Ace Practice Test

Chapter 2: The Planting of English America

 

1.      Protestant England's early colonial ambitions were fueled by its religious rivalry with Catholic Spain.

A. True      B. False

 

2.      The earliest English colonization efforts experienced surprising success.

A. True      B. False

 

3.      The defeat of the Spanish Armada was important to North American colonization because it enabled England to conquer Spain's New World Empire.

A. True      B. False

 

4.      Among the English citizens most interested in colonization were unemployed yeomen and the younger sons of the gentry.

A. True      B. False

 

5.      Originally, the primary purpose of the joint-stock Virginia Company was to provide for the well-being of the freeborn English settlers in the colony.

A. True      B. False

 

6.      The defeat of Powhatan's Indian forces in Virginia was achieved partly by Lord De La Warr's use of brutal "Irish tactics."

A. True      B. False

 

7.      The primary factor disrupting Indian cultures in the early years of English settlement was the introduction of Christianity.

A. True      B. False

 

8.      The Maryland colony was founded to establish a religious refuge for persecuted English Quakers.

A. True      B. False

 

9.      From the time of its founding, South Carolina had close economic ties with the British West Indies.

A. True      B. False

 

10.  The principal export crop of the Carolinas in the early 1700s was wheat.

A. True      B. False

 

11.  South Carolina prospered partly by selling African slaves in the West Indies.

A. True      B. False

 

12.  In their early years, North Carolina and Georgia avoided reliance on slavery.       

A. True      B. False

 

13.  Compared with its neighbors Virginia and South Carolina, North Carolina was more democratic and individualistic in social outlook.

A. True      B. False

 

14.  Britain valued the Georgia colony primarily as a rich source of gold and timber.

A. True      B. False

 

15.  All the southern colonies eventually came to rely on staple-crop plantation agriculture for their economic prosperity.

A. True      B. False

 

16.  After decades of religious turmoil, Protestantism finally gained permanent dominance in England after the succession to the throne of

A. King Edward VI.

B. Queen Mary I.

C. Queen Elizabeth I.

D. King James I.

 

17.  Imperial England and English soldiers developed a contemptuous attitude toward "natives" partly through their colonizing experiences in

A. Canada.

B. Spain.

C. India.

D. Ireland.

 

18.   England's victory over the Spanish Armada gave it

A. control of the Spanish colonies in the New World.

B. dominance of the Atlantic Ocean and a vibrant sense of nationalism.

C. a stable social order and economy.

D. effective control of the African slave trade.

 

19.  At the time of the first colonization efforts, England

A. was struggling under the political domination of Spain.

B. was enjoying a period of social and economic stability.

C. was undergoing rapid economic and social transformations.

D. was undergoing sharp political conflicts between advocated of republicanism and the monarchy of Elizabeth I.

 

20.  Many of the early Puritan settlers of America were

A. displaced sailors from Liverpool and Bath.

B. merchants and shopkeepers from the Midlands.

C. urban laborers from Glasgow and Edinburgh.

D. uprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western England.

 

21.  England's first colony at Jamestown

A. was an immediate economic success.

B. was saved from failure by John Smith's leadership and by John Rolfe's introduction of tobacco.

C. enjoyed the strong and continual support of King James I.

D. depended on the introduction of African slave labor for its survival.

 

22.  Representative government was first introduced to America in the colony of

A. Virginia.

B. Maryland.

C. North Carolina.

D. Georgia.

 

23.  One important difference between the founding of the Virginia and Maryland colonies was that

A. Virginia colonists were willing to come only if they could acquire their own land, while Maryland colonists labored for their landlords.

B. Virginia depended primarily on its tobacco economy, while Maryland turned its rice cultivation.

C. Virginia depended on Africa slave labor, while Maryland relied mainly on white indentured servitude.

D. Virginia was founded mainly as an economic venture, while Maryland was intended partly to secure religious freedom for persecuted Roman Catholics.

 

24.  After the Act of Toleration in 1649, Maryland provided religious freedom for all

A. Jews.

B. atheists.

C.Protestants and Catholics.

D. those who denied the divinity of Jesus.

 

25.  The primary reason that no new colonies were founded between 1634 and 1670 was

A. the severe economic conditions in Virginia and Maryland.

B. the civil war in England.

C. the continuous naval conflicts between Spain and England that disrupted sea-lanes.

D. the English kings’ increasing hostility to colonial ventures.

 

26.  The early conflicts between English settlers and the Indians near Jamestown laid the basis for

A. the intermarriage of white settlers and Indians.

B. the incorporation of Indians into the “melting-pot” of American culture.

C. the forced separation of the Indians into the separate territories of the "reservation system.”

D. the use of Indians as a slave-labor force on white plantations.

 

27.  In colonial English-Indian relations, the term "middle ground" referred to

A. the neutral territory between English soldiers and warring Indian tribes.

B. the area around the Great Lakes was contested by the English and French forces.

C. the economic zone where English and Indian traders met to exchange furs for manufactured goods.

D. the cultural zone where Indians and whites were forced to accommodate one another by shared practices that included intermarriage.

 

28.  After the defeat of the coastal Tuscarora and Yamasee Indians by North Carolinians in 1711-1715,

A. there was almost no Indians left east of the Mississippi River.

B. the remaining southeastern Indian tribes formed an alliance to wage warfare against the whites.

C. the powerful Creeks, Cherokees, and Iroquois remained in the Appalachian Mountains as a barrier against white settlement.

D. the remaining coastal Indians migrated to the West Indies.

 

29.  Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were

A. religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia.

B. wealthy planters from the West Indies.

C. the younger, ambitious song of English gentry.

D. ex-convicts and debtors released from English prisons.

  

30.  The high-minded philanthropists who founded the Georgia colony were especially interested in the causes of

A. women’s rights and labor reform.

B. temperance and opposition to war.

C. prison reform and avoiding slavery.

D. religious and political freedom.