Chapter 31. Reflections on An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay, Chapter 3

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Correct. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that the Virginia Company’s investors founded the Jamestown settlement in 1607, but that high rates of disease, colonial mismanagement, and conflicts with the native Algonquians made the colony very fragile. Not until the 1620s did the English crown take control of the colony and establish it on a firmer economic and political foundation.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that the Virginia Company’s investors founded the Jamestown settlement in 1607, but that high rates of disease, colonial mismanagement, and conflicts with the native Algonquians made the colony very fragile. Not until the 1620s did the English crown take control of the colony and establish it on a firmer economic and political foundation.

Correct. The answer is d. In order to demonstrate that the Virginia Company conceived of and administered the Jamestown colony as a commercial venture, the author discusses the ways that it ignored the settlement’s high mortality rate and continued to recruit new settlers through advertisements that promoted Virginia as a paradise. In doing so, he builds a case for the idea that the Virginia Company was motivated primarily by commercial interests, not human welfare.

Incorrect. The answer is d. In order to demonstrate that the Virginia Company conceived of and administered the Jamestown colony as a commercial venture, the author discusses the ways that it ignored the settlement’s high mortality rate and continued to recruit new settlers through advertisements that promoted Virginia as a paradise. In doing so, he builds a case for the idea that the Virginia Company was motivated primarily by commercial interests, not human welfare.

Correct. The answer is c. In order to shore up his claim that the English settlers in Jamestown had little regard for Native American culture, the author points to the settlers’ frequent use of violence and weaponry to make the Algonquians conform to their expectations. In doing so, he illustrates that the English settlers did not understand the Indians as merely different, but as their social and cultural inferiors.

Incorrect. The answer is c. In order to shore up his claim that the English settlers in Jamestown had little regard for Native American culture, the author points to the settlers’ frequent use of violence and weaponry to make the Algonquians conform to their expectations. In doing so, he illustrates that the English settlers did not understand the Indians as merely different, but as their social and cultural inferiors.

Correct. The answer is d. The author suggests that, because of the Virginia Company’s urgent need for investors and settlers, the proportion of gentlemen in Jamestown was six times greater than in England. Despite a chronic lack of food resources in the New World, these men clung to the Old World notion that gentlemen should not work with their hands and did not participate in any effort to raise food crops.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author suggests that, because of the Virginia Company’s urgent need for investors and settlers, the proportion of gentlemen in Jamestown was six times greater than in England. Despite a chronic lack of food resources in the New World, these men clung to the Old World notion that gentlemen should not work with their hands and did not participate in any effort to raise food crops.

Correct. The answer is b. Following the all-out assault on the English settlers that Opechancanough had organized in 1622, which led to the deaths of 347 colonists, royal investigators discovered that the appalling mortality among colonists was caused more by mismanagement than by Indian raids. In 1624, King James revoked the charter of the Virginia Company and made it a royal colony subject to the direction of the royal government.

Incorrect. The answer is b. Following the all-out assault on the English settlers that Opechancanough had organized in 1622, which led to the deaths of 347 colonists, royal investigators discovered that the appalling mortality among colonists was caused more by mismanagement than by Indian raids. In 1624, King James revoked the charter of the Virginia Company and made it a royal colony subject to the direction of the royal government.

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