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| 1641803811 | Chapter 1: 1.The first European explorers reached the region that would become the Americas | More than 500 years ago | 0 | |
| 1641813623 | 2.What proof has lead researchers to conclude that the earth was once contained in a single continent | There are identical species of fish in freshwater lakes all around the globe | 1 | |
| 1641822334 | 3.What is the dominant theory about how the first people arrived in what we now call North America | They walked across a land bridge from Eurasia to North America | 2 | |
| 1641831123 | 4.The Incans, Mayans, and Aztecs owe the development of their sophisticated early civilization to | Agriculture, particularly the cultivation of corn or a maize | 3 | |
| 1641858796 | 5.What was three-sister farming? | An agricultural method in which corn beans and squash were grown together | 4 | |
| 1641877922 | 6.Native Americans did NOT make a major imprint on the land they used for all of the following EXCEPT they | feared changing it would impact their survival | 5 | |
| 1641886075 | 7.which of these reasons did NOT drive the europeans exploration that led to the "discovery" of the New World | Population surges and land shortages | 6 | |
| 1652275503 | 8.The plantation system was first developed | By portuguese explorers in west Africa | 7 | |
| 1652275504 | 9.All of the following events in the fifteenth century set the stage for the dramatic and unexpected discovery of the new world EXCEPT | Wars between rival european countries. | 8 | |
| 1652275505 | 10. What was the Columbian exchange? | The transfer of plants, animals, culture, and diseases that occurred after the Columbus's voyage. | 9 | |
| 1652275506 | 11. In the treaty of Tordesillas, Spain | divided up the so-called New World with Portugal | 10 | |
| 1652282082 | 12. Some of the scholars see the origins of modern capitalism in New World discoveries of precious metals for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that | they decreased the cost of consumer goods dramatically | 11 | |
| 1652639024 | 13. Spanish conquistadores, traveling to the New World, hoped to gain all of the following EXCEPT | the chance to organize an army | 12 | |
| 1652639025 | 14. Which of the following men was NOT an explorer for Spain | Hernan cortes | 13 | |
| 1652639026 | 15. how did the end of the ice age affect the peopling of the Americas. | It allowed settlers to roam east and south, reaching all points of the continent. | 14 | |
| 1652753854 | 16. the spanish empire in america imported old world culture and ideas by doing all of the following EXCEPT | shunning and isolating the Native Americans | 15 | |
| 1652753855 | chapter 2 why did England show little interest in colonizing the New world during the 1500s | it didn't want to compete with its ally spain | 16 | |
| 1652753856 | the event that signaled the beginning of the end of the Spanish empire in the New World was | the defeat of the Spanish Armada | 17 | |
| 1652753857 | the English first attempted colonization in the americas in | plymouth | 18 | |
| 1652753858 | which of the following did not influence the dramatic rise of England's colonization efforts in the early 1600s | Promised rewards for explorers from the crown | 19 | |
| 1652753859 | what makes the Virginia company charter such a significant document to american history ? | It guaranteed jamestown colonists citizenship rights equal to those of Englishmen | 20 | |
| 1652753860 | what single cause was responsible for the death of so many jamestown settlers in the early years | starvation | 21 | |
| 1652753861 | after the arrival of the Europeans in North America which of the following did NOT negatively impact the Native American cultural life | the introduction of horses | 22 | |
| 1652753862 | the primary labor source for the early development of the plantation colonies off Virginia and Maryland waas | indentured servants | 23 | |
| 1652753863 | the Acts of Toleration (1649) granted the Maryland's was | Legal sanction for importing african slaves | 24 | |
| 1652756542 | the struggling Virginia economy was ultimately saved by | peace treaties with local Native American nation | 25 | |
| 1652760658 | the purpose of slave codes was to | limit the rights and behavior of Negro slaves | 26 | |
| 1653012220 | Which of these was NOT a reason for the founding of Georgia? | to become a stronghold for the slave trade | 27 | |
| 1653019161 | The Iroquois became powerful in the 1500s and 1600s by | merging with other branches of tribes | 28 | |
| 1653032696 | Which of the following traits were NOT shared by all of England's plantation colonies(Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia)? | the birth of large urban port cities | 29 | |
| 1653043325 | which of the following effects of excessive planting England's southern colonies contributed to westward expansion during colonial times and beyond? | soil butchery | 30 | |
| 1653105266 | english settlers exerted their power over the Native Americans in all of the following ways EXCEPT by | destroying Native American customs in the Great-Lakes area | 31 | |
| 1653105267 | Chapter 3 All of the following were tenets of Calvinism EXCEPT that | by doing good deeds in this life, people could earn a place in gods kingdom in the after life | 32 | |
| 1653105268 | separatists were Puritans who broke away because they | disliked the fact that all English subjects, regardless of piety were automatically church members | 33 | |
| 1653105269 | why did the Separatists who fled the London for Holland eventually settle in the New World? | They were worried about the "Dutchification" of their children and wanted to practice their religion as English citizens | 34 | |
| 1653285110 | the mayflower compact is significant because it | included signatures of men and woman who arrived on the Mayflower | 35 | |
| 1653285111 | The colony founded by the pilgrims in Plymouth bay was | prosperous within a year based on a bountiful harvest | 36 | |
| 1653285112 | what did Massachusetts governor john Winthrop mean when he said " we shall be as a city on this hill " | He hoped the colony would become a holy society that would serve as a model for people everywhere | 37 | |
| 1653285113 | what was the single most important qualification for voting above all others in the provincial governments of the Massachusetts Bay Colony | church membership | 38 | |
| 1653285114 | Today both Anne Hutchinson and Rodger Williams are considered heroes for all of these reasons EXCEPT | founded successful colonies elsewhere | 39 | |
| 1653285115 | how did Indians resist English encroachment on their land? | By forming inter tribal alliances | 40 | |
| 1653285116 | established in 1686 the Dominion of New England was | England's attempt to consolidate and better control its northeastern colonies | 41 | |
| 1653285117 | the dutch colony of New Netherland finally became the english colony New York as a result of | a battle by the English against Dutch forces in New amsterdam | 42 | |
| 1653392298 | which of the following statements about Pennsylvania colony is NOT true? | Relations between early colonists and Indians were initially tense | 43 | |
| 1653392299 | the middle colonies New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania, all had which of the following traits in common | Rich fertile soil that enabled the region to produce and export vast quantities of grain | 44 | |
| 1653392300 | What are blue laws | the rules that guided how large a tract of land a person would receive | 45 | |
| 1653392301 | The mayflower compact, fundamental orders of Connecticut and the first frame of government in Pennsylvania are all evidence of | democracy in the british colonies | 46 | |
| 1653392302 | the middle colonies are considered by some to be the most american part about america for all of the following reasons except that | settlers avoided purchasing and using slave labor | 47 | |
| 1653392303 | early colonists in the Chesapeake struggled with all of the following EXCEPT | land that was difficult to farm | 48 | |
| 1653392304 | what were freedom dues | farm implements, clothes, and sometimes land given to former indentured servants | 49 | |
| 1653392305 | Bacon's rebellion was triggered by | land shortages and indian policies | 50 | |
| 1653392306 | what was the middle passage | the transatlantic journey that brought slaves to the americas | 51 | |
| 1653392307 | slave codes had all of the following except that | they were first implemented in the carolinas | 52 | |
| 1653393483 | what is Gullah? | A slave language | 53 | |
| 1653405852 | the stono rebellion was | an example of slaves anger at their treatment and permanent servitude | 54 | |
| 1653428690 | all of the following are true about early slave EXCEPT that | slave imports continued to outnumber American-slaves well into the late 1700s | 55 | |
| 1653438493 | how did slaves adapt the christian religion to make it their own? | They infuse their worship with singing and dancing | 56 | |
| 1653491611 | the largest social group of white virginians were | small farmers | 57 | |
| 1653583211 | the early puritans in New England lived | almost as long as Americans today | 58 | |
| 1653583212 | why did New England leaders block women from retaining separate property and inheriting their husbands estates the way southern women did? | they feared that the family unity would be undermined | 59 | |
| 1653583213 | all of the following statements about the witchcraft hysteria and trials in salem in the 1690s are true EXCEPT that | property owning women were often targets | 60 | |
| 1653583214 | how did the New England settlers ideas about land differ from those of the indians they encountered | the indians used the land for farming while the English wanted it for livestock | 61 | |
| 1653583215 | which of the following geographic features most contributed to New England settlers seeking new land in the west. | access to waterways | 62 | |
| 1653583216 | what was not a difference between southern and New England society? | southerners emphasized farming over all other pursuits while New Englanders viewed education as essential | 63 | |
| 1653591922 | what were the political ramifications of the surging population growth in the american colonies from 1700s to 1775 | the ratio of american colonists to english subjects dramatically declined | 64 | |
| 1653619430 | all of the following statements are true about scots-irish immigrants to Pennsylvania EXCEPT that | they were tolerant of local indians | 65 | |
| 1653632030 | the ethnic diversity of the eighteenth-century american colonies is significant because it | Paved the way for a new multi cultural american identity | 66 | |
| 1653645103 | which of these did not contribute to the increasing social stratification and declining opportunities for social mobility in pre-revolutionary america | the rising number of convicts sent to the colonies | 67 | |
| 1654355901 | despite the constant threat of small pox american colonists resisted inoculation mainly because | ministers regarded inoculation as tampering with gods will | 68 | |
| 1654355902 | which of the following was surest path to quick wealth in eighteenth century america | commerce and land speculation | 69 | |
| 1654355903 | the term triangular trade describes | rum sent from New England to trade for slaves in Africa who were then exchanged for molasses in the West Indies that could be sold back to New England | 70 | |
| 1654355904 | The single most important manufacturing activity in the colonies in the 1700s was | lumbering | 71 | |
| 1654355905 | what did parliament hope to accomplish with the molasses act | cut off american trade with the french West Indies | 72 | |
| 1654362066 | in the early eighteenth century the Puritan religion declined for all of the following reasons except | increased tithing(taxing) of church members | 73 | |
| 1654370920 | which of these did not result from the great awakening | a heightened sense of sectional and regional differences developed | 74 | |
| 1654370921 | early college education in New England was designed to | prepare young men to become ministers | 75 | |
| 1654375564 | which of these is NOT numbered among Benjamin Franklins many contributions to america | writing the declaration of independance | 76 | |
| 1654378886 | the Zenger case is significant for | establishing freedom of the press | 77 | |
| 1654404584 | which of the following figures played a crucial role in developing american character | Benjamin Franklin | 78 | |
| 1654412193 | all of the following are true about education and religion in the colonies except that | the majority of the faculty at each college comprised church officials | 79 |
