History
The French captain Jacques Cartier most importantly explored the:
St. Lawrence River
By 1700, the most democratic and important social institutions were:
Taverns.
John Peter Zenger's trial in 1735 established:
That truth is defense in libel cases.
Christopher Columbus first landed in the New World in:
The Bahamas
Which of the following was an advantage for women in North America regarding an expanding population?
Women often had a child every two or three years before menopause.
One of the most controversial elements of the Great Awakening was:
Women who rose to speak during religious services.
The right to vote for members of the colonial assemblies was:
extended to a greater proportion of the population than anywhere else in the world.
The stockholders who invested in the Virginia Company were motivated primarily by:
financial profit.
All of the following are true of the English Quakers, EXCEPT that they:
followed charismatic preachers
All of the following are true of the English Quakers, EXCEPT that they:
followed charismatic preachers.
The Protestant Reformation in England
occurred more for political reasons than because of disagreement about religious doctrine.
The colony of Pennsylvania was:
open to all religious believers.
Which of the following was NOT a result of the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella?
opening of the Atlantic slave trade
The English Civil War affected the American colonies by
permitting the colonies to essentially govern themselves.
A central element of John Calvin's theology was his belief in:
predestination.
The colonies established after the Restoration were all:
proprietary colonies.
The Mayflower Compact:
provided the original government for the Plymouth colony.
The purpose of the Coercive Acts was to:
punish Boston for the Tea Party.
The Declaratory Act of 1766:
reasserted the government's right to tax the colonists.
Maryland sought to learn from the mistakes of Jamestown by:
recruiting a more committed group of colonists.
All of the following are true of Cortés's invasion of Mexico, EXCEPT that:
regional Indian tribes attempted to help the Mexica against the Spanish.
The introduction of horses to Plains tribes:
replaced dogs as beasts of burden.
Bacon's Rebellion:
rought indentured servants and small farmers together against the colony's rich planters and political leaders.
When Massachusetts leader John Winthrop spoke of "a city upon a hill," he was referring to that colony's desire to:
serve as a model Christian community.
Which of the following animals were brought to the New World from Europe?
sheep and pigs
A major reason for the defeat of the Spanish Armada was
storms in the North Sea.
At the time Europeans arrived in North America, Indians:
tended to worship spirits in their natural surroundings.
Roger Williams believed
that it was wrong to confiscate Indian lands.
The English attempt to establish a colony on Roanoke Island resulted in:
the disappearance of the colonists.
The newest theories of early native migration from Asia to the Americas include that:
this migration came much earlier than previously thought.
The explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert
was lost at sea.
After 1644, the right to vote in Massachusetts Bay was restricted to those who:
were members of a Puritan church.
By the early eighteenth century, the English colonies in North America:
were the most populous and prosperous on the continent.
Which of the following foods did Europeans introduce to the New World?
wheat.
The Spanish Armada:
Attempted to invade England.
The city of Tenochtitlán was founded in 1325 by the:
Aztecs
A large number of South Carolina's original settlers were British planters from
Barbados.
The covenant theory from which the Puritans drew their ideas contained:
Certain kernels of democracy in both church and state.
James I:
Confronted a Church of England divided between Puritans and Anglicans.
Great Awakening developed in reaction to the:
Deism and skepticism associated with the Enlightenment.
After the arrival of Europeans, the greatest number of Indians died as a result of:
Disease.
Maryland was established in 1634 as a refuge for:
English Catholics.
Which of the following statements is true of the institution of slavery in the American colonies?
Family slavery was having slaves and masters living under the same roof.
New England's most important commodity was:
Fish.
The religious revivals known as the Great Awakening did all of the following EXCEPT:
Further promote Enlightenment thinking.
The middle colonies:
Geographically and culturally stood between New England and the southern colonies.
The English revivalist who preached to thousands and so impressed Benjamin Franklin was:
George Whitefield.
The headright system adopted for the Virginia colony consisted of:
Giving fifty acres of land to anyone who would transport himself to the colony and fifty more for the servants he might bring.
Which of the following was NOT true of Bartolomé de Las Casas
He designed the system of native slavery adopted by Spain.
New Lights differed from Old Lights by:
Incorporating democracy and emotionalism into faith.
The major cause of King Philip's War was:
Indian resentment over forced conversions to Christianity.
Which of the following is NOT true of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
It led the Spaniards to immediately colonize Texas and California.
The English Puritans:
Opposed the Catholic elements in the Church of England.
Slave codes:
Outlined the local laws that governed slave life and ownership.
Benjamin Franklin emphasized the Enlightenment in his:
Passion for science and experimentation.
Dutch sailors were essentially:
Pirates.
In 1624, a British court dissolved the struggling Virginia Company, and Virginia:
became a royal colony.
The first Jews in the colonies
:arrived in New Netherland
The Protestant Reformation was launched in Europe by:
Martin Luther.
Around 1500 B.C.E., which group in Middle America (Mesoamerica) began developing large cities, including gigantic pyramids?
Mayas
Puritan commitment to education is best explained by their:
Need to read the scriptures.
Although diseases were widespread in North America, colonist were less susceptible because:
Of the dispersed nature of the American population.
Women in the American colonies:
Often remained confined to the domestic sphere.
The first Europeans to sail around Africa and on to India were the:
Portuguese
Legally speaking, slaves were:
Property.
New England was settled by:
Religious fundamentalists.
Which of the following statements about early colonial life in the Chesapeake region is true?
Settlers lived in very primitive houses.
The man who became head of the Virginia Company of London in 1618 and instituted a series of reforms to save the colony was:
Sir Edwin Sandys.
For the Pequots, the result of the 1637 war was that they fought with New England settlers was:
Slaughter and enslavement.
The best explanation for the Salem witch craze is:
Social division and anxieties within the village.
The success of rice as a perfect crop for South Carolina was helped by the development of:
The creation of irrigation systems that allowed laborers to flood and drain the fields.
One outstanding characteristic of Jamestown in its initial years was:
The high mortality rate among its settlers.
Which of the following was NOT true of the Algonquians?
They built mounds like the Mississippians.
Which of the following statements is NOT true of African's as slaves?
They had a long history with Christians in Africa.
Which of the following statements about women's labor is NOT true?
They were not accepted to work in highly skilled occupations.
The Stono Rebellion:
Tightened controls on slaves.
The Jamestown colony finally attained a measure of prosperity from:
Tobacco
In the seventeenth century, the cash crop that was the basis of the economy in Virginia and Maryland was:
Tobacco.
The Tennents did all of the following, EXCEPT:
Urge people to renounce their ministers and pursue salvation on their own.
Slaves who lived in northern colonies:
Usually lived and worked in cities and towns.
Education in the colonies was:
Usually seen as the responsibility of family and church.
The largest city in the colonies at the end of the colonial period:
Was Philadelphia.
All of the following are true of the Pilgrims, EXCEPT that they:
Were a sect of radical Catholics.
In regard to religion, women:
Were more likely to be churchgoers than men.
Food crops exported from the Americas
allowed a population explosion.
The encomienda system:
allowed privileged Spanish landowners to control Indian villages.
In the "starving time" of 1609-1610, Jamestown settlers:
ate horses, dogs, rats, boots, and mice.
The Spanish Armada
attempted to invade England.
Anne Hutchinson was kicked out of Massachusetts for:
challenging the authority of male ministers.
Which of the following least characterizes the Mississippian Indian culture?
cliff dwellings and widespread use of irrigation
The primary objective of the thousands of priests in New Spain was to
convert the Indians.
By the early 1700s, English merchants in the Carolinas had established a thriving trade with southern Indians for:
deerskins.
In most cases, Spanish explorers and soldiers who came to the New World were motivated by all of the following, EXCEPT:
desire to serve their fellow man.
Charles I:
disbanded Parliament from 1629 to 1640.
As monarch, Queen Elizabeth I:
illustrated incredible strength and effectiveness.
The Glorious Revolution of 1688:
increased the power of Parliament.
The Spanish Empire began a precipitous decline because:
it became overly dependent on extraction of wealth.
As Jamestown's leader, Captain John Smith:
made the colonists work in order to eat.
John Cabot's crossing of the Atlantic in 1497 resulted in his
making landfall in present-day Canada.
The early settlers of New England differed from those of the Chesapeake by being primarily:
middle-class.