Question 1

During the reign of ________,the English government turned its attention to North America by granting charters to Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh for the establishment of colonies there.

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A)   Henry VIII
B)   Mary I
C)   James I
D)   James II
E)   Elizabeth IF) B) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 2

Compare the Chesapeake and New England colonies.Explore the various reasons for the colonists' emigrating to the New World,their economies,gender roles,demographics,religion,and relations with the Indians.How did land ownership compare from one region to the other? Which pattern of settlement is more representative of American development after the seventeenth century?

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The answer of Compare the Chesapeake and New England colonies.Explore...

Question 3

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Elizabeth I

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Question 4

For most New Englanders,Indians represented:

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A)   savagery.
B)   teachers.
C)   curiosities.
D)   culture.
E)   survival.F) C) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 5

After the English Civil War,it was generally believed that freedom was the common heritage of all Englishmen.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Religious toleration violated the Puritan understanding of moral liberty.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Mayflower Compact

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A)  principles of religious toleration
B)  believed the spirit of God dwelled in all persons
C)  gave five to seven years of service for passage to America
D)  first elected assembly in colonial America
E)  charter company that established JamestownF) first written frame of government in British AmericaG) a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great MigrationH) primary crop of the Chesapeake coloniesI) argued that the Church of England was still too CatholicJ) granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passageK) a political movement favoring expanded libertiesL) written in 1215,this document was said to embody English freedomM) A) and C)
N) E) and H)

Question 8

What benefited the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth?

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A)   They met a Native American,Opechancanough,who helped them.
B)   It was the late spring,so it was planting season.
C)   Native Americans,decimated by disease,had left behind cleared fields for farming.
D)   The local Indian leader considered the English to be divine.
E)   John Smith arrived to help organize them.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 9

Even Jewish people enjoyed religious freedom under Maryland's Act concerning Religion.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The Puritans believed that male authority in the household was:

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A)   an outdated idea.
B)   to be unquestioned.
C)   so absolute that a husband could order the murder of his wife.
D)   not supposed to resemble God's authority in any way,because that would be blasphemous.
E)   limited only by the number of children-the more,the better.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 11

Compared to the Chesapeake colonies,New England had more economic equality because it had more:

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A)   cash crops.
B)   timber.
C)   landowners.
D)   slaves.
E)   religious toleration.F) A) and C)
G) All of the above

Question 12

The significance of the Pequot War of 1637 was that:

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A)   the Pequots were forced to pay reparations for the damage they caused New England settlers.
B)   the Narragansetts joined the Pequots to fight the Puritans,leading to the elimination of both tribes.
C)   the Pequots lost,but survived to become a valuable ally of the Puritans.
D)   the brutishness and ferocity of the colonists surprised New England tribes.
E)   the Pequots defeated the Puritans in a battle that temporarily drove the Massachusetts Bay settlers into Plymouth Colony.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 13

It can be argued that conflict between the English settlers and local Indians in Virginia became inevitable when:

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A)   the Native Americans realized that England wanted to establish a permanent and constantly expanding colony,not just a trading post.
B)   Pocahontas married John Rolfe.
C)   the House of Burgesses passed a law ordering Native Americans out of the colony.
D)   Powhatan led an attack against the English settlers in 1644.
E)   Spain formed a military alliance with Powhatan.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 14

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Magna Carta

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Question 15

Treatment of the Indians by members of the Virginia colony was influenced in part by Las Casas's condemnation of Spanish behavior.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Maryland was similar to Virginia in that:

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A)   both started out as proprietary colonies.
B)   tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society.
C)   John Smith had to take over the colony and organize its settlers to work.
D)   both offered settlers total religious freedom.
E)   the king approved the creation of each colony only because of pressure from Parliament.F) A) and C)
G) C) and E)

Question 17

The separation of church and state in Massachusetts during the seventeenth century:

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A)   was strictly enforced.
B)   was similar to Virginia's colonial government.
C)   is similar to the way the government is conducted in today's United States.
D)   does not resemble today's U.S.society.
E)   was influenced by the Dutch colonies.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 18

Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church?

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A)   The Pope had banned England from exploring the New World because the Church already had limited land ownership there to Spain and Portugal.
B)   He wanted a divorce,and the Pope refused to grant it.
C)   He was trying to unify Great Britain.
D)   He wanted to be pope,and the College of Cardinals refused to elect an English Catholic.
E)   He thought the Catholic Church was corrupt,and he wanted to protect the English people from its abuses.F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 19

Which English group did the most to reshape Native American society and culture in the seventeenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)   Traders.
B)   Religious missionaries.
C)   Colonial authorities.
D)   Settlers farming the land.
E)   The Royal Geographical Society.F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 20

Of the half million people who left England between 1607 and 1700,which area in the Western Hemisphere received the most settlers?

Accepted Answer

A)   Ireland.
B)   Chesapeake region.
C)   West Indies.
D)   New England.
E)   Middle Colonies.F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

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