Quizizz #2 - Cartwright

Opechancanough's 1622 attack on English settlements in Virginia backfired for the Powhatans because it reinforced the common and ethnocentric notion among the English that Native people were untrustowrthy savages.

• True

• False

A primary source is something written by historians decades or even centuries after a historical event has happened.

• True

• False

Members of the Church of England who claimed that the church had not given up Catholicism’s offensive beliefs and practices were the:

• Baptists.
• Presbyterians.
• Methodists.
• Puritans.

What might have caused the Salem Witchcraft hysteria?

• class rivalries
• fears raised by recent Indian attacks
• convulsive ergotism
• all of the above

According to its founders, the Chesapeake colonies would be a “City on a Hill.”

• True
• False

“The Great Migration” refers to...

• the exodus of mammoths and mastodons across the Isthmus of Panama.
• the resettling of elderly Spanish conquistadores in Florida.
• the movement of Puritans to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• the forced removal of former indentured servants to the backcountry.

_______________ resulted in deaths of 5 percent of English settlers in New England even as it decimated Indian rebels and ended their autonomy.

• The Stono Uprising
• The French and Indian War
• Bacon’s Rebellion
• King Philip’s War

During the Salem witchcraft trials, the majority of those accused of practicing witchcraft were...

• English men.
• Indian men.
• English women.
• Indian women.

When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth in 1620 and established the first permanent English settlement in New England, they encountered a Native American population in crisis as a result of diseases introduced by previous European visitors.

• True
• False

Which of the following statements is false?

• Metacom was defeated by King Philip.
• The Pilgrims were supposed to settle within the Virginia Colony.
• Wampanoag Indians rescued the floundering Plymouth settlement.
• Puritan ministers believed that Native Americans were the devil’s minions.