Exam 2: Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660

A) did not have good land for farming.
B) were in colder climates than Spanish colonies.
C) benefited from harbors on the Gulf of Mexico.
D) had very little coastline.
E) had virtually no water for irrigation of crops.

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A) was an agreement between King Henry VIII and the Anglican Church.
B) guaranteed religious freedom in Great Britain.
C) granted a series of liberties, but mainly to lords and barons.
D) was seen as embodying English freedom until Parliament repealed it in 1722.
E) was, like the English Constitution, unwritten.

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A) It lay beside a malarial swamp.
B) The ample food was full of botulism.
C) It was not high; most of the colonists survived.
D) Constant Native American attacks decimated the population.
E) Disease and lack of food took a heavy toll.

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A) owned land, regardless of their church membership.
B) had served their term as indentured servants.
C) were freed slaves.
D) were landowning church members.
E) voted.

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D

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A) accused the king of imposing taxes without parliamentary consent.
B) supported efforts to move England back to Catholicism.
C) aided Charles I in overthrowing his father, James I.
D) opposed Oliver Cromwell's "Commonwealth" government.
E) refused to allow new colonists to emigrate to America.

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A) she wanted to be a church elder.
B) God spoke directly to the church elders.
C) she wanted to give the Native Americans land.
D) she wanted to lead a group of settlers to Connecticut.
E) church elders lacked tolerance.

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A) They met a Native American, Opechancanough, who helped them.
B) It was the late spring, so it was planting season.
C) Native Americans, decimated by disease, had left behind cleared fields for farming.
D) The local Indian leader considered the English to be divine.
E) John Smith arrived to help organize them.

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A) wanted the separation of church and state in Rhode Island.
B) was the first governor of Massachusetts.
C) agreed with Anne Hutchinson's challenges to the Puritan church elders.
D) pointed the way to the rock on shore that Plymouth Colony was founded on.
E) expanded the number of men who could vote in Connecticut.

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A) got their name for knocking down (leveling) the Parliament building.
B) called for the strengthening of freedom and democracy at a time when those principles were seen as possibly contributing to anarchy.
C) opposed a written constitution on the grounds that it institutionalized social inequality.
D) proposed to abolish Parliament.
E) claimed the world was flat or level.

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A) principles of religious toleration
B) believed the spirit of God dwelled in all persons
C) gave five to seven years of service for passage to America
D) first elected assembly in colonial America
E) charter company that established Jamestown
F) first written frame of government in British America
G) a religious compromise for the descendants of the Great Migration
H) primary crop of the Chesapeake colonies
I) argued that the Church of England was still too Catholic
J) granted fifty acres to anyone who paid his own passage
K) a political movement favoring expanded liberties
L) written in 1215, this document was said to embody English freedom

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A) He saw two kinds of liberty: natural liberty, the ability to do evil, and moral liberty, the ability to do good.
B) He saw two kinds of liberty: negative liberty, the restricting of freedoms for the sake of others, and positive liberty, the assuring of rights through a constitution.
C) He believed that individual rights took precedence over the rights of the community.
D) He believed in a dictatorship, with only himself in charge of it.
E) He believed "liberty" had a religious but not a political meaning.

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A) proprietor of Maryland
B) intermediary
C) introduced West Indies tobacco
D) leader of Indians near Jamestown
E) governor of Massachusetts
F) his settlement at Roanoke Island failed
G) was denounced for Antinomianism
H) Indian who helped the Pilgrims
I) French-born theologian who influenced the Puritans
J) established Rhode Island
K) A Discourse Concerning Western Planting
L) early leader of Jamestown

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A) Traders.
B) Religious missionaries.
C) Colonial authorities.
D) Settlers farming the land.
E) The Royal Geographical Society.

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A) They sold land and slaves to the Indians.
B) They murdered Powhatan and Pocahontas.
C) They turned Virginia into a royal colony and banned all private sales of tobacco.
D) They enslaved the majority of Indians and brought back John Smith as governor in the 1640s.
E) They put the colony under the control of the crown.

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