Deck 2: The Planting of English America,1500-1733

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Oglethorpe

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Rolfe

Answer 2

Answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
joint-stock company

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James I of England

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles II of England

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry VIII

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Powhatan

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lord Baltimore

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles I of England

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Oliver Cromwell

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Philip II of Spain

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pocahontas

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

-Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hiawatha

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sir Francis Drake

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Elizabeth I

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lord De La Warr

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Humphrey Gilbert

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Roman Catholic Church

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Smith

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
smallpox and measles

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"seminary of sedition"

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Protestantism

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nationalism

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
slave codes

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
charter

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
indentured servitude

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
African diaspora

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"starving time"

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
middle ground

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
squatter

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
religious toleration

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"sea dogs"

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
primogeniture

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
buffer

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
House of Burgesses

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
sugar cultivation

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
longhouse

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
enclosure

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
barter-and-exchange network

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Treaty of 1646

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Catawba Nation

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
backcountry planters

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Virginia Company of London

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
rice cultivation

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lords Proprietors

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Second Anglo-Powhatan War of 1644

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Yamasee Indians

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Roanoke Island

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Spanish Armada

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Protestant Reformation

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tuscarora War

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
First Anglo-Powhatan War of 1614

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles Town (or Charleston)

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Powhatan Indians

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"rights of Englishmen"

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Iroquois Confederacy

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Act of Toleration

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Barbados slave code

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jamestown

Question 61

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 62

Which phrase best describes Sir Francis Drake?

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 63

Which phrase best describes the English treatment of the Irish during the reign of Elizabeth I?

A) Firm but fair
B) Better than their treatment of any English subjects
C) A prime example of salutary neglect
D) Violent and disdainful
E) Supportive of their Catholic faith

Question 64

All of the following provided motives for English colonization EXCEPT the

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

Question 65

Who saved the British colony of Jamestown from early collapse with his declaration,"He who shall not work shall not eat"?

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

Question 66

Where was the first English attempt at colonization?

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

Question 67

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 68

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Church of England

Question 69

Which monarch launched the Protestant Reformation in England?

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

Question 70

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Irish tactics"

Question 71

On the eve of its colonizing adventure,England possessed all of the following traits EXCEPT

A) a unified national state.
B) a measure of religious unity.
C) a sense of nationalism.
D) a popular monarch.
E) a strong desire to spread Christianity in the New World.

Question 72

What role did the "Protestant Wind" play in English history?

A) It enabled Sir Gilbert Humphrey to sail to Newfoundland and start a Protestant colony there.
B) It aided Oliver Cromwell in his campaigns to suppress the Catholic Irish.
C) It described the growing desire of English explorers to cross the Atlantic in the early 1500s.
D) It helped defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588 and pave the way for English dominance of the seas.
E) It helped Elizabeth I triumph over her Catholic enemies and claim the English throne.

Question 73

In the late sixteenth century,which change in English agriculture contributed to England's drive to establish overseas colonies?

A) English empire-building had nothing to do with agriculture or economic motives.
B) Early industrialization drew many farm laborers off the land, creating a need for crops supplied from overseas.
C) A drought and poor growing conditions made it difficult for English farmers to produce enough tobacco to satisfy European demand.
D) The enclosure movement among landowners displaced many small farmers, creating a marginalized group that supplied many of the earliest immigrants to America.
E) The enclosure of many farms for sheep grazing created a need for overseas supplies of livestock feed.

Question 74

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

A) France under Louis XIV.
B) Ancient China.
C) Ireland today.
D) Spain a century earlier.
E) Venice in the Renaissance.

Question 75

Which phrase best describes England's interest in the early 1500s in establishing overseas colonies?

A) Fervent and religiously motivated
B) Tepid, with limited forays into colonization
C) Virtually non-existent
D) Incredibly strong
E) Dangerously overambitious

Question 76

How did primogeniture contribute to England´s transformation into an empire-building nation?

A) It prevented some landowners from enclosing their lands for sheep-grazing, thus encouraging them to seek a fresh start overseas.
B) It banned English buccaneers from plundering Spanish treasure on the high seas, leading them to seek wealth by establishing their own colonies.
C) It decreed that only eldest sons could inherit landed estates, which encouraged ambitious younger sons of wealthy landholders to seek their fortunes in colonizing adventures.
D) It required the English monarch to fund any reasonable proposal for establishing a colony, which virtually guaranteed a ready source of capital for colonial enterprises.
E) It decreed that wealthy fathers had to provide equal financial support to all of their sons, which included funding adventurers who might want to explore and colonize the New World.

Question 77

All of the following contributed to English-Spanish tensions and rivalry in the later 1500s EXCEPT

A) Irish rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I.
B) King Henry VIII´s marriage to Anne of Cleves.
C) the raiding of Spanish treasure ships by English buccaneers.
D) the establishment of the Church of England by Henry VIII after his break with the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
E) Queen Elizabeth I's ascension to the throne as a Protestant.

Question 78

Which settlement founded in the early 1600s proved vital to the future of the English colonies?

A) Santa Fe
B) Quebec
C) Jamestown
D) Roanoke
E) Saint Augustine

Question 79

What role did the joint-stock company play in English colonization of America?

A) It provided a crucial means to finance colonizing ventures by pooling investor resources.
B) It allowed debtors to escape jail and become investors in colonial schemes.
C) It channeled royal funds to colonial enterprises.
D) It enabled English colonials to create joint ventures with Indian tribes.
E) It delayed the colonization of America by drawing English investors to domestic rather than overseas ventures.

Question 80

Why did early Jamestown settlers starve in spite of an abundance of local fish and game?

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.