HIST 105 Resch Exam 1 Solution Manual 100% Guaranteed Pass Latest Update 2025
In the minds of European imperialists once Indians ceased to be powerful enough to demand respect or
economically profitable as trading partners, they became merely obstacles to be removed. - Answers
True
Puritans believed that religion was necessary to control the disorders of capitalism and competitive
individualism. - Answers True
Bacon's Rebellion was neither a revolt against colonial authority nor a class conflict between "common
people" and the planter ruling class. - Answers False: Bacon's Rebellion was a class conflict between
Nathanial Bacon & governor Berkeley. Governor Berkeley took away rights of men without land, and did
not allow them to buy land from Indians. This resulted in massacres of Indians, and eventually the
burning of Jamestown. Bacon's supporters consisted of people who had been servants and farmers who
wanted to buy land, while the governor was supported by the planter ruling class.
After the initial conquests, Spanish colonial policy maintained a strict racial separation between
Europeans and Indians. - Answers False, the Spanish authorities granted Indians certain rights and tried
to integrate them into their community. They even tried to get them to intermarry and created a hybrid
culture made up of mestizos.
The "Beaver Wars" of the mid-17th century demonstrated how dramatically relationships between
Indian tribes were altered by the fur trade and by European imperial rivalries. - Answers True
Under Governor Kieft, the Dutch were able to maintain peaceful relations with local Indians even after
the fur trade had ceased to profitable. - Answers False
Haciendas were landed estates intended by the Spanish to restore Indian communities and eliminate
the exploitation of Indian labor. - Answers False
In the 17th century the commercial transformation of England produced economic prosperity and
security for the common people. - Answers False
European feudalism produced monarchs who attempted to centralize central state power by
encouraging peasants to rebel against noble landlords. - Answers False: The noble lords were under the
king and the peasants were below the noble lords. The peasants were never encouraged to rebel against
the lords.
The shift from plunder to the systematic production of new wealth led Europeans to create plantation
systems in the Americas. - Answers True: Immigrants first plundered (stole) land from Native Americans,
then discovered cash crop (tobacco, sugar) which led immigrants to create plantation systems in order
to exploit this new wealth.
The "triangular trade" involved European goods including guns, African slaves, and plantation staples
such as sugar and tobacco. - Answers True: The Triangular Trade crisscrossed the Atlantic, carrying
, British manufactured goods to Africa and the colonies, colonial products including tobacco, Indigo, sugar
and rice to Europe, and slaves from Africa to the New World.
European imperialism in the Americas included military conquest, economic bondage, and ethnic
cleansing. - Answers True: Prior to 1800s, imperialism was economically based: military conquest of
Indian groups, economic bondage of immigrants to English Parliament, and ethnic cleansing of Native
Americans
Mercantilism was an economic philosophy based on free trade and an expanding quantity of wealth. -
Answers False: Mercantilism is a philosophy that there is a FIXED amount of wealth (not an expanding
quantity) in the world, in order to acquire more wealth, you must take from others. Also forbids colonies
to trade with other nations.
Because English settlers wanted their lands, Indians were faced the inevitability of war without the
possibility of a negotiated peace. - Answers True: Most colonial authorities acquired land by purchase,
often in treaties forced upon Indians after they had suffered military defeat.
The Spanish government and the Catholic Church officially disapproved of mixed marriages between
Europeans and Indians. - Answers False, they encouraged it by requiring single men to marry so that
they would marry Indians.
In order for the slave trade to prosper, European slave traders had to rely on West African coastal tribes
to supply slaves by raiding inland tribes with the aid of European firearms. - Answers True: Rarely did
Europeans go into Central Africa. Instead they stayed by the coast and purchased the slaves brought to
them.
American silver allowed Spain to develop its national economy, especially the manufacture of textiles. -
Answers False: The Netherlands had textiles, Spain harvested the wool from sheep.
As a capitalist, free labor economy emerged in Western Europe, unfree labor systems such as slavery in
the Americas and a "second serfdom" in Eastern Europe took root all around it. - Answers True: Slavery
in Americas, "second serfdom" developed in eastern Europe after Black Death
Protestantism was a capitalist Christianity insofar as its religious individualism raised self-discipline and
work to the status of signs of election. - Answers True: Protestants are Puritans. They followed the
teachings of John Calvin. Leading a good life and prospering economically might be indications of God's
Grace, whereas idleness and immoral behavior were sure signs of damnation.
The Catholic Church was a feudal Christianity insofar as it morally legitimized feudal social relations, was
itself part of the ruling class, and owned about one-third of land in Europe. - Answers True: Catholic
church told peasants/serfs to have loyalty to God, their king/lord (feudal system) and family. Lords and
kings followed Catholicism and so did everyone underneath them.
In the minds of European imperialists once Indians ceased to be powerful enough to demand respect or
economically profitable as trading partners, they became merely obstacles to be removed. - Answers
True
Puritans believed that religion was necessary to control the disorders of capitalism and competitive
individualism. - Answers True
Bacon's Rebellion was neither a revolt against colonial authority nor a class conflict between "common
people" and the planter ruling class. - Answers False: Bacon's Rebellion was a class conflict between
Nathanial Bacon & governor Berkeley. Governor Berkeley took away rights of men without land, and did
not allow them to buy land from Indians. This resulted in massacres of Indians, and eventually the
burning of Jamestown. Bacon's supporters consisted of people who had been servants and farmers who
wanted to buy land, while the governor was supported by the planter ruling class.
After the initial conquests, Spanish colonial policy maintained a strict racial separation between
Europeans and Indians. - Answers False, the Spanish authorities granted Indians certain rights and tried
to integrate them into their community. They even tried to get them to intermarry and created a hybrid
culture made up of mestizos.
The "Beaver Wars" of the mid-17th century demonstrated how dramatically relationships between
Indian tribes were altered by the fur trade and by European imperial rivalries. - Answers True
Under Governor Kieft, the Dutch were able to maintain peaceful relations with local Indians even after
the fur trade had ceased to profitable. - Answers False
Haciendas were landed estates intended by the Spanish to restore Indian communities and eliminate
the exploitation of Indian labor. - Answers False
In the 17th century the commercial transformation of England produced economic prosperity and
security for the common people. - Answers False
European feudalism produced monarchs who attempted to centralize central state power by
encouraging peasants to rebel against noble landlords. - Answers False: The noble lords were under the
king and the peasants were below the noble lords. The peasants were never encouraged to rebel against
the lords.
The shift from plunder to the systematic production of new wealth led Europeans to create plantation
systems in the Americas. - Answers True: Immigrants first plundered (stole) land from Native Americans,
then discovered cash crop (tobacco, sugar) which led immigrants to create plantation systems in order
to exploit this new wealth.
The "triangular trade" involved European goods including guns, African slaves, and plantation staples
such as sugar and tobacco. - Answers True: The Triangular Trade crisscrossed the Atlantic, carrying
, British manufactured goods to Africa and the colonies, colonial products including tobacco, Indigo, sugar
and rice to Europe, and slaves from Africa to the New World.
European imperialism in the Americas included military conquest, economic bondage, and ethnic
cleansing. - Answers True: Prior to 1800s, imperialism was economically based: military conquest of
Indian groups, economic bondage of immigrants to English Parliament, and ethnic cleansing of Native
Americans
Mercantilism was an economic philosophy based on free trade and an expanding quantity of wealth. -
Answers False: Mercantilism is a philosophy that there is a FIXED amount of wealth (not an expanding
quantity) in the world, in order to acquire more wealth, you must take from others. Also forbids colonies
to trade with other nations.
Because English settlers wanted their lands, Indians were faced the inevitability of war without the
possibility of a negotiated peace. - Answers True: Most colonial authorities acquired land by purchase,
often in treaties forced upon Indians after they had suffered military defeat.
The Spanish government and the Catholic Church officially disapproved of mixed marriages between
Europeans and Indians. - Answers False, they encouraged it by requiring single men to marry so that
they would marry Indians.
In order for the slave trade to prosper, European slave traders had to rely on West African coastal tribes
to supply slaves by raiding inland tribes with the aid of European firearms. - Answers True: Rarely did
Europeans go into Central Africa. Instead they stayed by the coast and purchased the slaves brought to
them.
American silver allowed Spain to develop its national economy, especially the manufacture of textiles. -
Answers False: The Netherlands had textiles, Spain harvested the wool from sheep.
As a capitalist, free labor economy emerged in Western Europe, unfree labor systems such as slavery in
the Americas and a "second serfdom" in Eastern Europe took root all around it. - Answers True: Slavery
in Americas, "second serfdom" developed in eastern Europe after Black Death
Protestantism was a capitalist Christianity insofar as its religious individualism raised self-discipline and
work to the status of signs of election. - Answers True: Protestants are Puritans. They followed the
teachings of John Calvin. Leading a good life and prospering economically might be indications of God's
Grace, whereas idleness and immoral behavior were sure signs of damnation.
The Catholic Church was a feudal Christianity insofar as it morally legitimized feudal social relations, was
itself part of the ruling class, and owned about one-third of land in Europe. - Answers True: Catholic
church told peasants/serfs to have loyalty to God, their king/lord (feudal system) and family. Lords and
kings followed Catholicism and so did everyone underneath them.
