Terms in this set (111)The potential for conflict between Europeans and the indigenous people in North America stemmed in part from different values concerning the: A)treatment of children. B As a result of the development of agriculture in the Americas, the members of native tribes: A)gave up intertribal feuding and became pacifists. E In contrast to the Europeans, most natives of North America believed that land serves as the basis for: A)political status. B The Pueblo people of the American Southwest, encountered by the Spanish in the 1540s: A)used irrigation canals, dams, and hillside
terracing to water their arid maize fields. A In Cahokia, the center of a vast Mississippi culture reaching its peak around 1200 C.E., Native Americans: A)developed an urban center with at least 20,000 inhabitants. A Which of the following characteristics of a matrilineal tribe in North America is NOT accurate? A)divorce as the woman's prerogative C Population growth and cultural development in West Africa: A)required isolation from other cultures. D West Africans shared religious beliefs that rejected: A)spirit possession. E All of the following factors contributed to the rise of modern Europe EXCEPT the: A)devastation of the population by the Black Death. D According to the Magna Carta presented by members of the English aristocracy to their king in 1215, the: A)King of England would have all the powers of his European counterparts. D Rather than personal wealth, natives of communal American societies valued: A)size of individual landholdings. E In contrast to the fate of Africans enslaved in the Americas, the slaves in West African societies: A)often did not suffer a permanently servile condition. A Arab merchants who lived in Ghana: A)introduced Ghanaians to Arabic ideas about religion and government. A At the time of early contact with Europeans, Africa was a continent marked by: A)backward and ignorant peoples. E Archaeological studies of the Mound Builders suggest that Native American: A)culture remained static for thousands of years before Europeans arrived. C The movement toward more intensive and profitable agriculture in the sixteenth century: A)strengthened regional cultures and leadership in Spain. C The expansionist impulse of European monarchs in the latter fifteenth century was: A)nourished by population decline and civil disorder. E "European colonizers in North America also found disturbing the matrilineal organization of many tribal societies." Matrilineal organization occurs when: A)women hold the highest positions in the religious structure.
E "By the time the Spanish arrived in the 1540s, the indigenous Pueblo people were using irrigation canals." Indigenous people refers to those who: A)live naturally in an area. A "Ushering in a new, more secular age, the Renaissance...encouraged freedom of thought...." A secular age is one that is: A)parochial or
sectarian in its views. C While Spain began to exert its power on the other side of the Atlantic, the Portuguese: A)decided to take a leading role in European affairs. B Spanish and Portuguese explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: A)prompted immediate competition from England and France. C Protestantism did not gain an early foothold in the Americas because: A)Catholic missionaries were more daring than Protestant missionaries and bravely faced dangers Protestants refused to confront. D What factor(s) did NOT contribute to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires? A)alliance with dissident natives D The population of the Americas dramatically declined following the arrival of Europeans primarily because of the: A)loss of morale and sense of hopelessness that pervaded Native American societies. B American exploration changed European diets by introducing Europeans to: A)sugar. B
The consequences of sugar production in the New World included: A)stimulating the transport of millions of African slaves. E The defeat of the Spanish Armada by England in 1588: A)solidified Protestantism in England. E England initially became interested in the western Atlantic for: A)furs. D
English colonizing ventures in the New World differed from previous Spanish and Portuguese efforts in that English attempts were: A)immediate and major successes. E A negative image of Native Americans among English settlers: A)justified their claim that natives had disqualified themselves as rightful owners of the land. A The least likely destination of European slave traders in the seventeenth century would have been: A)Spanish America. C The most important factors for increasing the African slave trade was a(n): A)need for the use of African slave labor in the silver mines of Mexico. D "The countries most affected by the Reformation...." The Reformation was a(n): A)social movement to improve the lives of peasants and poor laborers. D The organizers of the Jamestown colony were motivated primarily by a desire to: A)pursue military adventures against the Spanish. B The Virginia Company attracted new settlers to its colony after 1609 by: A)promising free land at the end of seven years' labor for the company. A The economic salvation for the Virginia colony proved to be the: A)mining of silver. E The primary cause for continuing conflicts between English colonists and Native Americans in Virginia was the: A)the colonists' alliance with the Iroquois confederacy. D Chesapeake colonists of the seventeenth century: A)quickly established churches and schools. D In response to Bacon's Rebellion, Governor Berkeley of Virginia: A)honored Bacon and his followers as heroes. B Which of the following factors did NOT contribute to the outbreak of Bacon's Rebellion? A)land hunger C Life in the southern colonies remained volatile in the late seventeenth century mainly because of a lack of: A)religious freedom.
B The southern transition to black slave labor in the last quarter of the seventeenth century might be explained by the: A)difficulty in subjugating Native Americans to use as a labor force. E The Puritans of England: A)welcomed changes sparked by England's accelerating commercial activity. D Puritans decided to emigrate from England during the 1630s because of: A)religious persecution. E Unlike the Puritans, the Pilgrims: A)wished to rejoin the Catholic Church. D In contrast to Virginia, the colony of Massachusetts Bay thrived almost from the beginning because the early Puritan settlers: A)chose a location uninhabited by hostile
Indians. B By the early seventeenth century, the French: A)befriended the Iroquois in local Indian wars. C The Dutch colony of New Netherland: A)had to rely upon English merchants for overseas trade. D In his colony, William Penn intended to: A)make an asylum for the persecuted and a refuge from arbitrary state power. A Slavery never became the foundation of the northern colonial work force because: A)colonists there viewed slavery as immoral. B The architects of the Carolina colony: A)wished to pursue radical social experiments begun during the English civil war. E New Englanders built more private and comfortable houses at an earlier stage than colonists in the Chesapeake because of: A)their materialistic religious beliefs. E Which of the following factors was most instrumental in securing victory for the New England colonists in King Philip's War? A)efficient mobilization of colonial manpower and supplies E The root cause of King Philip's War in New England stemmed from the anger of young Wampanoags at the colonists': A)alliance with their hated enemies, the Narragansetts. D Which of the following elements contributed to the cohesion of Puritan village life in New England? A)substantial investments in bound labor D Puritan minister Roger Williams supported: A)government officials' interference in religious affairs. D William Penn believed that the Indians should be: A)removed forcibly from his colony. D The Pueblo were pushed to the point of revolt when the Spaniards began to: A)assault their religion by seizing their kivas. A According to the theory of mercantilism, colonies existed primarily to: A)expand trade with other nations. E The Navigation Act of 1660: A)promoted colonial trade by removing English duties on enumerated articles. D After 1675, England enacted stricter imperial controls because (of): A)the need of British merchants for increased efficiency in trade. E Governor Edmund Andros of the Dominion of New England antagonized colonists by: A)supporting the land claims of local Indians. E Leisler's Rebellion in New York City reflected the: A)unsuccessful
attempt by conservatives to stem the power of the "rabble." B The Glorious Revolution of 1688 resulted in: A)Catholic domination of the English government. C The colonial elite tried to foster social and economic stability by the: A)extension
of voting rights. C "The Puritans set about building their utopia...." A utopia is a(n): A)condition of practical usefulness. D New Englanders opted for more of a mixed economy than settlers in the middle or southern colonies because in New England: A)availability and productivity of land was limited. A Colonial America in the first half of the eighteenth century experienced: A)loss of local autonomy. D Compared to her English counterpart, the eighteenth-century northern colonial woman: A)pursued a daily routine less likely to overlap that of her husband's. C
The Chesapeake colonies of the early eighteenth century witnessed: A)the emergence of a planter gentry as political and social leaders. A By the 1740s, the vast majority of inhabitants along the coast of South Carolina consisted of: A)rice planters. D The adoption of slave codes in the English colonies: A)began with the earliest days of colonization. E Which of the following factors helped temper rebellion and offer comfort to colonial slaves? A)kind treatment from masters E The typical master in colonial America wished to convert the slave into a(n): A)mindless drudge who obeyed every command. A France's interior empire in North America: A)was composed of large tobacco plantations. C As a result of extensive contact with European colonizers during the early eighteenth century, Native American tribes of the interior: A)altered patterns of tribal life and leadership. A The advent of "modern" life occurred first in the seaboard centers of colonial America, including the transition from a: A)factory to a skilled craftsman's production of goods. B Colonial merchants of the early eighteenth century: A)engaged in the tasks of shipping and distributional services only. B For urban artisans in colonial America: A)New England paid the highest wages. C In contrast to conditions in the English colonies, life in New Spain was characterized by greater: A)sharing of profits with
natives. B The social structure of American colonial cities from 1690 to 1770 was influenced by: A)an absence of urban poverty. E According to the entrepreneurial ethos, government would provide for the general welfare by: A)regulating prices and wages. C All of the following represent theories of Enlightenment thinkers EXCEPT the notion that: A)systematic investigation would unlock the secrets of the physical universe. E Perhaps the most pressing problem facing clergymen in the early eighteenth century and a cause for the Great Awakening was the: A)scarcity of trained ministers. D Which of the following might NOT be considered a legacy of the Great Awakening? A)legitimization of dissent C The religious revival known as the Great Awakening: A)reaffirmed traditional sources of authority. E Royal checks on colonial lawmaking operated imperfectly in the eighteenth century primarily because of the: A)weakness of colonial governors. C The most important government for colonial New Englanders was the: A)House of Burgesses. E According to the Whig ideology, the best defense against corruption and tyranny rested in the: A)higher nature of the monarch. C Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, England: A)replaced all royal
governors with elected representatives. D As a result of the Molasses Act of 1733: A)New England merchants and shippers gained new respect for royal authority. C The underlying cause of the Seven Years' War in America was (the): A)France's attack on English colonies in
India. B The British Proclamation of 1763: A)ordered colonial governors to reserve lands west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indian nations. A Which of the following provisions was NOT a part of George Grenville's program to raise colonial revenue? A)prohibition of colonial
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