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Question 1         England's first permanent settlement in the New World was:       Answers: a

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  • Question 1

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Roanoke.
 

b. 

Jamestown.
 

c. 

Newfoundland.
 

d. 

Plymouth.
     
  • Question 2

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

corn.
 

b. 

rice.
 

c. 

barley.
 

d. 

wheat.
     
  • Question 3

 

   
 

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.
     
  • Question 4

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

women got the right to vote.
 

b. 

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

c. 

white indentured servitiude was abolished.
 

d. 

Jamestown became a royal colony.
     
  • Question 5

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

tobacco.
 

b. 

rice.
 

c. 

cotton.
 

d. 

timber.
     
  • Question 6

 

   
 

Pennsylvania was initially settled by:

      

Answers:

a. 

Catholics.
 

b. 

Jews.
 

c. 

Baptists.
 

d. 

Quakers.
     
  • Question 7

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Henry Hudson.
 

b. 

Sir Francis Drake.
 

c. 

John Cabot.
 

d. 

Vitus Bering.
     
  • Question 8

 

   
 

The doctrine of predestination was most closely associated with:

      

Answers:

a. 

Henry VIII.
 

b. 

John Calvin.
 

c. 

Martin Luther.
 

d. 

John Hus.
     
  • Question 9

 

   
 

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 refuge for religious dissenters.
 

b. 

a model Christian community for the world.
 

c. 

located in a healthful site.
 

d. 

located in an easily defensible site.
     
  • Question 10

 

   
 

Harvard College was originally established to educate:

      

Answers:

a. 

civil servants.
 

b. 

lawyers.
 

c. 

teachers.
 

d. 

preachers.
     
  • Question 11

 

   
 

Which of the following could vote in the English colonies:

      

Answers:

a. 

blacks.
 

b. 

only white males who met a minimum property requirement.
 

c. 

Indians.
 

d. 

women.
     
  • Question 12

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Congregational.
 

b. 

Anglican.
 

c. 

Unitarian.
 

d. 

Episcopal.
     
  • Question 13

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Rhode Island.
 

b. 

Maryland.
 

c. 

Connecticut.
 

d. 

Georgia.
     
  • Question 14

 

   
 

Georgia was originally established as:

      

Answers:

a. 

a religious haven for Catholics.
 

b. 

refuge for displaced native Americans.
 

c. 

a charitable colony for the poor.
 

d. 

a strictly business venture.
     
  • Question 15

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

a diversified society and economy with minimal social stratification.
 

b. 

a society of small farmers committed to multicrop agriculture.
 

c. 

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

d. 

a plantation society dominated by a slaveholding aristocracy.
     
  • Question 16

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

more unified.
 

b. 

more aggressive.
 

c. 

more advanced.
 

d. 

more nomadic.
     
  • Question 17

 

   
 

Great Awakening ministers introduced a new form of preaching called:

      

Answers:

a. 

pietism.
 

b. 

fundamentalism.
 

c. 

evangelism.
 

d. 

methodism.
     
  • Question 18

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Amerigo Vespucci.
 

b. 

Vasco de Balboa.
 

c. 

Ferdinand Magellan.
 

d. 

Christopher Columbus.
     
  • Question 19

 

   
 

The headright system adopted for the Virginia colony consisted of.

      

Answers:

a. 

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.
 

b. 

selling wives to single male settlers.
 

c. 

auctioning black slaves to settlers.
 

d. 

giving free land to all servants who came to the colony.
     
  • Question 20

 

   
 

What commodity contributed most to the economic viability of Jamestown?

      

Answers:

a. 

cotton.
 

b. 

corn.
 

c. 

tobacco.
 

d. 

rice.
     
  • Question 21

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

highly structured church organization.
 

b. 

refusal to take oaths or fight wars.
 

c. 

belief in the "Inner Light."
 

d. 

equality in God's eyes.
     
  • Question 22

 

   
 

The first migrants to the New World came from:

      

Answers:

a. 

Australia.
 

b. 

Western Europe.
 

c. 

Asia.
 

d. 

Africa.
     
  • Question 23

 

   
 

The Navigation Acts were designed to:

      

Answers:

a. 

keep the American colonies weak and dependent.
 

b. 

stimulate colonial economic development.
 

c. 

allow England to monopolize American trade.
 

d. 

promote English industrial development.
     
  • Question 24

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Plymouth.
 

b. 

Salem.
 

c. 

Charleston.
 

d. 

Boston.
     
  • Question 25

 

   
 

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. 

pursue a more vigorous defense policy against marauding Indians.
 

c. 

provide public-school education.
 

d. 

enforce religious conformity.
     

 

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