English settlers in seventeenth-century America could be characterized best in terms of their __________. a. striking social diversity b. similarity to French and Spanish migrants of the same period c. unity of purpose and motivation d. desire to help each other e. homogeneity ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Indentured servitude played a negligible role in securing the profitability of small farms of the Chesapeake. Answer: ANSWER FALSE
Date: September 9th, 2020
Recognizing the long historical association Americans had with a rural environment and the late nineteenth-century fact of rapid urbanization, explain why baseball became the national sport. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Teams were identified with cities and players were usually from those cities. Fans identified easily with both. Baseball also used the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What new trade developed in the mid-late 1500s between Europeans and Native Americans in North America that fed a new economic interest among Europeans? A) cod B) beaver fur C) gold D) silver ANSWER Answer: B
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The __________ Company was responsible for the settlement of Jamestown in Virginia. a. New England b. Royal African c. Virginia d. American e. New World ANSWER C
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What was the Spanish response from 1769 through the 1790s to English explorations and Russian fur-trading activities on the Pacific coast? A) creating a string of Spanish missions, forts, and settlements from San Diego to San Francisco and develop the economy of California B) concluding a treaty with Russia permitting fur-trading activities across a wide […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Imagine yourself in America in the 1950s. What would have been your actions in response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision? Why would you have acted in this way? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER One’s actions would likely range from celebrating the end of constitutionally sanctioned segregation to taking to […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Why was the Albany Plan of Union defeated resoundingly by the colonial legislatures in 1754? A) Individual colonial legislatures feared the unified government would give up too much political control to other colonies and to the British Crown, who would appoint the leader of the unified government. B) The plan for an intercolonial union did […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Pretend you are a typical white middle-class teenager in the late 1950s. What is going on in your life? What do you like to do? What do you worry about? What is your view of national and world events? Who are your heroes? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER In the 1950s, […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Whose words of resistance inspired Pontiac’s Rebellion against the British from 1763-1766? A) Hendrik, a chief of the Mohawk tribe B) Neolin, a Delaware Indian, living on the Ohio River C) Teedyuscung, leader of the Delaware tribe D) Lord Jeffrey Amherst of Great Britain ANSWER Answer: B
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