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Chapter 1: Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas

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	France dominated the exploration and colonization of the Americas in the sixteenth century.

	True False

	England's delay in New World colonization was largely the consequence of its navy's defeat by the Spanish Armada in 1588.

	True False

	The introduction of tobacco as a cash crop helped save the Jamestown colony.

	True False

	Under Queen Elizabeth I, the Anglican Church became the official Church of England.

	True False

	Puritans believed in predestination.
	Puritans believed in predestination.
	True False

	Puritans, who favored a form of church organization in which authority emanated up from the local congregations, rather than from the top down, were called Arminians.

	True False

	In Puritan Massachusetts Bay, clergymen were not allowed to hold public office such as seats on the General Court.

	True False

	The Dutch originally established the colony that later became New York.

	True False

	Pennsylvania was England's first proprietary colony in North America.

	True False

	Queen Elizabeth I took little interest in England's colonization of the New World.

	True False

	Most English settlers who came to America in the seventeenth century were primarily motivated by religious persecution.

	True False

	The first Pilgrim governor was Thomas Morton.
	The first Pilgrim governor was Thomas Morton.
	True False

	Pennsylvania was the only proprietary colony that was not founded as a refuge for a dissenting religious group then being persecuted in England.

	True False

	William Penn never visited Pennsylvania.
	William Penn never visited Pennsylvania.
	True False

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True/False Quiz

France dominated the exploration and colonization of the Americas in the sixteenth century.

England's delay in New World colonization was largely the consequence of its navy's defeat by the Spanish Armada in 1588.

The introduction of tobacco as a cash crop helped save the Jamestown colony.

Under Queen Elizabeth I, the Anglican Church became the official Church of England.

Puritans believed in predestination.

Puritans, who favored a form of church organization in which authority emanated up from the local congregations, rather than from the top down, were called Arminians.

In Puritan Massachusetts Bay, clergymen were not allowed to hold public office such as seats on the General Court.

The Dutch originally established the colony that later became New York.

Pennsylvania was England's first proprietary colony in North America.

Queen Elizabeth I took little interest in England's colonization of the New World.

Most English settlers who came to America in the seventeenth century were primarily motivated by religious persecution.

The first Pilgrim governor was Thomas Morton.

Pennsylvania was the only proprietary colony that was not founded as a refuge for a dissenting religious group then being persecuted in England.

William Penn never visited Pennsylvania.