In what way did sixteenth-century Europeans benefit from trade between the Americas and Europe? |
A large number of new crops became available in Europe |
An encomienda was |
the right to exact tribute and labor from natives |
The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began |
with migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait |
An important consequence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was that |
England found the seas more open to their control |
In the fifteenth century, slavery in Africa |
generally allowed certain legal protections to the enslaved |
Between 1500 and 1800, African immigrants to the Americas |
nearly all came against their will and made up over half of all immigrants to the New World |
The agricultural practices of pre-Columbian tribes in the Northeast were characterized by |
a rapid exploitation of the land |
What condition in England in the sixteenth century provided an incentive for colonization |
the availability of farmland was declining while the population was growing |
As a result of his third voyage in 1498, Christopher Columbus concluded |
he had encountered a continent separate from Asia |
Christopher Columbus |
thought the world was much smaller than it was in reality |
Which statement regarding the economic theory of mercantilism is FALSE? |
It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies |
In what way were Martin Luther and John Calvin important to English Puritans |
Luther and Calvin advocated ideas of religious reform that influenced Purita |
In the late fifteenth century, the desire in Europe to look for new lands was spurred by |
significant population growth |
The English concluded from their colonial experiences in Ireland that |
English colonists should maintain a rigid separation from the indigenous population |
The English Reformation resulted from |
a political dispute between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church |
Seventeenth-century English colonial settlements |
were essentially business enterprises |
Regarding the origins of slavery in the North American English colonies, |
many colonies gradually embraced slavery as a solution to their labor troubles |
The development of the Carolina colony was notable in that |
the northern and southern regions were economically and socially distinct from each other |
When the House of Burgesses was created in Virginia in 1619 |
colonists were given a share of local political representation |
In its beginning, the Maryland colony |
was a refuge for English Catholics |
The Virginia Company developed the "headright" system to |
attract new settlers to the colony |
The Massachusetts Bay Puritans |
created a colonial "theocracy." |
Originally, the Georgia colony excluded |
both free blacks and slaves |
The Puritan founders in Massachusetts who described their colony as a "shining city upon a hill" |
felt they were creating a holy community that would be a model for the world |
The suppression of Bacon’s Rebellion helped spur |
slavery in Virginia |
The first important economic boom in Jamestown resulted from |
the production of tobacco |
The first blacks imported to Virginia in 1619 |
were most likely indentured servants |
The English Parliament enacted the Navigation Acts primarily to benefit |
British business and merchants |
The New York colony |
emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch |
Unlike Puritans, the Quakers |
rejected the doctrine of original sin |
In the seventeenth century, white women in colonial Chesapeake |
averaged one pregnancy for every two years of marriage |
In the seventeenth century, the great majority of English immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region were |
indentured servants |
The term "middle passage" refers to the movement of enslaved Africans |
from Africa to the New World |
In colonial New England Puritan communities, women |
were expected to be major contributors to the family |
In the North American colonies, mulatto children were |
rarely recognized by their white fathers |
By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence because of |
illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire |
In the "triangular trade," the North American colonies primarily contributed |
raw materials |
In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly |
women of low social position |
The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s |
had particular appeal with women and young men |
Seventeenth-century southern plantations |
tended to be rough and relatively small |
"Primogeniture" refers to the |
passing of property to the firstborn son |
The most common form of resistance by enslaved Africans to their condition was |
subtle defiance or evasion of their masters |
By 1700, English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery because |
of a declining birthrate in England. |
The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the |
Scotch-Irish |
Many colonists believed the legislation passed by the Grenville ministry in 1764-1765 |
meant the British were trying to take away their tradition of self-government |
During the first half of the eighteenth century, England’s administration of the colonies |
was loose, decentralized, and inefficient |
The Boston Massacre |
was transformed by some colonists into a symbol of British oppression |
In 1774, the First Continental Congress |
called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763 |
By the 1750s, American colonial assemblies |
exercised a significant degree of authority to levy taxes |
When he became British Prime Minister, George Grenville |
believed the American colonists had been indulged for far too long |
According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763 |
France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain |
Taverns were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because |
they become central meeting places to discuss ideas about resistance |
Who among the following took the lead in protesting against the Stamp Act |
Patrick Henry |
English and American supporters of the English constitution felt it correctly divided power between |
the monarchy, the aristocracy, and representative assemblies |
In the 1760s, "country Whigs" were English colonists who |
considered the British government to be corrupt and oppressive |
In the eighteenth century, the English constitution was |
an unwritten document |
Following the conclusion of the French and Indian War, |
many colonists resented England’s interference in their local affairs |
The Declaratory Act of 1766 |
was a sweeping assertion of Parliament’s authority over the colonies |
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