US History Early Colonies Quiz 1

Which resources or commodities contributed most to the economic success of Jamestown colony?
1. coal
2. cotton
3. tobacco
4. naval stores
1619 is significant to Jamestown because the first blacks were brought from Africa and:
1. Jamestown became a royal colony
2. the London Company went bankrupt
3. there was a serious Indian attack on the colony
4. the first elected legislative assembly, the House of Burgesses, convented
Which of the following colonies was founded as a refuge for Catholics?
1. Albemarle
2. Carolina
3. Maryland
4. New Hamshire
Puritans in Massachusetts Bay in the seventeenth century came to be known as:
1. Congregational
2. Episcopal
3. Methodist
4. 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:
1. located in a healthful site
2. located in an easily defensible site
3. a refuge for all religious dissenters
4. a model for the world as a holy commonwealth
Roger Williams is a controversial figure because of his novel contention that:
1. land should be bought from the Indians
2. the Puritans should rejoin the Catholic church
3. the Puritans should adopt the Anglican liturgy
4. all believers should be guided by the Holy Spirit within themselves
Three of the following are characteristics of the Quakers. Which is the exception?
1. a belief in the "Inner Light"
2. a refusal to take oaths to fight wars
3. a highly structured church organization
4. a disregard for distinctions of sex and class
One of the purposes for Georgia was to:
1. open up trade
2. establish ports trade
3. serve as a storehouse for sugar plantations
4. create a buffer state between the English settlers and the Spanish in Florida
According to mercantile theory, colonies could strengthen the mother country by:
1. producing manufactured goods
2. providing needed raw materials
3. providing an outlet for political and religious dissidents
4. providing land for sale by the proprietors and speculators
A person who served a master in return for passage to the New World was:
1. a slave
2. a freedman
3. an apprenticed slave
4. an indentured servant
Compared with women in the New Ingland colonies, women in the Chesapeake colonies tended to:
1. have a shorter life span
2. marry at a much older age
3. raise more of their children to maturity
4. equal or actually outnumber the male population
Which of the following is true concerning the distribution of slavery in the late colonial period?
1. the slaves were confined to the southern colonies
2. the slaves were confined to the southern and middle colonies
3. there were some slaves in all three groups of colonies but the majority were in the middle group
4. 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:
1. rum from New England to Africa
2. slaves from Africa to the Caribbean islands
3. sugar from the Caribbean islands to New England
4. manufactured goods from England to the Southern colonies
One feature of the English mother country that was not transplanted to the colonies was the:
1. aristocratic class structure
2. principle of tax-supported churches
3. notion of loyal British subjects
4. notion of possessing the rights of English subjects
In New England towns, the "common" was:
1. a grain storehouse
2. the corpus of civil law
3. a meetinghouse for the selectmen
4. a centrally located shared pasture