American Heritage Chapter 2 Quiz 2B

Dutch settlers who received large land grants were known as patroons.

• True

• False

Henry Hudson claimed the Hudson River area for the Dutch, and it became New Netherland.

• True

• False

The Duke of York took control of New Netherland.

• True

• False

The Puritans believed that they had an “inner light" to tell them God's will.

• True

• False

The Act of Toleration guaranteed religious freedom in Pennsylvania.

• True

• False

North Carolina and South Carolina were originally one colony.

• True

• False

The colony of Georgia became a haven for many debtors seeking aid.

• True

• False

Georgia was founded for the sole purpose of being a debtor colony.

• True

• False

Indigo was an important cash crop for South Carolina.

• True

• False

"Freemen" was another name for the stockholders of a colony's charter.

• True

• False