While the United States was home to only 6 percent of the world’s population, it was responsible for _______ percent of the world’s energy consumption. a. 9 b. 22 c. 40 d. 75 e. 90 ANSWER C
Anne Hutchinson was expelled from Massachusetts because she criticized the leaders’ __________. A) land policies B) religious beliefs and practices C) treatment of Indians D) use of slave labor ANSWER Answer: B
Thomas Malthus argued that A) human population growth would inevitably exceed the growth of the world’s food supply. B) modern science guaranteed that in the future there would be no crime, poverty, or disease. C) people were naturally good and society’s problems could be solved by the application of human reason. D) population tends to […]
The Massachusetts Bay Company was established by __________. A) religious dissenters known as Pilgrims B) a Catholic nobleman C) a group of wealthy Puritans D) William Penn ANSWER Answer: C
The English Puritans were __________. A) Methodists B) Anglicans C) Lutherans D) Calvinists ANSWER D
The Indian village communities of the Chesapeake were united in a politically sophisticated union known as the _____________. A) Grand Alliance B) Covenant Chain C) Iroquois Confederacy D) Powhatan Confederacy ANSWER Answer: D
When the Annapolis meeting of 1786, which was called to discuss commercial problems, seemed about to fail, ________ proposed a convention in Philadelphia to deal with constitutional reform. A) James Madison B) Alexander Hamilton C) George Washington D) Thomas Jefferson ANSWER B
By 1600, __________ enslaved Africans were laboring on plantations in Hispaniola and Brazil. A) 750 B) 4,000 C) 300,000 D) 25,000 ANSWER Answer: D
The model for many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention was the A) British Parliament. B) French Estates General. C) Athenian democracy. D) Roman republic. ANSWER D
Which of these instruments was of African origin? A) guitar B) violen C) banjo D) trombone ANSWER Answer: C