Straighterline - US History 1 - Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers
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...
Straighterline - US History 1 - Final Exam
Questions with Correct Answers
The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Pacific Northwest
Select one:
a. did not have permanent settlements.
b. developed political systems as sophisticated as those of the Maya and Aztecs.
c. fished salmon as their principal occupation.
d. were the most peaceful of pre-Columbian societies.
e. were known as the Inuit. - Answer-c. fished salmon as their principal occupation.
Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred approximately
Select one:
a. 2,000 years ago.
b. 5,000 years ago.
c. 9,000 years ago.
d. 11,000 years ago.
e. 18,000 years ago. - Answer-d. 11,000 years ago.
Prior to European contact, the eastern third of what is today the United States
Select one:
a. was politically controlled by the Cahokia Indians.
b. contained no permanent settlements.
c. had the most abundant food resources of any region of the continent.
d. was populated by tribes that engaged in hunting and gathering but did not yet farm.
e. remained for the most part uninhabited. - Answer-c. had the most abundant food resources of any region of the continent.
The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began
Select one:
a. with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.
b. with the explorations of Christopher Columbus.
c. as a result of the development of the wheel.
d. long after the last ice age ended.
e. from the southern tip of South America. - Answer-a. with migrations across an ancient
land bridge over the Bering Strait.
The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Southwest Select one:
a. were primarily hunters of small game.
b. built large irrigation systems for farming.
c. lived in small, nomadic tribes.
d. created an economy exclusively based on trade.
e. primarily pursued moose and caribou for sustenance. - Answer-b. built large irrigation
systems for farming.
Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city?
Select one:
a. St. Louis
b. Memphis
c. New Orleans
d. Baton Rouge
e. Detroit - Answer-a. St. Louis
In what way were Martin Luther and John Calvin important to English Puritans?
Select one:
a. These two men would help found the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
b. Luther and Calvin encouraged the Puritans to leave England for the New World.
c. Luther and Calvin advocated ideas of religious reform that influenced Puritan thought.
d. They were the most influential English Puritans of the seventeenth century.
e. Luther and Calvin helped to break the hold of predestination on the Puritan mind. - Answer-c. Luther and Calvin advocated ideas of religious reform that influenced Puritan thought.
As a result of his third voyage in 1498, Christopher Columbus concluded that
Select one:
a. all of the lands he had seen were in Asia.
b. he had never come even remotely close to Asia.
c. he had encountered a continent separate from Asia.
d. Asia could not be reached by a ship traveling west from Europe.
e. the lands he had discovered offered great mineral wealth. - Answer-c. he had encountered a continent separate from Asia.
In 1638, Anne Hutchinson was deported from the Massachusetts colony because she
Select one:
a. was accused of practicing witchcraft.
b. argued that only the "elect" were entitled to any religious or political authority.
c. challenged the prevailing assumptions of the proper role of women in society.
d. was a single mother who refused to marry. e. preached against what she called the "Antinomian heresy." - Answer-c. challenged the prevailing assumptions of the proper role of women in society.
The Massachusetts Bay Puritans
Select one:
a. lived as grim and joyless people.
b. took vows of poverty as evidence of their commitment to their faith.
c. created a colonial "theocracy."
d. fought with the surrounding Indians almost immediately.
e. introduced freedom of worship to the New World. - Answer-c. created a colonial "theocracy."
The colony established by people seeking to separate from Pennsylvania was
Select one:
a. Maryland.
b. New Jersey.
c. Delaware.
d. New York.
e. Kentucky. - Answer-c. Delaware.
The Virginia Company developed the "headright system" to
Select one:
a. attract new settlers to the colony.
b. discourage poor people from moving to the colony.
c. require families to migrate together.
d. raise revenue from the sale of land.
e. cause conflict among the neighboring Indian tribes. - Answer-a. attract new settlers to
the colony.
The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the
Select one:
a. French Huguenots.
b. Scotch-Irish.
c. Moravians and Mennonites.
d. Irish Catholics.
e. Palatinate Germans. - Answer-b. Scotch-Irish.
Rice production in colonial America
Select one:
a. was very difficult and unhealthy work.
b. relied largely on free white labor. c. represented a new crop to most Africans.
d. was found mostly in the Chesapeake colonies.
e. mostly occurred in inland regions. - Answer-a. was very difficult and unhealthy work.
By 1700, English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery in part because
Select one:
a. of a declining birthrate in England.
b. of worsening economic conditions in England.
c. landowners in the southern colonies became less capable of paying indentured servant wages.
d. the English government had come to discourage the practice of indenture.
e. colonial parliaments passed laws improving the status of indentured servants.
Feedback - Answer-a. of a declining birthrate in England.
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.
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