US History Topics 1-4: Straighterline Exam questions with correct solutions

The first important economic boom in Jamestown resulted from - ANSWER-the production of tobacco. The wide availability of reading material in colonial America was the result of - ANSWER-the wide availability of printing presses in the colonies. Legislation passed by the Grenville ministry in adversely affected American - ANSWER-All these answers are correct. The first American college was - ANSWER-Harvard Compared to women in colonial Chesapeake, New England women - ANSWER-were more likely to have their family remain intact. Throughout the French and Indian War, American colonists - ANSWER-sold and traded food and other goods with the French. In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly - ANSWER-women of low social position. The cause for failure of the Roanoke colony - ANSWER-is historically inconclusive Which of the following statements regarding the Coercive Acts is TRUE? - ANSWER-Massachusetts became a martyr in the cause of resistance. After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were - ANSWER-almanacs