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BJU US Hist chpt 2
BJU US History chapter 2 test
Question | Answer |
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3 reasons why settlers came to America | Religious freedom, hopes for fortune, land |
Major difference between Pilgrims and Puritans | Staying with the Anglican church |
Primary motivation for settlement in Massachusetts | Religious freedom |
The Pilgrims left Holland because | The Dutch culture was influencing the Pilgrims' children |
The Puritans attitude toward the Anglican church was that they wanted | to stay in the church and improve it |
What was a major reason for the quick growth of Massachusetts | The Great Migration |
Name the three categories of colonial government. | Charter colony, Proprietary colony & Royal colony |
Another word for Pilgrims | Separatists |
What nationality originally settled New York | The Dutch |
Who founded Antinomianism | Anne Hutchinson |
What is Antinomianism | The belief that obedience is not necessary for a proper relationship to God |
What was Americas first college | Harvard |
Who was the most significant figure in the settlement of Connecticut | Thomas Hooker |
Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire all | were started by settlers from Massachusetts |
Before the English came, New Jersey was settled by | Swedes and Dutch |
The first self-governing assembly in America was called | The House of Burgesses |
Roman Catholics found a refuge in the colony of | Maryland |
The purpose for the settlement of Georgia was | protect the colonies from Spain |
Who led the small group of Pilgrims to Plymouth on the Mayflower | William Bradford |
What colony did the Quakers undertake a "Holy Experiment" | Pennsylvania |
What were the two major crops grown in the Carolinas | tobacco and rice |
The first written consitution in America was called | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
Fifty acres of land for colonists in Virginia was called | Headrights |
Explorer of the New York region | Henry Hudson |
The Quaker who undertook the 'Holy Experiment' | William Penn |
A Proprietary colony is | governed by appointees of the king |
A Charter colony is | governed by a trade company of business |
A Royal colony is | controlled directly by a king |
Which section of the colonies had the greatest cultural diversity | The Middle colonies |
Is Conneticut a Middle Colony, New England Colony or Southern Colony | New England Colony |
Is Pennsylvania a Middle Colony, New England Colony or Southern Colony | Middle Colony |
Is Maryland a Middle Colony, New England Colony or Southern Colony | Southern |
This person was banished from Massachusetts for believing in separation of church and state | Roger Williams |
This peron was the proprietor of the southern Carolina settlement | Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper |
The governor of Massachusetts | John Winthrop |
The first governor of Maryland | Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore |
The Dutch governor of New Netherland who surrendered to the English | Peter Stuyvesant |
The Dutch governor who purchased Manhatan Island for $24 worth of cloth and trinkets from the Native Americans | Peter Minuit |
A contract that gave land to a colonist in exchange for labor is called | Indenture |