Quiz 2--Chapter 13

In general, English colonists had a much more antagonistic relationship with Indians in North America than did French colonists. True False

True

What role did Europeans play in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century slave trade in Africa? a.Europeans relied on the Muslim slave trade in North and East Africa to bring slaves from the interior. b.Europeans remained in coastal enclaves, depending on indigenous political and trading networks to bring slaves to them. c.Europeans introduced the idea of slavery to Africa for the first time, ending centuries of peaceful agriculture and hunting. d.Europeans sent armies armed with firearms to invade the African interior, seizing prisoners as slaves.

b.Europeans remained in coastal enclaves, depending on indigenous political and trading networks to bring slaves to them.

Which of the following was an effect of the enclosure of common lands in the English countryside during the seventeenth century? a.Agricultural productivity dropped drastically, leading to famines. b.Landowners began to plant new crops to sell in distant, instead of domestic, markets. c.Chartered companies increased in number and spread to the countryside. d.Serfdom was imposed on the remaining English peasants.

b.Landowners began to plant new crops to sell in distant, instead of domestic, markets.

Which of the following accurately describes labor on Caribbean sugar plantations? a.Plantation managers, in order to have a healthy and productive workforce, provided their slaves with an adequate diet. b.Slaves often dropped dead from exhaustion, working up to sixteen-hour days. c.Indentured Europeans and convicts provided the bulk of plantation labor. d.Family groups provided stability for Caribbean slave populations.

b.Slaves often dropped dead from exhaustion, working up to sixteen-hour days.

Which of the following was the most lucrative source of wealth for European planters in the Americas in the seventeenth century? a.Rice b.Sugar c.Corn d.Spices

b.Sugar

Which of the following was the most common way that African slaves in the Americas resisted the conditions of their enslavement? a.They formed committees to petition the government for better conditions. b.Thousands of slaves fled to the remote interiors of Brazil or the Caribbean islands. c.Hundreds of violent slave revolts broke out across the Caribbean. d.Slaves tried to increase their productivity so that their masters would free them as a reward.

b.Thousands of slaves fled to the remote interiors of Brazil or the Caribbean islands.

What, according to mercantilist thinkers, was the purpose of colonies? a.To allow merchants to profit by diversifying their economic investments b.To enrich the states that had founded them c.To encourage international cooperation through free trade d.To act as laboratories in which new methods of state administration could be tested

b.To enrich the states that had founded them

The English colonial model in the New World differed from that of other European states in that it: a.depended on enslaving native peoples to mine silver. b.dispossessed native peoples from their lands in order to accommodate a growing English settler population. c.resulted from a desire to spread Christianity to as many parts of the world as possible. d.depended on peaceful relationships and trade with native peoples.

b.dispossessed native peoples from their lands in order to accommodate a growing English settler population.

What was the economic philosophy called that assumed that the world's wealth was fixed and one country could only increase its wealth at the expense of another? a.Capitalism b.Monetarism c.Mercantilism d.Absolutism

c.Mercantilism

Which of the following best describes the initial relationship that developed between French North American colonists and Amerindians? a.Wars with the French displaced native peoples from their homelands. b.The French allied with the English against Amerindians. c.The French brought new agricultural techniques, which improved the diet of native peoples. d.The French relied on native peoples' knowledge of trapping and adapted to Amerindian ways.

d.The French relied on native peoples' knowledge of trapping and adapted to Amerindian ways.