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5 Written Questions

1. William Penn allowed anyone to emigrate to Pennsylvania, in order to provide a haven for persecuted religions.
2. Declared that no new iron forges or mills could be created in the colonies.
3. 1690 - The first permanent settlement in the Carolinas, named in honor of King Charles II. Much of the population were Huguenot (French Protestant) refugees.
4. 1649 - Ordered by Lord Baltimore after a Protestant was made governor of Maryland at the demand of the colony's large Protestant population. The act guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians.
5. Written by Benjamin Franklin, it was filled with witty, insightful, and funny bits of observation and common sense advice (the saying, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," first appeared in this almanac). It was the most popular almanac in the colonies.

5 Matching Questions

1. John Bartram (1699-1777)
2. Crops in the Middle Colonies
3. Town meetings
4. Massachusetts School Law
5. New York: Dutch, 1664 English

1. a The middle colonies produced staple crops, primarily grain and corn.
2. b First public education legislation in America. It declared that towns with 50 or more families had to hire a schoolmaster and that towns with over 100 families had to found a grammar school.
3. c America’s first botanist; traveled through the frontier collecting specimens.
4. d New York belonged to the Dutch, but King Charles II gave the land to his brother, the Duke of York in 1664. When the British came to take the colony, the Dutch, who hated their Governor Stuyvesant, quickly surrendered to them. The Dutch retook the colony in 1673, but the British regained it in 1674.
5. e A purely democratic form of government common in the colonies, and the most prevalent form of local government in New England. In general, the town’s voting population would meet once a year to elect officers, levy taxes, and pass laws.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Drawn up by Parliament and presented to King William II and Queen Mary, it listed certain rights of the British people. It also limited the king’s powers in taxing and prohibitted the maintenance of a standing army in peacetime.
   1. King Philip’s War
   2. Bill of Rights, 1689
   3. House of Burgesses
   4. Frame of government
2. Virginia was formed by the Virginia Company as a profit-earning venture. Starvation was the major problem; about 90% of the colonists died the first year, many of the survivors left, and the company had trouble attracting new colonists. They offered private land ownership in the colony to attract settlers, but the Virginia Company eventually went bankrupt and the colony went to the crown. Virginia did not become a successful colony until the colonists started raising and exporting tobacco.
   1. Pilgrims and Puritans contrasted
   2. Crops in the Middle Colonies
   3. Virginia: purpose, problems, failures, successes
   4. Georgia: reasons, successes
3. Governor of the Dominion of New England from 1686 until 1692, when the colonists rebelled and forced him to return to England.
   1. The Enlightenment
   2. Sir Edmond Andros
   3. Admiralty courts
   4. Harvard founded
4. A Puritan and the first colonial poet to be published. The main subjects of her poetry were family, home, and religion.
   1. Woolens Act, 1699
   2. Ann Bradstreet (1612-1692)
   3. John Bartram (1699-1777)
   4. Brattle Street Church
5. A philosophical movement which started in Europe in the 1700's and spread to the colonies. It emphasized reason and the scientific method. Writers of the enlightenment tended to focus on government, ethics, and science, rather than on imagination, emotions, or religion. Many members of the Enlightenment rejected traditional religious beliefs in favor of Deism, which holds that the world is run by natural laws without the direct intervention of God.
   1. Frame of government
   2. Charleston
   3. Patron system
   4. The Enlightenment

5 True/False Question

1. Harvard founded → 1636 - Founded by a grant form the Massachusetts general court. Followed Puritan beliefs.
   

   True        False

2. Huguenots → French Protestants. The Edict of Nantes (1598) freed them from persecution in France, but when that was revoked in the late 1700s, hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled to other countries, including America.
   

   True        False

3. Pilgrims and Puritans contrasted → These were the two British legal doctrines governing the inheritance of property. Primogeniture requried that a man’s real property pass in its entirety to his oldest son. Entail requried that property could only be left to direct descendants (usually sons), and not to persons outside of the family.
   

   True        False

4. Massachusetts Bay Colony → 1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government.
   

   True        False

5. Anne Hutchinson, Antinomianism → She preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639.
   

   True        False