The most profitable commodity bought and sold in the upper tier of southern states was __________. a. tobacco b. cotton c. human beings d. wheat e. corn ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
If you were trying to persuade someone to follow mercantilist ideas, what would you argue? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: mercantilist theory; trade; relationships between colonies and homelands; competition between European nations
Date: September 9th, 2020
Gabriel plotted a rebellion to seize __________. A) Charleston B) Richmond C) Charlotte D) Washington D.C. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In eighteenth-century British North America, the gap between rich and poor __________. A) steadily narrowed B) steadily widened C) remained stable D) disappeared ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In 1979, revolutionaries in __________ took U.S. diplomats hostage. a. Afghanistan b. Iran c. Iraq d. Israel e. Pakistan ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
If you were a member of a community governed by a Puritan congregation, you were most likely living in __________. A) the French Crescent B) the Lower South C) the Chesapeake D) New England ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The largest human-made structure in the New World is an enormous pyramid standing 213 feet high at A) Teotihuaca ´n. B) Cuzco. C) Monte Alban. D) Tenochtitlan. E) Monte Verde. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which group in British North America was most attracted to Enlightenment thought? A) the elite B) the middle class C) the poor D) farmers ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of the following authors argued that the American ideal of women’s “innocence” really meant their ignorance? a. Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Women and Economics b. Edward Bliss Foote in Plain Home Talk of Love, Marriage, and Parentage c. Bessie and Marie Von Vorst in The Woman Who Toils d. Helen Campbell in Women Wage […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
British Prime Minister William Pitt’s main goal in the French and Indian War was __________. A) eliminating all Indian claims east of the Mississippi B) unifying the colonies politically and militarily C) persuading the colonists to help pay for the conflict D) driving the French out of North America ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
