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(Q081) In 1508, Spain established the first permanent colony in the Americas in what is now Cuba. ,

False

(Q064) Slavery was never allowed in the devoutly Christian colony of Massachusetts

Flase

(Q015) Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was

tobacco

(Q019) having fled religious intolerance in ENgland, the Puritans in Massachusetts

were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity

(Q045) After achieving territorial unification, Spain sponsored the transatlantic voyages of Columbus.

True

(Q046) England's ongoing struggle to subdue Ireland delayed its entry into New World colonization

True

(Q046) England's ongoing struggle to subdue Ireland delayed its entry into New World colonization.

True

(Q060) Colonial Massachusetts was organized into self-governing towns

True

(Q072) The "Rights of Englishmen" were established in the Magna Carta

True

(Q076) A common conception throughout Europe was that freedom was more political or social in status than a moral or spiritual condition.

False

(Q076) During the early years of English settlement, the population of beaver diminished as a result of the fur trade

False

(Q078) Portugal enslaved the Spanish to grow sugar on plantations in the Azores, Canary, Madera, and Cape Verde islands starting before European colonization of the Americas.

False

(Q078) Portugal enslaved the Spanish to grow sugar on plantations in the Azores, Canary, Madera, and Cape Verde islands starting before European colonization of the Americas. ,

False

(Q009) The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at

Jamestown, Virginia

(Q021) Why did the Pueblo Revolt take place?

Native Americans in New Mexico grew resentful of Spanish colonization.

(Q039) Which of the following was promoted by Oliver Cromwell?

The expansion of Protestantism

(Q011) Native American religious beliefs and practices included

medicine men in positions of authority.

(Q066) All Pilgrims were Puritans

False

(Q081) In 1508, Spain established the first permanent colony in the Americas in what is now Cuba.

False

(Q018) In the religious view of the Puritans, you would get to heaven if

God predestined you to heaven or hell; no earthly act could change that.

(Q026) The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?

Grandchildren of the English Great Migration

(Q030) One change in Indian life after the English colonists settled was that

Indian use of alcohol became increasingly common and disruptive to Native American culture.

(Q005) Which of the following was a notable characteristic of sixteenth-century Spanish America?

Indians were compelled to work.

(Q003) What was the impact of European wood reductions upon Native American tribes?

It reduced the availability of animals for hunting.

(Q013) Which was a characteristic of Roger Williams' Rhode Island colony?

It was a refuge for religious nonconformists

(Q034) The English colonies differed from the Spanish in that the Spanish could

Jointly own all the wealth accumulated during marriage.

(Q020) The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that

Just and equal laws made by male representatives on board were to rule over others.

(Q037) For centuries before the conquest of the Americas, Europeans had intersected with__________ populations in North Africa and Eurasia.

Muslim

(Q020) The southern portion of the Iberian Peninsula was occupied until 1492 by which of the following religious groups? ,

Muslims

(Q018) In the 1500s and 1600s, the Spanish in the Americas relied on which of the following groups to work fields and mines?,

Native American workers

(Q007) WHich of the following was a theme of Puritan thought?

People enter this world as either the "elect" or the "damned."

(Q010) This dwelling structure in New Mexico stood five stories high and had more than 600 rooms.

Pueblo Bonita

(Q019) The reconquista was the reconquest of

Spain from the Moors.

(Q007) The three European colonizing countries in North America in the seventeenth century were

Spain, France, and the Netherlands.

(Q031) In 1610, __________ founded the capital of New Mexico in __________, establishing the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest.

Spain/Sante Fe

(Q016) The oldest site in the present-day continental United States to be continuously inhabited by Europeans and their descendants is

St. Augustine, Florida.

(Q044) New Englanders in the 1600s engaged in a profitable trade with

The West Indies

(Q035) How did the Dutch interact with Native American tribes in North America?

They engaged in warfare at times with Indian tribes.

(Q047) Spanish settlers in the New World comprised a mix of laborers, soldiers, priests, bureaucrats, craftsmen, and professionals.

True

(Q049) Anne Hutchinson scandalized Massachusetts authorities both for her unorthodox religious ideas and for her "unwomanly" engagement in public issues.

True

(Q056) At the time of first contact with Europeans, perhaps 12 million people inhabited the Inca kingdom.

True

(Q062) On the eve of colonization of the Americas, freedom in Europe was framed in hierarchical, top-down terms, with each level of society enjoying its own degree of freedom. ,

True

(Q064) Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders.

True

(Q071) Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizeable number of servants would immediately acquire a large estate

True

(Q073) Most New England colonies sided with Parliament during the English Civil War

True

(Q074) Some people before 1492 arrived in the Americas by sea from the Pacific Islands and Asia.

True

(Q077) By 1485, Portuguese ships had reached Benin, West Africa, whose craftsmen produced bronze sculptures.

True

(Q083) In the eighteenth century, Spanish colonial authorities adopted a more tolerant attitude toward traditional religious practices and made fewer demands on Indian labor. ,

True

(Q084) Believing they knew the secret to winning the Indians' affection, the French adopted a more humane policy of dealing with the Indians than their imperial rivals.

True

(Q041) In what century did England grant most working-class men the right to vote?

Twentieth century

(Q038) In 1498, the explorer Vasco de Gama proved that

an eastern sea route existed to Asian countries.

(Q002) Slaves, in the traditional African example, tended to be

criminals, debtors, and captives in war.

(Q033) Women in Dutch settlements

enjoyed more independence than in other colonies.

(Q040) The English belief in freedom as a common heritage helped to cast imperial wars against Spain as struggles between

freedom and tyranny

(Q012) The European practice of "coverture" included that

in marriage, a wife surrendered her legal identity.

(Q042) A "borderland" is a

meeting place of peoples where geographic and cultural borders are not clearly defined.

(Q008) At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, Native Americans had not developed

metal tools and machines

(Q031) In the first two years of Jamestown's existence, relations with the Indians were

mostly peaceful interactions and based on simple trade.

(Q023) Who were the mestizos in the Americas?

persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin

(Q037) The event that started the Pequot War was

the killing of a fur trader by the Pequots

(Q069) In the 1600s, nearly one quarter of the English settlers came as indentured servants.

False

(Q070) In 1493, the Catholic pope, Alexander VI, divided all the Americas between Spain and Britain.

False

(Q073) As the climate warmed, the early inhabitants of the Americas experienced a food increase as the immense animals they hunted increased in number.

False

(Q075) In the Spanish colonies, race and class remained unimportant as socially defined systems of power.

False

(Q052) Most immigrants to America from England in the 1600s were poor, young, single men

True

(Q044) The Indian belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things is called "existentialism."

False

(Q039) Which of the following European nations in the early seventeenth century experienced a "golden age" in the form of a rapid rise in wealth, the sciences, and the arts?

The Netherlands

(Q043) How did Indians gain power in some areas after European colonization began?

They pitted European colonizers against each other.

(Q047) The English colonies in North America and the West Indies were called "Plantations"

True

(Q048) Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for advocating freedom of individual conscience and religious choice.

True

(Q055) In Puritan New England, a husband's authority in his house was nearly absolute; genuine freedom for a woman was understood to come from her subjection to her husband's will and desires.

True

(Q056) At the time of first contact with Europeans, perhaps 12 million people inhabited the Inca kingdom. ,

True

(Q014) In 1619, the first elected assembly in colonial America was

the House of Burgesses in Virginia

(Q049) Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America prior to European colonization. ,

False

(Q067) Horses, cows, and pigs were plentiful in the Americas before Europeans arrived.

False

(Q001) Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were

High rates of death and disease

(Q028) Which African kingdom provided Europe with most of its gold?

Mali

(Q022) Who were the peninsulares in the Americas?

Persons of European birth

(Q053) Indenture contracts usually bound indentured servants for periods of five to seven years.

True

(Q057) Harvard College was principally founded to educate young men into the ministry

True

(Q058) Small-scale slavery in which Indians enslaved other Indians existed in some Indian societies.

True

(Q050) New Netherland extended from Quebec to the lower Mississippi Valley.

False

(Q051) The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was swiftly crushed by European colonial authorities.

False

(Q066) The Aztecs lived in a peaceful, nonviolent society.

False

(Q066) The Aztecs lived in a peaceful, nonviolent society. ,

False

(Q065) After four trips across the Atlantic, Columbus recognized he had not reached Asia. ,

False

(Q069) Perhaps 8 million Native Americans died in the century and a half following first contact, the greatest loss of human life in history.

False

(Q018) In the 1500s and 1600s, the Spanish in the Americas relied on which of the following groups to work fields and mines?

Native American Workers

(Q050) Seventeenth-century New England quickly developed into a land of African-based slavery

False

(Q063) Because Puritan Massechusetts was deeply religious, ministers were frequently elected to colonial officers

False

(Q063) Most European men in the 1500s owned property and could vote.

False

(Q055) Before Europeans arrived in the New World, Native Americans lacked extensive trading networks, irrigation systems, or large cities.

False

(Q061) Europeans in the 1500s held firmly to the view that all men are created equal. ,

False

(Q009) A major achievement of North American Indians in the thousands of years before Columbus's arrival was

,large earthen burial mounds in the Ohio River Valley

(Q016) In 1600s Virginia, a fem sole could perform which of the following tasks?

Acquire land

(Q024) Prior to 1800, the largest settled community in what is now the United States was

Cahokia

(Q025) Which of these crops formed the basis of Native American agriculture?

Corn


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