Chapter 2 Quiz US History

Question 1

List three reasons why the English and others came to America.

Answer 1

Fortune seekers
Opportunity to own land
Political freedom

Question 2

What political document guaranteed certain basic rights to some Englishmen?

Answer 2

Magna Carta

Question 3

Why did English believers become frustrated with the Church of England?

Answer 3

the Church of England embraced aspects of the Reformation while continuing several Roman Catholic practices

Question 4

Which Englishman tried to establish a colony on Roanoke Island?

Answer 4

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 5

What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

Answer 5

Jamestown

Question 6

Who ensured the survival of that settlement by enforcing a biblical principle, and what was that principle?

Answer 6

John Smith–he enforced the biblical principle of 2 Thessalonians 3:10—that everyone should earn his livelihood through diligent work

Question 7

Name and define the three categories of colonial government.

Answer 7

charter colony was specifically one governed by a trade company (such as the Virginia Company) that received its authorization from the king
proprietary arrangement, the king appointed a proprietor or proprietors (ulti- mately responsible to the king) to govern a colony.
Royal colonies were controlled directly by the crown, which meant that the king and his councilors appointed the governor directly.

Question 8

What was the difference between Puritans and Separatists?

Answer 8

The Puritans wanted to use purified to church while the separatists wanted to separate from the church

Question 9

Why did the English Separatists leave the Netherlands?

Answer 9

the Separatists noticed that the Dutch language and habits threatened to undo their efforts to preserve their own language and culture among their children. In addition, the worldly atmosphere in Holland threatened the spiritual well-being of their children and their congregation

Question 10

Which dissenter became so separated that he finally abandoned any institutional church?

Answer 10

Roger Williams

Question 11

What name is given to the heresy, taught by Anne Hutchinson, that outward obedience to Scripture is unnecessary to show an inward relationship to God?

Answer 11

antinomianism

Question 12

What nationality originally settled New York? Which nation eventually took control of it?

Answer 12

Dutch; English

Question 13

Why did the patroon system fail?

Answer 13

limited the growth of the colony because smaller landholders could not get a stake in the land and therefore had little incentive to come

Question 14

In which three of the middle colonies were the Quakers influential in government?

Answer 14

New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware

Question 15

Which colony besides New York was founded by a nation other than England?

Answer 15

New Jersey

Question 16

. Near the bank of what river was the first settlement in Mary- land established?

Answer 16

Potomac River

Question 17

What was the religious motive in planting the Maryland colony?

Answer 17

to provide a refuge for English Catholics

Question 18

What were the main crops of northern and southern Carolina, respectively

Answer 18

Tobacco, rice, silk

Question 19

What were the two purposes the British had in founding Georgia?

Answer 19

to establish a military buffer against Spanish Florida and to provide a colony where debtors and vagrants, who often languished in English jails, could become productive