Deck 4: Colonization and Conflict in the North

Question 1

This chapter tells the story of the French activities in North America to make the point that

A) the English were relative latecomers to the colonizing business in North America.
B) the Spanish and English were not the only European powers colonizing the Americas.
C) while the French provide a model for exploitative commercial penetration of North America, the
English in New England demonstrate that religion could be an equally powerful motivator.
D) while the French gained a foothold especially through the work of the Jesuits, their settlers were few in comparison with the English Calvinists who settled New England.

Answer 1

while the French gained a foothold especially through the work of the Jesuits, their settlers were few in comparison with the English Calvinists who settled New England.

Question 2

Which of the following behaviors was typical of a New England wife of the colonial period?

A) engaged in farm work that changed with the seasons
B) traveled with her husband to the mill
C) kept bees and planted vegetable gardens
D) held ministerial post in the Puritan church

Answer 2

kept bees and planted vegetable gardens

Question 3

In their contests with the settlers, New England Indian tribes suffered from the disadvantages of all of the following EXCEPT

A) disease.
B) disarmament.
C) decentralized authority.
D) disunity.

Answer 3

disarmament.

Question 4

Which Wampanoag leader led southern New England's native people to attack and destroy more than two dozen towns in Plymouth Colony?

A) Mahican
B) Masasoit
C) Abenaki
D) Metacom

Question 5

Which of the following statements is NOT accurate concerning life in Quaker Pennsylvania?

A) New arrivals there acquired good land on liberal terms.
B) Penn's colony was completely free of political strife.
C) A representative assembly existed and guaranteed inhabitants the basic English civil liberties.
D) Inhabitants experienced complete freedom of worship.

Question 6

The dominant Indian group on the northern frontier was the ________, a united confederacy of five (later six) tribes.

Question 7

Compare the French motives for colonizing North America with those of the English.

Question 8

What were the principal religious beliefs of the Puritans?

Question 9

What role did the Congregationalist church play in the life of New England villages?

Question 10

What kinds of conflicts commonly arose among white settlers in seventeenth-century New England? Which were the most bitter and disruptive?

Question 11

How did the migrations to the Chesapeake and New England help to determine the initial character of these two colonial societies?

Question 12

Describe the lives of women in early New England. How closely did they resemble the lives of women in the Chesapeake?

Question 13

How did the Dutch settlements in New York differ from the New England settlements of the same period?

Question 14

How did the pattern of settlement in Pennsylvania differ from that of New England?

Question 15

Both religious and economic factors made it easier for the French than for the English to coexist with Indian cultures. Discuss those factors, and explain why you agree or disagree with the statement.

Question 16

Why did Puritanism appeal to many people in early modern England?

Question 17

Why didn't New England develop a slave-based plantation economy similar to those of the colonial South?

Question 18

Assess the relations between white settlers and Indians in the northern colonies. How do they compare with relations between those two groups in the colonial South?

Question 19

Why did Quaker beliefs and customs challenge traditional English society in so many ways? Why did New England's Puritans (who were, after all, devout reformers themselves) persecute Quakers?

Question 20

How did the Iroquois confederacy gain strength from its contacts with white colonies?
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