U.S. History 101 - StraighterLine Final Exam| 247 Questions| With Complete Solutions

The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on correct answer: the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids. Which statement about Spanish settlements in the New World is FALSE? a. Spanish gold and silver mines were enormously productive. b. Spanish colonies would form one of the largest empires in the history of the world. c. The Catholic Church was very interested in spreading Christianity in Mexico. d. The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming. e. Many helped establish elements of European civilization permanently in America. correct answer: The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming. King George's War correct answer: failed to resolve European conflicts in North America. Seventeenth-century English colonial settlements correct answer: were essentially business enterprises. The leading colonial figure in the Boston Massacre was correct answer: Samuel Adams. By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence because of correct answer: illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire. Christopher Columbus correct answer: thought the world was much smaller than it was in reality. William Penn correct answer: was a man of great wealth who converted to Quakerism. The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established in correct answer: Jamestown. The English concluded from their colonial experiences in Ireland that correct answer: English colonists should maintain a rigid separation from the indigenous population. The verdict of the 1735 libel trial of New York publisher John Peter Zenger correct answer: increased freedom of the press in the colonies. In London, the initial promoters of Jamestown encouraged colonists to focus on correct answer: the search for gold. What social institution did Europeans in the Caribbean share with their counterparts in North America? correct answer: slavery During the seventeenth century, the Royal African Company of