US History- review Quiz 1
All Pilgrims were Puritans.
False.
Before Europeans arrived in the New World, Native Americans were without extensive trading networks, irrigation systems, or large cities.
False.
Between 1492 and 1820, approximately 20 million African slaves came from the Old World to the New World.
False.
In 1585, the English attempted to establish Jamestown in North America.
False.
In the 1600s in Massachusetts, full church membership was not required to vote in colony-wide elections
False.
In the Spanish colonies, race and class were not important.
False.
Intermarriage between Indians and English settlers was common.
False.
In the religious view of the Puritans, you would get to heaven if:
God predestined you to heaven or hell| no earthly act could change that.
Which of the following was a characteristic or action of the Zuni Indians of the Southwest?
He believed that Indians ought to be allowed to continue to practice their native faiths as a true sign of Christian love and toleration.
Which was not a characteristic of Roger Williams's Rhode Island colony?
It required citizens to attend church.
Who was the English-speaking American Indian the Pilgrims encountered at Plymouth Bay in 1620?
Squanto
Which of the following was a characteristic or action of the Zuni Indians of the Southwest?
The peak of their culture and population occurred about the years 900 to 1200.
The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?
grandchildren of the English Great Migration
Who were the mestizos?
persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind European colonization in the New World?
the spread of democracy to the Americas
Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was:
tobacco.
In 1492, the population of Europe was greater than that of the Americas. True or False?
true
Which of the following was not a significant feature of indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?
Indentured servants never comprised more than a small percentage of Virginians, the great majority of whom arrived either as free settlers or slaves.
In the 1500s and 1600s, the Spanish in Central and South America relied on many of which of the following groups to work fields and mines?
Indians
Anne Hutchinson scandalized Massachusetts's authorities both for her unorthodox religious ideas and for her "unwomanly" engagement in public issues.
True.
At the end of their period of indenture, indentured servants were often given "freedom dues" and became free members of society.
True.
Harvard College was principally founded to educate young men into the ministry.
True.
In the 1600s, nearly two-thirds of English settlers came as indentured servants.
True.
Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.
True.
The "Rights of Englishmen" were established in the Magna Carta.
True.