HIST 1301-W02 chapter 2 quiz from Ouizlet

Which of the following statements does NOT accurately describe the early days of Virginia?

Most indentured servants who came to the colony served out their indenture and became successful, independent farmers.

This crop proved the economic salvation of Jamestown colony.

Tobacco

Roger Williams created the _____ colony.

Rhode Island

By the end of the seventeenth century, the major cash crop of the Carolina colony was

rice

The exile of James II and the surrender of some of the powers of the English monarchy were known as the

Glorious Revolution

Settlers from which country were expelled in 1680 by local natives.

Spain

The Puritans gained their name because they

Wanted to remain in the Church of England and purify it from within

In ___ settlements, homes clustered close to the center of a town.

New England

Which Middle Colony was established as a religious sanctuary for Quakers?

Pennsylvania

John Rolfe solved the economic problems of the Virginia colony through the

Cultivation of tobacco

___ tried to restore elements of Catholic ritual to the Church of England.

Charles I

Which European nation originally owned the area that became New York?

Holland

The English solved the problem of funding settlement in the New World through the use of ______ to establish colonies.

Joint-stock companies

Maryland afforded religious freedom to ____.

All Christians

The colony at Jamestown may have suffered the same fate as Roanoke if not for the efforts of

John Smith

The purpose of the joint-stock company was to

Fund colonization efforts to decrease the risk for investors and to allow them to share in profits made from the venture

___ migrated to the Americas as families.

Puritans

Many settlers who came to the Carolinas came from

Barbados

In order to vote in Massachusetts Bay Colony one had to be

A member of the local church called the Congregational church

Which Indian came to the aid of the Pilgrims?

Sqanto

Maryland was established by Lord Baltimore as

A haven for English catholics

Settlers in New Netherland were active in the trade of ____.

Furs

In colonizing North America, English monarchs

Distributed charters for land without consulting the Native Americans already living there

The first representative government in the English colonies was established in ___.

Virginia

The Pilgrims

were Separatists who left Holland because they believed their way of life was being undermined