US HIST 101 Straighterline MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWRS 100 % ACCURATE

Who was the first known European to look westward upon the Pacific Ocean, in 1513? - ANSWER-Vasco de Balboa Which statement best describes the role of women in pre-Columbian North American tribes? - ANSWER-In all tribes, women cared for the children and prepared meals. In England during the early sixteenth century, mercantilism thrived mostly on the basis of trade in which commodity? - ANSWER-Wool. At the time of the beginning of the slave trade, most Africans - ANSWER-Had well developed economies and political systems. What condition(s) in England in the sixteenth century provided incentive for colonization? - ANSWER-The availability of farmland was declining, while the population was growing. In Spanish colonial societies, mestizos - ANSWER-Came to make up the largest segment of the population. The English colonial settlements in the Caribbean - ANSWER-Concluded it was cheaper to buy new African slaves than to protect those they owned. Unlike Puritans, the Quakers - ANSWER-Rejected the doctrine of original sin. One reason Roger Williams was deported from the Massachusetts colony was that he - ANSWER-Was a confirmed Separatist. Captain John Smith helped the Jamestown settlement survive by - ANSWER-Imposing work and order on the colonists.