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Nation of Nations A Concise Narrative of the American Republic Book Cover Image
Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e
James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial North (1600-1700)

Multiple Choice



1

The principal economic motive prompting French exploration and settlement in North America was the lucrative trade in:
A)sugar.
B)tobacco.
C)furs.
D)silver.
2

The principal goal of the early Puritans was to:
A)emigrate and set up a separate country with no ties to England.
B)help bring King James to power.
C)reform English society and the Church of England.
D)revive the Roman Catholic Church in England.
3

The Mayflower Compact:
A)was a royal charter from King James providing the Pilgrims the right to set up a colony in North America.
B)provided for an alliance between the Pilgrims in Plymouth and the local Wampanoag Indians.
C)set up a framework for Plymouth's colonial government in which all adult males could vote for local officials.
D)was a petition asking King James to forbid non-Pilgrims from being allowed to immigrate to Plymouth colony.
4

During the so-called "Great Migration" from 1630-1642, most of those who arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony were:
A)not in sympathy with the Puritans and established their own churches throughout New England.
B)poor agricultural peasants, overwhelmingly male, in search of cheap land.
C)primarily farmers, artisans, and merchants who came to the "New World" in families.
D)Pilgrims.
5

Roger Williams was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for:
A)pushing for the separation of church and state.
B)preaching a form of heresy known as "Antinomianism."
C)establishing a house of prostitution in Boston.
D)his refusal to pay church taxes and his outspoken atheistic ideas.
6

Which of the following is NOT true about Anne Hutchinson?
A)Most ministers in Boston supported her religious zeal.
B)Hutchinson believed that obedience to God's laws revealed nothing about the inward state of the soul.
C)Many important merchant families strongly supported her.
D)Many especially disliked her because she was an outspoken, assertive woman at a time when women were expected to have no public role.
7

Most of those accused of witchcraft in 1692 were women who:
A)had sought and achieved elective office in the previous decade but had recently been defeated.
B)were young, recent arrivals to the community.
C)had joined the local Quaker meeting house.
D)were middle-aged or older and regarded as unduly independent.
8

The Iroquois:
A)were a matrilineal society in which women wielded political as well as social influence.
B)made constant war on settlers in New York.
C)maintained close alliances with the neighboring tribes, seeking to prevent exploitation by colonists.
D)were pacifists who denounced warfare as unnatural.
9

The Society of Friends (or Quakers) believed that:
A)only those who professed themselves to be Quakers could enter God's kingdom.
B)all men and women shared equally in the "Light Within" and should be considered equal in society.
C)a holy war against non-Quakers was inevitable, which led to their expulsion from Massachusetts Bay.
D)certain men had been ordained by God to be community leaders and deserved complete respect and deference from all.
10

Leisler's Rebellion in New York in 1689:
A)was a short-lived effort by the Dutch to reclaim from the English what had once been their colony.
B)returned the colony to Dutch hands for nearly 50 years.
C)was a bloody raid on an Indian settlement.
D)reflected aftershocks of the Glorious Revolution in England over who would rule in the colonies.
11

Wider enforcement of the Navigation Acts was provided by Parliament in 1696 in order to:
A)protect the colonists against overzealous customs collectors.
B)discourage colonial smuggling and insure that colonial trade was channeled through England.
C)protect colonial ships against pirates.
D)insure that all ships were adequately equipped with navigational equipment to sail safely across the Atlantic Ocean.
12

The English imperial policy from around 1700 on was to:
A)immediately withdraw from oversight of colonial affairs.
B)gradually withdraw from oversight of all colonial affairs.
C)retain control over the colonies, but allow many decisions to be made by the colonies themselves.
D)sharply increase their control over all affairs in the colonies.