the american promise test 1
As a result of the cultivation of tobacco, there were effectively two social classes in Virginia. These were known as
. wild bachelors and the state council
The doctrine of predestination can best be described as the belief that
God already knows all future events, so people can't affect their outcome
Which of the following is NOT true about Pocahontas?
Her story has been told accurately in the movies about her
The first center of Spanish colonization in the New World was
Hispaniola
The first elected assembly in America was the____________________in the colony of __________________
House of Burgesses.......Virginia
Which of the following is true of indentured servitude under English law?
Indentured servants served a limited number of years then were freed
European diseases were disastrous to native Americans because
Indians had no immunity to European diseases they had never been exposed to before
The earliest surviving English settlement in North America was
Jamestown
The Aztec city captured and destroyed by Hernan Cortes was called_________________ and was located where today's city of_________________ is
Tenochtitlan.... Mexico
Which of the following do we learn from the case of Mary Dyer?
The Puritans strictly, but fairly, enforced their town covenants
Which were the two most important crops produced in the Spanish Caribbean
sugar and tobacco
Columbus made four trips to____________________, even though he believed that he had reached ___________
the Caribbean Sea.... Africa
The corporation responsible for sending colonists to Jamestown was
the Virginia Company
Slavery in British America was a "family system," meaning that
the children of slaves were also slaves
One of the best sources we have for studying Spain's fist contact with native Caribbean people is
the diary of Christopher Columbus
Class mobility refers to
the possibility of losing social status, the ability to accumulate personal wealth and one's ability to rise in social status
Most of what we know about the Powhatan Indians, including almost everything known about Pocahontas, comes from
the writings of John Smith
The Spanish introduced slaves taken from Africa into the New World because
their Native American laborers were dying so rapidly
Cortes had an advantage over the Aztecs because
they thought he was a god
The main purpose of Columbus's voyage west across the Atlantic was
to discover a sea route to Asia shorter than sailing around Africa
The Jamestown colony struggled because it was populated by too many ________________ and too few ________________
"gentlemen".... laborers
which of the following arguments was used to justify slavery in the English colonies?
Slavery provides real social benefits, especially as it frees white people to pursue more useful occupations than manual labor. Slavery is an economic necessity, since slaves are an inexpensive, flexible form of labor.Slavery is acceptable because Africans are naturally suited to be slaves
Which of the following is NOT true of the Atlantic slave trade?
Slaves were transported mostly to North America
Which of the following explains the most of the decline in the Indian population of the Americas?
disease
What kind of labor was most often performed by the first African slaves working under the Spanish in the Caribbean?
fieldwork, especially in sugar plantations
Which of the following was NOT a consequence of Virginia's emphasis on tobacco as a cash crop?
greater political power for the farm workers on whom the tobacco industry depended
The Puritans who founded Massachusetts believed that
human being are naturally sinful, so strict laws are necessary to control them
Many settlers in colonial Virginia were "second sons," young men who had been denied an inheritance under the
laws of primogeniture
