APUSH Chapter 2 quiz (Multiple choice)

Which of the following did NOT shape the character of English settlements in America?

The colonies promoted freedom of religion

One of the biggest problems during the first years of the Jamestown settlements was

the unwillingness of colonists to grow food

Captain John Smith helped Jamestown survive when he

imposed work and order on the colony

The Englishman who first cultivated tobacco in Virginia was

John Rolfe

The year 1619 was important in the history of Virginia because in that year the colony

elected its first House of Burgesses

To entice new laborers to their colony, the Virginia Company established the "headright" system to

grant land to current and prospective settlers

In 1619, another crucial element was introduced into the Virginia social order:

Africans

Which of the following colonies allowed freedom of religion to all Christians?

Maryland

Which of the following factors contributed to the outbreak of Bacon's Rebellion?

the autocratic rule of Governor Berkeley

Bacon's Rebellion was significant because

it revealed the bitterness of competition among rival elites, evidence of continuing struggle to defined the indian and white spheres of influence, and revealed the instability in the colony's large population of landless men in Virginia

The majority of colonists who first settled in Plymouth were

members of a Puritan Separatist congregation

The Plymouth colony's relationship with its Indian neighbors was

an integral part of its survival during the formative years of the colony

The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony was

John Winthrop

The colony in Hartford

gave more white men the right to vote than the Massachusetts Bay colony

Anne Hutchinson's teaching threatened to undermine the spiritual authority of the established clergy because she

claimed believers could communicate directly with God

Regarding the Indians, Puritan settlers were LEAST likely to advocate a policy of

tolerance and respect

The Restoration colonies had in common that they were all

proprietary ventures

Slavery in Carolina was greatly influenced by slavery in

Barbados

Caribbean colonies built their economies on

export crops

Under the Caribbean slave code,

masters could kill slaves with impunity

The Navigation Acts were designed to

regulate commerce according to the theory of mercantilism

The overthrow of James II in the Glorious Revolution was

well received in New England

In America, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to changes that revealed

that local issues were more important than questions over the nature of the empire