Chapter 2

Question 1

How did Jamestown start to thrive

Answer 1

Colonist began to grow tobacco

Question 2

Why did conflict occur between the Powhatan and the Jamestown settlers in 1622

Answer 2

The colonist continued to take Powhatan land to grow tobacco

Question 3

Which of the following was a grievance of Bacons army

Answer 3

The lack of representations for frontier settlers

Question 4

(+ or o) the early settlers of Jamestown, could not have survived without the leadership of Nathan bacon

Answer 4

O

Question 5

The early tobacco industry was largely founded by

Answer 5

John Rolfe

Question 6

The house of burgesses was the

Answer 6

First rep representative government, and colonial America

Question 7

Pocahontas was the

Answer 7

Daughter of chief Powhatan, who was kidnapped, and they married John Rolfe

Question 8

(+ or o) indentured servants were generally African slaves

Answer 8

O

Question 9

(+ or o) English settlers, were encouraged to mingle with and marry native American women

Answer 9

O

Question 10

(+ or o) a proprietary colony refers to a colony that is under direct control of the king

Answer 10

+

Question 11

Altogether, how many English colonies were established in the New World

Answer 11

13

Question 12

The founder of the colony of Georgia was

Answer 12

James Oglethorpe

Question 13

The founder of the colony of Rhode Island was

Answer 13

Roger Williams

Question 14

The founder of the colony of Maryland was

Answer 14

George Calvert

Question 15

The founder of the colony of Pennsylvania was

Answer 15

William Penn

Question 16

Massachusetts Bay colony was settled by

Answer 16

The Puritans

Question 17

An outspoken women who was banished from Massachusetts Bay colony for her belief that church members need did neither the church no ministers to interpret the Bible for them was

Answer 17

Anne Hutchinson

Question 18

(+ or o) puritans were famous for their religious toleration

Answer 18

O

Question 19

(+ or o) king Phillips war was fought between the English and the Dutch

Answer 19

O

Question 20

(+ or o) the term salutary neglect refers to the English policy of refusing to listen to the colonist complaints

Answer 20

O

Question 21

(+ or o) in the colonist daily lives, local governments were more influential than far away English officials

Answer 21

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Question 22

(+ or o) each colony had a governor

Answer 22

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Question 23

The colonial system, also known as a system of merchantilism was intended to

Answer 23

Enrich the mother country

Question 24

The system that promotes the idea that private individuals and companies can control their own production and trade of goods and keep their profits is called

Answer 24

Capitalism

Question 25

In the glorious revolution England’s parliament made the next ruler of England

Answer 25

William of Orange

Question 26

A series of laws restricting colonial trade to include only England were known as

Answer 26

Navigation acts

Question 27

To punish the obstinate disobedience of the people of Massachusetts King James II placed the northern colonies, under a single royal governor to rule over what became known as the

Answer 27

Dominion of New England

Question 28

Sir Edmund Andros was the

Answer 28

Royal governor of the dominion of New England

Question 29

(+ or o) James II was unpopular king of England, due to the fact that he was Roman Catholic, and that he had a little respect for the parliament

Answer 29

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Question 30

In 1688 the colonist of Massachusetts sent their most prominent minister to London to try to get their old charter restored his name was

Answer 30

Increase Mather 

Question 31

Of the following, which was not one of the four largest cities of colonial America

Answer 31

Wilmington, Delaware

Question 32

The only major port city in the southern colonies was

Answer 32

Charlestown South Carolina

Question 33

The idea that the colony existed for the benefit of the mother country is summed up in the economic theory of

Answer 33

Mercantilism

Question 34

(+ or o) Unlike like farms of the south, those in New England and the middle colonies usually produce several crops instead of a single one

Answer 34

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Question 35

The voyage that brought Africans to the west Indies, and later to North America, was known as

Answer 35

The middle passage

Question 36

Of the following, which was not a common crop of the colonial south

Answer 36

Cotton

Question 37

(+ or o) a single crop one grown, primarily for sale, rather than for the farmers own use, was known as the merchantile crop

Answer 37

O

Question 38

Of the following which crop helped save the colony of Jamestown

Answer 38

Tobacco

Question 39

Throughout the south, which of these was more commonly seen

Answer 39

Large plantations

Question 40

(+ or o) in the early colonial period of the south indentured servants did much of the work

Answer 40

O

Question 41

(+ or o) the English colonist developed friendlier relations with the native Americans then did French

Answer 41

O

Question 42

(+ or o) when Virginia’s governor sent George Washington to expel the French from Fort Duquesne, and he, Washington, was immediately successful

Answer 42

O

Question 43

(+ or o) the population of new France, was far lower than that of the English colonies

Answer 43

+

Question 44

(+ or o) the sugar act strengthen the enforcement of the law, allowing prosecutor to try smuggling cases in English courts, rather than in more sympathetic, colonial courts

Answer 44

+

Question 45

(+ or o) The French began the north American empire in 1534 when Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle explored the St. Lawrence river

Answer 45

O

Question 46

Hoping to lower the huge debt incurred by the French and India war, King George chose as his Prime Minister, a financial expert named

Answer 46

George Grenville

Question 47

Pontiac was in Ottawa chief, who let his tribe in a war against the

Answer 47

English colonist

Question 48

(+ or o) The French and Indian war was won by England

Answer 48

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Question 49

The proclamation of 1763

Answer 49

Forbid colonist to claim land west of the Appalachian mountains

Question 50

Found it in 1608 the first permanent settlement in new France was

Answer 50

Quebec

Question 51

The French built Fort Duquesne as a point also claimed by England at

Answer 51

The Ohio River Valley

Question 52

(+ or o) from the outset of the French and Indian war the English had great success

Answer 52

O

Question 53

During the French and Indian war, King George III appointed a new more effective Prime Minister named

Answer 53

William Pitt

Question 54

In 1683 what French adventure explored and claimed the entire Mississippi River Valley for his nation?

Answer 54

Sierra de La Salle 

Question 55

As a result of the treaty of Paris, the English

Answer 55

Received all of Canada from the French