Prior to the arrival of Columbus, the peoples if the present united states had
Less elaborate political systems than the peoples in Central and South America
Before the coming of Europeans, civilizations in Central and South America had developed all of the following cultural achievements except
Wheeled vehicles
Before the arrival of Columbus, all Native American tribes assigned women the tasks of
Caring for children
By 1500, the incentives for Europeans to engage in overseas exploration included all of the following except
The return of the bubonic plague
The first European country to launch long ocean voyages of exploration was
Portugal
When Christopher Columbus made his famous voyages to the New World, he
Believed that he had reached the Far East
By 1550, Spanish explorers had achieved all of the following objectives except
Discovering Brazil
Between 1500 and 1550, exploration of the New World was dominated by the
Spanish
The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was, in part, due to
The diseases the Spaniards had given the Indians
One result of the contact between the Spanish and the Pueblos from 1550 to 1650 was
A vast decline in the Pueblo population
Spanish colonial enterprises exhibited all of the following characteristics except
Missionaries were among the least successful Spanish colonial adventures
The European nation that, unlike other colonizers, did not "people" it's colonies but instead imposed over them a European ruling class was
Spain
When the Europeans arrived in the Americas, they brought with them all of the following except
The practice of human sacrifice for religious practices that the natives had not known before
In an effort to subjugate the Native Americans, the Spanish engaged in all of the following except
Prohibiting marriage between Spanish men and Indian women
According to the principles of mercantilism
A successful nation should export it's own goods in exchange for gold and silver
The religious dissatisfactions that ultimately propelled English "Separatists" into the New World can be traced to the 1517 protests of the German priest
Martin Luther
Henry VIII started the English Reformation because he
Required a divorce in order to remarry
The majority of English Puritans were religious dissenters who
Wished to purify Anglican forms of worship
Because of their experiences in Ireland, most English colonists came to believe that they should
Establish an English society separate from the native population
All of the following statements are true of the French colonists in North America except
Their numbers grew rapidly because of their success in building industries
The Dutch established their claims in North America through the efforts of the explorer
Henry Hudson
The most important single event influencing England's decision to begin New World colonizations was the
Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established at
Jamestown
The first few British expeditions to North America resulted in
The failure to establish successful permanent settlements
The first American-born child of an English settler was
Virginia Dare
The cryptic message "CROATOAN" is related to
a failed attempt to settle in Roanoke
Over the past century, when historians have estimated the population of Indians in North America before Columbus, they
have generally increased the estimates of the native population
The anthropologist Henry Dobyns believed that
there were 10 to 12 million natives living in North America before the arrival of Columbus
In the early 1600s, the common characteristics of the English colonies included all of the following except
they made efforts to blend English society with native societies
During its first few years, Jamestown suffered from
the debilitating effects of malaria
Virginia began to prosper when the governor changed from
a communal system of labor to private ownership of land
The survival and expansion of Virginia were due, in part, to
the discovery that tobacco grew well there
The first successfully marketed colonial crop from the English colonies in North America was
tobacco
The eastern region of the Virginia colony was finally saved from Indian attack after
the colonists suppressed the uprising of 1644
All of the following statements are true of the Maryland colony except
it was attacked early and often by neighboring Indians
When the Calverts passed the "Act Concerning Religion" for Maryland in 1649, it began an era of
religious turmoil between Catholics and Protestants
Bacon's rebellion began as
a fight between Indians and frontiersman over western lands
William Berkeley came to be seen as an autocratic ruler of Virginia when he
restricted the right to vote to wealthy landowners
The first enduring European settlement in New England was established by
a congregation of Puritan Separatists
The Massachusetts Bay colony was founded as
a business venture
The Massachusetts Bay colony exhibited all of the following characteristics except
it was granted less local autonomy than other colonial experiments
Of the following settlements, the one that was not established by dissenters leaving the Massachusetts Bay colony was
Salem
Anne Hutchinson ran afoul of the Massachusetts clergy for all of the following dissenting views except
the church and the government should be completely separate
The longest and bloodiest war between whites and Indians in the 1600s was
King Philip's was
Prior to 1640, the English had settled all of the following except
New York
Following the Stewart Restoration, Charles II
issued charters for four new colonies in North America
After James received the charter for New York, he split off part of it to create a new colony that became
New Jersey
The Quakers rejected all of the following religious and philosophic concepts except
sexual equality