History 180 ch.1-5 MC
Archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest Americans arrived on the continent A) By 12,000 BCE. B) In large groups of hunters and gatherers. C) In one small group that had been banished from Siberia. D) No earlier than 9000 BCE.
A
Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia was triggered by A) Routine episode of violence in the middle ground inhabited by Europeans and Indians B) French traders attempting to move into English territory C) Governor Berkeley's orders for Nathaniel Bacon's arrest on charges of treason D) Resistance to new tax laws from Parliament
A
How did the French learn the survive in New France? A) They adapted to Indian customs and assisted Indian friends against their enemies B) They copied the English who had established New World colonies much earlier C) Lured Spanish colonists from New Spain who had experience in such matters D) Sent along a mathematician who was skilled at problem solving to show them the way
A
Mercantilism defined a nation's wealth by the A) Amount of gold and silver it possessed B) Number of New World colonies it developed C) Potential earnings it possessed D) Volume of its exports
A
Parliament asserted its authority to regulate trade with and within its empire by several acts known collectively as A) Navigation acts B) Orders in council C) Royal prerogatives D) Two treatises on government
A
Planters in South Carolina A) Preferred to live in elegant houses in Charleston than on their plantations B) Rarely worked because overseers kept slaves busy C) Struggled to maintain political control over the increasing city population D) Were forced to remain on plantations to keep slaves working efficiently
A
Puritans wanted to A) Eliminate aspects of Roman Catholicism from Church of England B) Increase sale of wholesome foods and fabrics C) Preserve chastity until marriage D) Prevent sale of selected items on Sunday
A
Puritans wanted to A) Eliminate aspects of Roman Catholicism from the Church of England B) Increase sale of wholesome foods and fabrics C) Preserve chastity until marriage D) Prevent sale of selected items on Sunday
A
Southern colonies A) Accounted for 60 percent of colonial exports B) Had no natural ports C) Led the colonies in literacy because more children attended school in southern colonies D) Suffered from the highest rate of unemployment
A
The survival of Plymouth colony was made possible by A) Assistance from friendly Indians B) Careful planning by company officials C) Leadership of Miles Standish and Jonathan Winthrop D) Mild winters and summers and absence of malaria
A
To address the colony's labor problem, Virginia governor John Rolfe A) Tasked England to send its poor across the Atlantic B) Introduced first public works projects in American history C) Introduced first measures of immigration control D) Recruited skilled farmers from all over Europe
A
Treaty of Tordesillas A) Divided the discovered world between Spain and Portugal B) Created what we know as the International Date Line, which divided the globe C) Gave Pope Alexander VI the authority to approve native baptisms
A
Under the theory of mercantilism, one nation's gain was A) Another nation's loss B) Measured in welfare of citizens C) Tied to welfare of other nations D) sure to grow in absence of government
A
What problem did the Half-Way Convenant try to address? A) Shrinking number of spiritual rebirths in the Puritan community B) Growing number of Anglo-Indian marriages C) Need for a Indian alliance in the face of Indian enemies D) Absence of a charter for the colony of Massachusetts
A
What was a notable characteristic of Jamestown during its first decade? A) An appallingly high mortality rate B) Good rapport with Indians C) Industry demonstrated by settlers eager to make colony successful D) instant prosperity
A
What was the Reconquista? A) A 700 year contest between Spain and Islamic peoples for control of the Iberian Peninsula B) the foolish wandering of a demented knight who insisted that windmills were dragons C) A movement within Catholic Church to require uniformity of belief throughout Spain D) portion of New World administered by those who conquered it
A
What was the primary purpose of Spain's colony of New Mexico? A) To serve as an outpost of Spain's empire and protection for its northern border from France B) To keep Texas from claiming the entire Southwest C) To protect the transportation of precious ores on Santa Fe Trail D) To provide a workshop for artists, much like the Mediterranean coast of France
A
What was the status of most slaves when Europeans traded for them in Africa? A) Captives of war B) Criminals C) Religious outcasts D) Volunteers
A
Which of the following was NOT one of the reasons for the Pueblo Revolt of 1680? A) Spanish colonists were trying to sell Pueblo Indians into slavery B) Spanish made excessive demands on the labor of Pueblo Indians C) Pueblo Indians had to pay tribute D) Spanish blocked the Pueblos from trading with Apache and Navajo
A
Why were religious dissenters so frequently persecuted in late 17th century and early 18th century European nations like England? A) Religion was a state matter B) Religion was a private matter C) Religion at the time was mystical D) Religion at the time threatened monarchical rule
A
"Middle ground" refers to: A) A demilitarized zone or safe zone between 2 European nations' colonies B) an area where European and Indian cultures and people coexisted in relative peace C) the locations where Indian hunters and traders brought their pelts to trade with predominantly French traders D) Governing councils that administered European-Indian relations
B
A dramatic change in Indian culture produced by the arrival of Spain was the A) Benevolent attitude of conquistadors toward Indians B) Conversion of the Plains Indians to a horse culture C) Improvement in the health of Indians after the arrival of European medicine D) Indians eager acceptance of Christianity
B
Chesapeake planters modeled themselves after A) Elite members of London society B) English country gentlemen C) French courtiers D) Lords of medieval manors
B
Enlightenment thinkers A) Advocated faith healing as opposed to the practice of medicine B) Believed in rational thinking and scoffed at superstition C) Followed traditional Christian teachings D) Placed a copy of Ten Commandments in all schoolrooms
B
First English colony at Roanoke was A) Abandoned by its founders following disagreement over religious issues B) Abandoned by British because it served no useful economic or military purpose C) Crushed by a powerful Indian alliance D) Deserted when colonists mutinied against their governor
B
French traders and Huron and Algonquian hunters A) Competed with Hudson Bay Company reps for control of the Ohio country B) Created a network that made each group dependent on the other C) Helped French peasants adapt to the new environment D) worked together after Indians converted to Christianity
B
House of Burgesses was the first A) Act of religious toleration in English history B) Elected representative government in New World C) Place where businessmen could buy and sell stocks in America D) Puritan equivalent of House of David
B
How did planters keep their slaves busy all year? A) Assigning them specific tasks B) Diversifying crops C) Making them accountable for daily tasks D) Rotating slaves to plantations where additional work awaiting them
B
The Great Awakening in the 1740s was a A) Medical breakthrough in the care of encephalitis B) Realization that Parliament took unfair advantage of colonial commerce C) Revival movement with an emotional appeal D) Triumph of reason over emotion
B
The New England colonies benefited from A) absence of religious dissent B) Better relations with Indians than Chesapeake colonists C) More aid from English governemnt D) Prohibiting introduction of slavery
B
Wampanoag chieftain Metacom, or King Philip, A) Leg his people westward quietly when English officials informed him that his father, Massasoit, had signed a treaty B) Occupied land claimed by Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Rhode Island C) Shared his farm and hunting grounds with French and English traders D) Welcomed all Europeans to Connecticut
B
What accounted for the relative autonomy of slaves in the South Carolina low country? A) Slaves separate language B) Slaves escape to Sea Islands C) Slaves rejection of African culture D) Absence of owners on large plantations
B
What did the first English arrivals seek to secure on their arrival in Plymouth? A) An independent nation B) A community of religious purity C) Commercial ties with the natives D) African slavery and tobacco plantations
B
Most English settlers believed A) In religious toleration for everyone... B) That Indians were... C) That North America... D) That Spaniards...
B*
What was the boldest and most radical assertion of Two Treatises of Government? A) An issue of home rule and also who should rule at home B) Identification of a right of revolution... C) No taxation without representation D) Separation of church and state
B, D?
Anne Hutchinson was forces out of Massachusetts for A) Abandoning her husband and 12 children B) Advocacy of permitting nontestifiers to vote C) Criticism of its clergy and Puritan doctrine of "preparation" D) Licentious and unrepenant living
C
In Spain's New World culture, the offspring of conquistadors and Indians were known as A) Ayuantamiento B) Encomienda C) Mestizo D) Requerimiento
C
Sir Francis Drake is best known as A) Founder of first English colony at Jamestown B) Leader of Church of England during its separation from Rome C) Privateer who helped defeat Spanish Armada D) Religious leader who opposed introduction of slaves in New World on moral grounds
C
The Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower were A) More interested in becoming wealthy in their new home than in religious freedom B) Planning on returning to England with great wealth earned in the colonies C) Supposed to go to the Chesapeake area to help develop Virginia D) Trying to establish a haven for catholics in the colonies
C
The bloodless/Glorious revolution in 1688 A) Encouraged nobles in their quest to recreate a feudal society B) Ended the commonwealth and restored James II to the throne C) Placed Mary and William, both protestants, on the throne D) Restored property rights
C
The slave code in Carolina was influenced most by A) English common law B) passages from Deuteronomy in the Bible C) similar regulations in Barbados D) the legal code of Hammurabi
C
Those known as Separatists A) Agreed that the king should be granted a divorce from Catherine of Aragon so he could remarry B) Believed in Arminian creed C) Gave up on reforming Church of England D) Wanted England to get rid of Ireland and Scotland because the Celts were difficult to govern
C
Time that Africans spent aboard ship en route to enslavement in America was called A) Hell on earth B) Middle Passage C) Purgatory D) the good old days
C
What accounted for the relative prosperity of Pennsylvania in the middle of the 18th century? A) A strong government under the Society of Friends B) The frugal thrift of its scots-irish settlers C) Its easy access to landownership D) its aggressive monetary policy
C
What does the case of Mary Dyer in 1660 illustrate? A) Puritans practiced a fierce rhetoric but were lenient in practice B) Quakers had a tenuous grasp on social realities of English colonies C) Quakers were willing to defy authority even at their own personal risk and expense D) Quakers practiced their religion without a church and without clergy
C
What enabled the New World slave system to grow so rapidly? A) Abundance of persons willing to move to the Americas for a new start in life B) Adaptability of Indians and Africans to slavery C) European demand for plantation crops D) Lower taxes on commodities produced by slaves
C
Which of the following appears to have been the most important reason for the extinction of the woolly mammoth? A) Overhunting B)European diseases C)Climactic shifts D) A massive earthquake
C
Which of the following contributed to an environment that allowed slavery to take root in English colonies A) A lack of religious faith B) undue influence of Spanish and French merchants C) Weak colonial government D) The high price of land
C
Why did the combination of corn and beans prove so crucial to the diet of early Americans? A) Corn remedied the digestive issues that beans created B)Beans neutralized an otherwise toxic compound in Archaic forms of corn C)The beans added amino acid to the corn, making the combination as nutritious as meat D) Corn and beans grew under different conditions and in different places, making harvests more reliable
C
Why have scholars called Mesoamerica the "Cradle of the Americas"? A) The Native American population originiated in this region B) The region was the first to embrace a monotheistic religion C) The region hosted the first technologically advanced civilizations D) This was the only region in which Native Americans survived the Ice Age
C
According to the author of Two Treatises of Government, what was the purpose of government? A) To ensure domestic tranquility B) To maintain a favorable balance of trade with other nations C) To protect the lives, liberties, and fortunes of people who created it D) To provide security from foreign foes
C*
Between 1619, possibly when the first African slaves reached Virginia, and the elimination of the international slave trade in the United States in 1808, approximately how many Africans arrived? A) About 250,000 B) Approximately 1 million C) 4 million D) Slightly more than 500,000
D
By an Act of Toleration, settlement in Maryland was open to A) Atheists and agnostics who denied the existence of a deity B) Jews and Muslims C) Persons of any faith D) Those who believed in Jesus Christ
D
England's first activity in New World was to A) Disrupt French efforts to gain a monopoly in fur trade B) enslave Indians C) provide religious liberty for all colonists D) steal wealth from Spain
D
How did colonial elites respond to the Stono Rebellion of 1739? A) Declared war on Spain B) Agreed to minimal conditions for slaves C) looked to import new African slaves who were more compliant D) sought to curb the import of African slaves and encourage European immigration instead
D
In the mercantile system, colonies were useful to European countries because they A) Absorbed products of other countries B) Could be counted on for manpower in case of war C) Had significant amounts of gold available in case D) Provided raw materials and markets for manufactured goods
D
Most colonists in Virginia who didn't survive were A) Captured and enslaved by Spanish raiders B) Killed by Indians C) Lost in wilderness looking for gold D) Victims of malnutrition and disease
D
Roger Williams advocated A) Equality B) Freedom for unsaved to behave as they wished C) Sending colonists who refused to work back to England D) Separation of church and state
D
The Columbian Exchange refers to the process by which A) Goods, germs, and ideas travel from Old to New world B) The environments in both Old and New World turn, changed the plants and animals C) Goods, germs, and ideas travel from New to Old world D) Goods, germs, ideas travel from Old to New world and New to Old world
D
The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening A) Appealed to the same sorts of people B) Reflected the common belief that all humans were politically and spiritually equal C) Had little influence on developments in Europe D) None of the statements is accurate
D
The Enlightenment was a belief that A) Human emotion provided the best guide for important decisions B) Man should concentrate on getting to Heaven, not improving himself on Earth C) Revelation from God advanced human understanding D) Understanding and improving the universe could be achieved through the human mind
D
The chief cash crop among southern colonies was A) corn B) cotton C) sugarcane D) tabacco
D
What did the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment have in common? A) They understood people as naturally born sinners B) They emphasized the power of the human mind C) They affirmed the racial equality of black and white D) They criticized established authority
D
Who wrote Two Treatises of Government? A) Anthony Ashley Cooper B) Edmund Andros C) John Coode D) John Locke
D
Why did England conquer Ireland between 1565 and 1576? A) Irish Catholics refused to submit to Anglican Church B) Ireland, the English suspected, had rich gold deposits C) Irish were allied with Dutch, raiding English ships D) Irish noblemen refused to submit to English monarchy
D
Why did Carolina's governor complain that slaves were "running dayly" to Florida? A) Florida offered a better climate, especially for older people B) Freedom dues were greater in Florida C) Religious restrictions on slaves were greater in Carolina D) Spaniards paid them wages and introduced them to Catholicism
D*
