Exam (elaborations)
STRAIGHTERLINE - US HISTORY 1 - FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
- Course
- Straighterline
- Institution
- Straighterline
STRAIGHTERLINE - US HISTORY 1 - FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
[Show more]
Content preview
STRAIGHTERLINE - US HISTORY 1 -FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Seventeenth-century southern plantations
Select one:
a. enabled planters to control their markets.
b. tended to be rough and relatively small.
c. used many more slaves than indentured servants.
d. rarely required the landowner do any manual labor.
e. created few new wealthy landowners. - Answer-b. tended to be rough and relatively
small.
The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based
on
Select one:
a. Calvinist religious doctrine.
b. scientific experimentation and observation.
c. evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.
d. practices acquired from Indians.
e. the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids. -
Answer-e. the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily
fluids.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, medical practitioners
Select one:
a. became increasingly professionalized.
b. had little or no knowledge of sterilization.
c. grew to understand the link between bacteria and infection.
d. were nearly all males.
e. rejected purging and bleeding as medical techniques.
Feedback - Answer-b. had little or no knowledge of sterilization.
In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies
Select one:
a. flourished due to the diversity of practices brought by settlers.
b. was unmatched in any European nation.
c. was enhanced because no single religious code could be imposed on any large area.
d. grew despite laws establishing the Church of England as the official colonial religion.
,e. All these answers are correct. - Answer-e. All these answers are correct.
In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those
accused were most commonly
Select one:
a. not members of the church.
b. criminals.
c. indentured servants.
d. women of low social position.
e. Indians or slaves. - Answer-d. women of low social position.
In the North American colonies, mulatto children were
Select one:
a. regarded as white by the white society.
b. rejected by the rest of the slave community.
c. rarely produced.
d. rarely recognized by their white fathers.
e. freed at birth. - Answer-d. rarely recognized by their white fathers.
Primogeniture refers to the
Select one:
a. right to vote.
b. passing of property to the firstborn son.
c. tending of a servant's indenture.
d. arrangement of authority within New England assemblies.
e. practice of granting land only to those assured of salvation. - Answer-b. passing of
property to the firstborn son.
In Puritan New England, full membership in town governance was limited to
Select one:
a. all land-owning adults.
b. "selectmen."
c. adult males who were church members.
d. all church members.
e. land-owning males. - Answer-c. adult males who were church members.
In colonial New England Puritan communities, women
Select one:
a. were not highly valued.
b. were considered to be socially equal to males.
,c. were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands and
households.
d. could not be official members of the church.
e. were more likely to become pregnant before marriage than in the South. - Answer-c.
were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands and
households.
The Stono Rebellion
Select one:
a. led to the death of dozens of white Virginian colonists.
b. saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
c. led to the banning of the slave trade in Maryland.
d. prompted Georgia to strengthen its laws on slavery.
e. led planters to resume hiring indentured servants for their labor needs. - Answer-b.
saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
By 1775, the non-Indian population of the English colonies was just over
Select one:
a. 1 million.
b. 2 million.
c. 4 million.
d. 6 million.
e. 8 million. - Answer-b. 2 million.
George Whitefield is associated with the
Select one:
a. growth of American Catholicism.
b. founding of the American Baptist Church.
c. Quakers.
d. Great Awakening.
e. Enlightenment. - Answer-d. Great Awakening.
A common form of resistance of enslaved Africans to their condition was
Select one:
a. arson.
b. destruction of crops.
c. running away.
d. seizing weapons and forming an uprising.
e. poisoning food. - Answer-c. running away.
In North America during the eighteenth century, French relations with the Indians
differed from that of the English in that they
, Select one:
a. offered the Indians more and better trading goods.
b. largely isolated themselves from Indian tribes.
c. were more tolerant of Indian cultures.
d. made little effort to convert Indians to Christianity.
e. forced Indians to adjust to European ways. - Answer-c. were more tolerant of Indian
cultures.
The Proclamation of 1763
Select one:
a. disrupted England's western trade in the colonies.
b. was generally effective.
c. was supported by many Indian tribal groups.
d. encouraged settlement of the western edge of the colonies.
e. led to renewed conflict with the remaining French colonists in the West. - Answer-c.
was supported by many Indian tribal groups.
King George's War
Select one:
a. inspired the American Revolution.
b. failed to resolve European conflicts in North America.
c. was a conflict between England and the Iroquois.
d. saw English colonists remain out of the conflict.
e. saw England acquire Newfoundland from the French. - Answer-b. failed to resolve
European conflicts in North America.
In North America during the eighteenth century, the most powerful native group was the
Select one:
a. Iroquois.
b. Cherokee.
c. Seminole.
d. Chickasaw.
e. Sioux. - Answer-a. Iroquois.
According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763,
Select one:
a. France surrendered New Orleans and Canada to the British.
b. England acquired all French naval vessels docked in North American ports.
c. France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River,
except New Orleans, to Great Britain.
d. France agreed to pay England for the cost of the war.
The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
Guaranteed quality through customer reviews
Stuvia customers have reviewed more than 700,000 summaries. This how you know that you are buying the best documents.
Quick and easy check-out
You can quickly pay through credit card or Stuvia-credit for the summaries. There is no membership needed.
Focus on what matters
Your fellow students write the study notes themselves, which is why the documents are always reliable and up-to-date. This ensures you quickly get to the core!
Frequently asked questions
What do I get when I buy this document?
You get a PDF, available immediately after your purchase. The purchased document is accessible anytime, anywhere and indefinitely through your profile.
Satisfaction guarantee: how does it work?
Our satisfaction guarantee ensures that you always find a study document that suits you well. You fill out a form, and our customer service team takes care of the rest.
Who am I buying these notes from?
Stuvia is a marketplace, so you are not buying this document from us, but from seller Studyguidenotes. Stuvia facilitates payment to the seller.
Will I be stuck with a subscription?
No, you only buy these notes for $13.49. You're not tied to anything after your purchase.
Can Stuvia be trusted?
4.6 stars on Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)
47561 documents were sold in the last 30 days
Founded in 2010, the go-to place to buy study notes for 15 years now