TIME 2 1607-1754

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WORKSHEET: Europeans Colonize North America- Chapter 2 (Chesapeake Region)

  1. English colonization efforts in North America were eventually successful because:
  2. The English followed the Spanish model of colonization
  3. The English sent large numbers of settlers to establish colonies based on agriculture
  4. The English sent large numbers of soldiers to protect all of its settlements in North America
  5. The English government began to finance its settlements rather than depending on corporations
  1. The 17th century economic/social problems that caused many English citizens to move to the New World resulted from:
  2. The collapse of the woolens industry
  3. Warfare between England and France
  4. The government’s decision to eliminate tariffs on foreign goods
  5. The doubling of the English population between 1530 and 1680
  1. The primary motive behind the founding of England’s first permanent colony was a desire:
  2. For profit
  3. For religious freedom
  4. To gain knowledge about the flora and fauna of the New World
  5. To challenge Spain’s power in the New World
  1. The survival of the Jamestown settlement is largely due to:
  2. Good planning by the Virginia Companyc. The agricultural skills of the early settlers
  3. Aid received from the Powhatan Confederacyd. The early development of village democracy
  1. Did the headright system benefit the wealthy gentry in Virginia? Why?
  2. Yes- it allowed them to sell all of their farm goods above market price
  3. Yes- it allowed them to amass more land and obtain laborers to work that land
  4. No- large farmers were subdivided as the number of adult males increased
  5. No- it made them politically powerless
  1. Why was the House of Burgesses important in the development of the British colonies in North America?
  2. The political-rights legislation it passed led to the emergence of democracy in the colonies
  3. The decisive military stand it took against the Native Americans effectively ended the Native American threat
  4. Its presences established the precedent of local self-government in England’s North American colonies
  5. Its decision to give land to all Virginia settlers caused people to see the British colonies as a land of opportunity
  1. How did Maryland differ from Virginia?
  2. Maryland’s settlers congregated in townsc. Maryland offered religious freedom to all Christians
  3. Maryland’s economy was based on traded. Maryland planters could amass large landed estates
  1. Indentured servants were important to the development of the 17th century Chesapeake region because they:
  2. Were usually artisans who brought needed skills to the area
  3. Provided a relatively cheap and abundant source of labor for Chesapeake tobacco planters
  4. Brought new ideas concerning the cultivation and cure of tobacco
  5. Provided labor for important public projects undertaken by the colonial governments of Virginia and Maryland
  1. Why did the New England colonies develop differently from the Chesapeake colonies?
  2. The New England settlers rejected the institution of slavery
  3. The New England colonies were royal colonies and were never run by corporations
  4. Religion was a much more important force in shaping New England society than it was in shaping the Chesapeake
  5. The migrants who settled in New England were generally younger than those who settled in the Chesapeake
  1. How did the lifestyles of white New England settlers differ from the lifestyles of their counterparts in the Chesapeake?
  2. Because New Englanders moved a great deal, their homes were not as sturdy as those in the Chesapeake
  3. Most New Englanders moved to America in family groups, while most Chesapeake migrants had come as individuals seeking economic opportunity
  4. The harshness of the environment meant a higher infant mortality rate and smaller families in New England
  5. Unlike New Englanders who cleared new fields every few years, residents of the Chesapeake used the same fields every year

Europeans Colonize North America (New England Region)

  1. The Puritans advocated which of the following changes in the Church of England?
  2. They wanted all English citizens to be included in the membership of the church
  3. They wanted bishops and archbishops to be elected rather than appointed
  4. They wanted priests to be allowed to marry
  5. They wanted the church to be free from political interference
  1. A number of English Puritans moved to America in the 1620s and 1630s because they:
  2. Wanted to establish a society in which all religious beliefs were tolerated
  3. Wanted to be free to practice their religious beliefs without interference by the English monarch
  4. Were exited to the New World after rebelling against the king
  5. Wanted to establish an independent nation for themselves
  1. Why were devout Puritans in a perpetual state of anxiety?
  2. They never knew with absolute certainty whether they were of the saved or of the damned
  3. They constantly worried about whether God wanted them to tithe
  4. They could never know if they had done enough good works for God to consider them candidates for heaven
  5. They lived in constant fear that they had not shown enough tolerance towards others
  1. Separatists differed from Puritan Congregationalists in that Separatists believed:
  2. That one is saved solely by the grace of God
  3. In complete equality between the sexes
  4. That the Church of England was too corrupt to be saved
  5. In allowing freedom of religion to all settlers in Plymouth
  1. Separatists left Holland and settled at Plymouth because they wanted to:
  2. Isolate themselves and their children from the corrupting influences of the world
  3. Escape the dangers posed by the renewal of warfare between Holland and France
  4. Escape persecution at the hands of the Dutch Calvinists
  5. Join their fellow Puritans in New England
  1. The Mayflower Compact was an agreement among the people on board the Mayflower that:
  2. The non-Separatists among them would return to England as soon as possible
  3. They, the Plymouth settlers, constituted a politically organized society with legal authority
  4. They Plymouth colony would be governed a representative assembly
  5. Religious toleration would be extended to all who wished to settle in Plymouth
  1. Puritans believed in the doctrine of a covenant. Which of the following BEST expresses that doctrine?
  2. All the people of a community must participate in the process by which decisions are made
  3. The people of a community must agree to be law-abiding citizens
  4. Before the beginning of time God chose certain people to be of the elect and others to be of the damned
  5. God makes a contract with a group of people giving them the chance to perform a mission, and they must enter into an agreement with each other to carry out that mission
  1. Before the Massachusetts Bay colony became a royal colony, the right to vote was limited to:
  2. All adults who agreed to abide by the legal code of the colony
  3. All property-owning adult male residents of the colony who owned stock in the Massachusetts Bay Company
  4. All property-owning adult males who were members of the Puritan church
  5. All residents of the colony who were members of the Puritan church
  1. One of the reasons for Roger William’s banishment from Massachusetts Bay was his belief that:
  2. The church and the state should be linked together
  3. The covenant of grace was a false doctrine
  4. Good works were essential to salvation
  5. The king of England had no right to give away land belonging to the Native Americans
  1. Anne Hutchinson challenged Puritan orthodoxy by expressing which of the following beliefs?
  2. She taught that the elect could communicate directly with God
  3. She preached that divorce was an unforgivable sin
  4. She called for the ordination of women as ministers
  5. She taught that the covenant of grace was contrary to the teachings of Jesus

WORKSHEETS: Europeans Colonize North America (Native Americans)

  1. French missionaries, unlike their Spanish counterparts, decided they could best convert Native Americans to Christianity by:
  2. Moving them to European-style villages
  3. Using European medicines to cure Native Americans of smallpox
  4. Destroying all vestiges of traditional Native American religions
  5. Learning Native American languages and going among the people
  1. Which of the following was a consequence of the war between the Iroquois and the Hurons?
  2. The Hurons were victorious and became the major Native American power in the Northeast
  3. The Iroquois were victorious and became the major Native American power in the Northeast
  4. The two combatants fought to exhaustion, allowing the Dutch to dictate the terms of trade in the region
  5. The two combatants fought to exhaustion, allowing the French to dictate the terms of trade in the region
  1. For which of these reasons did the spread of tobacco cultivation in Virginia lead to conflict with the Native Americans?
  2. The Native Americans were jealous of the prosperity that tobacco cultivation brought to the English settlers
  3. Indian religion associated tobacco with evil spirits and with death
  4. In an effort to get plantation workers, Virginia planters began to kidnap and enslave Native American women
  5. The land required for tobacco cultivation caused the settlers increasingly to encroach on Native American lands
  1. Powhatan extended aid to the Jamestown settlers because:
  2. They achieved a quick and decisive victory over his warriors
  3. He believed they were divine beings
  4. Their weapons could help him consolidate is power over other tribes in the region
  5. The Algonquian religion taught the brotherhood of all people
  1. Which of the following is true of the Algonquians?
  2. They had an egalitarian society
  3. The authority of Algonquian leaders rested largely on the consensus of their tribesmen
  4. Social status always passed through the male line
  5. There were no clearly defined sex roles in their culture
  1. Which of the following caused misunderstandings between the English and the Algonquians?
  2. The English could not understand the Algonquian concept of hereditary right
  3. The English believed Algonquian men were lazy because they cared for the tribe’s children
  4. The English could not understand the Algonquian practice of working the fields communally
  5. The English believed the Algonquian chiefs, like European kings, could make independent decisions for their people
  1. Which of these correctly describes the attitude of most English settlers toward the Native Americans?
  2. They assumed the Native Americans to be their inferiors and showed little respect for Native American society
  3. They accepted and respected the differences between their own culture and Native American culture
  4. They were very interested in understanding as many aspects of Native American culture as possible
  5. They were openly hostile toward the Native Americans and had no thoughts of living in peace with them
  1. Why did the Pakanoket Indians extend aid to the Pilgrims?
  2. Their religion taught that all men were brothers
  3. They wanted to lull the Pilgrims into a false sense of security before enslaving them
  4. They wanted the Pilgrims as allies against the neighboring Narragansett Indians
  5. They Pilgrims supplied them with Bibles and liquor
  1. Why did Puritan migrations into the Connecticut Valley eventually lead to war with the Pequot Native Americans?
  2. The migrations violated treaty agreements between the Puritans and the Pequots
  3. The Puritans came into the region with the intent of enslaving the Pequots
  4. The presence of English settlers in the area disrupted the trade patterns on which Pequot power was based
  5. The migrations disrupted Pequot society, which was based on total isolation from the outside world
  1. Why did some North American Native Americans find the religious ideas of the Jesuits and the Puritans attractive?
  2. They were intrigued by the concept of the Trinity
  3. The religious ideas of the Jesuits/Puritans closely resembled the ideas of traditional Native American religions
  4. European religious services included the singing of hymns, which the Native Americans enjoyed
  5. The Native Americans thought that the religious ideas of the Europeans could help them cope with the tremendous changes they had to face