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History 2
Unfinished Nation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| England's first experience with colonization came in | 1492 |
| Seventeenth century English colonial settlements maintained | The political and social institutions of England |
| The "starving time" in Jamestown during the winter of 1609-1610 | Was partly the result of colonists being kept barricaded in their palisade by local Indians. |
| The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began | From the southern tip of South America |
| In the Great Plains region, most pre-columbian societies | Hunted buffalo for survival. |
| At the beginning of the seventeenth century, English Puritan discontent was increased by | suppression of English catholics |
| Which statement about French colonization in the new world is FALSE? | The French, like the English, tried to remain separate from native people. |
| Some historians have suggested that European diseases virtually exterminated many native tribes. | True |
| Who was a native of Genoa sailing in the employ of England near the end of the fifteenth century? | John Cabot |
| English colonies in the Chesapeake were first and foremost business enterprises | True |
| Bacon's rebellion was undertaken to do away with slavery in Virginia. | False |
| The "middle ground" refers in part to areas on the western edges of English colonial settlements | True |
| Most indentured servants came to the colonies voluntarily | True |
| In the early seventeenth century, the legal status of slaves was ambiguous and fluid. | True |
| African slaves engaged in the cultivation of rice, but they were not very adept at it. | False |
| The British Navigation Acts were designed to protect England from foreign competition in the colonies | True |
| French Protestants who fled their country in 1685 because of new policy that rejected religious toleration | Huguenots |
| Backyard pits where waste, both household and human, could be dumped | Privies |
| To reduce conflicts, Spanish policy toward the Pueblo Indians in the eighteenth century involved all of the following EXCEPT | An expansion of encomienda system |
| Over time in the seventeenth century, an increased number of New England Puritans came to view Indian society | With fear and contempt |
| Industrialization in colonial America was hampered by | English parliamentary regulations, a small domestic market, an inadequate labor supply, and inadequate transportation network |
| Seventeenth-century southern plantations | Tended to be rough and relatively small |
| In London, the initial promoters of Jamestown encouraged colonists to focus on | The search for gold. |
| The Declaratory Act of 1766 | Was a sweeping assertion of Parliament's authority over the colonies. |
| By the 1750s, American colonial assemblies | Exercised a significant degree of authority to levy taxes. |
| By 1670, political representation for colonists in Virginia | Had grown more restrictive |
| The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region | Went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles. |
| An encomienda was | The right to exact tribe and labor from natives. |
| Which of the following statements regarding Sir William Berkeley is FALSE? | He extended the political representation for frontier settlers. |
| One reason Roger Williams was deported from the Massachusetts colony was he | Said the land occupied by the colonists belonged to the Indians. |
| The Virginia Company developed the "headright" system to | Attract new settlers to the colony. |
| In the mid-1600s, New England Puritan ministers began preaching against the decline of | Piety |
| "Jeremiads" refer to | Sermons |
| During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw | A life expectancy for men of about forty years. |
| During the first half of the eighteenth century, royal officials in America | Contributed to England's overall lax control of the colonies |
| In the seventeenth century, English Quakers | Had a disregard for class or gender distinctions, had no paid clergy, were pacifists, believed all could attain salvation. |
| Under the English constitution during the eighteenth century | Large areas of England had no direct political representation. |
| The agricultural practices of pre-Columbian tribes in the Northeast were characterized by | A rapid exploitation of the land |
| In the eighteenth century, the English constitution was | An unwritten document |
| During the first stage (1754–1756) of the French and Indian War, | The Iroquois were allied with the English but remained largely passive. |
| Like New York, the New Jersey colony | Had great ethnic and religious diversity |
| The English Restoration began with the reign of | Charles II. |
| William Penn | Was a man of great wealth who converted to Quakerism |
| According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763 | France ceded all of its claims to land west of the Mississippi River to Spain. |
| In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies | All the answers are correct. |
| The French and Indian War was fought in | India, the West Indies, the North American interior, Europe |
| Class divisions in colonial North American cities were | More real and visible than in rural places outside the south |
| In 1513, what European became the first to see the Pacific Ocean? | Vasco de Balboa |
| As a result of the Seven Years' War, in North America, England | Confirmed its commercial supremacy and increased its political control of the settled regions. |
| The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on | the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids. |
| Which statement about Spanish settlements in the New World is FALSE? | The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming. |
| In the aftermath of King George's War | Relations between the English, French, and Iroquois deteriorated. |
| All of the following were characteristics of the English indenture system EXCEPT | Most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts. |
| Charismatic person who antagonized the leaders of Massachusetts Bay Colony by arguing that the clergy who were not among the "elect" had no right to spiritual office | Anne Hutchinson |
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