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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbus called the native people in the New World "Indians" because -- | he believed that he had skirted the rim of the Indies. |
| Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to -- | -break the hold that Muslim merchants had on trade with Asia. -reduce the time it took to transport goods. -reduce the price of goods from Asia. -gain more profits for themselves. All of these are correct |
| The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by -- | a joint-stock company. |
| All the following statements were true of the Pilgrims, EXCEPT they -- | arrived at their original destination with no casualties. |
| The Native Americans unwittingly infected early European explorers with ___, a newly transmitted deadly disease that spread throughout Europe. | syphilis |
| England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 -- | helped to ensure England's naval dominance in the North Atlantic. |
| The adoption of horses by Native American tribes such as the Sioux, Apaches and Blackfeet -- | enabled them to wage more successful wars against their enemies. |
| ____ decreed that only eldest sons were eligible to inherit landed estates. | The laws of primogeniture |
| The institution of encomienda allowed the -- | European governments to "commend" or give indigenous peoples to colonists if they promised to Christianize them. |
| The 1649 Act of Toleration had to do with -- | Catholics in Maryland |
| The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to -- | the development of agriculture. |
| In American history, 1619 is important because in that year -- | the House of Burgesses was established for the Virginia colony. |
| Which group of explorers’ failed settlements were forgotten? | English settlers |
| The Virginia Charter guaranteed that English settlers in the New World would -- | retain the rights of Englishmen. |
| The Mayflower Compact can be best described as a(n) -- | promising step toward genuine self-government. |
| The 1662 slave codes in Virginia are significant because they -- | established a legal difference between servants and slaves based on race. |
| The Pequot War of 1637 resulted in -- | the virtual annihilation of the Pequot. |
| Puritan doctrine included acceptance of -- | the idea of a covenant with God. |
| The New England economy depended heavily on -- | fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce. |
| By the end of the 17th century, indentured servants who gained their freedom -- | had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages to their former masters. |
| By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies -- | -had few large cities. -practiced slavery. -provided tax support for the Church of England. -based their economies on the production of staple crops for export. All of these are correct |
| The work and family schedules of the overwhelming majority of early American colonists were set by -- | the cycles of the season and the sun. |
| By 1700, the colonial South generally lacked -- | an urban professional class. |
| As the head of Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros was all of the following, EXCEPT -- | a Puritan. |
| During the early years of colonization in the New World, England -- | paid little attention to its colonies. |
| The colony of Georgia was founded -- | as a defensive buffer against Spain for the valuable Carolinas. |
| As slavery spread in the South -- | gaps in the social structure widened. |
| All the following elements characterize New England families in the eighteenth century, EXCEPT -- | divorce was exceedingly rare. |
| The middle colonies were notable for their -- | unusual degree of democratic control. |
| The New England Confederation -- | was designed to bolster colonial defense. |
| All the following characteristics generally described the colonists of North Carolina, EXCEPT -- | they were sympathetic to Native American inhabitants |
| The Half-Way Covenant -- | allowed the children of unconverted existing members to be baptized but not full members of the church. |
| According to Anne Hutchinson, a dissenter in Massachusetts Bay -- | the truly saved need not bother to obey the laws of God or man. |
| The New England economy depended heavily on -- | fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce. |
| It was atypical of colonial New England adults to -- | marry late and have no children. |
| The First Continental Congress was called in order to -- | consider ways of redressing colonial grievances against Britain. |
| Which of the following is NOT a true statement about American women's roles during the Revolution? | Many women urged husbands and sons to stay home and safeguard their families and property instead of volunteering for service in a colonial militia or the Continental army. |
| The British invasion of Canada in 1756 during the Seven Years' War -- | |
| The Boston Tea Party was a response by some Bostonians, many of them members of the Sons of Liberty, to -- | Parliament's efforts to rescue the finances of the East India Company. |
| The most important contribution of the seagoing privateers during the Revolutionary War was that they -- | captured hundreds of British merchant ships. |
| All of the following are true about the War of Jenkins's Ear EXCEPT | |
| In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued for -- | colonial independence and a republican form of government. |
| The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament after the repeal of the Stamp Act, asserted that -- | Parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies in all matters. |
| With regard to governmental authority, the Scots-Irish colonists -- | cherished no love for the British or any other government. |
| The Stono Rebellion of 1739 -- | |
| What was a result of the Treaty of Paris? | The British recognized American independence. |
| France negotiated a treaty of alliance with the new American nation in 1778 following -- | an American victory over British General Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga. |
| The Revolutionary War began with fighting in ____; then in 1777-1778, fighting was concentrated in ____; and the fighting concluded in ____. | New England, the middle colonies, the South |
| The following were purposes of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, EXCEPT -- | |
| Which of these statements does NOT describe relations between British and colonial troops during the Seven Years' War? | All colonists freely donated money and men to the British war effort. |
| During the Revolution, the western frontier saw much fighting, which -- | |
| In colonial New England, education was primarily -- | |
| Passage of the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act -- | convinced many colonists that the British were trying to take away their historic liberty. |
| The first Navigation Laws were designed to -- | eliminate Dutch shippers from the American carrying trade. |
| The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was -- | the provocation against the British authorities to enact and implement more coercive and authoritarian laws governing the colonies. |
| Virtual representation meant that -- | every member of Parliament represented all British subjects everywhere including in the American colonies. |
| As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the 18th century -- | a momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country. |
| On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility in the colonies decreased for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT -- | |
| The Proclamation of 1763 was designed mainly to -- | work out a fair settlement of the Indian problem and prevent another bloody Indian eruption like Pontiac's uprising. |
| An armed march in Philadelphia in 1764 by Scots-Irish colonial immigrants, protesting the Quaker oligarchy's lenient policy toward the Indians was known as -- | March of the Paxton Boys. |
| Who were the European mercenaries who fought for the British crown? | |
| With the military defeat of Chief Pontiac and his western Indian alliance, the British decided to -- | |
| The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South -- | were not distributed evenly among whites. |
| In his first military command encounter in the French and Indian War, Lieutenant Colonel George Washington -- | was defeated by French forces at Fort Necessity following a ten-hour siege in July 1754. |
| Under mercantilist doctrine, the American colonies were expected to do all of the following, EXCEPT -- | become economically self-sufficient as soon as possible. |
| American colonists responded to the various coercive colonial laws enacted by Parliament in the late 1760s and enforced by British colonial authorities in all of the following ways, EXCEPT -- | they engaged in a violent campaign of attacks against British soldiers and customs agents in major Atlantic seaboard cities. |
| Why were British forces slaughtered at Bunker Hill? | |
| Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Boston Massacre, (B) Townshend Acts, (C) Tea Act, and (D) Intolerable Acts. | |
| Which of the Parliamentary Acts is not revenue producing? | Quebec Act: Gave Quebec the right to self-rule, but not America |
| The Pontiac Rebellion in 1763 led to what? | The Proclamation of 1763: prohibited the colonists from moving west of the Mississippi; less conflict is less expensive |
| Where was the attempt to fix the Articles of Confederation, it ultimately failed? | Annapolis |
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