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APUSH 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Christopher Columbus called the native people he encountered on his voyages "Indians" because | he believed they came from the East Indies in the Pacific |
| What stabout Spanish settlements in the New World is FALSE? | The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming |
| What factor is believed to have dramatically reduced New World native populations after contact with Europeans? | Disease |
| Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city? | St. Louis |
| What idea about theFrench colonization in the New World is FALSE? | The French, like the English, tried to remain separate from native peoples |
| In what way were Martin Luther and John Calvin important to English Puritans? | Luther and Calvin advocated ideas of religious reform that influenced Puritan thought |
| The English Reformation resulted from | a political dispute between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church |
| The first profitable economic development in Jamestown resulted from | the production of tobacco |
| The New York colony | emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch |
| The Navigation Acts enacted by the English Parliament | encouraged the colonists to create an important shipbuilding industry of their own |
| In its beginning, the Maryland colony | was a refuge for English Catholics |
| What became the dominant crop of the Caribbean colonies? | sugar |
| The Virginia Company developed the "headright" system to | attract new settlers to the colony |
| Georgia was founded | to create a military barrier against the Spanish |
| Which of the following statements regarding the Navigation Acts (1660s) is FALSE? | English colonists could only produce products that were also sold in England |
| Bacon's Rebellion | was a major contributor to the rise of slavery in the Southern Colonies |
| The Puritan founders in Massachusetts who described their colony as a "city upon a hill" | felt they were creating a holy community that would be a model for the world |
| The "triangular trade" in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity? | All these answers are correct |
| True statement about the economy of the northern colonies is? | The economy was more diverse than in the southern colonies |
| By passing the Navigation Acts in the 1600s and 1700s, the British government intended to | guarantee that the British government would have a financial share of all colonial exports |
| By the late 1600s, slavery in North America became institutionalized in part because of the | decline of indentured labor |
| Mercantilism as applied by Britain to its North American colonies meant that the British government | regulated colonial shipping and trade |