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Question | Answer |
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The Puritans believed that the Church of England was corrupt because it did not restrict its membership to "visible saints" who had experienced conversion. | True |
All Puritans wanted to break away from the Church of England and establish a new "purified" church. | False, most Puritans wanted to stay within the Church of England and purify it; only extreme Puritans, the Separatists, wanted to break away. |
The large Separatist Plymouth Colony strongly influenced Puritan Massachusetts Bay. | False |
Massachusetts Bay restricted the vote for elections to the General Court to adult male members of the Congregational Church. | True |
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were both banished for organizing political rebellions against the Massachusetts Bay authorities. | False, They were banished for teaching religious and political heresy. |
Rhode Island was the most religiously and politically tolerant of the New England colonies. | True |
The Wampanoag people of New England initially befriended the English colonists. | True |
Edmund Andros's autocratic Dominion of New England was overthrown in connection with the Glorious Revolution in England. | True |
King Phillip's war enabled New England's Native Americans to recover their numbers and morale. | False, the war led to further decline in Native American population and morale. |
New York became the most democratic and economically equal of the middle colonies. | False |
Dutch New Netherland was conquered in 1664 by England | True |
William Penn originally intended his Pennsylvania colony to be exclusively a refuge for his fellow Quakers. | False, Penn welcomed people of diverse religious views from the beginning. |
William Penn's benevolent Indian policies were supported by non-Quaker immigrants to Pennsylvania. | False |
The middle colonies' broad, fertile river valleys enabled them to develop a richer agricultural economy than that of New England. | False |
The middle colonies were characterized by tightly knit, ethically homogeneous communities that shared a common sense of religious purpose. | False, the description applies to New England, not the middle colonies, which were socially diverse and full of political conflict. |
The Puritans all believed strongly that | Only the elect of "visible saints" should be members of the church. |
Compared with the Plymouth colony, the Massachusetts Bay colony was | larger and more prosperous economically |
One reason that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was not a true democracy is that | only church members could vote for the governor and the General Court. |
The most distinctive feature of the Rhode Island colony was that | it enjoyed the most complete religious freedom of all the English colonies |
Before the first English settlements in New England, Indians in the region had been devastated by | disease epidemics caused by contact with English fishermen. |
The Indian people who first encountered the Pilgrim colonists in New England were the | Wampanoags |
The Puritan missionary efforts to convert Indians to Christianity were | weak and mostly unsuccessful |
King Phillip's War represented | the last major Indian effort to hait New Englanders' encroachment on their land. |
The primary value of the New England Confederation lay in | Providing the first small step on the road to intercolonial cooperation. |
The event that sparked the collapse of the Dominion of New England was | The Glorious Revolution in England |
The Dutch Colony of New Netherland | was harshly and undemocratically governed |
The short-lived colony conquered by the New Netherland Dutch in 1655 was | New Sweden |
William Penn's colony of Pennsylvania. | made no provisions for military defense against enemies. |
Besides Pennsylvania, Quakers were also heavily involved in the early settlement of both | New Jersey and Delaware |
The Middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware | had more ethnic diversity than either New England or the Southern colonies. |