TAMU History 105 Resch Exam 1 Already Passed

TAMU History 105 Resch Exam 1 Already Passed 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. True Puritans believed that religion was necessary to control the disorders of capitalism and competitive individualism. True Bacon's Rebellion was neither a revolt against colonial authority nor a class conflict between "common people" and the planter ruling class. 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. 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. True Under Governor Kieft, the Dutch were able to maintain peaceful relations with local Indians even after the fur trade had ceased to profitable. False*** In the 17th century the commercial transformation of England produced economic prosperity and security for the common people. False*** European feudalism produced monarchs who attempted to centralize central state power by encouraging peasants to rebel against noble landlords. false*** The shift from plunder to the systematic production of new wealth led Europeans to create plantation systems in the Americas. true*** The "triangular trade" involved European goods including guns, African slaves, and plantation staples such as sugar and tobacco. True European imperialism in the Americas included military conquest, economic bondage, and ethnic cleansing. true*** Mercantilism was an economic philosophy based on free trade and an expanding quantity of wealth. false*** Because English settlers wanted their lands, Indians were faced the inevitability of war without the possibility of a negotiated peace. true The Spanish government and the Catholic Church officially disapproved of mixed marriages between Europeans and Indians. 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. true* American silver allowed Spain to develop its national economy, especially the manufacture of textiles. false*** 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. true* Protestantism was a capitalist Christianity insofar as its religious individualism raised self-discipline and work to the status of signs of election. true* 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. true* Catholic missions in New Spain were interested in "saving souls