Native American (Indian) civilization was least highly developed in
North America
Which of the following New World plants revolutionized the International economy?
potatoes
The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of
A.similiar mountain ranges on the various continents B.the discovery of nearly identical species of fish in long-separated freshwater lakes of various continents C. the discovery of marsupials on the various continents D. the continued shifting of the earths crus
The colonists who ultimately embraced the vision of America as an independant nation had in common all of the following characteristics except
the desire to create an agricultural society
European explorers intorduced ____in the New World.
smallpox
The Great ice Age accounted for the origins of North America's human history because
it explosed a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America.
The origins of themodern plantation system can be found in the
Aftrican Slave system
Within a century after Columbus's landfall in the New World, the Native American population was reduced by nearly.
90%
All of the following contributed to the emergence of a new interdependent global
the belief of European explorers to create new cultures
The treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish conquistadores can be described as
at times brutal and exploitative
After his first voiyage, Christopher Columbus believed that he had
sailed to the outskirts of the East Indies
The flood of precious metal from the New World to Europe resulted in
the growth of capitalism
Spain began to fortify and settle its North American border lands in order to
protect its Central and South American domains from encroiachments by England
At the time of the European colonization of North America the number of Indian tribes was estimated at approximately.
500
The introduction of American plants around the world resulted in
rapid population growth in Europe
Which group was responsibile for salve trading in Africa long before the Europeans had arrived
the Arabs and Africans
In an effort to reach the Indies, Spain looked westward because
Muslims blocked the sea route
The European explorers who followed Columbus to North America
no longer saw themselves as subjects of European Kings
The development of "three sister" farming on the southeast Atlantic seaboard
enabled the Anasazis to prosper
Men became conquistadors because they wanted to
A) gain god's favor by spreading Christianity B) escapte dubious pasts C) seek adventure, as the heroes of classicla antiquity had done D) all of the above
The Christian crusaders were indirectly responsible for the discovery of America because they
brought back news of valuable Far Eastern spices, drugs and silk
At the outset, Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland colony because he
hoped to secure freedom of worship for his fellow Catholics
By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies
A) based their economies on the production of staple crops for export B) practiced slavery C) provided tax support for the Church of England D) had few large cities E) all of the avoce
The purpose of the periodic "mourning wars" was
the avenge the deaths of Huron warriors
The English treatment of the Irish, under the reign of Elizabeth I, can best be described
violent and unjust
...
place holder
The result of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War of 1644 can best be described as
ending any changes of assimiliating the native peoples into Virginia Society
The colony of South Carolina prospered
by developing close economic ties with the Britich West Indies
The Indians that had the greatest opportunity to adapt to the Europrean incursion were
inland tribes such as teh Algonquians
The colony of Georgia was founded
as defensive buffer for the valuable Carolinas
Despire an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to starve because
they were unaccustomed to fend for themselves and wasted time looking for gold
The attitude of Carolinians toward Indians can best be described as
neutral
Arrange in chronological order A) Reformation B) founding of Jamestown colony, C) Restoration D) defeat of the Spanish Armada
A, D, B, C,
George grew very slowly or all the following reasons except
John Oglethorpe's leadership
One of the earliest and most important exports from the Carolinas was
Indian Slaves
The biggest disrupter of Native American life was
disease
The Iroquois leader who helped his nation revive its old customs was
Handsome Lake
Thenative peoples of Virginia (Powhatans) succumbed to the Europeans because they
A) died in large numbers from European diseases B)lacked the unity necessary to resist the well-organized whites C) could be disposed of by Europeans with no harm to the oclonial economy D) were not a reliable labor sources E) all of the above
Georgia's founders were determined to
creat a haven for people imprisoned for debt
The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by
starvation, disease and frequent Indian raids
After the purchases of slaves in 1619 by Jamestown settlers, additional purchases of African were few because
they were too costly.
The guarantee that English settlers in the New World would retain the "rights of Englishmen" proved to be
the foundation for American liberties
Two major exports of teh Carolinas were
rice and Indian slaves
The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was teh most important for the future United States was
Massachusetts Bay
Under the Barbados slave code of 1661, slaves were
denied the most fundamental rights.
Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as
saving the colony from collapse
The first successful English attempt at colonization in 1585 was in
St. Augustine
The introduction of horses brought about significant change in the lives of the Lakotas from this they
became nomadic hunters
Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all
economically dependent on the export of a staple crop.
Sugar was called a rich man's crop for all of the following reasons except that it
could be purchased only by the wealthy
Some Africans became especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas because they
were experienced in rice cultivation
The statutes governing slavery in the North American colonies originated in
Barbados
Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the
defeat of teh Spanish Armada
England's defeat of the Spanish Armada
helped to ensure Englands naval dominance in the north Atlantic
Chief Powhatan had Captain John Smith kidnapped in order to
impress Smith with his power and show the Indian's desire for peace
On the eve of its colonizing adventure, England possessed
all of the above A) a unified national state B) a measure of religious unity C) a sense of nationalism D) a popular monarch
Economically, the colony of Pennsylvania
became profitable very quickly
Unlike Separatists, the Puritans
remained members of the Church of England
After the Pequot War, puritan efforts to convert indians to Christianity can best be described as
feeble, not equaling that of the Spanish or the French
For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the "middle Passage" can be best describerd as
the gruesome ocean voyage to america
Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by
young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land
in seventeenth century colonial America all of the following are true regarding women except
woman had no rights as individuals.
The Half-Way Covenant
admitted to baptism but not full membership the unconverted children of existing members
During the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witches were
property owning women
African American contributions to American culture include all of the following except
the guitar
The impact of New England on the rest of the nation can best be described as
extremely important
Most immigrants to the Chesapeake colonies in the seventeenth century came as
indentured servants
The combination of Calvinism, soil, and climate in New England resulted in the people there possessing which of the following qualities
E)All of the below A)energy B)stubborness C)self reliance D)resourcefulness
Urban development in the colonial South
was slow to emerge
In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies those in New England
had a more diversified economy
The expansion of New England society
proceeded in an orderly fashion
The population of the Cheapeakecolonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable for its
scarcity of women
The majority of African slaves coming to the New World
were delivered to South American and the West Indies
Puritans refused to recognize a woman's separate property rights because
they worried that such rights would undercut the unity of married persons
Slave Christianity emphasized all of the following in their faith except
the concepts of humility and obedience
____reaped the greatest benefit form the land policies of the "headright" system
Merchant Planters
When new towns were established in New England, all of the following were true except
families did not automatically receive land
As the seventeenth century wore on , regional differences continued to crystalize, most notably
the importance of slave labor in the south
As a result of Bacon's Rebillion
planters began to look for less troublesome laborers.. they felt slavery was the way to go because they were less troublesome.
Thomas Jefferson once observed that "the best school of political liberty the world ever saw" was the
New England town meeting
The Salem "witch hunt" in 1692
was the first in the English American colonies
By the end of the seventeenth century, indentured sevants who gained their freedome
had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages to their former masters
Southern colonies generally allowed married women to retain separate title to their property because
southern men frequently died young.
Many of the slaves who reached North America
were originally captured by African coastal tribes
All of the following were consquences of the Half_Way Covernant except
it maintained the original agreement of the covenant.
After 1680, reliance on a slave labor in colonial America rapidly increased because
All the below A) higher wages in England reduced thenumber of emigrating servants B) Planters feared the growing number of landless freemen in the colonies C) the British Royal African company lost its monopoly on the slave trade in colonial America D) Americans rushed to cash in on slave trade.
As slavery spread in the South
gaps in the social structure widened
Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from
white servants
Compared with most seventeenth century Europeans, Americans lived in
affluent abundance
For their labor in the colonies indentured servants received all of the following except
a headright
In the seventeenth century, due to high death rate families were both few and fragile in
the Chesapeake colonies
While slavery might have begun in America for economi reasons
racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American salve system
The Puritan system of congregtional church government logically led to
democracy in political government
By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was
Virginia
Seventeenth_century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by
growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production
Compared with indentured servants, African American slaves were
a more manageable labor force.
Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American South were
Landowning small farmers
over the course of the seventeenth century, most indentured servants
faced increasingly harsh circumstances
One featureof the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the
growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain
All of the following conditions caused many Scots to migrate to Northern Ireland and thence to America except
persecution for their Catholic religion
The person most often called the "First civilized American" was
Benjamin Franklin
In contrast to the seventeenth century, by 1775 colonial Americans
had become more stratified into social classes and had less social mobility
Colonial schools and colleges placed their main emphasis on
religion
Duing the colonial era, all of the following peoples created new societies out of diverse ethnic groups in America except
Asians
By 1775, which of the following communities could not be considered a city of colonial America?
Baltimore
By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was
less fervid than when the colonies were established
in 1775, the ________ churches were teh only two established (tax-supported) churches in colonial America.
Congregational and Anglican
All of the following are achievements of Benjamin Franklin except
influential poetry
The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was
lumbering
As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century
a momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country.
One feature common to all of the eventually rebellious colonies was their
rapidly rowing populations
By the end of the 1700's what was teh percentage of people living in rural areas of colonial America
90%
The Scots-Irish can best be described as
fiercely independant
The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was ________, whereas ___________ was teh least ethnically diverse
the middle colonies, New England
Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the power of teh governors to their will because
colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that paid the goernors salaries
one political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was
the property qualification for voting
By the mid_eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities except
opportunity for social mobility
When it came to religion, the Scots_Irish
advocated the policy of the established churches
By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on _____, the Chesapeake colonies relied on ________ and the souther colonies relied on _________
cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo
Colonial American taverns were all of teh following except
frequented mainly by the lower class
The population of teh thirteen American colonies was
perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon
The least honored profession in early colonial society was
medicine
The "new light" preachers of the Great Awakening
delivered intensely emotional sermons
All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence except
distinctive ethnic or racial structures
The time-honored Enlgish ideal, which Americans accepted for some time, regarded education as
reserved for the aristocratic few
The first American college free from determined control was
The university of Pennsylvania
When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1733, it intended the act to
inhibit colonial trade with the French West indies
The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to
the natural fertility of all Americans
By 1775, most governors of American colonies were
appointed by the king
Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated
Congregtionalist - New England Anglican - the South Presbyterian - the frontier
The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South
were not distributed evenly among whites
As the revolution approached, Presbyterian and Congregational ministers in general
supported the Revolutionary cause
English officials tried to establish the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because
the church would act as a major prop for kingly authority
In colonial America, educaiton was most zealously promoted
in New England
Which of the following was not considered to be a naval store
glass