American History Sorry, no manipulations with clipboard allowed

By what year was American Slavery legally based upon the color of one's skin?

1700

Early European traders in sub-Saharan Africa accepted which of the following terms of African traders?

African empires had large armies and could not be coerced by force

Many are skeptical of Christopher Columbus's proposed journey across the Atlantic because they thought

Cathay was too far away

The Navigation Acts were created to eliminate competition from the

Dutch

A secondary reason for the settlement of new Netherland was

Dutch rivalry with Spain

Which of the following was a result of the Navigation acts?

English goods were required to be carried on English or American ships.

What was the legacy of John Cabot's voyages to the New World?

He helped to establish the English claim to territory in North America.

What caused the Protestant Reformation in England?

Henry VII's desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon

Pennsylvania was called the

Holy Experiment

Which of the following was a contributing factor to Bacon's Rebellion?

Indians, fearing white encroachment, attacked outlying plantations and killed a few colonist

what effect did imperial legislation in england of the late 1600s have on the Chesapeake Colonies?

It was increased their commitment to tobacco and slaves

what was the importance of tobacco to the Virginia Company?

It was the only way that they Company could make money at first

Who created the Dominion of New England?

James II

which of the following individuals was instrumental in keeping jamestown colony from failing?

John Smith

Few Native Americans were left in New England after.....

King Phillip's War

Which of the following was a key motivation driving Europeans seek out African slaves?

Labor was in short supply in North America

the Portuguese first experimented with colonizing and slave labor on large-scale sugar plantations in

Madeira

which area of colonial British North America was one of the first places in the world that average people had a reasonable expectation of living to see their grandchildren?

New England

After the "act concerning Religion" was passed in 1649, Maryland provided religious freedom for all

Protestants and Catholics

Which colony did roger williams establish

Rhode Island

Which of the following historical figures was removed from office as a result of the Glorious Revolution?

Sir Edmund Andros

Which of the following describes slavery in colonial America?

The lives of slaves differed considerably among the colonies

Which best describes the state of population increase in the early years of settlement in the Chesapeake region?

The population would have fallen without steady immigration.

The first Europeans to attempt to settle in north america were

Vikings

Which colony was named by Sir Walter Raleigh in honor of Queen Elizabeth I?

Virginia

Which of the following was the greatest contributor to social stability in Chesapeake society?

a local-born ruling class

The English drive to colonize the New World differed from that of the Spanish in that

a long gap separated the two efforts

Which of the following cultural values and assumptions did eastern woodland cultures share?

a place in society defined through kinship

Colonel James Oglethorpe's original vision for the Georgia colony was as

an alternative to English debtors' prisons

Which of the following was a Quaker belief?

antinomianism

Which of the following was found to be one of the most successful products of the Carolinas?

beef

What document allowed William Penn to establish any type of government that he desired in Pennsylvania?

frame of government

The Portuguese slave trade was unique in that the Portuguese

had been trading African slaves before the colonization of the New World

The Bay Colonist overthrew Sir Edmund Andros because

he was tyrannical and enforced laws harshly

the result of the Staple Act was

higher prices of goods the colonies imported from Europe

Why did England pass laws specifically aimed at reducing Dutch mercantile competitors?

in keeping with mercantilist policies

the dramatic increase in the colonial slave population during late 1600s

inspired passage of strict slave codes

What happened to Georgia after board of trustees returned it to the royal control?

it was allowed a local assembly

Why did Chesapeake tobacco growers depend so heavily on unfree labor?

it was hard to find free workers willing to work tobacco fields

How did the "headright" system of disturbing land contribute to unfree labor systems being perpetuated?

it was used by wealthy landowners to obtain more dependent workers

which of these made Georgia a likely place to establish a buffer against Spain?

its southernmost position in the colonies

New England social structure differed from that of the Old World in that it

lacked the very poor or very rich

Which of the following best characterizes the condition of england at the start of Henry VII's reign?

lacking strong, centralized authority

Puritan persecution of religious dissenters like Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

led to the founding of Rhode Island as a haven for unorthodox faiths

In the 1600's, the quality of life for Chesapeake settlers differed from New England settlers in that

life expectancy was much lower in the Chesapeake

Native Americans lacked many of the diseases common to the Western world at least partly because they

migrated in small nomadic communities

Which of the following would have contributed the most to a greater degree of American acculturation among seventeenth- century African slaves in South Carolina than there was in fact?

more of them serving as domestic servants

Seventeenth- century Chesapeake planters could be best described as

not aristocrats but ambitious men with capital

What were the original settlers of Jamestown expecting from their venture?

opportunities to become rich

what most likely sparked the infamous Salem witchcraft accusations and trials?

religious discord, economic tensions, and fear of Indian attacks

The Navigation Act of 1660

required that all goods shipped to and from the colonies be carried on English ships

Which of the following factors led to the instability of family life in the seventeenth- century Chesapeake region?

shortened life expectancies because of unhealthy living conditions and contaminated drinking water

British Mercantilist Policy

sought to establish economic self-sufficiency within the British Empire

What document resulted from the Glorious Revolution?

the English Bill of Rights

which best describes the creation of North and South Carolina?

the King divided the colony after the colonists overthrew the proprietary governor

What confirmed Portugal's right to control the trade route around Africa and Spain's claim to most of the newly discovered lands in the western hemisphere?

the Treaty of Tordesillas

What was one reason why Hernan Cortes and his men were able to conquer the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan?

the aztec ruler Montezuma believed that Cortes was a god whose return had been predicted

What evidence suggest that women living in seventeenth- century Puritan New England enjoyed some independence?

the could raise and sell surplus birds

economic inequalities between Chesapeake tobacco growers resulted from

the crop's dependence on hired labor

The Columbian Exchange was

the ecological transformation that resulted from European contact with the Americas

The Act of Supremacy involved

the official taking of the Catholic lands during the Protestant Reformation in England

which of the following factors contributed to the early stability of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

the settlers moved to Massachusetts as nuclear families

It was difficult to rise in status in the Chesapeake colonies because

there was already an establishment immigrant gentry class

The Pilgrims created the Mayflower Compact because they thought that

they needed to preserve the struggling community from anarchy

Which of the following best explains Puritan motivations in the colonies

to establish religious communities that were free from the Church of England

which of the following was one of the reasons that Georgia was founded?

to give the "worthy poor" of London a fresh start

Mercantilists believed that to become wealthy and powerful, a country had to accumulate gold and silver and also be self- sufficient in

trade

The Dutch colony of New Netherland

was harshly and undemocratically governed

As a result of the Columbian Exchange, Europeans

were introduced to new plants such as corn and potatoes

The Incas lived primarily in which of the following regions?

western South America

In what way was the development of the Carolina colony similar to that of Virginia?

while planter forced african slaves to produce staple crops for a world market

the english colonist in the seventeenth century were characterized overall by their

wide diversity