Studied by 39 peopleD. literacy was lowest in New England colonies
Which of the following was not true about education in colonies.
St. Augustine
Oldest settlement in US
A. village schools run in New England
What were Dame schools?
C. population was scattered in rural areas
An education in the middle colonies in the south lacked behind New England because:
A. Some walked miles to borrow a book.
Which of the following was true about education in the southern colonies?
A. South Carolina
Rice was a crop in
B. catechism
Instruction regarding christian beliefs.
D. Corn
Which of the following foods was in NA when the settlers came.
Baptists
What religion established in the colony of Road Island?
Mennonites
This religion of a dutch teacher who stressed the importance of a holy and simple life.
High Church Anglican
This religion believed that the churches traditional practices, notably ruled by bishops, were divinely ordained.
Separatists
Name what the puritans later became known as.
Quakers
Also known as the society of friends.
Morevians
Followers of John Huss.
Lutherns
Most of the members of this church came from Germany.
Presbyterians
A member of this denomination started the law college.
Huguenots
Also known as the french Reform.
A. Mennonites
Largest group of anabaptists.
A. Anglican
Which prtoetestant denomination generally opposed the great awakening.
A. Maryland
The center of roman catholicism was in colonial america was.
False, more protestants
The number of roman catholics in the colonies was equal to protestants.
False, money
The dutch reform came to the new world for primarily religious reasons.
True
In churches in colonial america, families sometimes rented their own pews.
False
Sunday school was a common feature in early colonial churches.
True
To reach the Algonquin indians john elliot learned their bible and translated the bible.
False
The half way covenant was an important doctrine among quakers.
True
The chiefs short coming was believing indians needed to be civilized before coming to christ.
True
The american colonies attracted numerous religious groups.
Covenants
Puritans believed that god deals with mankind with a series of agreements. What are these called.
Quakers.
What religious group was centered in the colony of PA
Edwards
Who was the preacher famous for his sermon “sinners in the hands of an angry god”.
Roger williams
Who founded Rhode island.
Queen Elizabeth
Who made the anglican church the official church again after her catholic sister.
Whitefield.
What preacher during the great awakening could preach to 30k people without any amplification.
Queen Mary
Name the roman catholic queen who reinstated catholicism in england.
Salem, Massachusetts
What town became infamous for its which trials.
Henry VIII
What english king broke from the roman cathlic church?
Anglican
What was the established church in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina?
Amish
What is the more Conservative branch of the Mennonites.
D. Roger williams
Who founded what was considered the first baptists church in america.
C. Anglicans
What was the most influential religious group in colonial america.
A. baptists
Which denominations did not allow infant baptism.
D. washing feet as an ordinance.
Which positions was not held by most quakers.
Puritans
Wanted to remove catholic ceremonies and practices from the anglican church.
C. Anglicans
What was the most influential religious group in colonial america.
A. baptists
Which denominations did not allow infant baptism.
D. washing feet as an ordinance.
Which positions was not held by most quakers.
B. Pilgrims
What was the first religious group to settle in america.
C. congregational form of govt.
All of the following contributed to puritan decline except.
A. Instruments
Which was the least likely to be found in colonial churches.
B. singing
The most important phase of church service in early colonial churches was.
B. George fox
Which if the following men created the group called quakers.
B. France
The Huguenots came from.
False
Pope Alexander the 6th divided the world for Spain and England for exploration.
True
Some groups of Indians had developed civilizations before Columbus arrived.
True
Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth the virgin queen.
False
The protestant reformation took place only in the German states.
False
The eastern woodland Indians were uncivilized and politically dumb.
True
The French colonies in North America did not attract large numbers of settlers.
True
The colony on Roanoke became known as the lost colony because all of the people disappeared.
True
Virginia Dare was the first English child born in america.
False
The French and Spanish had fewer settlements in the new world than English.
Francisco Coronado
Who was the Spanish explorer who discovered the grand canyon?
De Soto
Which Spanish explorer discovered the Mississippi river?
Henry Hudson
Who was the dutch explorer who claimed the New Netherlands?
John Cabbott
Who was the Italian explorer who sailed for England?
Ferdinand Magellan
Who was the Spanish explorer whose crew explored the globe?
Ponce de leon
Spanish explorer who named Florida.
Sir Francis Drake
English man who the Spanish viewed as a pirate.
Sir Walter Raleigh
English man who financed exploration in the New World.
Vasco de gama
Portuguese man who sailed to India and brought back a lot of spices.
Marco Polo
Description of the world was about whose adventures?
Trapping.
Long canny winters reduced farming in Canada. What became a profitable business in Canada?
Mercantilism.
What economic system is based on building national power by amassing surpluses of hard money?
Astro blade and compass
What innovation made it possible for explorers to explore the new world?
Bering strait
What is the name of the body of water that some historians believe that people crossed on an ice bridge?
Conquistadors
What title was given to the Spanish explorers and soldiers?
Montezuma
Who was the king of the Aztecs who thought that Hernán Cortés might be an Aztec God?
St. Augustine.
Oldest permanent settlement in North America by English settlers.
Sir Francis Drake.
What English Seaman circumnavigated the globe.
New France
What did the French call the region that is modern day Canada?
A: Occupied the backcountry
Scotch Irish and German settlers.
D: most settlements flourished
Which of the following was not characteristic of early colonial settlers.
C: More men than women
Women in America married earlier in America than in England because.
B: crowded cities
Epidemics in the colonies were more common in the 18th century because.
C: lower than in Europe
Infant deaths rates in the colonies were:
C: Polio
Which of the following was not an epidemic that seriously reduced the population of New England.
B: they wanted kids to read the bible
Puritans emphasized education primarily because
B: Cotton Mather
The well known minister in the colonies:
B: cranberry tarts
What type of food was not considered standard fare in colonies:
C: Germans
The penn dutch were:
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