Who led the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs? A) Magellan B) de Gama C) Cortés D) Pizarro ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Hellenistic philosophers who denied that it was possible to ever know the truth with certainty and therefore thought that people ought not to be so dogmatic about their beliefs were A) Cynics. B) Skeptics. C) Epicureans. D) the followers of Zeno. E) Stoics. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The seventeenth-century Pueblo Indians __________. A) rejected Spanish attempts to convert them B) made Christianity one more part of their already complex culture C) rejected their old gods and accepted Christianity as their new religion D) begged the Spaniards to teach them the tenets of Catholicism ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
After World War II, the employment of married women __________. A) fell sharply B) continued to rise C) became exceedingly rare D) was celebrated in popular culture ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The conflict between England and Holland in the mid-seventeenth century was mainly over __________. A) religious differences B) commercial rivalry C) Charles II’s claim to the Dutch throne D) English fear of Dutch ties to the Iroquois ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Colonial involvement in imperial wars began with __________. a. the French and Indian War b. King William’s War c. King Philip’s War d. the Thirty Years’ War e. Queen Anne’s War ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
From 1650 to 1700, the main cause of turmoil in the English colonies was __________. A) the threat of Spanish attack B) the expansion of English settlement C) new French settlements in the Chesapeake D) falling white colonial populations ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In part, the drop in fertility among American women in the early nineteenth century was due to the A) declining value of children as economic assets to the family. B) urbanization of the population. C) sudden perfection of contraceptive devices. D) All of the above. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
What convinced Metacom that he had to go to war against the English? A) They forced him to grant them sovereign authority over his homeland. B) They refused to sell him guns. C) They invalidated a series of treaties they had made with him. D) They stationed additional troops in Massachusetts. ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The court decision in Roe v. Wade guaranteed women’s right to __________. a. attend traditionally all-male schools b. run for public office c. serve in the military d. earn equal pay for equal work e. obtain an abortion ANSWER E
Date: September 9th, 2020
