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