APUSH Ch. 2

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The Virginia House of Burgesses:
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was created as part of the Virginia Company's effort to encourage the colony's survival.
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Which English group did the most to reshape Native American society and culture in the seventeenth century?
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settlers farming the land
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The Magna Carta:
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granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons.
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How did most Puritans view the separation of church and state?
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They allowed church and state to be interconnected by requiring each town to establish a church and levy a tax to support the minister.
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Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England:
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were lower-class men.
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In the seventeenth century, New England's economy:
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centered on family farms and also involved the export of fish and timber.
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The Puritans believed that male authority in the household was:
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to be unquestioned.
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The Mayflower Compact established:
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a civil government for the Plymouth Colony.
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How did indentured servants display a fondness for freedom?
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Some of them ran away or were disobedient toward their masters.
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In regard to religious toleration, the Puritans:
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saw only their faith as the truth.
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It can be argued that conflict between the English settlers and local Indians in Virginia became inevitable when:
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the Native Americans realized that England wanted to establish a permanent and constantly expanding colony, not just a trading post.
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Which one of the following is an accurate statement regarding the impact on Maryland of seventeenth-century England's Protestant-Catholic conflict?
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The English government temporarily repealed Calvert's ownership of Maryland and the colony's policies of religious toleration.
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John Winthrop followed which one of the following policies toward Native Americans?
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He insisted that they agree to submit to English authority.
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How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development?
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It instituted the headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's passage.
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Which colony adopted the Act Concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration?
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Maryland
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Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s?
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Because of religious differences: England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was devoutly Catholic.
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Why did Puritans decide to emigrate from England in the late 1620s and 1630s?
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The Church of England was firing their ministers and censoring their writings.
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At Anne Hutchinson's trial:
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she violated Puritan doctrine by claiming that God spoke to her directly rather than through ministers or the Bible.
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Which one of the following statements is true of Queen Mary of England, who reigned from 1553 to 1558?
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She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England.
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Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as:
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dangerous to social harmony and community stability.
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In the battles between Parliament and the Stuart kings, English freedom:
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remained an important and a much-debated concept even after Charles I was beheaded.
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Which of the following is true of the Puritans' dealings with Quakers?
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Their officials in Massachusetts punished Quakers financially and physically, even hanging several of them.
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Which of the following best describes how the English viewed Native American ties to the land?
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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.
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When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island:
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he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.
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What benefited the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth?
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Native Americans, decimated by disease, left behind cleared fields for farming.
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In what way was Puritan church membership a restrictive status?
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Full membership required demonstrating that one had experienced divine grace.
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Puritans followed the religious ideas of the French-born theologian:
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John Calvin.
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Why did the Pilgrims flee the Netherlands?
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They felt that the surrounding culture was corrupting their children.
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Tobacco production in Virginia:
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enriched an emerging class of planters and certain members of the colonial government.
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During the English political upheaval between 1640 and 1660:
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new religious sects began demanding the end of public financing and special privileges for the Anglican Church.
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Which of the following statements is true about the early history of Jamestown?
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The death rate was extraordinarily high.
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The Levellers:
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called for the strengthening of freedom and democracy at a time when those principles were seen as possibly contributing to anarchy.
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Which of the following is NOT a way that colonists undermined traditional Native American agriculture and hunting?
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Their refusal to build fences and permanent structures created conflict with Native American hunting methods.
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Opechancanough:
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mounted a surprise attack in 1622 that wiped out one-quarter of Virginia's settlers.
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In Great Britain, the idea of working for wages:
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was associated with servility and the loss of liberty.
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The Native American leader Powhatan:
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managed to consolidate control over some thirty nearby tribes.
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How did John Winthrop view a woman's liberty?
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Once a woman married a man, she was his subject.
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What was Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop's attitude toward liberty?
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He saw two kinds of liberty: natural liberty, the ability to do evil, and moral liberty, the ability to do good.
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In the 1640s, leaders of the House of Commons:
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accused the king of imposing taxes without parliamentary consent.
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In early seventeenth-century Massachusetts, freeman status was granted to adult males who:
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were landowning church members.
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Which one of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order by the dates they were founded, from the earliest to the latest?
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Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island
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Maryland was established as a refuge for which group?
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Catholics
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Which one of the following is true of indentured servants?
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Their masters could determine whether they could marry.
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The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas:
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was seen in England as a sign of Anglo-Indian harmony and missionary success.
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Virginia's colonial policy of requiring Native Americans to move to reservations:
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followed a precedent established by the English in Ireland.
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Of the half million people who left England between 1607 and 1700:
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more went to the West Indies than to North America.
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During the seventeenth century, indentured servants:
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had a great deal of trouble acquiring land.
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Which one of the following is true of poverty in seventeenth-century Great Britain?
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About half of the population lived at or below the poverty line by the end of the seventeenth century.
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In regard to religion:
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Native Americans showed indifference to European religious conflict.
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Who received most of the profits from trade between Native Americans and colonists?
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colonial and European merchants
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What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?
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land
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In the Pequot War of 1637:
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Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers teamed with Narragansett allies to set the main Pequot village afire and kill 500 Pequots.
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The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker:
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founded what became part of the colony of Connecticut.
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As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:
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efforts were made to persuade or even force those who had been evicted to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis.
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Maryland was similar to Virginia in that:
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tobacco proved crucial to its economy and society.
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The Half-Way Covenant of 1662:
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did not require evidence of conversion to receive a kind of church membership.
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Where in the Americas did the Pilgrims originally plan to go?
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Virginia
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A consequence of the English Civil War of the 1640s was:
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an English belief that England was the world's guardian of liberty
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In New England towns:
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much of the land remained in common, for collective use or to be divided among later settlers.
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The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England returned home:
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were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company's interest in searching for gold as opposed to building a functioning society.
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Boston merchants:
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challenged the subordination of economic activity to Puritan control.
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A central element in the definition of English liberty was:
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the right to a trial by jury.
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Which one of the following is an accurate statement about the class-based society of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
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The General Court banned ordinary people from wearing the garb of gentlemen.
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Which statement about women in the early Virginia colony is FALSE?
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Women consisted of about half the white population.
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During the reign of __________, the English government turned its attention to North America by granting charters to Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh for the establishment of colonies there.
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Elizabeth I
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Why was the death rate in early Jamestown so high?
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It lay beside a malarial swamp.
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Maryland's founder, Cecilius Calvert:
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wanted Maryland to be like a feudal domain, with power limited for ordinary people.
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The Massachusetts General Court:
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reflected the Puritans' desire to govern the colony without outside interference.
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Just as the reconquest of Spain from the Moors established patterns that would be repeated in Spanish New World colonization, the methods used in which one of the following countries anticipated policies England would undertake in America?
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Ireland
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How did Richard Hakluyt explain his claim that there was a connection between freedom and colonization?
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English colonization would save the New World from Spanish tyranny.