Exam #1

Question 1

The Origins of the majority of human existence in North America began

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With migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait

Question 2

The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began

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with migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait

Question 3

Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred approximately

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11,00 years ago

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Native American religions were closely linked to

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the natural world

Question 5

Which statement best describes the role of women in pre-Columbian North American tribes?

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In all tribes women cared for the children and prepared meals

Question 6

Regarding knowledge of the Americas prior to the fifteenth century, most Europeans

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were entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas

Question 7

The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century was

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Portugal

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Christopher Columbus

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-thought the world was much smaller than it was in reality.

Question 9

Which statement about Spanish settlements in the New World is FALSE?

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The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming

Question 10

In what way did sixteenth century Europeans benefit from trade between the Americas and Europe?

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A large number of new crops became available in Europe.

Question 11

Which of the following was NOT introduced by Europeans to the New World?

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Corn

Question 12

The portion of west Africa that provided the majority of slaves for the Spanish Empire of the sixteenth century

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had well-developed economies and political systems

Question 13

The European countries that controlled the African slave trade did so in which chronological order, from earliest to latest?

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the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English

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Seventeenth-century English colonial settlements

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were essentially business enterprises.

Question 15

The English colonists of Jamestown initially focused most on

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searching for gold.

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Captain John Smith strengthened the Jamestown settlement by

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Imposing work and order to the colonists

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The first important economic boom in Jamestown resulted from

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the production of tobacco

Question 18

The first Africans imported to Virginia in 1619

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were most likely indentured servants

Question 19

Which of the following is true of Bacon’s rebellion?

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It was a consequence of the indentured servant system

Question 20

In 1620, the Puritan Pilgrims who came to North America

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were Christian missionaries

Question 21

During its first year in North America, the Plymouth colony

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Survived in large part due to assistance from Indians

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The Puritan founders in Massachusetts who described their colony as a “city upon a hill”

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felt they were creating a holy community that would be a model for the world.

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In 1638, Anne Hutchinson was deported from the Massachusetts colony because she

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challenged the prevailing assumptions of the proper role of women in society.

Question 24

The development of the Carolina colony was notable in that

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the northern and southern regions were economically and socially distinct from each other.

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The New York colony

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emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch

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Like New York, the New Jersey colony

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had great ethnic and religious diversity

Question 27

In the seventeenth century, English Quakers

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All these answers are correct

Question 28

William Penn

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was a man of great wealth who converted to Quakerism

Question 29

In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was

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high valued

Question 30

The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the

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Scotch-Irish

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Industrialization in colonial America was hampered by

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All these answers are correct (english parliamentary regulation, a small domestic market, an inadequate labor supply, an inadequate transportation network)

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Commerce in colonial America relied in large part on

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barter

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In the “triangular trade,” the North American colonies primarily contributed

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raw materials

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The first plantations in colonial North America emerged in the tobacco-growing areas of

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Virginia and Maryland

Question 35

Primogeniture refers to the

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passing of property to the firstborn son

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In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly

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women of low social position

Question 37

The witchcraft trials in Salem

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saw the original accusers recant their charges

Question 38

Class divisions in colonial North American cities were

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more real and visible than in rural places

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in the 1760s, the Revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because

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cities were the centers of intellectual information

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Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought

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suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives

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The wide availability of reading material in colonial America was the result of

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the spread of printing technology

Question 42

The navigation Acts primarily benefited

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business and planters in the British Caribbean

Question 43

The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689

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saw an English king, James II, flee to the European continent

Question 44

What 4 factors impelled Europe settlers to look west across Atlantic?

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The European conquest of America began as an offshoot of the quest for a sea route to India, china, and the islands of the East Indies, the source of the silk, tea, spices, porcelain, and other luxury goods. Profit and piety- the desire to eliminate Islamic middlemen and win control of trade for Christian western Europe- combined to inspire the quest for a direct route to Asia.

Question 45

Obstacles faced by Chesapeake settlers

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• the colonys leadership changed repeatedly, its inhabitants suffered an extraordinarily high death rates, an d with the company seeking a quick profit, supplies from England proved inadequate. disease and lack of food took a heavy toll.

Question 46

Origins of slave trade to new world in 1600s

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Incessant demand for workers spurred by the spread of tobacco cultivation eventually led Chesapeake planters to turn to the transatlantic trade in slaves. The first Africans, twenty in all, arrived in virginia in 1619. Small numbers followed in subsequent years.