ACE Practice Test

Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies

 

1.      The most fervent Puritans believed that the Church of England was corrupt because it did not restrict its membership to "visible saints" who had experienced conversion.

A. True      B. False

 

2.      The Puritans all wanted to break away from the Church of England and establish a new "purified" church.                     

A. True      B. False

 

3.      The large, separatist Plymouth Colony strongly influenced Puritan Massachusetts Bay.

A. True      B. False

 

4.      Massachusetts Bay restricted the vote for elections to the General Court to adult male members of the Congregational Church.

A. True      B. False

 

5.      Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were both banished for organizing political rebellions against the Massachusetts Bay authorities.

A. True      B. False

 

6.      Rhode Island was the most religiously and politically tolerant of the New England colonies.

A. True      B. False

 

7.      The Wampanoag people of New England initially befriended the English colonists.

A. True      B. False

 

8.      Edmund Andros's autocratic Dominion of New England was overthrown in connection with the Glorious Revolution in England.

A. True      B. False

 

9.      King Philip's War enabled New England's Indians to recover their numbers and morale.

A. True      B. False

 

10.  New York became the most democratic and economically equal of the middle colonies.

A. True      B. False

 

11.  Dutch New Netherland was conquered in 1664 by Sweden.

A. True      B. False

 

12.  William Penn originally planned his Pennsylvania colony to be exclusively a refuge for his fellow Quakers.

A. True      B. False

 

13.  William Penn's benevolent Indian policies were supported by non-Quaker immigrants to Pennsylvania.

A. True      B. False

 

14.  The middle colonies' broad, fertile river valleys enabled them to develop a richer agricultural economy than that of New England.

A. True      B. False

 

15.  The middle colonies were characterized by tightly knit, ethically homogeneous communities that shared a common sense of religious purpose.

A. True      B. False

 

16.  The principal motivation shaping the earliest settlements in New England was

A. the desire for political freedom.

B. religious commitment and devotion.

C. economic opportunity and the chance for a better life.

D. a spirit of adventure and interest in exploring the New World.

 

17.  Compared with the Plymouth Colony, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was

A. dedicated to complete separation from the Church of England.

B. afflicted with corrupt and incompetent leaders.

C. more focused on religious rather than political liberty.

D. larger and more prosperous economically,

 

18.  One reason that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was not a true democracy is that

A. only church members could vote for the governor and the General Court.

B. political offices were dominated by the clergy.

C. people were not permitted to discuss issues freely in their own towns.

D. the governor and his assistants were appointed rather than elected.

 

19.  The most distinctive feature of the Rhode Island Colony was that

A. it enjoyed the most complete religious freedom of all the English colonies.

B. it secured an official charter from England.

C. it contained a high proportion of well-educated and well-off colonists.

D. it had a strong common sense of religious purpose.

 

20.  Before the first English settlements in New England, Indians in the region had been devastated by

A. constant warfare with the French

B. harsh weather that reduced the corn harvests and caused severe famine.

C. disease epidemics caused by contact with English fishermen.

D. intertribal conflicts caused by disputes over hunting grounds.

 

21.  The Indian tribe that first encountered the Pilgrim colonists in New England were the

A. Iroquois.

B. Wampanoags.

C. Narragansetts.

D. Hurons.

 

22.  The Puritan missionary efforts to convert Indians to Christianity were

A. weak and mostly unsuccessful.

B. initially successful but undermined by constant warfare.

C. similar to the evangelistic efforts of the Catholic Spanish and French.

D. developed only after the Indians were defeated and confined to reservations.

 

23.  King Philip's War represented

A. the first serious military conflict between New England colonists and the English King.

B. an example of the disastrous divisions among the Wampanoags, Pequots, and the Narragansetts.

C. the last major Indian effort to halt New Englanders' encroachment on their lands.

D. a relatively minor conflict in terms of actual fighting and casualties.

 

24.  The primary value of the New England Confederation lay in

A. restoring harmony between Rhode Island and the other New England colonies.

B. promoting better relations between New England colonists and their Indian neighbors.

C. providing the first small step on the road to intercolonial cooperation.

D. defending colonial rights against increasing pressure from the English monarchy.

 

25.  The event that sparked the collapse of the Dominion of New England was

A. King Phillip’s War.

B. the revocation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s charter.

C. Governor Andros’s harsh attacks on colonial liberties.

D. the Glorious Revolution in England.

 

26.  The Dutch Colony of New Netherland

A. was harshly and undemocratically governed.

B. contained little ethnic diversity.

C. was developed as a haven for Dutch Calvinists.

D. enjoyed prosperity and peace under the policies of the Dutch West India Company.

 

27.  The short-lived colony conquered by Dutch New Netherland in 1655 was

A. New Jersey.

B. New France.

C. New England.

D. New Sweden.

 

28.  William Penn's colony of Pennsylvania

A. sought settlers primarily from England and Scotland.

B. experienced continuing warfare with neighboring Indian tribes.

C. actively sought settlers from Germany and other non-British countries.

D. set up the Quaker religion as its tax-supported established church.

 

29.  Besides Pennsylvania, Quakers were also heavily involved in the early settlement of both

A. New Jersey and New York.

B. New Jersey and Delaware.

C. New Netherland and New York.

D. Maryland and Delaware.

 

30.  The middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware

A. depended almost entirely on industry rather than agriculture for their prosperity.

B. all had powerful established churches that suppressed religious dissenters.

C. relied heavily on slave labor in agriculture.

D. had more ethnic diversity than either England or the southern colonies.