Deck 2: Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590-1710

Question 1

The Puritans migrated to America after the ascension of Charles I to the throne of England because they feared .

A) an imposition of higher taxes
B) a revival of Catholicism in England
C) imprisonment for their beliefs
D) exile in Holland

Answer 1

a revival of Catholicism in England

Question 2

Jamestown's location made it a poor choice for settlement because it .

A) provided easy access to possible enemy attacks
B) failed to shelter the colonists from extremely high temperatures
C) was located near a swamp that bred diseases like malaria
D) lacked arable land for raising food crops

Answer 2

was located near a swamp that bred diseases like malaria

Question 3

Voting privileges in Massachusetts were extended to .

A) property owners
B) English and Indian males
C) male church members
D) all townspeople, including women

Answer 3

male church members

Question 4

Initially, provided the chief source of labor for tobacco production in the Chesapeake.

A) African slaves
B) indentured servants
C) English noblemen
D) captured Native Americans

Question 5

What message about the English in Virginia does Theodore de Bry convey through this engraving of an Indian massacre?

A) The English were civilized people in the wilderness as shown by the walled city and tablecloth.
B) The English were fierce warriors against neighboring Indians as illustrated by the hatchet in the foreground.
C) The primary concern for the English was Christianizing the Indians as depicted by the church within the walled city.
D) Virginia was a hospitable place for additional settlers as exemplified by the number of women shown in the engraving.

Question 6

How did this pamphlet printed by the Virginia Company contradict what actually took place in the Virginia colony?

A) Ocean voyages to Virginia actually took longer than what the pamphlet advertised.
B) Early colonists failed to get rich from farming and finding gold.
C) The pamphlet ensured that colonists would get along with neighboring Indians.
D) Virginia focused more on religious toleration than wealth.

Question 7

How did the unbalanced sex ratio of the Chesapeake affect gender roles in this colonial region?

A) Women chose who to marry and often inherited large estates from deceased husbands.
B) Women amassed significant political power through property ownership.
C) The large number of Englishmen frequently intermarried with Native American females.
D) Women were treated as pampered objects who were not required to do hard work.

Question 8

How did the differing perceptions of diplomacy presented in Theodore de Bry's engraving The Chickahominy Become "New Englishmen" lead to future conflict between Native Americans and English settlers?

A) The Chickahominy felt that the English were taking advantage of them when trading goods.
B) The English believed that tribes like the Chickahominy should submit to their rule instead of controlling their own affairs.
C) The Chickahominy resented the English attempt to force them to convert to Protestantism.
D) The English were reluctant to have personal contact with different Native American groups in their areas of settlement.

Question 9

Maryland offered religious freedom to .

A) Christians and non-Christians
B) Catholics only
C) all Christians
D) Calvinists only

Question 10

Maryland was founded as a

A) religious
B) joint stock
C) royal
D) proprietary
Colony under the authority of Lord Baltimore.

Question 11

The Pilgrims and others who traveled with them to North America in 1620 drew up the
Mayflower Compact in order to declare that they would abide by the laws of the .

A) Plymouth community
B) English monarch
C) Virginia Company
D) English Parliament

Question 12

This anti-Puritan woodcut is critical of the Puritan cultural belief that .

A) Christmas should acknowledge the birth of Christ
B) nonreligious traditional Christmas customs should be outlawed
C) drunkenness and joy were essential in celebrating Christmas
D) Christmas should be celebrated with neighboring Indian tribes

Question 13

Why were religious reformers in England called Puritans?

A) They wanted to completely break away from the Church of England.
B) They wanted to reestablish Catholic traditions and practices in the Church of England.
C) They wanted to reform the Church of England so that all traces of Catholicism were removed.
D) They wanted to spread the Protestant religion to Native Americans.

Question 14

The "starving time" refers to an event resulting in the .

A) high mortality rates that occurred in Jamestown during the winter of 1609-1610
B) expulsion of the Powhatan Indian confederacy from Virginia
C) arrival of African slaves in Virginia
D) large number of deaths among the neighboring Indian tribes due to exposure to new diseases

Question 15

How does Jan Steen's painting The Topsy-Turvy World, which depicts household life in Holland, justify why the Pilgrims wanted to leave that religious haven and begin a new life in America?

A) They saw that Holland provided them with limited opportunities to acquire wealth.
B) They discovered that the codes of social behavior in Holland were too strict for their lifestyle.
C) They sensed that the lewd behavior encountered in Holland was a corrupting influence on their children.
D) They disagreed with the Roman Catholic practices that they were forced to follow while living in Holland.

Question 16

Upon their arrival in Massachusetts, the Pilgrims encountered a relatively sparse Indian population resulting from .

A) an unwelcoming land that had never been thickly settled
B) conquest and expulsion by early Europeans in that region
C) difficulties associated with a series of difficult winters
D) diseases which had been contracted from European traders

Question 17

Settlements in Puritan New England differed from those in the Chesapeake colonies because Puritans .

A) migrated as families
B) came from the upper classes of society
C) tended to establish remote independent farms
D) frequently clashed with Native Americans

Question 18

Governor Edwin Sandys made reforms in Virginia that included .

A) the abolition of slavery
B) granting women who owned property voting rights
C) returning large amounts of land to the Indians
D) the House of Burgesses and the headright system

Question 19

English colonies in America were financed by .

A) the monarchy
B) the Church of England
C) Dutch merchants
D) joint stock companies

Question 20

Artist Abraham Teniers depicted monkeys as tobacco users in this painting in order to show that tobacco .

A) offered numerous medicinal uses
B) harvests depended on animal labor
C) promoted bad habits that could be imitated by others
D) cost too much money to plant and yielded little profit

Question 21

Puritan views on the family and the Fifth Commandment were also reflected in their
)

A) intolerance for unorthodoxy
B) decision to migrate from England to America
C) rejection of frivolous folk customs
D) association of Indians with witchcraft

Question 22

How did the Dutch colony of New Netherland become an English colony?

A) The English invaded New Amsterdam and defeated the troops led by Peter Stuyvesant.
B) Dutch merchants decided to negotiate for favorable terms rather than resist the English.
C) Greater English settlement in this region permitted settlers to vote out Dutch leadership.
D) The Dutch lost to the English in a European war and turned over the colony in peace negotiations.

Question 23

The English colonies established in America during the Restoration were all .

A) royal colonies
B) located in the Chesapeake
C) acquired from the Dutch
D) proprietary colonies

Question 24

Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island after he was threatened with arrest in Massachusetts for .

A) preaching that one could earn salvation through good works
B) claiming that he had received a direct revelation from God
C) unjustly seizing Indian lands
D) advocating the separation of church and state

Question 25

The symbols found on this commemorative medal of the Glorious Revolution convey the message that _.

A) the reign of William and Mary would be one of peace
B) Biblical law should rightfully be the law of the land
C) William of Orange restored liberty in England
D) the Dutch gained dominion over England

Question 26

The Dutch city of New Amsterdam welcomed .

A) escaped slaves from the South
B) non-Puritan settlers fleeing New England
C) all Europeans including Jews
D) Indians willing to convert to Christianity

Question 27

The presence of rival colonial European powers on the Caribbean "sugar islands" showed that .

A) England controlled the larger islands in this region
B) French possessions were found both in the Caribbean and in Mexico and Central America
C) these European nations gained, exchanged, and lost colonial possessions through warfare
D) Portugal acquired some of the smaller islands through diplomacy

Question 28

The Restoration refers to the reestablishment of .

A) Roman Catholicism as the state-sponsored religion in England
B) Dutch rule in New York
C) the English monarchy under Charles II
D) legalized slavery in New England

Question 29

This engraving of laborers on a sugar plantation shows the .

A) indentured servants from England processing sugar
B) lack of advanced tools found on the typical sugar plantation
C) need for cooler weather to raise sugar cane
D) multiple steps involved in sugar production

Question 30

What conclusion about the settlement of Pennsylvania can be reached from this engraving made almost a century after William Penn negotiated the original treaty with local Indians?

A) The Quakers wore clothing that was in style 100 years later.
B) The Quakers and Indians began to prepare for warfare against each other.
C) The Quaker colony faced a difficult time due to the lack of lumber and other resources.
D) Quaker leaders believed that community-owned property increased voter turnout.

Question 31

What does this map depict about English land holdings in colonial America by 1700?

A) England controlled the Atlantic seaboard from the Carolinas to New England.
B) The New England colonies were established during the Restoration Era.
C) Restoration colonies were found mostly in the South.
D) The earliest English colonies were located in the mid-Atlantic region.

Question 32

How did Barbados influence the institution of slavery in England's North American colonies?

A) African slaves were used for agricultural production for the first time.
B) Legal codes used to govern relations with slaves became a model for other colonies.
C) An abolition movement began after the evils of slavery were made apparent.
D) Practices developed that were more lenient than those of the Spanish and Portuguese.

Question 33

The Puritan elite in Massachusetts accused Anne Hutchinson of Antinomian heresy and considered her a threat to their lifestyle because she .

A) supported the concept that women should play an inferior role in society
B) denounced the colonists for unjustly seizing Indian lands
C) claimed to receive a direct revelation from God
D) advocated for a greater reliance on African slavery

Question 34

What was the cause of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia?

A) a desire to ban royal rule in Virginia
B) frustration with favoritism shown by the governor
C) the masses' attraction to a charismatic leader
D) a radical vision of a slave-free territory in the South

Question 35

led to direct conflict between New England settlers and the Pequot Indians.

A) Pequot involvement with rival French fur traders
B) English expansion into the Connecticut Valley
C) The introduction of fatal diseases
D) English alliances with rival tribes

Question 36

How were settlement patterns typical of Puritan New England and the Chesapeake different from each other?

A) New England towns needed access to waterways for trade while Chesapeake settlements were located further inland.
B) Settlers in New England were required to live near a meetinghouse while Chesapeake settlers pulled outward as they searched for good land.
C) New Englanders tended to establish more remote farms while people in the Chesapeake lived in small clustered towns.
D) Fortified settlements were more common in New England where settlers frequently clashed with Native Americans.

Question 37

This map suggests that during King Philip's War .

A) the conflict raged throughout most of New England
B) English colonists suffered many casualties
C) English settlement was limited to the coastal areas of New England
D) Indian settlements were extensively spread throughout this region

Question 38

Why could Carolina be characterized as a "colony of a colony"?

A) It was constantly under threat of takeover by the Spanish.
B) It was effectively controlled by the proprietors of other colonies.
C) Its Lords Proprietors treated its settlers cruelly.
D) It produced goods to support West Indian agriculture and trade.

Question 39

Barbados became England's most profitable colony in the Caribbean because of its

A) location far from routes used by Spanish fleets
B) cooler temperatures needed for sugar production
C) proximity to the North American colonies
D) large size and high proportion of arable land

Question 40

How did Pennsylvania embody Quaker ideals?

A) Quaker leaders banned customs followed by local Indians like the Leni-Lenape.
B) Quakers sought to forcibly convert the local Indian population to Christianity.
C) Quaker leaders restricted ownership of property to the wealthy elite.
D) Quakers lived in harmony with people from different faiths in a "peaceable kingdom."

Question 41

The distribution of power in the British Empire influenced the government of the future United States in its .

A) creation of a two-chambered legislative branch
B) division between church and state
C) assertion that the rule of law limited the powers of the executive branch
D) division between local and national authority

Question 42

Puritan minister Increase Mather reported that after King Philip's War, the Massachusetts government promoted "a Reformation of those Evils which hath provoked the Lord to bring the sword upon us." This view along with the hysteria associated with witchcraft in Salem showed that colonial Puritans .

A) had forgotten their vision of creating a "city upon a hill"
B) saw both God and Satan as active agents in their lives
C) believed God favored their religious endeavors
D) had begun to tolerate other Protestant denominations

Question 43

Under Adam Smith's economic system of mercantilism, colonies were established by powerful nations in order to .

A) supply raw materials to the mother country
B) produce manufactured goods needed to compete directly with markets in the mother country
C) develop a system of intercolonial commerce to strengthen their own economies
D) encourage greater exports of commercial goods to the mother country

Question 44

After the Glorious Revolution, Whigs supported .

A) the monarchy
B) merchants and manufacturers
C) Roman Catholics in positions of political power
D) Parliamentary power

Question 45

This cartoon depicting the bribery of voters outside of a tavern reinforced the Whig vision of

A) creating a voter constituency that could not be controlled by corrupt politicians
B) reducing the number of elections to curb the influence of unscrupulous candidates
C) increasing the number of candidates running for political office
D) extending voting rights to men and women who did not own property

Question 46

The 1707 Act of Union created the United Kingdom of Great Britain under which England was united with .

A) its colonies in North America
B) Scotland
C) Ireland
D) its possessions in the Caribbean

Question 47

How did King James II apply the Spanish model of empire to the colonial administration of most of the English colonies located in the mid-Atlantic and New England?

A) He lowered taxes and issued a higher number of land deeds.
B) He made it easier for colonists to have access to their local courts.
C) He increased the number of members elected to colonial representative assemblies.
D) He created a larger administrative unit known as the Dominion of New England to govern these colonies.

Question 48

How does this image of Indians hunting beaver in the woodlands of the Eastern United States embody the theory of mercantilism?

A) Colonists strengthened their own economies by producing their own hats.
B) Beaver pelts were traded within the colonies for agricultural products.
C) Beaver pelts trapped by Indians were exported to England for the production of hats.
D) Hunting and trapping of beavers made it an endangered species in North America.

Question 49

The English Bill of Rights of 1689 protected the essential liberties of Englishmen by

A) establishing the rights of free speech and assembly for the first time
B) acknowledging that absolute power did not exist
C) giving the crown the exclusive right to levy taxes
D) creating a division between church and state

Question 50

The idea of individuals entering into a contract with Satan as shown in this woodcut is parallel to .

A) Puritan views on the lower status of women
B) the Puritans' covenant with God
C) perceptions of Indians torturing settlers on the frontier
D) beliefs that wealthy people were unreligious and wicked