Question 1

Which of the following best describes how the English viewed Native American ties to the land?

Accepted Answer

A)   Although they felt the natives had no claim since they did not cultivate or improve the land, the English usually bought their land, albeit through treaties they forced on Indians.
B)   They simply tried to wipe out Native Americans and then took their land.
C)   They encouraged settlers to move onto Native American land and take it.
D)   They totally respected those ties and let the natives stay in all rural areas, negotiating settlements to obtain the coastal lands.
E)   The English offered natives the chance to remain on the land as slaves and, when this offer was declined, forced them off of it.

Question 2

What was Virginia's "gold," which ensured its survival and prosperity?

Accepted Answer

A)   cotton
B)   fur
C)   tobacco
D)   indigo
E)   sugar

Question 3

As leader of the Jamestown Colony, John Smith:

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A)   was a failure and had to return to England.
B)   improved relations with Native Americans by marrying Pocahontas.
C)   used rigorous military discipline to hold the colony together.
D)   used an elaborate reward system to persuade colonists to work.
E)   set up the first representative assembly in the New World.

Question 4

In New England towns:

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A)   there was no local government because Massachusetts Bay leaders feared dissent.
B)   much of the land remained in common, for collective use or to be divided among later settlers.
C)   there were several churches.
D)   the colony divided up the land because it wanted to keep the settlers from having any role in government.
E)   ministers conducted town meetings, just as they conducted church services.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?

Accepted Answer

A)   literacy
B)   land
C)   the English Bill of Rights
D)   church membership
E)   a wage-paying job

Question 7

Growing connections with Europeans lessened warfare between Indian tribes.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

How did most Puritans view the separation of church and state?

Accepted Answer

A)   They were so determined to keep them apart that they banned ministers from holding office, fearing that they would enact pro-religious 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.

Question 9

A central element in the definition of English liberty was:

Accepted Answer

A)   the right to a trial by jury.
B)   the right to self-incrimination.
C)   that each English citizen owned a copy of the English Constitution.
D)   freedom of expression.
E)   what an individual king or queen said it was. A

Question 10

In regard to religious toleration, the Puritans :

Accepted Answer

A)   ignored the Reformation.
B)   encouraged religious dissent.
C)   saw only their faith as the truth.
D)   accepted only Christian faiths.
E)   treated Native American priests as equals.

Question 11

Which of the following is true of the Puritans of the seventeenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)   They were completely unified on all issues.
B)   They agreed that the Church of England retained too many elements of Catholicism in its rituals and doctrines.
C)   They differed completely with the views of the Church of England.
D)   They came to the colonies because they had no hope of holding any power in England.
E)   John Winthrop founded the church.

Question 12

How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development?

Accepted Answer

A)   It instituted the headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's passage.
B)   It fired John Smith and brought in a more popular leader.
C)   It gave control back to the king, who straightened out its problems.
D)   It required all settlers to grow tobacco, a highly profitable crop.
E)   It created an executive committee that really ran the colony and a committee of colonists who thought they were running it.

Question 13

Anne Hutchinson:

Accepted Answer

A)   was no threat to the Puritan establishment because women were so clearly considered inferior.
B)   angered Puritan authorities by supporting the claims of Roger Williams.
C)   engaged in Antinomianism, a sexual practice that the Puritans considered threatening to traditional gender relations.
D)   opposed Puritan ministers who distinguished saints from the damned through church attendance and moral behavior rather than through focusing on an inner state of grace.
E)   would have been left alone if she had not also run for a seat in the General Court.

Question 14

Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as:

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 15

The Virginia House of Burgesses:

Accepted Answer

A)   was dissolved by King James because he objected to all representative government.
B)   was created as part of the Virginia Company's effort to encourage the colony's survival.
C)   banned the importation of servants.
D)   had more power than the governor.
E)   was included in the original charter for the Jamestown Colony.

Question 16

In the 1650s, who pushed England toward a policy of expanding territory and commercialism?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

Which colony adopted the Act Concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration?

Accepted Answer

A)   Virginia
B)   Maryland
C)   Massachusetts
D)   Rhode Island
E)   Connecticut

Question 18

In the 1640s, leaders of the House of Commons:

Accepted Answer

A)   accused the king of imposing taxes without parliamentary consent.
B)   supported efforts to move England back to Catholicism.
C)   aided Charles I in overthrowing his father, James I.
D)   opposed Oliver Cromwell's "Commonwealth" government.
E)   refused to allow new colonists to emigrate to America. A

Question 19

A Discourse Concerning Western Planting argued that English settlement of North America would strike a blow against Spain.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Religious toleration violated the Puritan understanding of moral liberty.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 2: Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660

Which of the following best describes how the English viewed Native American ties to the land?

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What was Virginia's "gold," which ensured its survival and prosperity?

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As leader of the Jamestown Colony, John Smith:

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In New England towns:

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

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What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?

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Growing connections with Europeans lessened warfare between Indian tribes.

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How did most Puritans view the separation of church and state?

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A central element in the definition of English liberty was:

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In regard to religious toleration, the Puritans :

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Which of the following is true of the Puritans of the seventeenth century?

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How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development?

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Anne Hutchinson:

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Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as:

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The Virginia House of Burgesses:

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In the 1650s, who pushed England toward a policy of expanding territory and commercialism?

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Which colony adopted the Act Concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration?

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In the 1640s, leaders of the House of Commons:

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A Discourse Concerning Western Planting argued that English settlement of North America would strike a blow against Spain.

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Religious toleration violated the Puritan understanding of moral liberty.

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