Summer Study Guide 2-5 (last 65 are from 5 do these once school starts not summer)
1. The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most important for the
future United States was
2. The English treatment of the Irish can best be described as
3. Match each individual on the left with the correct description:
___ A. Francis Drake 1. "sea dog" who plundered the treasure
___ B. Walter Raleigh ships of the Spanish Main
___ C. Humphrey Gilbert 2. adventurer who tried but failed to
establish a colony in Newfoundland
3. explorer whose voyage in 1498 estab-
lished England's territorial claims
in the New World
4. courtier whose colony at Roanoke Is-
land was mysteriously abandoned in
the 1580s
5. the colonizer who helped establish
tobacco as a cash crop in Georgia
4. Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the
5. The first English attempt at colonization was in
6. England's defeat of the Spanish Armada
7. Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Reformation, (B)
founding of Jamestown colony, (C) Restoration, (D) defeat of the Spanish
Armada, (E) colony of Georgia founded.
8. The spirit of the English on the eve of colonization included all of the
following except
9. On the eve of its colonizing adventure, England possessed
10. The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were
provided by
11. All of the following provided motives for English colonization except
12. The guarantee that English settlers in the New World would retain the "rights
of Englishmen" proved to be
13. The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by
14. Despite an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to
starve because
15. Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as
16. Chief Powhatan had Captain John Smith kidnapped in order to
17. When Lord De La Warr took control of Jamestown in 1610, he
18. The result of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War in 1644 can best be described as
19. The native peoples of Virginia (Powhatans) succumbed to the Europeans because
they
20. As part of the change brought about in the lives of the Lakotas, they
21. The biggest disrupter of Native American life was
22. The Indians that had the greatest opportunity to adapt to the European
incursion were
23. After the purchases of slaves in 1619 by Jamestown settlers, additional
purchases of Africans were few because
24. The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following except
25. The summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent
because it
26. A major reason for the founding of the Maryland colony was to
27. At the outset, Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland
colony because he
28. Maryland's Act of Toleration
29. Tobacco was considered a poor man's crop because
30. Sugar was called a rich man's crop for all of the following reasons except that
it
31. Under the Barbados slave code of 1661, slaves were
32. The statutes governing slavery in the North American colonies originated in
33. One of the earliest and most important exports from the Carolinas was
34. The colony of South Carolina prospered
35. Two major exports of the Carolinas were
36. Some Africans became especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas because
they
37. The busiest seaport in the southern colonies was
38. North Carolina and Rhode Island were similar in that they
39. The inhabitants of North Carolina were regarded by their neighbors as
40. The attitude of Carolinians toward Indians can best be described as
41. The colony of Georgia was founded
42. Georgia's founders were determined to
43. All of the following European imports threatened the Iroquois' existence except
44. The purpose of the periodic "mourning wars" was
45. The Iroquois leader who helped his nation revive its old customs was
46. Georgia grew very slowly for all of the following reasons except
47. Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were
all
48. By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies
49. Arrange the following events in chronological order: the founding of (A)
Georgia, (B) the Carolinas, (C) Virginia, (D) Maryland.
50. During the 1500s, England had little interest in establishing its own overseas
colonies because
51. Originally, the Virginia Company intended to
52. In American history, 1619 is important because in that year
53. Like Virginia, Maryland
54. Colonists in both the North and the South established differences in all of the
following areas except
55. Match each item on the left with the correct definition:
___ A. predestination 1. belief that from the moment of creation
___ B. conversion some souls were "saved" and others
___ C. antinomianism "damned"
2. belief that faith, good works, and
repentance could earn salvation
3. the sign of receipt of God's free gift
of saving grace
4. belief that those whom God had marked
for salvation need not obey secular
laws
56. In Calvinist thought the "conversion" was
57. In Puritan doctrine, the "elect" were also referred to as
58. Henry VIII aided the entrance of Protestant beliefs into England when he
59. King James I opposed the Separatists who wanted to break away entirely from the
Church of England because he
60. The Separatists migrated from England to Holland to the New World in order to
61. Match each colony on the left with its associated item.
___ A. Plymouth 1. General Court
___ B. Connecticut 2. Mayflower Compact
___ C. Massachusetts Bay 3. Fundamental Orders
4. patroonships
62. The Mayflower Compact can be best described as
63. The leader that helped the Pilgrims survive was
64. The historical significance of the Pilgrims of Plymouth Bay lies in their
65. Unlike Separatists, Puritans
66. Initially, the Massachusetts Bay Colony enjoyed all of the following advantages
except that of
67. Puritan doctrine included acceptance of
68. With the franchise in Massachusetts extended to all adult males who belonged to
Puritan congregations, the proportion of qualified voters in this colony as
compared to England was
69. In Massachusetts, clergyman
70. Puritan religious beliefs allowed all of the following except
71. Among the Puritans, it was understood that
72. People who flouted the authority of the Puritan clergy in Massachusetts Bay
were subject to which of the following punishments?
73. According to Anne Hutchinson, a dissenter in Massachusetts Bay,
74. As the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams
75. Roger Williams' beliefs included all of the following except
76. As a colony, Rhode Island became known for
77. Settlers of the Connecticut River colony developed a document known as the
Fundamental Orders, which
78. The city of New Haven was settled by
79. Unlike other English voyagers to the New World, the Puritans
80. After the Pequot War, Puritan efforts to convert Indians to Christianity can
best be described as
81. The New England Indians' only hope for resisting English encroachment lay in
82. King Philip's War resulted in
83. During the early years of colonization in the New World, England
84. The New England Confederation
85. The Dominion of New England
86. As the head of Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros was all of the
following except
87. As a result of England's Glorious Revolution,
88. As a result of Sir Edmund Andros's rule,
89. New York was
90. The Dutch colony of New Netherland (later New York) was noted for
91. New York and Pennsylvania were similar in that they both
92. New England Confederation regarded Dutch New Netherland as
93. When the English gained control over New Netherland,
94. One of the traits that made Quakers unpopular in England was
95. The physical growth of English New York was slowed because
96. Cultural contributions the Dutch made to America include all of the following
except
97. Pennsylvania was
98. Indian policy in early Pennsylvania can be best described as
99. Economically, the colony of Pennsylvania
100. All the middle colonies were
101. The middle colonies were notable for their
102. Recently, historians have increasingly viewed the colonial period as
103. The section of the American colonies where there was the greatest internal
conflict was
104. The picture of colonial America that is emerging from new scholarship is a
society formed by
105. Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) restoration of Charles
II to the English throne, (B) English Civil War, (C) Glorious Revolution, (D)
Protestant Reformation.
106. Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) great Puritan
migration, (B) founding of Plymouth Colony, (C) Protestant Reformation, (D)
founding of Rhode Island.
107. Arrange the following in chronological order: the founding of (A) New York, (B)
Massachusetts Bay, (C) Pennsylvania, (D) Plymouth.
108. John Calvin believed in
109. Puritans
110. Separatists
111. The New England colonies included
112. Roger Williams got into trouble with Massachusetts Bay authorities because he
113. Factors leading to the first major European migration include
114. The Pequot War of 1637 resulted in
115. Pennsylvania
116. As the seventeenth century wore on, regional differences arose, most notably
117. The population of the Chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the
seventeenth century was notable for its
118. In the seventeenth century, due to a high death rate families were both few and
fragile in
119. During the seventeenth century, indentured servitude solved the labor problem
in many English colonies for all of the following reasons except that
120. The "headright" system, which made some people very wealthy, entailed
121. By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was
122. Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed
prices for their crop by
123. __________ reaped the greatest benefit from the land policies of the
"headright" system.
124. For their labor in the colonies indentured servants received all of the
following except
125. English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for
payment of their passage to an American colony were called
126. Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies
acquired most of the labor they needed from
127. Most immigrants to the Chesapeake colonies in the seventeenth century came as
128. Over the course of the seventeenth century, most indentured servants
129. By the end of the seventeenth century, indentured servants who gained their
freedom
130. Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by
131. The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was
132. As a result of Bacon's Rebellion,
133. The majority of African slaves coming to the New World
134. After 1680, reliance on slave labor in colonial America rapidly increased
because
135. Many of the slaves who reached North America
136. For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the "middle passage" can be best
described as
137. The physical and social conditions of slavery were harshest in
138. African-American contributions to American culture include all of the following
except
139. While slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,
140. The slave society that developed in North America was one of the few slave
societies in history to
141. The slave culture that developed in America
142. Slave Christianity emphasized all of the following in their faith except
143. Compared with indentured servants, African-American slaves were
144. As slavery spread in the South,
145. Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American South were
146. Urban development in the colonial South
147. It was typical of colonial New England adults to
148. The New England family can best be described as
149. The special characteristics of New England's population led to the observation
that these colonists "invented"
150. Southern colonies generally allowed married women to retain separate title to
their property because
151. Puritans refused to recognize a woman's separate property rights because
152. In seventeenth century colonial America all of the following are true regarding
women except
153. The expansion of New England society
154. When new towns were established in New England, all of the following were true
except
155. The Puritan system of congregational church government logically led to
156. Thomas Jefferson once observed that "the best school of political liberty the
world ever saw" was the
157. The Half-Way Covenant
158. The Salem witchcraft trials were
159. During the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witches were
160. The Salem "witch hunt" in 1692
161. As a result of poor soil, all of the following conditions prevailed in New
England except that
162. The New England economy depended heavily on
163. In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies, those in New England
164. The English justified taking land from the native inhabitants on the grounds
that the Indians
165. The combination of Calvinism, soil, and climate in New England resulted in the
people there possessing which of the following qualities:
166. The impact of New England on the rest of the nation can best be described as
167. Compared with most seventeenth-century Europeans, Americans lived in
168. The late-seventeenth-century rebellion in New York was headed by __________,
whereas that in Maryland was led by __________.
169. Bacon's Rebellion stemmed from
170. The great majority of Africans who left Africa as captured slaves
171. The early "slave codes" in colonial America
172. Which of the following are products of the American slave culture?
173. Slaves in colonial America
174. By 1700, the colonial South generally lacked
175. Unlike those in the Chesapeake, New England immigrants
176. Which of the following reflected the lessening hold of Puritan piety on later
generations of New Englanders?
177. All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought
independence except
178. One outstanding feature common to all of the eventually rebellious colonies was
their
179. As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the
eighteenth century,
180. The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to
181. The average age of the American colonists in 1775 was
182. By 1775, which of the following communities could not be considered a city in
colonial America?
183. Regarding government, the Scots-Irish colonists
184. By 1775, the __________ were the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial
America.
185. The population of the thirteen American colonies was
186. The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was __________, whereas
__________ was the least ethnically diverse.
187. In contrast to the seventeenth century, by 1775 colonial Americans
188. By the mid-1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies
189. On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility decreased,
partly because
190. During the colonial era, all of the following peoples created new societies out
of diverse ethnic groups in America except
191. All of the following conditions caused many Scots to migrate to Northern
Ireland and thence to America except
192. The Scots-Irish can best be described as
193. When the Scots-Irish established a new community, one of the first tasks they
undertook was to
194. When it came to religion, the Scots-Irish
195. The most honored profession in early colonial society was
196. The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South
197. When several colonial legislatures attempted to restrict or halt the
importation of slaves, British authorities
198. The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was
199. One of the surest avenues to speedy wealth in the American colonies was
200. The triangular trade of the colonial American shipping industry
201. Of the following, the least important economic activity of colonial Americans
was
202. Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only secondary importance, they
did produce which of the following?
203. The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth
century was
204. Which of the following was not considered to be a naval store?
205. One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the
colonies and Britain was the
206. When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1733, it intended the
act to
207. American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain
208. Transportation in colonial America was
209. Colonial American taverns were all of the following except
210. English officials tried to "establish" the Church of England in as many
colonies as possible because
211. In 1775, the __________ churches were the only two established (tax-supported)
churches in colonial America.
212. Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated.
___ A. Congregationalist 1. the frontier
___ B. Anglican 2. New England
___ C. Presbyterian 3. the South
213. As the Revolution approached, Presbyterian and Congregational ministers in
general
214. By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was
215. The religious doctrine of the Armenians held that
216. Match each individual on the left with his or her talent.
___ A. Jonathan Edwards 1. poet
___ B. Benjamin Franklin 2. scientist
___ C. Phillis Wheatley 3. theologian
4. portrait artist
217. The "new light" preachers of the Great Awakening
218. The Great Awakening
219. The time-honored English ideal, which Americans accepted for some time,
regarded education as
220. In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted
221. Colonial schools and colleges placed their main emphasis on
222. The first American college free from determined control was
223. Culture in colonial America
224. The person most often called the "first civilized American" was
225. All of the following are achievements of Benjamin Franklin except
226. The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was
significant because
227. One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most
others was
228. By 1775, most governors of American colonies were
229. Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the power of the governors to
their will because
230. In colonial elections,
231. By the mid-eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the
following similarities except
232. By 1775, population growth in the American colonies
233. In 1775, most of the population in the American colonies
234. The rebelliousness and inclination toward violence of the Scots-Irish was
demonstrated by
235. Trends that sapped the spiritual vitality from many early eighteenth-century
churches included
236. Leaders of the Great Awakening endorsed the concepts of
237. In colonial New England, education was primarily
238. Benjamin Franklin
239. Colonial newspaper printer John Peter Zenger
240. Generally, in the eighteenth-century American colonies
241. By the mid-eighteenth century, Britain's North American colonies were similar
in which of the following ways?