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History 4
US History - Chapters 1-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following was not a civilization of South and Central America and Mexico? | Iroquois |
| In what modern country were the Incas primarily located? | Peru |
| Which of the following was not an element of Mayan culture prior to Columbus's arrival? | Horseback riding |
| What was the capital of the Aztec empire? | Tenochtitlan |
| Which of the following did not play a major role in the growing interest in overseas exploration among Europeans? | Consolidation of Holy Roman Empire |
| Approximately what percentage of the European population perished in the Black Death (bubonic plague)? | One third |
| Which of the following nations was the original preeminent maritime power of the fifteenth century? | Portugal |
| Which of the following explorers did not sail under the flag of Portugal | Francisco Pizarro |
| Where did Columbus first land in 1492? | The Bahamas |
| Who established a lasting reputation as the most brutal of the Spanish conquistadores? | Hernando Cortes |
| What were the Spanish licenses, given to exact labor and tribute from native peoples in specific areas called? | Encomiendas |
| What percentage of Hispaniola natives perished in the first years after European contact? | 95% |
| Which of the following was not an American food introduced in the Old World after European contact? | Bananas |
| Which cash crop resulted in the rapid expansion of the African slave trade in the sixteenth century? | Sugar |
| Which of the following is not a tenet of mercantilism? | A nation should export as much wealth as possible |
| Which of the following statements about French New World exploration is true? | French traders often assimilated into Indian culture |
| In London, the initial promoters of Jamestown encouraged colonists to focus on | The search for gold |
| The cultivation of tobacco around Jamestown resulted in all the following EXCEPT | Improved relations with the local Indians |
| Which of the following statements best characterizes the first years of Jamestown's existence? | The settlement survived despite an enormous loss of life |
| When the House of Burgesses was created in Virginia in 1619, | Colonists were given a share of local political representation |
| Warfare between Englishmen and Powhatan Indians in Virginia | Included an Indian attach on Jamestown which killed hundreds of colonists. |
| The Virginia Company | Had its charter revoked by James I. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Was a conflict between eastern and western Virginia |
| The suppression of Bacon's Rebellion helped spur | Slavery in Virginia |
| During its first year in North America, the Plymouth colony | Survived in large due to assistance from Indians |
| Compared to King James I., King Charles I.'s treatment of Puritans | Was more hostile |
| The Puritan merchants who founded the Massachusetts Bay Company | Carried out the largest single migration in the seventeenth century |
| The Puritan founders in Massachusetts who described their colony as a "shining city upon a hill" | Felt they were creating a holy community that would be a model for the world |
| When it was established in 1644, the colony of Rhode Island | Was notable for its religious toleration |
| Over time in the seventeenth century, an increasing number of New England Puritans came to view Indian society | With fear and contempt |
| The Fundamental Constitution for a Carolina colony | Was influenced by the English philosopher John Locke |
| The development of the Carolina colony was notable in the | Northern and southern regions were economically and socially distinct from each other |
| The New York colony | Emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch |
| Like New York, the New Jersey colony | Had great ethnic and religious diversity |
| Unlike Puritans, the Quakers | Rejected the doctrine of original sin |
| William Penn | Was a man of great wealth who converted to Quakerism. |
| The English colonial settlement in the Caribbean | Concluded it was cheaper to buy new African slaves than to protect those they owned. |
| What social institution did Europeans in the Caribbean share with their counterparts in North America? | Slavery |
| Regarding the origins of slavery in the North American English colonies | Many colonies gradually embraced slavery as a solution to their labor troubles |
| By 1700, the Spanish colonies north of Mexico | Added little economic value to the Spanish Empire. |
| Originally, the Georgia colony excluded | Both free blacks and slaves |
| Which of the following statement regarding the Navigation Acts (1660s) is FALSE? | English colonies could only produce products that were also sold in England |
| The English Parliament enacted in the Navigation Acts primarily to benefit | British business and merchants |
| The Dominion of New England | Called for a single royal governor |
| The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 | Saw an English king, James II., flee to the European continent |
| Which of the following is not true about the colonial practice of indentured servitude? | Three-fourths of Chesapeake indentures were women. |
| Which of the following did not play a role in the decline of indentured servitude in 1670s? | Soil exhaustion in the Chesapeake tidewater regions. |
| Which of the following is not true of colonial demographics? | The white mortality rate in the Chesapeake was higher than that of blacks |
| How often did the average wife in the Chesapeake become pregnant? | Every two years |
| Which of the following is not true of New England family life? | Women played a minor role in the agricultural economy. |
| Between 1700 and 1760, the number of Africans in the colonies | Increased tenfold |
| Who were the most numerous free non-English immigrants to the colonies in the eighteenth century? | Scotch-Irish |
| Approximately how large was the non-Indian population of the colonies by 1775? | 2 million |
| What crop served as the economic staple of early South Carolina and Georgia? | Rice |
| Who was responsible for introducing indigo to the South Carolina economy? | Eliza Lucas |
| What was the largest industrial enterprise anywhere in the English North American colonies? | Hasenclever Ironworks |
| Which of the following was not an impediment to early colonial commerce? | Aversion of speculation |
| Which of the following was not a central resource included in the "triangular" trade? | Tobacco |
| Which of the following was not a consequence of the rise of consumerism? | A domestic consumer goods industry thrived in the colonies |
| Which of the following is not true of slavery in the colonial era? | Whites often encouraged formal slave marriages to cement stability. |
| Which of the following is not true of Puritan life? | Puritans followed the practice of primogeniture, passing all inherited property to the first-born son |
| What was the largest city of the colonial era? | Philadelphia |
| Which of the following was not a New Light evangelist of the Great Awakening? | Cotton Mather |
| Which of the following experimented with smallpox inoculation? | Cotton Mather |
| Who was the defendant in the 1734-1735 New York trial which removed some restrictions on the freedom of the press? | John Peter Zenger |
| In the years after the Glorious Revolution, political power in England increasingly shifted toward | Parliament. |
| During the first half of the eighteenth century, England's administration of the colonies | Was loose, decentralized, and inefficient. |
| The proposed Albany Plan of 1754 | Revealed the difficulties colonies had in cooperating with each other |
| During the eighteenth century, in North America, the French differed from the English in Indian relation in that the French | Were more tolerant of Indian cultures |
| Through the first half of the eighteenth century, the Iroquois confederacy formed agreements and traded with | Both France and England at the same time. |
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