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Give Me Liberty Chapters 1-14 Review Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century
EXCEPT? - answer✔a lower birth rate, which made it difficult to find workers for new
industries. [EXCEPT]
Anne Hutchinson is? - answer✔Opposed Puritan ministers who distinguished saints in the
Damned Through Church's attendance and moral behavior rather than through focusing on an
inner state of grace.
For most New Englanders, Indians represented - answer✔savagery
How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development? - answer✔It instituted the
headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's
passage
In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England - answer✔was more family-
oriented
In the 1650s, who pushed England toward a policy of expanding territory and commercialism? -
answer✔Oliver Cromwell
In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and eastern Native Americans -
answer✔Native Americans initially welcomed the colonists' goods.
In the Pequot War of 1637 - answer✔Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers teamed with
Narragansett allies to set the main Pequot village afire and kill 500 Pequots
Just as the reconquest of Spain from the Moors established patterns that would be repeated in
Spanish New World colonization, the methods used in which one of the following countries
anticipated policies England would undertake in America? - answer✔Ireland
Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England - answer✔were lower-class
men
The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England
returned home - answer✔were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company's interest in searching
for gold as opposed to building a functioning society.
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The Magna Carta? - answer✔granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons
The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker? - answer✔founded what became part of the colony of
Connecticut
The Virginia House of Burgesses? - answer✔was created as part of the Virginia Company's effort
to encourage the colony's survival.
What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty? - answer✔land
What was Virginia's "gold," which ensured its survival and prosperity? - answer✔tobacco
When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island: - answer✔he made sure that it
was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.
When the Virginia Company gave control of the Virginia colony to the king in 1624: -
answer✔Virginia became the first royal colony
Which of the following is true of the Puritans of the seventeenth century? - answer✔They agreed
that the Church of England retained too many elements of Catholicism in its rituals and
doctrines.
Which of the following is true of the Puritans' dealings with Quakers? - answer✔Their officials
in Massachusetts punished Quakers financially and physically, even hanging several of them
Which of the following is true of warfare between colonists and Native Americans during the
seventeenth century? - answer✔Among the colonists, it generated a strong sense of superiority.
Which of the following statements is true about the early history of Jamestown? - answer✔The
death rate was extraordinarily high.
Which one of the following statements is true of Queen Mary of England, who reigned from
1553 to 1558? - answer✔She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England.
Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s? - answer✔Because of religious
differences: England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was
devoutly Catholic.
Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church? - answer✔He wanted a divorce, and
the Pope refused to grant it.
"Anglicization" meant all of the following EXCEPT: - answer✔colonists imported the latest
London fashions and literature.
What was the Covenant Chain? - answer✔an alliance made by the governor of New York and the
Iroquois Confederacy
Give Me Liberty Chapters 1-14 Review Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
All of the following contributed to the English social crisis of the late sixteenth century
EXCEPT? - answer✔a lower birth rate, which made it difficult to find workers for new
industries. [EXCEPT]
Anne Hutchinson is? - answer✔Opposed Puritan ministers who distinguished saints in the
Damned Through Church's attendance and moral behavior rather than through focusing on an
inner state of grace.
For most New Englanders, Indians represented - answer✔savagery
How did the Virginia Company reshape the colony's development? - answer✔It instituted the
headright system, giving fifty acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's
passage
In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England - answer✔was more family-
oriented
In the 1650s, who pushed England toward a policy of expanding territory and commercialism? -
answer✔Oliver Cromwell
In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and eastern Native Americans -
answer✔Native Americans initially welcomed the colonists' goods.
In the Pequot War of 1637 - answer✔Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers teamed with
Narragansett allies to set the main Pequot village afire and kill 500 Pequots
Just as the reconquest of Spain from the Moors established patterns that would be repeated in
Spanish New World colonization, the methods used in which one of the following countries
anticipated policies England would undertake in America? - answer✔Ireland
Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England - answer✔were lower-class
men
The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England
returned home - answer✔were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company's interest in searching
for gold as opposed to building a functioning society.
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The Magna Carta? - answer✔granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons
The Puritan minister Thomas Hooker? - answer✔founded what became part of the colony of
Connecticut
The Virginia House of Burgesses? - answer✔was created as part of the Virginia Company's effort
to encourage the colony's survival.
What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty? - answer✔land
What was Virginia's "gold," which ensured its survival and prosperity? - answer✔tobacco
When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island: - answer✔he made sure that it
was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.
When the Virginia Company gave control of the Virginia colony to the king in 1624: -
answer✔Virginia became the first royal colony
Which of the following is true of the Puritans of the seventeenth century? - answer✔They agreed
that the Church of England retained too many elements of Catholicism in its rituals and
doctrines.
Which of the following is true of the Puritans' dealings with Quakers? - answer✔Their officials
in Massachusetts punished Quakers financially and physically, even hanging several of them
Which of the following is true of warfare between colonists and Native Americans during the
seventeenth century? - answer✔Among the colonists, it generated a strong sense of superiority.
Which of the following statements is true about the early history of Jamestown? - answer✔The
death rate was extraordinarily high.
Which one of the following statements is true of Queen Mary of England, who reigned from
1553 to 1558? - answer✔She temporarily restored Catholicism as the state religion of England.
Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s? - answer✔Because of religious
differences: England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was
devoutly Catholic.
Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church? - answer✔He wanted a divorce, and
the Pope refused to grant it.
"Anglicization" meant all of the following EXCEPT: - answer✔colonists imported the latest
London fashions and literature.
What was the Covenant Chain? - answer✔an alliance made by the governor of New York and the
Iroquois Confederacy
