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What did the first English arrivals seek to secure on their arrival in Plymouth?
A community of religious purity.
Why did England conquer Ireland between 1565 and 1576?
Irish noblemen refused to submit to the English monarchy.
In Spain's New World culture, the offspring of conquistadors and Indians were known as
Mestizo.
Why were religious dissenters so frequently persecuted in late-sixteenth-century and early-seventeenth-century European nations like England?
Religion was a state matter.
Which of the following contributed to an environment that allowed slavery to take root in the English colonies?
A weak colonial government
What was a notable characteristic of Jamestown during its first decade?
An appallingly high mortality rate.
The New England colonies benefited from
Better relations with Indians than Chesapeake colonists.
A dramatic change in Indian culture produced by the arrival of Spain was the
Conversion of the Plains Indians to a horse culture.
French traders and Huron and Algonquian hunters
Created a network that made each group dependent on the other.
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Divided the discovered world between Spain and Portugal.
The House of Burgesses was the first
Elected representative government in the New World.
Puritans wanted to
Eliminate aspects of Roman Catholicism from the Church of England.
Why did the combination of corn and beans prove so crucial to the diet of early Americans?
The beans added amino acid to the corn, making the combination as nutritious as meat.
How did the French learn to survive in New France?
They adapted to Indian customs and assisted Indian friends against their enemies.
What was the reconquista?
A 700-year contest between Spain and Islamic peoples for control of the Iberian Peninsula.
The first English colony at Roanoke was
Abandoned by the British because it served no useful economic or military purpose.
Under the theory of mercantilism, one nation's gain was
Another nation's loss.
Which of the following appears to have been the most important reason for the extinction of the woolly mammoth?
Climatic Shifts
Those known as Separatists
Gave up on reforming the Church of England.
By an Act of Toleration, settlement in Maryland was open to
Those who believed in Jesus Christ.
Most colonists in Virginia who did not survive were
Victims of malnutrition and disease.
Archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest Americans arrived on the continent
by 12,000 BCE
In the mercantile system, colonies were useful to European countries because they
Provided raw materials and markets for manufactured goods.
England's first activity in the New World was to
Steal wealth from Spain.
The Columbian Exchange refers to the process by which
Goods, germs, and ideas travel from the Old World to the New World and the New World to the Old World.
Sir Francis Drake is best known as a
Privateer who helped defeat the Spanish Armada.
To address the colony's labor problem, Virginia governor John Rolfe
Tasked England to send its poor across the Atlantic.
Most English settlers believed
That Indians were incapable of conversion to the English way of life.
Why have scholars called Mesoamerica the "Cradle of the Americas"?
Why have scholars called Mesoamerica the "Cradle of the Americas"?
The term "middle ground" refers to
an area where European and Indian cultures and people coexisted in relative peace.
