HIUS 390 Quiz Settlement
HIUS 390 Quiz: Reading — Settlement and Self-Governing Institutions
- What practice did the Anglican Church implement in Virginia in response to a swelling colonial population by the 1670s and a lack of qualified Anglican clerics to lead weekly services in churches throughout Virginia?
- What caused William Berkeley to require oaths of allegiance to the Anglican Church and banishment of dissenting clergy?
- Where did the English first attempt to establish a colony in the New World, which failed once the gold mined there that was supposed to support it turned out to be fool’s gold?
- What caused the Virginia Algonquians to consolidate into chiefdoms?
- Why were the Roanokes hesitant to continue to provide Ralph Lane and the English settlement on Roanoke Island with corn?
- What did John Rolfe do that greatly benefited the Jamestown colony?
- In the first few years of the settlement’s existence, what did the Jamestown settlers primarily rely on to get food?
- What ended the first Anglo-Powhatan War?
- What is a major theme the textbook’s authors will focus on in our textbook?
- What European countries showed interest in the Chesapeake area before the English settled there?
- What goal did Bacon’s Rebellion initially have?
- Who is commonly credited with saving the Jamestown settlement during the first starving period by taking leadership and instilling discipline in the settlers?
- What was the underlying cause of the Anglo-Dutch Wars?
- In selecting a location for their fort, what was the main reason the English chose to settle Jamestown Island and did not remain on Point Comfort?
- What was Virginia’s primary source of labor in the seventeenth century (1600s)?
- Who did Governor William Berkeley believe he was supporting by enacting laws in Virginia supporting the Church of England?
- Why was the fort at Henricus abandoned only 11 years after it was established?
- Who did the court ultimately back when Anthony Johnson filed suit to get his slave John Casor back?
- In what areas did Virginia exercise autonomy during the English Civil War?
- What was remarkable about the court case Anthony Johnson was involved in when his slave claimed to be an indentured servant who had served his time?