To give the student a better understanding of the history, how have the historians in the video decided to logically and academically divide the MAIN and overall subject matter regarding early English settlement to America?  Historian Donald Miller is the main lecturer.
A. They talk about men and women, such as lifespan and family roles.
B. They trace the development of the free settlers, the indentures, and the slaves.
C. They focus on the similarities and differences, cooperation and differences, between the Europeans and Indians.
D. They limit the discussion to the inhabitants and development of two specific areas, Jamestown and Massachusetts Bay.
E. They detail the settlement and events that occurred in each of the 13 colonies, highlighting the fact that each was unique in its own way.
ANSWER: D

What one thing was the MOST important item lacking in the Jamestown settlement and colony?
A. Labor
B. Women and families
C. Slaves
D. Tobacco
E. Gold
ANSWER: A

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by which two distinct groups, both which had been harassed by the government in England?
A. Separatists and Pilgrims
B. Catholics and Protestants
C. Puritans and Separatists
D. Puritans and Anglicans
E. English and Dutch
ANSWER: C

No group came to the New World in greater numbers or better prepared than John Winthrop and the Puritans, complete with the actual charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, giving them the power of self governance.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: A

Since Jonathan Winthrop and John Smith were contemporaries, they both agreed that the Massachusetts Bay Colony should follow the lead and example set by the earlier Jamestown colony.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: B

By today’s standards, which of the following is the most different regarding church and state relations in Massachusetts Bay.
A. Families paid taxes to support the church, whether or not they were members.
B. Only church members could vote and hold public office.
C. To keep your land and the legal establishment of a town, settlers had to build it around a Congregational church and promise to live in harmony and Christian brotherhood with their neighbors.
D. All of these answers are similar to today.
E. None of these answers are similar and in fact are prohibited in the U.S. Constitution
ANSWER: E

Puritans were not tolerant people, as seen in the examples of banishment of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson for their dissent from the established theocracy.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: A

Americans today often speak about a “separation of church and state”.  To be the most historically accurate, they should attribute this separation to its very first champion in America.  Who is that person?
A. Anne Hutchinson
B. Jonathan Winthrop
C. John Smith
D. Roger Williams
E. Nathaniel Bacon
ANSWER: D

Atrocities and savagery were committed by both Wampanoags and Puritans during the course of King Phillip’s War in New England.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: A

Historians believe that the double significance of Bacon’s Rebellion was that it:
A. Increased the demand for Black African slavery and the tightening of government control over Virginia.
B. Led to a sharp increase in the importation and use of indentured servants, which in turn led to more women being brought to the colony, which was a clear need for the establishment of families.
C. Illustrated that the lucrative tobacco profits could be shared by both the local Indians and Europeans  and that the could work peacefully together.
D. Resulted in the first passage of gun control laws by the Virginia House of Burgesses, and this became a model that would later be used in the U.S. Constitution.
E. Led to land reforms, which helped to decrease the gap between the rich and poor and bring about are more equal social structure.
ANSWER: A