Exam 2: Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

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 Jamestown
F) first written frame of government in British America
G) a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great Migration
H) primary crop of the Chesapeake colonies
I) argued that the Church of England was still too Catholic
J) granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passage
K) a political movement favoring expanded liberties
L) written in 1215,this document was said to embody English freedom

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A) They were so determined to keep them apart that they banned ministers from holding office,fearing that they would enact proreligious legislation.
B) They allowed church and state to be interconnected by requiring each town to establish a church and levy a tax to support the minister.
C) The Massachusetts Bay Colony endorsed the Puritan faith but allowed anyone the freedom to practice or not practice religion.
D) They had never even heard of the concept.
E) They invented the concept but refused to indulge in it.

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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 Jamestown
F) first written frame of government in British America
G) a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great Migration
H) primary crop of the Chesapeake colonies
I) argued that the Church of England was still too Catholic
J) granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passage
K) a political movement favoring expanded liberties
L) written in 1215,this document was said to embody English freedom

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A) Women mostly came to Virginia as indentured servants.
B) Women were busy running the family business.
C) Women outnumbered men,so they had a difficult time finding a husband.
D) Women focused on doing work for the church.
E) Women and men were not together often due to men fighting in wars with Indians.

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A) Cotton.
B) Fur.
C) Tobacco.
D) Indigo.
E) Sugar.

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A) proprietor of Maryland
B) wife of John Rolfe
C) Pilgrim leader
D) leader of Indians near Jamestown
E) governor of Massachusetts
F) his settlement at Roanoke Island failed
G) was denounced for Antinomianism
H) Indian who helped the Pilgrims
I) French-born theologian who influenced the Puritans
J) established Rhode Island
K) A Discourse concerning Western Planting
L) early leader of Jamestown

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A) proprietor of Maryland
B) wife of John Rolfe
C) Pilgrim leader
D) leader of Indians near Jamestown
E) governor of Massachusetts
F) his settlement at Roanoke Island failed
G) was denounced for Antinomianism
H) Indian who helped the Pilgrims
I) French-born theologian who influenced the Puritans
J) established Rhode Island
K) A Discourse concerning Western Planting
L) early leader of Jamestown

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A) good,because Massachusetts Bay leaders welcomed debate over religion.
B) dangerous to social harmony and community stability.
C) important,but they banned neighbors from reporting on one another,because that would breed division that could harm the community.
D) vital,because they had been discouraged from enjoying these back in England.
E) dangerous to the individual but good for the community.

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A) enriched an emerging class of planters and certain members of the colonial government.
B) benefited from the endorsement of King James I.
C) declined after its original success,as Europeans learned the dangers of smoking.
D) resulted in more unified settlements,thanks to tobacco's propensity to grow only in certain areas of Virginia.
E) was under the control of two planters,Walter Raleigh and the Earl of Kent.

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A) European religion significantly transformed their societies.
B) environmental factors dramatically altered their way of life.
C) trade contradicted each other.
D) Spanish incursions into the Chesapeake significantly altered their lives.
E) English mining altered the landscape.

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A) proprietor of Maryland
B) wife of John Rolfe
C) Pilgrim leader
D) leader of Indians near Jamestown
E) governor of Massachusetts
F) his settlement at Roanoke Island failed
G) was denounced for Antinomianism
H) Indian who helped the Pilgrims
I) French-born theologian who influenced the Puritans
J) established Rhode Island
K) A Discourse concerning Western Planting
L) early leader of Jamestown

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A) They sold land and slaves to the Indians.
B) They murdered Powhatan and Pocahontas.
C) They turned Virginia into a royal colony and banned all private sales of tobacco.
D) They enslaved the majority of Indians and brought back John Smith as governor in the 1640s.
E) They put the colony under the control of the crown.

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A) played a minimal role.
B) greatly expanded amid the debate over which of these groups should be elected.
C) remained an important and much-debated concept even after Charles I was beheaded.
D) was the excuse given for restoring Charles II in 1685.
E) led to the overthrow of James III in 1700.

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A) The brutality of New England Indians.
B) The strong pull of being part of the Puritan society.
C) The importance of questioning the church elders.
D) The significance of the separation of church and state.
E) The appeal of joining an Indian community.

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A) Oliver Cromwell.
B) John Smith.
C) Charles I.
D) Charles II.
E) James I.

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