US History Chapter 1-4

D. 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: