GACE HISTORY questions with correct answers

Which of the following best describes the Eastern Woodland peoples, such as the Iroquois and Algonquin, before European colonization? Answer Agriculturalists who supplemented their diet with hunting and gathering Which of the following initiatives was a Progressive Era response to the threat of environmental degradation? Answer The creation of the national park system The statement above was made to Queen Elizabeth I of England in support of Walter Raleigh's effort to found a colony in the New World.Which of the following social conditions in sixteenth-century England does the quotation reference as a reason why the monarch should support permanent settlements in North America? Answer The private ownership of formerly communal farmland and pasture had created a landless peasantry. Which of the following caused Spanish, British, and French forces to fight wars in North America prior to the American Revolution? Answer . Disputes about controlling territory in the colonies . Religious and cultural differences among colonists of different nationalities . International tensions caused by competing alliances among the three nations The movement for the independence of the Canadian province of Quebec in the late twentieth century had its roots in which of the following events? Answer The loss in 1763 of New France to the British as a result of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)