Colnial Study Guide
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?