Question: The Virginia House of Burgesses:

Answer: was created as part of the Virginia Company’s effort to encourage the colony’s survival.

Question: Which English group did the most to reshape Native American society and culture in the seventeenth century?

Answer: settlers farming the land

Question: The Magna Carta:

Answer: granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons.

Question: How did most Puritans view the separation of church and state?

Answer: They allowed church and state to be interconnected by requiring each town to establish a church and levy a tax to support the minister.

Question: Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England:

Answer: were lower-class men.

Question: In the seventeenth century, New England’s economy:

Answer: centered on family farms and also involved the export of fish and timber.

Question: The Puritans believed that male authority in the household was:

Answer: to be unquestioned.

Question: The Mayflower Compact established:

Answer: a civil government for the Plymouth Colony.

Question: How did indentured servants display a fondness for freedom?

Answer: Some of them ran away or were disobedient toward their masters.

Question: In regard to religious toleration, the Puritans:

Answer: saw only their faith as the truth.