The Unfinished Nation Chapter 2 Exam Test
Questions & Answers 100% Pass
Jamestown (1607) - Answer Only 104 men survived. Site was low and swampy (failed for 17 years).
Founded as a Joint Stock company to make a profit.
1619 - Answer First African workers in Virginia. 20 some African negroes. Colonists thought they were
indentured servants.
House of Burgesses (1619) - Answer Established representative gov't. (early precedent for self
government)
Plymouth (1620) - Answer Puritan Separatists. Set sail on the Mayflower, drew up the Mayflower
Compact and governed themselves. "combine ourselves together into a civil body politic"
(early precedent for self-government)
Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630) - Answer Gov'n John Winthrop. Created a refuge for Puritans and,
eventually, a "city on a hill" (WInthrop)
Maryland - Answer Originally a refuge for Catholics, and the Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
Rhode Island - Answer Roger Williams founded, 1635-36. Advocated separation from England. Rhode
Island was the only colony which all faiths could worship.
Pequot War - Answer 1637. Natives almost wiped out. Bloodiest battle between whites and Indians.
White's called it King Philips War(Indian Chief).Whites and Mohawks ambushed Metacomet and killed
him. Fragile alliance disbanded.
Anne Hutchinson - Answer felt that one could talk directly to God. Challenged assumptions about role of
women in Puritan society. Convicted of heresy and sedition, banished with her family in 1638.
, English Civil War - Answer King Charles I antagonized the Parliament by dismissing them twice in two
years. They organized a military force --Cavaliers (support the king)
Navigation Acts (late 17th century) - Answer Only trade with English ships and items exported only to
England (tobacco); European goods must go through England to get taxed before the colonies receive;
Coastal trading among colonies will be subject to taxes and custom officials will be appointed. Not
enforced because of salutary neglect.
King Phillips War (Metacom's War) (1675-1678) - Answer England natives defending themselves against
an ever increasing white settlement, 12 New England towns destroyed and about 1/2 of New England
towns attacked, Metacom was eventually captured and killed
Bacon's Rebellion - Answer The autocratic rule of Berkley, Demonstrated instability of large population
of non-landowners; continued struggle for white and Indian spheres of influence. Bacon was a
westerland farmer.Nathaniel Bacon angered about hold the line of settlement to avoid Indian conflicts.
Motivated movement away from indenture and toward race based slavery.
Pennsylvania - Answer Society of Friends, first leader George Fox & Margaret Fell. Quakers rejected
predestination concept and original sin. Pacifists.
Dominion of New England - Answer An administrative union of English colonies in the New England
region of North America, failed
Glorious Revolution (1688-89) - Answer Touched off revolutions in several colonies (bloody ones);
representative assemblies revived; colonial unification abandoned. 1688-89
Spanish "Southwest" - Answer Spanish began to fortify borders by est. forts (San Antonio area). Greatest
threat was the French near Texas.
"mail order" brides in Jamestown - Answer VA Co. sent ironworkers and craftsman with 100
Englishwoman for wives to Virginia Colony.
What led to the Pueblo Revolt? - Answer The harsh treatment of the Spanish and the Missions were
tolerated at beginning but as the priests continued their power push by enforcing taxes on converted
Questions & Answers 100% Pass
Jamestown (1607) - Answer Only 104 men survived. Site was low and swampy (failed for 17 years).
Founded as a Joint Stock company to make a profit.
1619 - Answer First African workers in Virginia. 20 some African negroes. Colonists thought they were
indentured servants.
House of Burgesses (1619) - Answer Established representative gov't. (early precedent for self
government)
Plymouth (1620) - Answer Puritan Separatists. Set sail on the Mayflower, drew up the Mayflower
Compact and governed themselves. "combine ourselves together into a civil body politic"
(early precedent for self-government)
Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630) - Answer Gov'n John Winthrop. Created a refuge for Puritans and,
eventually, a "city on a hill" (WInthrop)
Maryland - Answer Originally a refuge for Catholics, and the Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
Rhode Island - Answer Roger Williams founded, 1635-36. Advocated separation from England. Rhode
Island was the only colony which all faiths could worship.
Pequot War - Answer 1637. Natives almost wiped out. Bloodiest battle between whites and Indians.
White's called it King Philips War(Indian Chief).Whites and Mohawks ambushed Metacomet and killed
him. Fragile alliance disbanded.
Anne Hutchinson - Answer felt that one could talk directly to God. Challenged assumptions about role of
women in Puritan society. Convicted of heresy and sedition, banished with her family in 1638.
, English Civil War - Answer King Charles I antagonized the Parliament by dismissing them twice in two
years. They organized a military force --Cavaliers (support the king)
Navigation Acts (late 17th century) - Answer Only trade with English ships and items exported only to
England (tobacco); European goods must go through England to get taxed before the colonies receive;
Coastal trading among colonies will be subject to taxes and custom officials will be appointed. Not
enforced because of salutary neglect.
King Phillips War (Metacom's War) (1675-1678) - Answer England natives defending themselves against
an ever increasing white settlement, 12 New England towns destroyed and about 1/2 of New England
towns attacked, Metacom was eventually captured and killed
Bacon's Rebellion - Answer The autocratic rule of Berkley, Demonstrated instability of large population
of non-landowners; continued struggle for white and Indian spheres of influence. Bacon was a
westerland farmer.Nathaniel Bacon angered about hold the line of settlement to avoid Indian conflicts.
Motivated movement away from indenture and toward race based slavery.
Pennsylvania - Answer Society of Friends, first leader George Fox & Margaret Fell. Quakers rejected
predestination concept and original sin. Pacifists.
Dominion of New England - Answer An administrative union of English colonies in the New England
region of North America, failed
Glorious Revolution (1688-89) - Answer Touched off revolutions in several colonies (bloody ones);
representative assemblies revived; colonial unification abandoned. 1688-89
Spanish "Southwest" - Answer Spanish began to fortify borders by est. forts (San Antonio area). Greatest
threat was the French near Texas.
"mail order" brides in Jamestown - Answer VA Co. sent ironworkers and craftsman with 100
Englishwoman for wives to Virginia Colony.
What led to the Pueblo Revolt? - Answer The harsh treatment of the Spanish and the Missions were
tolerated at beginning but as the priests continued their power push by enforcing taxes on converted
