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Semester Final

Quiz by Gonzales, David

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  • Q1
    The Virginia Charter guaranteed that English settlers in the New World would
    be entitled to establish a separate government from that of England.
    enjoy freedom of religion.
    receive land parcels of 40 acres each.
    retain the rights of Englishmen.
    30s
  • Q2
    The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by
    a joint-stock company.
    a royal proprietor.
    an expanding wool trade
    Queen Elizabeth II.
    30s
  • Q3
    The first English attempt at colonization in 1585 was in
    Jamestown.
    Massachusetts Bay.
    Roanoke Island.
    St. Augustine.
    30s
  • Q4
    Georgia's founders were determined to
    conquer Florida and add it to Britain's empire.
    keep Georgia for Catholics.
    restrict the colony to British citizens.
    create a haven for people imprisoned for debt.
    30s
  • Q5
    England's defeat of the Spanish Armada
    demonstrated that Spanish Catholicism was inferior to English Protestantism.
    led to a Franco-Spanish alliance that prevented England from establishing its own American colonies.
    allowed England to take control of Spain's American colonies.
    helped to ensure England's naval dominance in the North Atlantic.
    30s
  • Q6
    The summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it
    failed.
    was abolished by King James I.
    was the first of many miniature parliaments to flourish in America.
    forced King James I to revoke the colony's royal charter and grant it self-government.
    30s
  • Q7
    When Lord De La Warr took control of Jamestown in 1610, he
    re-established better relations with the Indians.
    died within a few months of his arrival.
    imposed a harsh military regime on the colony.
    halted the rapid population decline.
    30s
  • Q8
    Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the
    loss of Brazil.
    War of Spanish Succession.
    defeat of the Spanish Armada.
    conquest of Mexico by Portugal.
    30s
  • Q9
    The ____ decreed that only eldest sons were eligible to inherit landed estates.
    ancestry laws
    laws of primogeniture
    joint-stock companies
    laws of inheritance
    30s
  • Q10
    The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States was the
    English at Jamestown in 1607.
    Spanish at Santa Fe in 1610.
    French at Quebec in 1608.
    English at Massachusetts Bay in 1621.
    30s
  • Q11
    Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as
    worsening the colonists' relationship with the Indians.
    persuading the colonists to continue their hunt for gold.
    reducing the terrible death toll.
    saving the colony from collapse.
    30s
  • Q12
    The English treatment of the Irish, under the reign of Elizabeth I, can best be described as
    violent and unjust.
    supportive of their Catholic faith.
    the prime example of salutary neglect.
    better than their treatment of any English subjects.
    30s
  • Q13
    A peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War in 1614 by the
    marriage of Pocahontas to the colonist John Rolfe.
    Powhatan tribe agreeing to give up all land in Virginia to the English.
    mass killing of the entire Powhatan tribe.
    English agreeing to give up all land in Virginia to the Powhatan tribe.
    30s
  • Q14
    The biggest disrupter of Native American life was
    introduction of horses.
    disease.
    loss of culture.
    fire arms.
    30s
  • Q15
    In 1675 Wampanoag warriors attacked the town of Swansea in what came to be called
    the Great Migration.
    Providence.
    the Pequot War.
    King Philip’s War.
    30s

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