American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 2: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
Which of the following did NOT shape the character of English settlements in America?
A)The colonies were business enterprises.
B)The colonies adopted native agricultural techniques.
C)The colonies were designed to transplant society from the old world to the new.
D)The colonies were able to develop their own political and social institutions.
E)The colonies promoted freedom of religion.
2
One of the biggest problems during the first years of the Jamestown settlements was
A)the unwillingness of colonists to grow food.
B)fights over the colony's few white women.
C)attacks by Indian neighbors.
D)battles between slave-owners and non-slave-owners.
E)lack of support from the Virginia Company.
3
Captain John Smith helped Jamestown survive when he
A)divided the duties and privileges of leadership among several members of a council.
B)imposed work and order on the colony.
C)ended raids perpetrated on neighboring Indian villages to steal food and kidnap natives.
D)divided the colony's profits among the stockholders.
E)entered into a relationship with Pocahontas.
4
The Englishman who first cultivated tobacco in Virginia was
A)John Smith.
B)Lord De La Warr.
C)John Rolfe.
D)Walter Raleigh.
E)Nathaniel Bacon.
5
The year 1619 was important in the history of Virginia because in that year the colony
A)elected its first House of Burgesses.
B)made its first profit.
C)received its first royal governor.
D)put down an Indian uprising.
E)introduced indentured servitude.
6
To entice new laborers to their colony, the Virginia Company established the "headright" system to
A)pay the Indians for their services.
B)import African slaves.
C)establish tobacco plantations.
D)promise the colonists the full rights of Englishmen.
E)grant land to current and prospective settlers.
7
In 1619, another crucial element was introduced into the Virginia social order:
A)Catholics.
B)Africans.
C)Women.
D)Puritans.
E)Baptists.
8
Which of the following colonies allowed freedom of religion to all Christians?
A)Massachusetts
B)Virginia
C)Plymouth
D)Rhode Island
E)Maryland
9
Which of the following factors contributed to the outbreak of Bacon's Rebellion?
A)the autocratic rule of Governor Berkeley
B)overrepresentation in government of the frontier settlements
C)the government's pursuit and destruction of Indian marauders
D)a growing number of African slaves
E)All these answers are correct.
10
Bacon's Rebellion was significant because
A)it revealed the bitterness of competition among rival elites in Virginia.
B)it was evidence of the continuing struggle to define the Indian and white spheres of influence in Virginia.
C)it demonstrated the potential for instability in the colony's large population of landless men.
D)it both revealed the bitterness of competition among rival elites in Virginia, and demonstrated the potential for instability in the colony's large population of landless men.
E)All these answers are correct.
11
The majority of colonists who first settled in Plymouth were
A)members of a Puritan Separatist congregation.
B)not members of a Puritan Separatist congregation.
C)upper-middle class Puritans from the London area.
D)moderate Puritans who wanted only minor reforms in church practices.
E)None of these answers is correct.
12
The Plymouth colony's relationship with its Indian neighbors was
A)antagonistic from the beginning.
B)made worse by the diseases the colonists brought with them from Europe.
C)an integral part of its survival during the formative years of the colony.
D)similar to that of settlers in Jamestown.
E)one of religious fellowship.
13
The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony was
A)John Winthrop.
B)William Bradford.
C)Roger Williams.
D)Thomas Hooker.
E)Miles Standish.
14
The colony in Hartford
A)was founded by members of the New Haven colony.
B)gave women the right to vote.
C)had stricter religious standards than did the Massachusetts Bay colony.
D)was led by Anne Hutchinson.
E)gave more white men the right to vote than did the Massachusetts Bay colony.
15
Anne Hutchinson's teaching threatened to undermine the spiritual authority of the established clergy because she
A)claimed believers could communicate directly with God.
B)preached that the clergy was corrupt.
C)denounced clergymen who were also politicians.
D)stressed faith over good works.
E)tried to establish a female clergy.
16
Regarding the Indians, Puritan settlers were LEAST likely to advocate a policy of
A)conversion to Christianity.
B)tolerance and respect.
C)displacement.
D)extermination.
E)treating the Indians as heathen savages.
17
The Restoration colonies had in common that they were all
A)located in the south.
B)profitable for the crown.
C)proprietary ventures.
D)royal colonies.
E)religious sanctuaries.
18
Slavery in Carolina was greatly influenced by slavery in
A)Virginia.
B)Barbados.
C)St. Augustine.
D)England.
E)Cuba.
19
Caribbean colonies built their economies on
A)the slave trade.
B)shipbuilding.
C)export crops.
D)fishing.
E)rum running and piracy.
20
Under the Caribbean slave code,
A)slaves lived longer than they did in other regions.
B)masters could kill slaves with impunity.
C)the island colonies became secure and prosperous communities.
D)owners were responsible for maintaining the health of their slaves.
E)slaves could earn their freedom.
21
The Navigation Acts were designed to
A)regulate commerce according to the theory of mercantilism.
B)destroy the power of rising colonial merchants.
C)keep the price of tobacco low.
D)raise money to pay off England's war debts.
E)open up trade routes between all American colonies.
22
The overthrow of James II in the Glorious Revolution was
A)acclaimed by colonial Catholics.
B)criticized by colonial merchants.
C)the result of pressure on Edmund Andros.
D)hardly felt by colonial politicians.
E)well received in New England.
23
In America, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to changes that revealed
A)a colonial desire for self government.
B)that local issues were more important than questions over the nature of the empire.
C)that the institution of monarchy was unpopular.
D)that the established church was unpopular.
E)a decrease in the crown's authority over the colonies.
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