CH 2 QUIZ
freedom of speech
The 1657 petition known as the Flushing Remonstrance concerned which of the following?
potatoes*
Which New World crop soon became a dietary staple for Europeans?
wheat
Which crop did the Europeans bring to the New World?
barley
Which crop did the Europeans first find in the New World?
the law making slavery a hereditary condition inherited through a child's mother
Which law had the greatest impact on the legal status of Africans in North America in the 1600s?
competition with each other
Which of the following most drove the governments of European nation states in colonizing the Americas?
established Native American trade routes
Which of the following was most helpful to the success of the Columbian Exchange in the New World? Correct!
established Native American trade routes
The Columbian Exchange between Western Europe and the native people of the New World thrived mainly due to which of the following?
Other forms of inexpensive labor were becoming scarce.
What happened in the late 1600s that led to changes in the legal status of Africans in the United States?
The Ottoman Empire
What was the most powerful and most dangerous empire to nearest Western Europe at the time of Columbus?
from the land--farming
According to the textbook, how did most Europeans in the 14th an 15th centuries make their living?
the work of the Franciscan missionaries with the native peoples*
After explorers were unable to find a passage to Asia through Florida, what led the Spanish crown to continue financing the Florida colony?
They were pacifists who were against fighting wars.
How were the Quakers different from other Protestant groups? Correct!
the Bahamas
On which modern-day location did Christopher Columbus's fleet first land in the New World?
Quakers
The Flushing Remonstrance was a petition for freedom of religion written by people from what religion?
Marco Polo
The Western European curiosity that led to the Columbian Exchange originated with which explorer's travels?
the declaration of slavery as a hereditary condition*
The law that caused the greatest change to the legal status of Africans in North America involved which of the following?
that the Catholic Church should be changed from within
What belief did the Quakers hold that other Protestant groups did not?
Native Americans were not able to resist diseases carried by Europeans.
Why did European colonists choose to replace the slave labor of native peoples with that of West Africans?
The southern colonies' economies depended more heavily on agriculture.
Why did slavery play a larger role in driving economic expansion in the southern colonies than those further north?
