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Before the coming of Europeans, the peoples who lived in what is now the United States had
not developed - ANS A common language
The first European country to launch long ocean voyages of exploration was - ANS Portugal
When Christopher Columbus made his famous voyages to the New World, he - ANS Believed
that he had reached the Far East
The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was, in part, due to - ANS The diseases the Spaniards had
given the Indians
Before the arrival of the Europeans, the political system of southern and western Africa was
composed of - ANS A number of small- and medium-sized regional kingdoms
According to the principles of mercantilism, - ANS A successful nation should export its own
goods in exchange for gold and silver
The religious dissatisfactions that ultimately propelled English "Separatists" into the New World
can be traded to the 1517 protests of the German priest - ANS Martin Luther
Henry VIII started the English Reformation because he - ANS Required a divorce in order to
marry
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The majority of English Puritans were religious dissenters who - ANS Wished to purify
Anglican forms of worship
The most important single event influencing England's decision to begin New World
colonization was the - ANS Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established at -
ANS Jamestown
Civilizations in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus - ANS Included elaborate and
sophisticated cultures that rivaled those of Europe
The Treaty of Tordesillas contained a provision to - ANS Divide the Americas between Spain
and Portugal to colonize
The Coureurs des Bois relationship with Indians differed from the English because - ANS They
formed successful partnerships with Indians by becoming a part of native society and
intermarrying
An assumption that the English learned in Ireland and brought to their American settlements
was - ANS English colonial settlements must remain separated from native populations
Virginia began to prosper when the governor changed from - ANS A communal system of
labor to private ownership
The survival and expansion of Virginia were due, in part, to - ANS The discovery that tobacco
would grow well there
During the 1600s, the rapid growth of Virginia's population led to the - ANS Violation of
Indian treaties and frequent border conflicts
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Bacon's Rebellion began as - ANS A fight between Indians and frontiersman over western
lands
The Massachusetts Bay colony was founded as - ANS A business venture
For James, the Duke of York, to take possession of the colony granted to him by his brother,
Charles II, he had to use military force against - ANS The Dutch
The colony of Georgia was founded as a - ANS Military buffer against the Spanish
The English colonization of North America - ANS Established trading centers in cities on the
eastern seaboard
One of the problems in Jamestown that led to a high mortality rate in the early years was -
ANS The cultivation of the staple crop tobacco for trade instead of grain
Puritan theology included a belief that - ANS God chose who was saved before they were
born
Slavery emerged in the Chesapeake region - ANS Over time as labor demand increased and
the flow of indentured servants decreased
Spanish and French colonization patterns differed from those of the English by -
ANS Including Indians in their society and intermarrying with them
The contention that colonial events were directly influenced by actions and events in England is
illustrated by which of the following correctly paired events? - ANS The Glorious Revolution-
Leisler's Rebellion
The Dominion of New England was an attempt - ANS To rationalize colonial policy and
consolidate it in the Crown
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John Winthrop's characterization of Massachusetts Bay as a "city on a hill" implied that -
ANS Massachusetts Bay would be an example for England to emulate
Roughly one-fourth of indentures in the Chesapeake were - ANS Women
During the late 1600s, the system of indentured servitude became less popular because -
ANS The English birth rate declined
In the late 1600s, the element of society in the English colonies that caused the greatest social
unrest was - ANS Indentured servants
Medical care in early colonial America - ANS Revealed that there was little use of the
scientific method
In the 1600s, the high sex ratio of men to women in the Chesapeake meant that -
ANS Females had much latitude in the choice of husbands
In the 1600s, Puritan New England family structure - ANS Was more stable than that of
southern colonies
By the early eighteenth century, Africans in North America - ANS Began more commonly to
be seen as inferior by whites
The Making of New World Slavery, by Robin Blackburn stressed a theme of - ANS Economic
advantages of slavery
In American Slavery, American Freedom, Edmund S. Morgan suggested that the -
ANS American colonies were new in creating a permanent condition of servitude
In South Carolina during the early 1740s, a new staple crop was - ANS Indigo
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