Question 1

As leader of the Jamestown Colony, John Smith

Accepted Answer

A)  was a failure and had to return to England. 
B)  improved relations with Native Americans by marrying Pocahontas. 
C)  used rigorous military discipline to hold the colony together. 
D)  used an elaborate reward system to persuade colonists to work. 
E)  set up the first representative assembly in the New World. 
A)  was a failure and had to return to England. 
B)  improved relations with Native Americans by marrying Pocahontas. 
C)  used rigorous military discipline to hold the colony together. 
D)  used an elaborate reward system to persuade colonists to work. 
E)  set up the first representative assembly in the New World.

Question 2

Which colony adopted the Act Concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration?

Accepted Answer

A)  Virginia 
B)  Maryland 
C)  Massachusetts 
D)  Rhode Island 
E)  Connecticut 
A)  Virginia 
B)  Maryland 
C)  Massachusetts 
D)  Rhode Island 
E)  Connecticut

Question 3

Boston merchants

Accepted Answer

A)  challenged the subordination of economic activity to Puritan control. 
B)  refused to trade with anyone outside the Puritan faith. 
C)  paid for Anne Hutchinson's prosecution. 
D)  had enjoyed widespread freedom to trade since the establishment of the colony. 
E)  believed the General Court should regulate all economic activity. 
A)  challenged the subordination of economic activity to Puritan control. 
B)  refused to trade with anyone outside the Puritan faith. 
C)  paid for Anne Hutchinson's prosecution. 
D)  had enjoyed widespread freedom to trade since the establishment of the colony. 
E)  believed the General Court should regulate all economic activity.

Question 4

Roger Williams argued that

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A)  church and state must be totally separated. 
B)  Puritans must stay in the Church of England and reform it. 
C)  religious wars were necessary to protect not only religion, but also freedom. 
D)  Puritans were on a divine mission to spread the true faith. 
E)  only John Winthrop was capable of explaining the word of God. 
A)  church and state must be totally separated. 
B)  Puritans must stay in the Church of England and reform it. 
C)  religious wars were necessary to protect not only religion, but also freedom. 
D)  Puritans were on a divine mission to spread the true faith. 
E)  only John Winthrop was capable of explaining the word of God.

Question 5

How did contact with Europeans affect the hunting practices of Indians?

Accepted Answer

A)  Indians stopped hunting in favor of raising livestock. 
B)  Indians began to hunt more birds, because they found that Europeans would pay high prices for fowl. 
C)  Indians began exclusively hunting fish, because new European technology made it far easier to do so. 
D)  The hunting practices of Indians were unchanged by contact with Europeans. 
E)  Indians invested more time in hunting beavers for their fur. 
A)  Indians stopped hunting in favor of raising livestock. 
B)  Indians began to hunt more birds, because they found that Europeans would pay high prices for fowl. 
C)  Indians began exclusively hunting fish, because new European technology made it far easier to do so. 
D)  The hunting practices of Indians were unchanged by contact with Europeans. 
E)  Indians invested more time in hunting beavers for their fur.

Question 6

The Mayflower Compact established

Accepted Answer

A)  religious toleration and freedom in Massachusetts. 
B)  the right to emigrate to America. 
C)  a company chartered to settle New England. 
D)  a civil government for Plymouth Colony. 
E)  peaceful relations between English colonists and Indians in Rhode Island. 
A)  religious toleration and freedom in Massachusetts. 
B)  the right to emigrate to America. 
C)  a company chartered to settle New England. 
D)  a civil government for Plymouth Colony. 
E)  peaceful relations between English colonists and Indians in Rhode Island.

Question 7

Jewish people enjoyed religious freedom under Maryland's Act Concerning Religion.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

How had the concept of English freedom developed through the centuries before 1700? What had defined freedom, and to whom were liberties granted? How and why had those definitions changed over the centuries? How did the English Civil War help to change those definitions?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

How does Henry Care differentiate France and England in his text English Liberties or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance?

Accepted Answer

A)  He describes the French people as subject to the Catholic Church, while the English are free to follow their own consciences and forgo religion. 
B)  He describes the French king as having unlimited power, while the English king is said to be constrained by laws and the rights of the people. 
C)  He describes the French people as simple and poor, while the English are prosperous and sophisticated in every respect. 
D)  He describes the French people as enjoying true liberties, while English subjects struggle with liberties that exist only in name. 
E)  He describes the French people as appropriately respectful of their king's decisions, while the English consistently create problems by challenging their monarchy. 
A)  He describes the French people as subject to the Catholic Church, while the English are free to follow their own consciences and forgo religion. 
B)  He describes the French king as having unlimited power, while the English king is said to be constrained by laws and the rights of the people. 
C)  He describes the French people as simple and poor, while the English are prosperous and sophisticated in every respect. 
D)  He describes the French people as enjoying true liberties, while English subjects struggle with liberties that exist only in name. 
E)  He describes the French people as appropriately respectful of their king's decisions, while the English consistently create problems by challenging their monarchy.

Question 10

What benefited the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth?

Accepted Answer

A)  They met a Native American, Opechancanough, who helped them. 
B)  It was the late spring, so it was planting season. 
C)  Native Americans, decimated by disease, had left behind cleared fields for farming. 
D)  The local Indian leader considered the English to be divine. 
E)  John Smith arrived to help organize them. 
A)  They met a Native American, Opechancanough, who helped them. 
B)  It was the late spring, so it was planting season. 
C)  Native Americans, decimated by disease, had left behind cleared fields for farming. 
D)  The local Indian leader considered the English to be divine. 
E)  John Smith arrived to help organize them.

Question 11

What role did the "enclosure" movement play in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England?

Accepted Answer

A)  It created a crisis in which many people had no way to make a living. 
B)  Queen Mary's failure to address the problem helped lead to her overthrow. 
C)  Spain reacted by launching an invasion of England. 
D) Poverty rates were worse in New England than England. 
E)  The problem was such a crisis that Henry VIII authorized judges to order the jobless to work. 
A)  It created a crisis in which many people had no way to make a living. 
B)  Queen Mary's failure to address the problem helped lead to her overthrow. 
C)  Spain reacted by launching an invasion of England. 
D) Poverty rates were worse in New England than England. 
E)  The problem was such a crisis that Henry VIII authorized judges to order the jobless to work.

Question 12

Why did Roger Williams found Rhode Island?

Accepted Answer

A)  to establish a Catholic colony 
B)  to establish a Jewish colony 
C)  to establish a haven for religious dissenters 
D)  to establish a Native American colony 
E)  to compete with Connecticut for access to the British export trade 
A)  to establish a Catholic colony 
B)  to establish a Jewish colony 
C)  to establish a haven for religious dissenters 
D)  to establish a Native American colony 
E)  to compete with Connecticut for access to the British export trade

Question 13

Which English group did the most to reshape Native American society and culture in the seventeenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  traders 
B)  religious missionaries 
C)  colonial authorities 
D)  settlers farming the land 
E)  the Royal Geographical Society 
A)  traders 
B)  religious missionaries 
C)  colonial authorities 
D)  settlers farming the land 
E)  the Royal Geographical Society

Question 14

Self-denial was an important element of the Puritan understanding of freedom.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

One of the first priorities of the Puritans upon arriving in North America was converting the Indians to Christianity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The Crisis in Maryland in the 1640s centered mainly on

Accepted Answer

A)  conflict between socialists and capitalists. 
B)  conflict between supporters of Parliament and those loyal to King Charles I. 
C)  conflict between tobacco and cotton farmers. 
D)  conflict between indentured servants and plantation owners. 
E)  conflict between Quakers and Baptists. 
A)  conflict between socialists and capitalists. 
B)  conflict between supporters of Parliament and those loyal to King Charles I. 
C)  conflict between tobacco and cotton farmers. 
D)  conflict between indentured servants and plantation owners. 
E)  conflict between Quakers and Baptists.

Question 17

What did Mary Rowlandson's book demonstrate?

Accepted Answer

A)  The brutality of New England Indians. 
B)  The strong pull of being part of the Puritan society. 
C)  The importance of questioning the church elders. 
D)  The significance of the separation of church and state. 
E)  The appeal of joining an Indian community. 
A)  The brutality of New England Indians. 
B)  The strong pull of being part of the Puritan society. 
C)  The importance of questioning the church elders. 
D)  The significance of the separation of church and state. 
E)  The appeal of joining an Indian community.

Question 18

Where in the Americas did the Pilgrims originally plan to go?

Accepted Answer

A)  New Netherland 
B)  Plymouth Rock 
C)  Boston 
D)  Virginia 
E)  Pennsylvania 
A)  New Netherland 
B)  Plymouth Rock 
C)  Boston 
D)  Virginia 
E)  Pennsylvania

Question 19

Which of the following statements is true of Queen Mary of England, who reigned from 1553 to 1558?

Accepted Answer

A)  She ascended to the throne immediately after a long period of civil war and successfully unified the nation. 
B)  Her refusal to marry led to her designation as "the Virgin Queen," after whom Virginia was named. 
C)  When the pope refused to allow her to divorce her French royal husband, she founded an independent Church of England. 
D)  She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England and executed a number of Protestants. 
E)  Under her authority, colonists established the first permanent English settlement in North America. 
A)  She ascended to the throne immediately after a long period of civil war and successfully unified the nation. 
B)  Her refusal to marry led to her designation as "the Virgin Queen," after whom Virginia was named. 
C)  When the pope refused to allow her to divorce her French royal husband, she founded an independent Church of England. 
D)  She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England and executed a number of Protestants. 
E)  Under her authority, colonists established the first permanent English settlement in North America.

Question 20

Anne Hutchinson's trial demonstrated that

Accepted Answer

A)  she was unable to speak in front of a large group of people. 
B)  she had secretly converted to Catholicism. 
C)  she had been influenced by Native American religion. 
D)  women in Puritan communities were considered equal to their husbands. 
E)  colony leaders and church elders considered her a threat to their authority. 
A)  she was unable to speak in front of a large group of people. 
B)  she had secretly converted to Catholicism. 
C)  she had been influenced by Native American religion. 
D)  women in Puritan communities were considered equal to their husbands. 
E)  colony leaders and church elders considered her a threat to their authority.

Exam 2: Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660

As leader of the Jamestown Colony, John Smith

Which colony adopted the Act Concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration?

Boston merchants

Roger Williams argued that

How did contact with Europeans affect the hunting practices of Indians?

The Mayflower Compact established

Jewish people enjoyed religious freedom under Maryland's Act Concerning Religion.

How had the concept of English freedom developed through the centuries before 1700? What had defined freedom, and to whom were liberties granted? How and why had those definitions changed over the centuries? How did the English Civil War help to change those definitions?

How does Henry Care differentiate France and England in his text English Liberties or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance?

What benefited the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth?

What role did the "enclosure" movement play in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England?

Why did Roger Williams found Rhode Island?

Which English group did the most to reshape Native American society and culture in the seventeenth century?

Self-denial was an important element of the Puritan understanding of freedom.

One of the first priorities of the Puritans upon arriving in North America was converting the Indians to Christianity.

The Crisis in Maryland in the 1640s centered mainly on

What did Mary Rowlandson's book demonstrate?

Where in the Americas did the Pilgrims originally plan to go?

Which of the following statements is true of Queen Mary of England, who reigned from 1553 to 1558?

Anne Hutchinson's trial demonstrated that

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