Vocab
Calvinism
a) formally banished the Puritans to the English colonies
b) doctrine that emphasizes predestination
c) abolished the Catholic Church in England and declared King Henry VIII head of the new Church of England
d) declared King Henry VIII of England a traitor and banished him to France
b) doctrine that emphasizes predestination
The English Navigation Acts of the 1650s and 1660s were designed to regulate colonial trade to:
a. ensure that all nations had equal access to American goods.
b. line the pockets of those sitting in the House of Lords.
c. tax the exports of New England and the middle colonies.
d. yield revenues for the crown and English merchants.
d. yield revenues for the crown and English merchants.
Which problem did the Halfway Covenant of the 1660s address?
a. economic stagnation
b. women's political status
c. a labor glut
d. declining church membership
d. declining church membership
According to the Puritan doctrine of predestination, how could one achieve salvation after death?
a. Salvation was guaranteed through God's love for humankind.
b. Puritans who prayed daily and worked hard were eligible for salvation.
c. Puritans could do nothing to alter God's ruling on their fate.
d. Wealth, success, and good health led to salvation.
c. Puritans could do nothing to alter God's ruling on their fate.
Puritans
a) left England and went to Paris
b) felt the Church of England was the perfect culmination
c) wanted to separate from the Church of England
d) dissenters who wanted a genuine Protestant Reformation
d) dissenters who wanted a genuine Protestant Reformation
English Reformation
a) declared King Henry VIII a traitor and banished him to France
b) None of the answers are correct
c) abolished the Catholic Church in England and declared King Henry VIII head of the new Church of England
d) formally banished the Puritans to the English colonies
c) abolished the Catholic Church in England and declared King Henry VIII head of the new Church of England
Who argued that the Puritans should be "a city upon a hill"?
a. John Winthrop
b. English Parliament
c. Charles I
d. William Bradford
a. John Winthrop
Unlike most other immigrant groups in American history, the migration to Puritan New England included:
a. mostly women and children.
b. a high proportion of servants and enslaved people.
c. a mostly unhealthy population.
d. a great number of complete families.
d. a great number of complete families.
John Winthrop referred to Anne Hutchinson and her followers as antinomians, people who believed that:
a. God did not exist.
b. local religious leaders best understood God's law.
c. the covenant of works was more important than the covenant of grace.
d. Christians could be saved by faith alone.
d. Christians could be saved by faith alone.
Quakers
a. felt the Church of England was the perfect culmination of the English Reformation.
b. Puritans who had passed the tests of conversion and church membership and therefore appeared to be among God’s elect.
c. banished the Indians from Pennsylvania.
d. members of the Society of Friends who believed that God spoke directly to each individual through an “inner light”
d. members of the Society of Friends who believed that God spoke directly to each individual through an “inner light”
King Philip’s War
a) abolished the Catholic Church in England and declared King Charles I head of the new Church of England
b) English civil war (1642–1649) ending with Charles I’s execution
c) begun by Pumetacom in 1675, in which the colonists finally prevailed after much bloodshed
d) declared King Henry VIII a traitor and banished him to France
c) begun by Pumetacom in 1675, in which the colonists finally prevailed after much bloodshed
Why did the Wampanoag Indians attack New England settlements in 1675?
a. A new Wampanoag spiritual leader commanded the Indians to drive the whites from their homeland.
b. A longstanding feud over the kidnapping of a Puritan woman finally erupted into warfare.
c. The Indians were tired of the Puritans violently trying to convert them to Christianity.
d. New Englanders had been steadily encroaching on land the Indians needed to survive.
d. New Englanders had been steadily encroaching on land the Indians needed to survive.
Which factor allowed New England's population to continue to grow steadily during the seventeenth century?
a. The cold weather minimized the spread of life-threatening illnesses.
b. The continuing flood of immigrants from England.
c. An influx of settlers from colonies farther south.
d. A new source of immigrants from continental Europe.
a. The cold weather minimized the spread of life-threatening illnesses.
After Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691, the defining characteristic of Massachusetts citizenship became:
a. wealth.
b. familial connections.
c. ties of nobility.
d. divine grace.
d. divine grace.
Separatists
a. dissenters from the Church of England who wanted a genuine Protestant Reformation rather than the partial Reformation sought by Henry VIII.
b. wanted to separate from the Church of England.
c. felt the Church of England was the perfect culmination of the English Reformation.
d. left England and went to Paris to practice their religion in peace.
b. wanted to separate from the Church of England.
New Netherland
a) French colony on Manhattan Island
b) English colony on the St. Lawrence River
c) Scottish colony on the St. Lawrence River
d) Dutch colony on Manhattan Island
d) Dutch colony on Manhattan Island
Who served as leaders of Quaker congregations?
a. elite men
b. visible saints
c. trained preachers
d. ordinary men and women
d. ordinary men and women
Seventeenth-century New England's most important export was:
a. tobacco.
b. cotton.
c. rice.
d. Fish.
d. Fish.
The Glorious Revolution in England influenced American colonists to:
a. show their support for the religious convictions of King James II.
b. organize military groups to help overthrow William of Orange.
c. pledge new support for the Dominion of New England.
d. rise up against royal authority in the northern colonies.
a. rise up against royal authority in the northern colonies.
antinomians
a. individuals who believed that Christians could be saved by faith alone and did not need to act in accordance with God’s law as set forth in the Bible.
b. a compromise that allowed the unconverted children of visible saints to become “halfway” members of the church and baptize their own children, even though they were not full church members.
c. Puritans who had passed the tests of conversion and church membership and therefore appeared to be among God’s elect.
d. members of the Society of Friends who believed that God spoke directly to each individual through an “inner light”.
a. individuals who believed that Christians could be saved by faith alone and did not need to act in accordance with God’s law as set forth in the Bible.
Puritan Revolution
a) formally banished the Puritans to the English colonies
b) declared King Henry VIII of England a traitor and banished him to France
c) English civil war (1642–1649) ending with Charles I’s execution
d) abolished the Catholic Church in England and declared King Charles I head of the new Church of England
c) English civil war (1642–1649) ending with Charles I’s execution
Who unpopularly governed New England during the Dominion period, from 1686 to 1689?
a. John Coode
b. King Philip
c. Jacob Leisler
d. Sir Edmund Andros
d. Sir Edmund Andros
Which major change occurred in New Netherland in 1664?
a. New Netherland became New York.
b. The colony formed a representative government.
c. England purchased the colony from the Dutch.
d. Dutch colonists overthrew Peter Stuyvesant.
a. New Netherland became New York.
Why did Charles II make William Penn the proprietor of a new colony?
a. Charles II hoped to rid England of Quakers.
b. Charles II wanted to prove his religious tolerance
c. Charles II wanted to spread the system of Quaker beliefs.
d. Charles II wanted to keep Penn quiet about political corruption.
a. Charles II hoped to rid England of Quakers.
freemen
a. Puritans who had passed the tests of conversion and church membership and therefore appeared to be among God’s elect.
b. individuals who believed that Christians could be saved by faith alone and did not need to act in accordance with God’s law as set forth in the Bible.
c. stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company who met as the General Court.
d. wanted to separate from the Church of England
c. stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company who met as the General Court.