the following colonies was NOT founded during the reign of Charles II?

A) Carolina
B) New Jersey
C) Pennsylvania
D) Connecticut

Question 55

Who devised the "Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina"?

A) Charles II
B) Anthony Ashley Cooper
C) Walter Raleigh
D) William Penn

Question 56

This crop, introduced in the 1690s, became a staple for the Carolina economy:

A) tobacco.
B) sugar.
C) rice.
D) wheat.

Question 57

English traders often sold guns to Indians in exchange for:

A) jewelry.
B) captives from other tribes.
C) tobacco.
D) deer skins.

Question 58

The profits earned from rice persuaded Carolina planters to:

A) invest more heavily in slave labor.
B) plant more.
C) bring more indentured servants to the region.
D) try their hand at other crops.

Question 59

By 1708 in Carolina, there were ________ white settlers.

A) more black slaves than
B) just as many black slaves as
C) fewer black slaves than
D) twice as many black slaves as

Question 60

Which of the following colonies was founded first?

A) Plymouth
B) Maryland
C) Massachusetts
D) New Haven

Question 61

Which of the following colonies was founded last?

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

Question 62

William Penn belonged to which religious sect?

A) the Methodists
B) the Quakers
C) the Calvinists
D) the Puritans

Question 63

Who envisioned his settlement as a "holy experiment"?

A) Winthrop
B) Williams
C) Penn
D) Calvert

Question 64

Which area separated itself from Pennsylvania to effectively form its own colony?

A) New Jersey
B) Maryland
C) Delaware
D) Ohio

Question 65

The Dutch colony of New Netherlands split to become the two proprietary colonies of:

A) New York and Connecticut.
B) New Jersey and Delaware.
C) New Jersey and New York.
D) Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Question 66

New York City had formerly been called:

A) Manahaset.
B) New London.
C) New Amsterdam.
D) York.

Question 67

The first Jews in North America immigrated to:

A) Massachusetts.
B) Virginia.
C) New Amsterdam.
D) Pennsylvania.

Question 68

Arrange the following colonies in the order they were founded from earliest to most recent:

A) Virginia, New Hampshire, Maryland, Rhode Island, New York
B) New York, New Hampshire, Maryland, Rhode Island, Virginia
C) Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
D) Maryland, Virginia, Rhode Island, New York, New Hampshire

Question 69

Which of the following happened first?

A) founding of Pennsylvania
B) founding of New Haven colony
C) founding of Carolina colony
D) founding of Dutch East India Company

Question 70

Which of the following happened last?

A) Charles II restored to English throne
B) founding of Massachusetts Bay colony
C) beginning of tobacco cultivation in the colonies
D) arrival of first Africans in North American colonies

Question 71

Compare the religious beginnings of each of the New England colonies.

Question 72

What threat did Anne Hutchinson pose to the Massachusetts leadership?

Question 73

How was agriculture in New England different from agriculture in the South?

Question 74

Which crops contributed most heavily to the slave trade and why?

Question 75

How did William Penn's religious background affect the way he treated his colonists?

Question 76

Analyze the ways in which the various American colonies supported and restricted religious freedom.

Question 77

Was it economic conditions or religious backgrounds that caused the North to rely so little on slavery compared with the South?

Question 78

What factors determined what kinds of relations the different groups of colonists had with the Indians?

Question 79

How were the seeds of the coming push for self-government sown in the early colonies?

Question 80

Analyze the role joint-stock companies had in settling America.