2. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 2: Comparing Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colonies

**Quiz for Document 2.5: Letter Home from Massachusetts Bay (1631)**

Quiz for Document 2.5: Letter Home from Massachusetts Bay (1631)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. The Massachusetts settler’s letter to his parents in England supports which of the following conclusions?

Massachusetts Bay settlers’ religious devotion made them harder workers than Virginia settlers.

Massachusetts Bay settlers depended heavily on supplies from England to survive during their early years.

Unlike settlers in Virginia, Massachusetts Bay colonists were untroubled by the problems of sickness and disease.

The circumstances endured by settlers in Massachusetts Bay were little different from those in Virginia.

2. According to the Massachusetts colonist’s letter to his parents, what was necessary to grow a good crop of wheat?

A plentiful supply of cloth

Adequate rainfall

Indian labor

Fish

3. The letter from Massachusetts suggests that the colony’s economy was based primarily on

the trade in beaver furs.

the trade in English cloth and clothing.

agriculture and livestock.

tobacco plantations.

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