Quiz on Chapter 2: European Colonies and Native Nations (1600-1660) for Political Science Course

What does the image The Savage Family (1779) reveal about the typical Puritan family?

Puritans had large families, as a substantial part of women's lives was devoted to giving birth and raising children.

Identify the first permanently settled English colony in North America.

Jamestown.

Which of the following statements correctly describe the founding of Harvard College in Massachusetts?

Established by Massachusetts leaders to ensure an educated ministry.

The first college established in the English colonies of North America.

What areas were destinations for English settles during the seventeenth century?

New England, Ireland and the West Indies, and Virginia and Maryland.

Identify what Indians acquired and were exposed to by the colonists.

Indians' acquisitions from colonists: Indians were exposed to disease, which devastated many tribes.

Indians acquired guns, which led to overhunting.

Not examples of Indians' acquisitions from colonists: Some Indian nations became wealthy due to fair trade with colonists.

Identify the important issue at the heart of the new interpretation of this document.

All Englishmen had rights and freedom.

Match each country to the form of government care cited as a specific example.

"Arbitrary tyranny...whose wills (or rather lusts) dispose of the lives and fortunes of their unhappy subjects.": Turkey and France.

"...each man having a fixed fundamental right born with him as to the freedom of his person and property in his estate, which he cannot be deprived of, but either by his consent, or some crime for which the law has imposed...": England.

Identify the primary conflict during this time.

the struggle to unify the country under one church.

Identify the statements that describe the Great Migration and its impact on New England.

Does not describe the Great Migration: Represented the largest flow of people out of England in the 1630s. The name given to the flow of refugees from New Spain to North America after the Pueblo Revolt.

Describes the Great Migration: Involved the emigration of Puritans from England to Massachusetts between 1630 and 1642. created the foundation for a stable and thriving society in Massachusetts.

Place the following North American settlements in chronological order according to their establishment.

1. The Virginia Company finances Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

2. Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in North America, is founded.

3. Henry Hudson's exploration leads to the founding of New Netherland, the first permanent Dutch settlement in North America.

4. The Spanish settle Santa Fe as the capital of New Mexico.

Which of these was an argument that European nations used to entice colonists to move to the New World during the seventeenth century?

The New World is rich with natural resources, so it would be easier for colonists to become prosperous.

Identify the statements that describe the recurrent warfare between colonists and Natives.

The conflicts resulted in feelings of superiority from the colonists and further encouraged their creation of boundaries between the two cultures.

colonists frequently forced out Natives, and then settled on the land that they had cleared.

Identify the characteristics of the two colonial settlements.

Virginia: Tobacco was the most common cash crop.

The House of Burgesses was its first body of government.

The majority of the population was made up of single men.

Massachusetts. The majority of the population consisted of families.

The population was healthier due to the climate.

Family farms produced a diverse array of crops along with fish and timber.

Much like enslaved people, indentured servants were subjected to forced labor and brutal treatment. But unlike the enslaved, indentured servants received "freedom dues" and became full members of society after completing their contracted work obligations.

True.

Place the following events in chronological order to describe early English colonization.

1. Hakluyt writes A Discourse Concerning Western Planting, arguing that Queen Elizabeth 1 should support colonies in the New World.

2. Roanoke Island is settled but ultimately fails due to lack of planning.

3. Jamestown, Virginia, is established in hopes of turning a quick profit but faces numerous challenges.

4. Pilgrims set sail for Plymouth, Massachusetts.

5. The Mayflower Compact, the first written frame of government in what is now the United States, is created.

What does this image from 1600s suggest about the English colonist's first experiences in the "New World" and their relationship with the Indians?

While English settlers perceived Indians to be in need of their help, in reality Indians were skilled hunters and farmers and offered assistance to the settlers.

Identify the ideas that were reflected in the work that supported the establishment of colonies.

1. Hakluyt argued that the English could compete against the Spanish Catholics for converted Indian souls in the New World.

2. Hakluyt argued that colonies would be a solution for unemployment.

3. Hakluyt argued that the New World needed to be rescued from the Spanish empire.

Identify the reasons why Jamestown was unsuccessful in the first five years.

1. Diseases and illnesses such as malaria, dysentery, and typhoid took a heavy toll on the settlers.

2. Early English settlers included numerous sons of English gentry and high-status craftsmen who did not want to grow crops or perform labor.

3. English colonists were too focused on finding large veins of gold as it was rumored the Spanish had done so easily.

Identify the reasons why planters came to prefer enslaved labor over indentured labor.

1. The children of enslaved people could also be enslaved, adding to a planter's workforce.

2. Enslaved people did not have contracts that limited their length of service.

3. The association of enslavement with skin color made it easier for planters to capture runaways and assert control over their workforce.

Identify the differences between plantation slavery in the Americas and slavery as practiced on other colonies and earlier cultures.

1. Slavery was permanent in plantation slavery, whereas it was usually a temporary social position in earlier cultures.

2. Labor was more demanding, and the death rates were higher in plantation slavery.

Which of the following rights did married women in the English colonies share with married women in England?

Dower.

Native and English colonial groups traded many goods and ideas, Identify the goods and ideas Indians shared with the colonists.

Goods and Ideas shared by the Indians: Furs and animal skins.

Free uncultivated land.

Native farming techniques.

Not goods and ideas shared by the Indians: Metal tools to improve hunting and farming.

Identify the statements that describe the significance of the headright system and the House of Burgesses to the development of Virginia.

1. The House of Burgesses was the first elected assembly in colonial America, and it was established in place of the governor's militaristic regime.

2. In order to attract more settlers, the Virginia Company introduced the headright system that awarded land to individuals who paid his own or another's passage to the New World.

Which of the following statements about Puritanism are historically accurate?

1. Puritans believed that the Church of England had not broken cleanly enough with the Catholic Church.

2. Puritans followed the teaching of theologian John Calvin.

An important strategy in England's attempt to subdue the Irish in the seventeenth century was to integrate them into English society.

False.

Identify the statements that describe John Winthrop and his belief about the concept of liberty.

1. John Winthrop was the first governor of Massachusetts.

2. John Winthrop believed that true freedom required individuals to submit to both religious and secular authorities.

Using the information on the map, as English settlers expanded their land holdings in Virginia in the 1620s and 1630s, where did they mostly choose to settle?

On fertile land near navigational waterways.

According to the map, by 1640, the English settlement was located almost entirely within which colony?

Virginia.

Select on the map the location where the Pequot War was centered.

On the Mystic River

As English settlers expanded their land holdings in New England in the 1620s and 1630s, where did they mostly choose to settle?

Along the coast, to pursue commercial fishing.

Select on the map the first (or oldest) settlement.

Plymouth.

Select the map that shows the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.

Virginia.

Using the information in both maps, place the colonies in order of their settlement.

Virginia, Plymouth, Massachusetts, then Connecticut.

As the English continued to settle North America and it became clear that they were interested in establishing a permanent colony, conflict with local Indians became inevitable. Select on the map the region in which the Uprising of 1622 took place.

Virginia.