CLEP US History I - Study Questions with Correct Answers 2023/2024

Which of the following were native to North America before Columbus arrived? - Answer-maize and squash During the Age of Exploration most super power countries in Europe searched for gold and silver in the Americas and what from Asia? - Answer-silk and spices Which of the following is true of White women in the British North American colonies? - Answer-They were restricted in holding property and making legal contracts after marriage. Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Great Awakening in the American colonies during the mid-eighteenth century? - Answer-Heightened interest in the supernatural caused the renewed persecution of people for witchcraft In the early seventeenth century, colonists in the Chesapeake Bay area exported which of the following to England? - Answer-Tobacco Seventeenth-century Puritans and Quakers differed primarily over the - Answer- notion of predestination Which of the following best describes the American Colonization Society? - Answer-It promoted the settling of free African Americans from the United States to Africa Anne Hutchinson and her followers were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because - Answer-Hutchinson's religious views led to her excommunication from the Puritan church Why was it possible for England to establish successful colonies by 1700s? - Answer- Because they had crucial advantages over European rivals American Mercantilism in the mid-seventeenth century was the idea of the... - Answer-British John Winthrop told the Puritans that their society would be regarded as "a city upon a hill." But first he explained that there would always be inequalities of wealth and power, that some people would always be in positions of authority, and that others would be dependent. His statements best illustrate the Puritans' - Answer- acceptance of the traditional belief that social order depended on a system of ranks The French and Indian War led Great Britain to - Answer-impose revenue taxes on its North American colonies All of the following were common characteristics of many colonial New England families EXCEPT? - Answer-a place that sheltered men from the workplace All of the following were common characteristics of many colonial New England families: - Answer-a hierarchical institution in which the father represented the source of authority a social institution that cared for the needy and the poor a social institution that provided vocational training a basic farming unit Which of the following is a correct statement about the use of slave labor in colonial Virginia? - Answer-It spread rapidly in the late-seventeenth century, as enslaved Africans replaced European indentured Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were written to - Answer-argue against the power of Parliament to tax the colonists without representation Under the Articles of Confederation, which of the following was true about the national government? - Answer-It had the power to conduct foreign affairs "No Person or Persons, inhabiting in this Province or Territories, who shall confess and acknowledge One almighty God, the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World; . . . shall be in any Case molested or prejudiced, in his or their Person or Estate, because of his or their conscientious Persuasion or Practice, nor be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious Worship, Place or Ministry, contrary to his or their Mind." The excerpt above is from the charter of which of the following English - Answer- Pennsylvania During the Colonial Period, which of the following was the staple crop in Virginia? - Answer-Tobacco Roger Williams defended liberty of conscience on the grounds that - Answer-the state should not interfere in church matters Which of the following was a renowned African American poet in New England in the late-eighteenth century? - Answer-Phillis Wheatley What was the main focus of The Great Awakening? - Answer-Religion This put an important spin in the society, America's religious communities during this time were divided from the Old believers to the New: - Answer-The Great Awakening By the time of the American Revolution, many American colonists had generally come to believe that the creation of a republic would solve the problems of monarchical rule because a republic would establish - Answer-a small, limited government responsible to the people