US HISTORY EXAM 1 QUESTION WITH ANSWERS

US HISTORY EXAM 1 QUESTION WITH ANSWERS ______ was among the most radical of the American rebels and organized the Committee of Correspondence. -Answer-Samuel Adams After the arrival of Europeans, the greatest number of Indians died as a result of_______? -Answer-Disease Although Puritans led a strict lifestyle in many ways, they did___ -Answer-have a significant drinking culture. Around 1500 B.C.E., which group in Middle America (Mesoamerica) began developing large cities, including gigantic pyramids? -Answer-The Mayas Benjamin Franklin emphasized the Enlightenment in his___? -Answer-passion for science and experimentation By 1700, which of the following was the most democratic and important social institution in the American colonies? -Answer-taverns By the eighteenth century, mestizos made up a majority of the population in Mexico and New Mexico. Who were they? -Answer-the offspring of Spanish and Native American parents Education in the colonies was____? -Answer-usually seen as the responsibility of family and church. Horses became so valuable in North America that they____? -Answer-Intensified intertribal competition and warfare How did the enclosure movement foster England's desire to colonize? -Answer-The enclosure movement led to landless, unemployed farmers wandering England, and sending them to colonies was seen as a way to relieve the problems this trend created. In 1766, in response to American protests, Parliament___? -Answer-repealed the Stamp act In April 1775, the British marched to Concord, Massachusetts, in an effort to___? -Answer-seize the resistance's gunpowder In the seventeenth and eighteenth century American colonies, how did indentured servitude and race-based slavery evolve in relation to each other? -Answer-As the