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TEST 1  US HISTORY 1301

 

The Navigation Acts were designed to:

   

Answers:

a.

keep the American colonies weak and dependent.

 

b.

promote English industrial development.

 

c.

allow England to monopolize American trade.

 

d.

stimulate colonial economic development.

   

Spain based its claims to all of the New World (except Brazil) on the discoveries of:

Answers:

a.

Ferdinand Magellan.

 

b.

Christopher Columbus.

 

c.

Vasco de Balboa.

 

d.

Amerigo Vespucci.

Great Awakening ministers introduced a new form of preaching called:

Answers:

a.

evangelism.

 

b.

fundamentalism.

 

c.

methodism.

 

d.

pietism.

Harvard College was originally established to educate:

Answers:

a.

civil servants.

 

b.

preachers.

 

c.

lawyers.

   

 

England's first permanent settlement in the New World was:

Answers:

a.

Roanoke.

 

b.

Plymouth.

 

c.

Jamestown.

 

d.

Newfoundland.

The year 1619 is significant to the history of Jamestown because:

Answers:

a.

white indentured servitiude was abolished.

 

b.

women got the right to vote.

 

c.

the first elected legislative assembly, the House of Burgesses, convened., and the first African slaves were introduced. 

 

d.

Jamestown became a royal colony.

 

 
 

The following colony was established not only as a business venture, but as a refuge for Catholics:

   

Answers:

a.

Georgia.

 

b.

Rhode Island.

 

c.

Maryland.

 

d.

Connecticut.

   

 

Which of the following could vote in the English colonies:

Answers:

a.

Indians.

 

b.

blacks.

 

c.

only white males who met a minimum property requirement.

 

d.

women.

 

The description of the Massachusetts Bay colony as a "city upon a hill" related to the Puritans' idea that the colony should be:

Answers:

a.

a model Christian community for the world.

 

b.

located in an easily defensible site.

 

c.

a refuge for religious dissenters.

 

d.

located in a healthful site

The form of church organization developed by the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay in the seventeenth century was known as:

Answers:

a.

Episcopal.

 

b.

Unitarian.

 

c.

Anglican.

 

d.

Congregational.

The headright system adopted for the Virginia colony consisted of.

Answers:

.

 

b.

selling wives to single male settlers.

 

c.

giving free land to all servants who came to the colony.

 

d.

giving fifty acres of land to anyone who transported themselves to the colony and fifty more acres of land for every dependent or other person they brought.

 

 

The doctrine of predestination was most closely associated with:

Answers:

a.

John Calvin.

 

b.

Martin Luther.

 

c.

John Hus.

 

d.

Henry VIII.

Three of the following were beliefs of the Quakers. Which is the exception:

Answers:

a.

highly structured church organization.

 

b.

equality in God's eyes.

 

c.

refusal to take oaths or fight wars.

 

d.

belief in the "Inner Light."

The most famous outbreak of witchcraft hysteria in colonial America occurred in:

Answers:

a.

Salem.

 

b.

Charleston.

 

c.

Boston.

 

d.

Plymouth.

The Halfway Covenant was adopted because:

Answers:

a.

too few second and third generation Puritans were willing to accept the covenant.

 

b.

Puritans believed that Indians were not capable of becoming fully Christian.

 

c.

Puritans wanted to justify enslavement of converted Indians and Africans.

 

d.

Puritans wanted to show Anglicans that they were willing to meet them halfway in resolving religious differences

 

By the end of the seventeenth century, Virginia could best be described as:

Answers:

a.

a successful commercial enterprise that returned large profits to the Crown.

 

b.

a plantation society dominated by a slaveholding aristocracy.

 

c.

a diversified society and economy with minimal social stratification.

 

d.

a society of small farmers committed to multicrop agriculture.

The first migrants to the New World came from:

Answers:

a.

Australia.

 

b.

Africa.

 

c.

Western Europe.

 

d.

Asia.

What commodity contributed most to the economic viability of Jamestown?

Answers:

a.

rice.

 

b.

cotton.

 

c.

tobacco.

 

d.

corn.

Pennsylvania was initially settled by:

Answers:

a.

Baptists.

 

b.

Catholics.

 

c.

Jews.

 

d.

Quakers.

 

The main agricultural crop of the Carolinas at the end of the seventeenth century was:

Answers:

a.

cotton.

 

b.

rice.

 

c.

tobacco.

 

d.

timber.

 

The most important food crop in seventeenth-century Jamestown was:

Answers:

a.

barley.

 

b.

wheat.

 

c.

corn.

 

d.

rice.

 

The first English-sponsored voyages of discovery to the New World were led by:

Answers:

a.

Vitus Bering.

 

b.

John Cabot.

 

c.

Henry Hudson.

 

d.

Sir Francis Drake.

 

Georgia was originally established as:

Answers:

a.

refuge for displaced native Americans.

 

b.

a strictly business venture.

 

c.

a religious haven for Catholics.

 

d.

a charitable colony for the poor.

Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 resulted partly from back-country farmers' discontent over Governor Berkeley's refusal to:

Answers:

a.

support the price of tobacco.

 

b.

enforce religious conformity.

 

c.

provide public-school education.

 

d.

pursue a more vigorous defense policy against marauding Indians.

Compared to the Indians of Mexico and South America, North American Indians were:

Answers:

a.

more aggressive.

 

b.

more unified.

 

c.

more nomadic.

 

d.

more advanced.

 

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