Exam 2: Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660

Once England decided to create an overseas empire, it did so with impressive speed. Explain the motives behind English expansion to the North American continent, including the Great Migration.

The Native American leader Powhatan

What was unique about the Roanoke colony?

What type of government does Henry Care describe as ideal in his text English Liberties or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance?

A Discourse Concerning Western Planting argued that English settlement of North America would strike a blow against Spain.

The Magna Carta

Who received most of the profits from trade between Native Americans and colonists?

Approaches and policies used by the English in relation to Native American tribes in North America repeated patterns the English had established in ________ in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Pequot War of 1637?

Explain the reasons behind the various conflicts between the English and the Indians. How do differing perceptions of land and liberty fit into the story? How do trade and religion play a part?

Religious toleration violated the Puritan understanding of moral liberty.

The Virginia Company accomplished its goals for the shareholders and for its settlers.

The family structure in Puritan colonies in America differed significantly from the typical family structure in England.

English writers compared Native Americans to what other people, claiming that both peoples' refusal to respect English authority and convert to English Protestantism was barbaric?

Which of the following statements is true of the Jamestown colony?

Puritans were

The Half-Way Covenant of 1662 allowed for

As the sixteenth century progressed in New England, the growing commerce