GML Ch 1 Test US History

English writers compared Native Americans to what other people, claiming that both peoples’ refusal to respect English authority and convert to English Protestantism was barbaric?

• the Dutch

• the French

• the Irish

• the Spanish

What was an important impetus for English empire building in North America?

• England was determined to spread Catholicism to Native Americans.

• The Protestant Reformation heightened England’s sense of mission to spread Protestantism and liberate the Americas from Spanish “popery.”

• England wanted to create a trading relationship with Spain in the New World.

• England believed that, as a great empire, it had a duty to share its wealth and knowledge with Native Americans.

Which of the following was a characteristic of trade between Native Americans and colonists?

• European manufacturers did not make goods intended for trade on the Indian market.

• Native men and women struggled to integrate European goods into their daily lives.

• Metal tools, glass beads, and flintlock muskets were particularly popular items in the Native American market.

• English traders never ventured into the realm of Native nations.

How did the Virginia Company reshape the development of the colony of Virginia?

• It instituted the headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another’s passage.

• It fired John Smith and allowed the local election of a more popular leader.

• It gave control back to the king, who straightened out its problems through Parliament.

• It required all settlers to grow tobacco, a highly profitable crop.

What was Virginia’s “gold,” which ensured its survival and prosperity?

• cotton

• fur

• tobacco

• indigo

Maryland was established as a refuge for which group?

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Catholics

The Puritans believed that male authority in the household was

• Limited only to financial decisions, with women holding spiritual authority.

• A reflection of God’s will, essential to maintaining social and religious order.

• Rejected in favor of full equality between husbands and wives.

• An outdated tradition carried over from England with little relevance in New England society.

For most New Englanders, Indians represented

• savagery.

• teachers.

• curiosities.

• sources of culture.

A central element in the definition of English liberty was

• the right to a trial by jury.

• the right to self-incrimination.

• freedom of expression.

• the idea that the king was above the rule of law.

Which colony adopted the Act Concerning Religion in 1649, which institutionalized the principle of religious toleration?

• Virginia

• Maryland

• Massachusetts

• Rhode Island