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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
