Give Me Liberty! Foner Study Guide - Chapter 1 Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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Give Me Liberty! Foner Study Guide -
Chapter 1 Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
What did Adam Smith, British author of The Wealth of Nations (1776), call one the "two greatest
and most important events recorded in the history of mankind"? - answerColumbus's
"discovery" of America in 1492
T...
Give Me Liberty! Foner Study Guide -
Chapter 1 Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
What did Adam Smith, British author of The Wealth of Nations (1776), call one the "two greatest
and most important events recorded in the history of mankind"? - answer✔Columbus's
"discovery" of America in 1492
The vast majority of the "First Americans," whose descendants numbered in the tens of millions
when Columbus arrived, made their way to the so-called New World tens of thousands of years
prior to 1492 via: - answer✔the Bering land bridge
According to Table 1.2 in your textbook, the estimated regional population of the Americas, circa
1500, totaled: - answer✔55 million
Prior to New York and Philadelphia surpassing this total in the early 1800s, _______________
represented the all-time most populous settled community in what is now the United States
(numbering 30,000 inhabitants in 1200 AD). - answer✔Cahokia
As a justification for conquest, many Europeans noted (accurately) that North American Indians
prior to the Columbian exchange lacked the technology to manufacture metal tools, machines, or
gun powder and also were ___________. - answer✔illiterate
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