Exam 2: Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660

John Winthrop distinguished between natural and moral liberty. What was the difference? How did moral liberty work, and how did Puritans define liberty and freedom? Discuss the restrictions of moral liberty and the consequences as illustrated by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson. Be sure to address Winthrop's speech in the Voices of Freedom box.

The Half-Way Covenant of 1662 addressed

With regard to Indians, the English were chiefly interested

Which of the following did the Puritan settlers of seventeenth-century New England value most highly?

Which of the following claims did Anne Hutchinson make during her 1637 trial?

As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,

The English Civil War was significant in American history because

Who spoke in Anne Hutchinson's defense during her 1637 trial?

What is the significance of the Uprising of 1622?

How did the Virginia Company reshape the development of the colony of Virginia?

The Virginia House of Burgesses

Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s?

What perceptions of Indian society encouraged the publication of captivity narratives and why?

The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England returned home

Both religious freedom and the separation of church and state are taken for granted today. In seventeenth-century colonial America, freedom and religion did not necessarily go hand in hand, for many believed that the church ought to influence the state. Describe the varying degrees of religious freedom practiced in the colonies as well as differing attitudes about the relationship between church and state. Be sure to consider the following colonies, at least: Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Maryland.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the colonization attempts made by Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh?

In the 1650s, who pushed England toward a policy of expanding territory and commercialism?

Which of the following statements accurately describes the English understanding during the seventeenth century of the concept of freedom?

Puritans of the seventeenth century

Which of the following was highly valued by Puritan societies?