Which is true of English society by the early 1600s? (Ch. 2)
The right to trial by jury had yet to be established
There was a growing population of beggars and vagabonds
There were no limits in the power of the monarch
Titled nobles dominated the House of Commons
There was no significant class distinctions
The Glorious Revolution of 1688:
Increased the power of parliament
resulted in the execution of Charles 1
ended with the death of Oliver Cromwell
temporarily abolished the monarchy
delayed the American Revolution
the stockholders who invested in the Virginia Company were mainly motivated by:
reiligon
a spirit of adventure
curiosity of the new world
personality loyalty to James I
financial profit
one outstanding characteristics of Jamestown in its initial years was:
high % of slaves in the population
complete freedom of religion
the influence of women in its government
the absence of effective leaders
high mortality rate among the settlers
as Jamestown's leader, Captain John Smith:
made the colony a democracy
tried to wipe out Powhatan's Confederacy
made the colonists work in order to eat
argued that the colony should be abandoned
discovered deposits of gold and silver
the Jamestown colony finally attained a measure of prosperity from:
land sales
trade with indians
gold discoveries
tobacco
trade with Spanish Florida
the headright system adopted for the Virginia colony consisted of:
giving 50 acres of land to anyone who would transport himself to the colony and 50 more for any servants he might bring
selling wives to single men
auctioning slaves
giving free land to all servants
giving free land in return for 5 years of military service
in 1624, a British court dissolved the struggling Virginia company and Virginia:
was merged with New England
no longer existed
became a royal colony
lost all its funding
was given to the kings brother, Duke of York
Bacon's Rebellion:
brought indentured servants and small farmers against the colony's rich planters and politicians
had the support of indians
resulted from changes in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina that discriminated against Puritans
forced Governor Berkeley to abandon the colony and return to England
sought to make Virginia independent of England
Maryland was established in 1634 as a refuge for:
debtors
Puritans
ex-convicts
Anglicans
English Catholics
the early settlers of New England differed from those of the Chesapeake by being primarily:
English
Protestant
white
middle class
male
all of the following are true about Pilgrims EXCEPT that they:
established the Plymouth colony
based their initial colonial government on the Mayflower Compact
were Separatists who had abandoned the Church of England
originally fled to Holland
were a sect of radical Catholics
New England's Congregationalist churches were:
open the everyone
self governing
tolerant of other religions
morally opposed to slavery
financially supported by the king
when John Winthrop spoke of "a city upon a hill" he was referring to the colony's desire to:
be financially successful
become independent of England
serve as a model Christian community
establish an ideal government
convert the indians to Christianity
Roger Williams believed:
Puritanism was the only suitable religion for MA
in the propriety of linking church and state
Indians should be forcibly Christianized
that compulsory church attendance was an important tenet of the Christian faith
it was wrong to confiscate Indian lands
