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  • Question 1

 

   
 

Pennsylvania was initially settled by:

      

Answers:

a. 

Baptists.
 

b. 

Quakers.
 

c. 

Catholics.
 

d. 

Jews.
     
  • Question 2

 

   
 

What commodity contributed most to the economic viability of Jamestown?

      

Answers:

a. 

rice.
 

b. 

tobacco.
 

c. 

corn.
 

d. 

cotton.
     
  • Question 3

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

tobacco.
 

b. 

rice.
 

c. 

timber.
 

d. 

cotton.
     
  • Question 4

 

   
 

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. 

Episcopal.
 

d. 

Unitarian.
     
  • Question 5

 

   
 

The first migrants to the New World came from:

      

Answers:

a. 

Western Europe.
 

b. 

Australia.
 

c. 

Africa.
 

d. 

Asia.
     
  • Question 6

 

   
 

The Navigation Acts were designed to:

      

Answers:

a. 

allow England to monopolize American trade.
 

b. 

stimulate colonial economic development.
 

c. 

promote English industrial development.
 

d. 

keep the American colonies weak and dependent.
     
  • Question 7

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

a plantation society dominated by a slaveholding aristocracy.
 

b. 

a diversified society and economy with minimal social stratification.
 

c. 

a society of small farmers committed to multicrop agriculture.
 

d. 

a successful commercial enterprise that returned large profits to the Crown.
     
  • Question 8

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Newfoundland.
 

b. 

Jamestown.
 

c. 

Roanoke.
 

d. 

Plymouth.
     
  • Question 9

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Amerigo Vespucci.
 

b. 

Christopher Columbus.
 

c. 

Vasco de Balboa.
 

d. 

Ferdinand Magellan.
     
  • Question 10

 

   
 

The doctrine of predestination was most closely associated with:

      

Answers:

a. 

John Hus.
 

b. 

John Calvin.
 

c. 

Martin Luther.
 

d. 

Henry VIII.
     
  • Question 11

 

   
 

Harvard College was originally established to educate:

      

Answers:

a. 

civil servants.
 

b. 

preachers.
 

c. 

teachers.
 

d. 

lawyers.
     
  • Question 12

 

   
 

Great Awakening ministers introduced a new form of preaching called:

      

Answers:

a. 

fundamentalism.
 

b. 

pietism.
 

c. 

evangelism.
 

d. 

methodism.
     
  • Question 13

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Sir Francis Drake.
 

b. 

Vitus Bering.
 

c. 

John Cabot.
 

d. 

Henry Hudson.
     
  • Question 14

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

corn.
 

b. 

rice.
 

c. 

barley.
 

d. 

wheat.
     
  • Question 15

 

   
 

Georgia was originally established as:

      

Answers:

a. 

a strictly business venture.
 

b. 

a religious haven for Catholics.
 

c. 

a charitable colony for the poor.
 

d. 

refuge for displaced native Americans.
     
  • Question 16

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

more advanced.
 

b. 

more aggressive.
 

c. 

more nomadic.
 

d. 

more unified.
     
  • Question 17

 

   
 

Which of the following could vote in the English colonies:

      

Answers:

a. 

Indians.
 

b. 

only white males who met a minimum property requirement.
 

c. 

blacks.
 

d. 

women.
     
  • Question 18

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

provide public-school education.
 

b. 

enforce religious conformity.
 

c. 

pursue a more vigorous defense policy against marauding Indians.
 

d. 

support the price of tobacco.
     
  • Question 19

 

   
 

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. 

located in a healthful site.
 

d. 

a refuge for religious dissenters.
     
  • Question 20

 

   
 

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. 

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

d. 

auctioning black slaves to settlers.
     
  • Question 21

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Georgia.
 

b. 

Maryland.
 

c. 

Connecticut.
 

d. 

Rhode Island.
     
  • Question 22

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

Charleston.
 

b. 

Boston.
 

c. 

Salem.
 

d. 

Plymouth.
     
  • Question 23

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

women got the right to vote.
 

b. 

white indentured servitiude was abolished.
 

c. 

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

d. 

Jamestown became a royal colony.
     
  • Question 24

 

   
 

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

      

Answers:

a. 

belief in the "Inner Light."
 

b. 

highly structured church organization.
 

c. 

refusal to take oaths or fight wars.
 

d. 

equality in God's eyes.
     
  • Question 25

 

   
 

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.
     

 

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