Chapter 2 Colonial Beginnings

Question 1

What was Ann Hutchinson trialed for?

Answer 1

teaching unorthodox religious ideas

Question 2

What is the difference between the puritans and the separatists?

Answer 2

the Puritans want to fix the church

the separatists want to leave the church

Question 3

What happened to the English Colony of Roanoke?

Answer 3

it mysteriously disappeared within a few years of being established.

Question 4

What was the pilgrim’s governmental document?

Answer 4

the mayflower compact

Question 5

The Portuguese interest in exploring Atlantic trade routes to the Indies was sparked by what?

Answer 5

the ottomans over land trading

Question 6

According to the journal of Christopher Columbus, the natives he found were able to convert to Christianity because?

Answer 6

they had no religion

Question 7

What was critical to the success of the Hernan Cortes expedition?

Answer 7

Indian allies and European disease

Question 8

What was three important crops transplanted to the New World?

Answer 8

coffee rice and sugar.

Question 9

Who forced the French to locate their colonies in the North Atlantic Region?

Answer 9

Spanish

Question 10

Where did the Dutch originally establish their trading posts?

Answer 10

New York

Question 11

Roger Williams is best known in American history as?

Answer 11

an early champion of religious freedom.

Question 12

In founding the colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe’s primary purpose was to?

Answer 12

provide a refuge for English debtors

Question 13

What was a proprietary colony and what is an example of one?

Answer 13

a colony like New Jersey that was run as a privately owned estate.

Question 14

Were women treated more equal in New England than they were in Chesapeake?

Answer 14

no

Question 15

In founding the colony of Pennsylvania, William Penn’s primary purpose was to?

Answer 15

provide a refuge for persecuted English Quakers

Question 16

A man’s right to vote for governor and members of the General Court inn 17c Massachusetts was based on?

Answer 16

church membership

Question 17

The headright system adopted in the Virginia colony did what?

Answer 17

gave 50 acres of land to anyone who would transport someone [like an indentured servant] to the colony

Question 18

One of the reasons for Roger William’s banishment from Massachusetts Bay was his belief that?

Answer 18

the king of England had no right to give away land belonging to the Indians.

Question 19

Anne Hutchinson’s teaching threatened to undermine the spiritual authority of the established clergy because she?

Answer 19

claimed believers could communicate directly with God.

Question 20

The Half-Way Covenant was adopted because?

Answer 20

too few second- and third-generation Puritans were willing to testify publicly about their conversion experiences.

Question 21

The CHIEF significance of the Great Awakening was that it?

Answer 21

was the first genuine unified movement of the American colonists.

Question 22

One of the major reasons for social change and the disruption of the English economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was what?

Answer 22

enclosing of pastureland

Question 23

The Spanish monopoly of the New World was broken with

Answer 23

the English defeat of the Spanish Amada

Question 24

What is the most ethically diverse and religiously diverse English Colony by the late seventeenth?

Answer 24

New york

Question 25

By the 1650’s the New England Economy had diversified into what economy’s?

Answer 25

farming, fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, and other enterprises

Question 26

In contrast to Chesapeake, New England communities were mainly what social organization?

Answer 26

family groups

Question 27

About half of the slaves imported to the New World between 1701 and 1810 were delivered to:

Answer 27

the Caribbean basin

Question 28

Mulattoes were free people of what ancestries?

Answer 28

Indian, African and European ancestry

Question 29

Before the 1730’s the most profitable activity of the early Carolina economy was what?

Answer 29

the Indian slave trade

Question 30

Where was the rebellion in September 1739 that was the largest slave revolt of the colonial period?

Answer 30

Stono South Carolina

Question 31

The Essence of the European theory of mercantilism was the belief that?

Answer 31

the states should exert political control of the economy

Question 32

What is the nation of birth for Columbus?

Answer 32

Italy

Question 33

What were the three reasons Spain explored?

Answer 33

God, gold, and glory

Question 34

Why did England take little interest in establishing its own overseas colonies during the early 16th century?

Answer 34

religious conflict when King Henry VIII launched the English Protestant Reformation

Question 35

What are the three ways to set up a colony?

Answer 35

Joint-stock, proprietary, royal

Question 36

What was the main product of Jamestown?

Answer 36

tobacco

Question 37

Who could vote in the House of Burgesses?

Answer 37

anyone with property