1. Colonial Foundations

Colonial Regions — Quiz

Test your understanding of colonial regions with 5 practice questions.

Practice Questions

Question 1

Which theological doctrine, central to Puritan beliefs, held that salvation was determined by God’s sovereign choice and shaped the religious and social life of the seventeenth-century New England colonies?

Question 2

The headright system, initiated in the early seventeenth century and granting land to those who financed indentured servants’ passage, most influenced the settlement patterns of which colonial region?

Question 3

The Antinomian Controversy of 1637, which led to the banishment of Anne Hutchinson for challenging clerical authority, took place in which colonial region?

Question 4

By the late seventeenth century, which colonial region’s economy depended heavily on the export of rice and indigo, requiring capital-intensive plantations and enslaved labor?

Question 5

The Barbados Slave Code of 1680, which legally defined perpetual, hereditary race-based slavery and limited enslaved people’s rights, was adopted in modified form by planters in which colonial region?