HIUS 390 Quiz Settlement

HIUS 390 Quiz: Reading — Settlement and Self-Governing Institutions

1. 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?
2. What caused William Berkeley to require oaths of allegiance to the Anglican Church and banishment of dissenting clergy?
3. 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?
4. What caused the Virginia Algonquians to consolidate into chiefdoms?
5. Why were the Roanokes hesitant to continue to provide Ralph Lane and the English settlement on Roanoke Island with corn?
6. What did John Rolfe do that greatly benefited the Jamestown colony?
7. In the first few years of the settlement’s existence, what did the Jamestown settlers primarily rely on to get food?
8. What ended the first Anglo-Powhatan War?
9. What is a major theme the textbook’s authors will focus on in our textbook?
10. What European countries showed interest in the Chesapeake area before the English settled there?
11. What goal did Bacon’s Rebellion initially have?
12. Who is commonly credited with saving the Jamestown settlement during the first starving period by taking leadership and instilling discipline in the settlers?
13. What was the underlying cause of the Anglo-Dutch Wars?
14. 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?
15. What was Virginia’s primary source of labor in the seventeenth century (1600s)?
16. Who did Governor William Berkeley believe he was supporting by enacting laws in Virginia supporting the Church of England?
17. Why was the fort at Henricus abandoned only 11 years after it was established?
18. Who did the court ultimately back when Anthony Johnson filed suit to get his slave John Casor back?
19. In what areas did Virginia exercise autonomy during the English Civil War?
20. 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?