Puritans believed that __________ should be central to the Christian worship service. A) silent contemplation B) singing C) prayer D) the sermon ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
An examination of slavery in Florida and New Mexico indicates that __________. A) local conditions determined its character B) few Africans were brought to Spanish America C) Indian slavery rarely existed D) the harshest form of slavery existed in the more isolated regions of Spanish America ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Mesoamerican cultures were A) the Indian cultures that built pueblos in the southwestern United States. B) the Indian civilizations that formed in South America. C) the earliest Spanish cultures in the New World. D) civilizations in Mexico and Central America. E) Indian cultures along the Mississippi River. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the first half of the eighteenth century, colonists complained little about the mercantilist system because __________. A) the colonists benefited from it B) it did not apply to the colonists C) few in the colonies depended on trade D) the colonies were economically self-sufficient ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
More than anything else, John Winthrop wanted Massachusetts Bay Colony to be a(n) __________. A) example for the rest of the world B) self-contained community C) enormous financial success D) independent country ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1734 was __________. A) a stable community with few problems B) a declining community with shrinking opportunities C) a fast growing and prosperous community D) isolated on the colonial frontier ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the main motivation that brought so many Scots-Irish to America in the 1700s? a. They came to practice Catholicism freely, something they could not do in Ireland. b. They came in search of freedom and prosperity, two things they lacked in Ireland. c. They came to work as indentured servants in the New […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Enlightenment was inspired by which of these? A) the Reformation B) the French Revolution C) the Scientific Revolution D) the Renaissance ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Explain why in the “first constitutional settlement of the Revolution,” the views of “radical” Revolutionaries dominated. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: reaction against the “tyranny” of the King and royal governors; fear of repeating the “corruption” of Parliament; faith in the public virtue of the American people was yet untested, but […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The greatest barrier to economic mobility in eighteenth-century British America was __________. A) a rigid and racist class system B) scarce and increasingly expensive land C) legal limits on leaving one’s birth community D) a growing feudal system ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
