Deck 3: Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century

Question 1

Most English Protestants considered Quakers as dangerous fanatics for all of the following reasons EXCEPT refusal to

A) pay taxes in support of the Church of England.
B) defer to superiors in their customs and speech.
C) sign witnesses' oaths on the Bible.
D) admit women, blacks, and Indians to church membership.

Answer 1

admit women, blacks, and Indians to church membership.

Question 2

Of the more than 900 settlers who arrived in Jamestown from 1607 to 1609, less than 10 percent survived.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Although it served as an ideology of rebellion in England, Puritanism in America became an ideology of control.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Pilgrims arrived at Cape Cod in 1620 aboard the Mayflower.

Question 5

The leader of the Pilgrims was John Smith.

Question 6

In the 1630s, Anne Hutchinson provoked the anger of the Puritan ministry.

Question 7

The Puritans believed that God was on their side after local Indians contracted smallpox in 1633.

Question 8

The Pequot War took place in New England in 1667 because the Puritans wanted Indian gold.

Question 9

In 1675, the Wampanoag in New England laid waste to Puritan settlements.

Question 10

Slavery did not exist nor take root in New England cities during the 1600s.

Question 11

Samuel de Champlain established French settlements in California and the Southwest.

Question 12

The Iroquois in the 1640s and 1650s engaged in "beaver wars" against the Huron.

Question 13

New Amsterdam, founded by the Dutch, became New York after English conquest.

Question 14

In North America, the Dutch West India Company's ________ colony was small and profitable.

Question 15

The city of ________ was the center of Dutch trade in North America.

Question 16

The boundaries of the Carolina colony spanned from ________ to central Florida.

Question 17

The capture of ________ for slavery became the early economic basis of the Carolina colony.

Question 18

Few Spanish settlers could be persuaded to settle the colony of ________.

Question 19

The ________ of 1688 ended forever the idea that kings ruled by divine right.

Question 20

In 1684, King Charles II annulled the ________ colonial charter.

Question 21

In the colony of ________, the Glorious Revolution became bloodless but quite disruptive.