(STUDY) TOPIC 2: England's American Colonies

How did the Virginia Company encourage economic growth in Jamestown?

• It taught colonists how to successfully grow and sell sugar cane.

• It provided colonists with supplies that ensured their survival.

• It allowed colonists to own and work land as private property.

• It gave colonists weapons to defend themselves against hostile Indians.

Why did the first group of colonists led by Sir Walter Raleigh leave Roanoke?

• They failed to obtain a charter from the king.

• They lost the financial backing of their investors.

• They were unable to receive supplies or grow crops.

• They were forced out of the area by hostile Native Americans.

Bacon’s Rebellion showed that

• farmers would reject a government that catered only to the wealthy.

• lower taxes were necessary for the British to maintain control of the colonies.

• colonists desired a leader who could protect them from constant attacks by Native Americans.

• more frontier land was needed for farmers to continue growing crops.

According to British law, to whom did proprietary colonies rightfully belong?

• the British Crown

• the House of Burgesses

• male landowners or merchants

• powerful individuals or companies

Contrary to Lord Baltimore’s hopes, more Protestants than Catholics settled in Maryland, resulting in

• more settlements on the coast.

• a takeover by wealthy aristocrats.

• armed conflict later in the century.

• the colony becoming a haven for debtors.

How were Puritans of the so-called “middling sort” different from most of the English population?

• They practiced Catholicism.

• They were mostly aristocrats of the highest rank.

• They preferred to live on public welfare.

• They were a little more prosperous than most.

What was significant about the Mayflower Compact?

• It was an economic agreement to split profits from crops with the British Crown.

• It was an economic agreement based on the ideas of communal land ownership.

• It was a political agreement that encouraged allegiance to a monarch.

• It was a political agreement based on the principle of self-government.

How was Massachusetts politically radical compared to the Southern colonies?

• It established universal suffrage for men and women.

• It allowed Puritan men to elect their own governor.

• It allowed settlers to choose their own ways to worship.

• It jailed its own people when they threatened to rebel.

Why did Rhode Islanders agree to separate church and state?

• They thought the government would be stronger if separated from the church.

• They thought it would strengthen political ties to England.

• They wanted to establish religious tolerance.

• They wanted to model their government after the Massachusetts colony.

What caused conflict between the English settlers and the American Indians?

• alliances between American Indians and other European powers

• American Indian expansion into territory claimed by the English

• disagreements over trade and English expansion into American Indian lands

• pressure on the American Indians to adopt the English language