US History Early Colonies Quiz 1
Quiz
Which resources or commodities contributed most to the economic success of Jamestown colony?
- coal
- cotton
- tobacco
- naval stores
1619 is significant to Jamestown because the first blacks were brought from Africa and:
- Jamestown became a royal colony
- the London Company went bankrupt
- there was a serious Indian attack on the colony
- the first elected legislative assembly, the House of Burgesses, convented
Which of the following colonies was founded as a refuge for Catholics?
- Albemarle
- Carolina
- Maryland
- New Hamshire
Puritans in Massachusetts Bay in the seventeenth century came to be known as:
- Congregational
- Episcopal
- Methodist
- Unitarian
The description of Massachusetts Bay colony as a "city upon a hill" is related to the Puritan founders' idea that the colony should be:
- located in a healthful site
- located in an easily defensible site
- a refuge for all religious dissenters
- a model for the world as a holy commonwealth
Roger Williams is a controversial figure because of his novel contention that:
- land should be bought from the Indians
- the Puritans should rejoin the Catholic church
- the Puritans should adopt the Anglican liturgy
- all believers should be guided by the Holy Spirit within themselves
Three of the following are characteristics of the Quakers. Which is the exception?
- a belief in the "Inner Light"
- a refusal to take oaths to fight wars
- a highly structured church organization
- a disregard for distinctions of sex and class
One of the purposes for Georgia was to:
- open up trade
- establish ports trade
- serve as a storehouse for sugar plantations
- create a buffer state between the English settlers and the Spanish in Florida
According to mercantile theory, colonies could strengthen the mother country by:
- producing manufactured goods
- providing needed raw materials
- providing an outlet for political and religious dissidents
- providing land for sale by the proprietors and speculators
A person who served a master in return for passage to the New World was:
- a slave
- a freedman
- an apprenticed slave
- an indentured servant
Compared with women in the New Ingland colonies, women in the Chesapeake colonies tended to:
- have a shorter life span
- marry at a much older age
- raise more of their children to maturity
- equal or actually outnumber the male population
Which of the following is true concerning the distribution of slavery in the late colonial period?
- the slaves were confined to the southern colonies
- the slaves were confined to the southern and middle colonies
- there were some slaves in all three groups of colonies but the majority were in the middle group
- there were some slaves in all three groups of colonies, but the majority were in the southern group
The "middle passage" of the triangular trade involved transportation of:
- rum from New England to Africa
- slaves from Africa to the Caribbean islands
- sugar from the Caribbean islands to New England
- manufactured goods from England to the Southern colonies
One feature of the English mother country that was not transplanted to the colonies was the:
- aristocratic class structure
- principle of tax-supported churches
- notion of loyal British subjects
- notion of possessing the rights of English subjects
In New England towns, the "common" was:
- a grain storehouse
- the corpus of civil law
- a meetinghouse for the selectmen
- a centrally located shared pasture