Chapter 2 history

John Rolfe married Powhatan’s daughter.

true

The first Thanksgiving celebrated the Pilgrims’ survival and a successful harvest.

true

In Puritan New England, a husband’s authority in his house was nearly absolute| genuine freedom for a woman was understood to come from her subjection to her husband’s will and desires.

true

Harvard College was principally founded to educate young men into the ministry.

true

The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?

indentured servants

In Puritan Massachusetts, "visible saint" was a term used to describe people of outstanding kindness and generosity.

false

Which of the following did NOT happen in the 1630s?

The House of Burgesses was established

In 1585, the English attempted to establish Jamestown in North America.

false/true

In 1619, the first elected assembly in colonial America was the

House of Burgesses in Virginia.

Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants would immediately acquire a large estate.

true

The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was

land ownership

Seventeenth-century Maryland stood out for its system of absolute rule but also for its practice of religious toleration.

true

Which of the following was NOT a significant outcome of the start of Chesapeake tobacco cultivation?

campaigns to discourage migration by English women, who, it was feared, would distract male Virginians from their work in the fields

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of early New England society?

equality of the sexes in church affairs, but not in government affairs

In the religious view of the Puritans, you would get to heaven if

God predestined you to heaven or hell; no earthly act could change that.

At the end of their period of indenture, indentured servants were often given "freedom dues" and became free members of society.

true

Early New Englanders established trade relations with local Indians, whereas early Virginians did not.

true

Because Puritan Massachusetts was deeply religious, ministers were frequently elected to colonial offices.

false

Colonial Virginia’s economic substitute for gold was

tobacco

Most immigrants to America from England in the 1600s were poor, young, single men.

true

Colonial Massachusetts was organized into self-governing towns.

true

Which was NOT a characteristic of Roger Williams’s Rhode Island colony?

It required citizens to attend church.

In 1600s Virginia, a femme sole could do all of the following EXCEPT

vote

A key motivation behind early English settlement in the American colonies was

acquisition of land, and thus a measure of personal independence. escape from the material and spiritual corruptions of England. the profits to be made in transatlantic commerce. All of the possible answers are correct.

Indentures usually bound indentured servants for periods of from five to seven years.

true

Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?

tobacco

Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for advocating freedom of individual conscience and religious choice.

true

In the 1600s, nearly two-thirds of English settlers came as indentured servants.

true

Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for

catholics

Anne Hutchinson offended colonial leaders and was banished from Massachusetts because she claimed God spoke directly to her.

true

The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that

just and equal laws made by male representatives onboard were to rule.

Which of the following was NOT a significant feature of indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?

Indentured servants never comprised more than a small percentage of Virginians, the great majority of whom arrived either as free settlers or slaves.

The Half-Way Covenant (1662) held that believers in the divine right of kings were good.

false

Ordinary settlers in Puritan Massachusetts were called "gentlemen" and "ladies" or "master" and "mistress."

false

The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?

grandchildren of the English Great Migration

Which of the following was NOT a significant trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?

the elimination of gender hierarchies

Slavery was never allowed in the devoutly Christian colony of Massachusetts.

false

Most New England colonists sided with Parliament during the English Civil War.

true

Most migrants to seventeenth-century New England came out of the poorer reaches of English society.

false

Intermarriage between Indians and English settlers was common.

false

Who was the most prominent Native American leader in the original area of English settlement in Virginia?

Powhatan

The English "enclosure" movement of the 1500s and 1600s forced small farmers off "commons" land so that the land could be taken up by

sheep

In the 1600s in Massachusetts, full church membership was not required to vote in colony-wide elections.

false

New England quickly developed into a land of large plantations and landless servants.

false

The "Rights of Englishmen" were established in the Magna Carta.

true

England’s ongoing struggle to subdue Ireland delayed its entry into New World colonization.

true

The typical seventeenth-century woman in New England gave birth seven times.

true

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Mayflower Compact; trial of Anne Hutchinson; Half-Way Covenant

Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts:

were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity.

Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were

high rates of death and disease.