Chapter 2: Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660 Quiz

England did not establish a colonial empire in North America until the 1700s and did so with impressive speed. Explain why they expanded to the North American continent. Provide two (2) reasons and briefly describe each.

Answer explanation

Your answers may vary but in your answer, you could have considered push factors in England like the rule of King Henry the 8th and its influence on the Protestant Reformation, the rule of Queen Elizabeth 1 and her influence on the Virginia Company, the religious persecution of the Pilgrims and Puritans during the English Civil War, the lack of land and economic opportunity due to the Enclosure movement, etc.

To the Puritan leaders in the 1700s, Native American Indians were savages and immoral.

• True

• False

The romance between Pocahontas and John Smith led to their marrying in England, where she then died.

• True

• False

Treatment of the Indians by members of the English Virginia colony was influenced in part by Bartolome de Las Casas’s condemnation of Spanish behavior.

• True

• False

As the enclosure of land in England in the 1700s resulted in fewer farmers, many of these people moved to English cities, becoming jobless and causing vagrancy.

• True

• False

______ described best the actions of the Puritan leaders in Massachusetts Bay.

• Fair-minded

• Loving

• Irreligious

• Lazy

• Intolerant

The Native American leader Powhatan:

• tried to avoid trade with the colonists because he believed it would destroy Native American culture.

• managed to consolidate control over some thirty nearby tribes.

• was the brother of Pocahontas.

• invited the colonists to feast with his tribe and then slaughtered eighty Virginia settlers.

• won the respect of the colonists when he defeated John Smith in a wrestling match.

Why did King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church?

• The Pope had banned England from exploring the New World because the Church already had limited land ownership there to Spain and Portugal.

• He wanted a divorce, and the Pope refused to grant it.

• He was trying to unify Great Britain.

• He wanted to be pope, and the College of Cardinals refused to elect an English Catholic.

• He thought the Catholic Church was corrupt, and he wanted to protect the English people from its abuses.

Before their successful settlement in Jamestown, the English attempted a settlement on

• Roanoke Island

• Jamestown

• Bermuda Island

• The Hispaniola