a.

A blockade by the Native tribe of the Croatan.

b.

Political infighting at the court of Elizabeth I.

c.

Naval warfare with the Spanish Armada.

d.

English civil war.

a.

separation of church and state.

b.

purging the Church of England of Catholic influences.

c.

greater power for the House of Commons.

d.

ending slavery.

a.

Perpetual life

b.

English royal subsidies

c.

Immediate and magnificent profits

d.

Limited liability for stockholders

a.

one company was Catholic, the other was Protestant.

b.

no one had a very clear idea of what Virginia's boundaries were.

c.

each company represented factions within the King's court.

d.

one company had friends in the House of Commons and the other had friends in the House of Lords.

a.

their body and face paints

b.

their relative nakedness

c.

their religious ceremonies

d.

their unrestrained aggression against the new arrivals.

a.

A series of successful wars against the neighboring Indians

b.

The discovery that a strain of tobacco could be grown there

c.

An end to the drought that had ruined the settlers' harvests

d.

The arrival of a new governor, John Rolfe

a.

It arranged marriages with local groups of Indians.

b.

It promised settlers peaceful relations with neighboring Indians.

c.

It guaranteed settlers access to the colony's newly discovered gold mines.

d.

It granted fifty acres of land to anyone who brought in a new settler.

a.

had established the first democracy in the Americas.

b.

effectively turned a business enterprise into a colonial society.

c.

established a governing council for European-Indian relations.

d.

created their own mechanism for customs enforcement.

a.

promised noblemen large numbers of indentured servants.

b.

allowed only Roman Catholics to live in the colony.

c.

led a campaign of extermination against local Indians.

d.

offered land to prospective immigrants.

a.

It successfully re-created the medieval feudal system.

b.

It offered religious toleration to all Christians.

c.

It was the first colony to use a representative assembly.

d.

It was the first colony to grow cash crops.

a.

experienced severe persecution from the crown because of their large numbers.

b.

generally avoided politics.

c.

had much greater influence than the poorer, but more numerous Protestants.

d.

never held control of the colony.

a.

planting

b.

drying

c.

periodic burning

d.

harvesting

a.

Small farmers who owned their own land

b.

Indians captured in raids

c.

English indentured servants

d.

African slaves

a.

became wealthy tobacco growers.

b.

ran away and joined Indian tribes.

c.

returned to England.

d.

died before completing their terms of service.

a.

did not wish to migrate to the New World.

b.

refused to remain part of the Church of England.

c.

were very wealthy.

d.

had good relations with James I.

a.

religious tensions

b.

economic distress in the homeland

c.

a lack of interested migrants.

d.

Oliver Cromwell's rise to power in England.

a.

Puritans leaving the church.

b.

settlers creating new towns.

c.

working in seaports rather than on farms.

d.

the crown's practice of dividing colonies into smaller entities.

a.

Nothing should prevent children's essential innocence from expressing itself.

b.

Women are adornments to society with no practical use.

c.

The family's resources should belong equally to the husband and wife.

d.

Men are the undisputed masters of their household.

a.

had to know a wide range of skilled crafts.

b.

could vote, provided they possessed a certain amount of property.

c.

were expected to share in the decision-making process with their husbands.

d.

could sue employers for unpaid wages without their husbands' knowledge.

a.

love.

b.

good company.

c.

political power.

d.

social hierarchy.

a.

based on clear class distinctions.

b.

egalitarian.

c.

tolerant of religious differences.

d.

independent of England.

a.

Connecticut.

b.

Rhode Island.

c.

New Jersey.

d.

Pennsylvania.

a.

condemned Massachusetts authorities for their treatment of Indians.

b.

claimed salvation did not depend upon any church, minister, or worship service.

c.

founded the Connecticut Colony.

d.

demanded the right to vote for all women.

a.

a decline in religious zeal.

b.

a balance in the Bay Colony's sex ratio.

c.

the growing political power of Puritan men.

d.

economic decline in the Bay Colony.

a.

announced they would not support colonial development in America.

b.

turned all the American colonies over to their friends as rewards for their support during the revolution.

c.

kept James II's policies toward New England intact.

d.

made Massachusetts a royal colony.

a.

the importance of religion in daily life had declined.

b.

religious uniformity had replaced religious diversity.

c.

trade and commerce had virtually disappeared.

d.

the population was leaving cities and settling in small farming communities.

a.

a growth in mystic beliefs.

b.

a struggle between Puritan farmers and town merchants.

c.

a control for political patronage.

d.

problems with growing crime.

a.

the townspeople quickly formed militias in defense against the British assault.

b.

residents fled in fear of the oppressive regime of the British.

c.

they refused to fight, forcing the governor to surrender the colony.

d.

it was the Mohawk allies who fought most valiantly.

a.

reflected religious orthodoxy.

b.

granted all free males the right to vote.

c.

restricted legislative powers.

d.

heavily taxed enterprises.

a.

their lust for power and riches.

b.

their support for Oliver Cromwell's Puritan army.

c.

their loyalty to the king.

d.

unwillingness to finance the king's extravagant lifestyle.

a.

tobacco.

b.

cotton.

c.

naval stores.

d.

rice.

a.

turned the colony into a poorhouse.

b.

failed for a lack of "deserving poor" who could benefit from an opportunity in Georgia.

c.

became a role model for the colonies of New Jersey and Delaware.

d.

caused the ire of wealthy planters in South Carolina and Virginia.

a.

Georgia would be a buffer state between South Carolina and Spanish Florida.

b.

Georgia would attract religious dissidents from Massachusetts Bay.

c.

Georgia would become a commercial success and a source of royal revenue.

d.

Georgia would become a model for a democratic state.