1. Prior to the arrival of Columbus , the peoples of Mesoamerica tended to have
a. All the answers below
b. More elaborate political systems than the peoples north of the Rio Grande
(present day US)
c. Larger empires than the peoples of north of the Rio Grande (present day US)
d. Larger populations than the peoples north of the Rio Grande (present day US)
e. A greater reliance on agriculture than did peoples north of the Rio Grande
(present day US) - Precise Answer ✔✔A
2. The initial motive for European transoceanic exploration in the late 15th century
was
a. A missionary desire to spread Christianity
b. The desire to establish a sea route to Asia
c. The emergence of less powerful central monarchies in many European states
d. Innovations in navigation and ship design
e. Population decline due to the return of the Plague - Precise Answer ✔✔B
3. Spanish colonial enterprises exhibited all of the following characteristics except
a. By the end of the 1500s, Spanish colonies were tightly controlled by the Spanish
monarchy
b. The Spanish employed native labor to extract wealth from their colonial
territories
c. Relatively few immigrants left Spain for permanent settlement in the New World
,d. Gold and silver mining were among the most successful Spanish colonial
enterprises
e. The Spanish were generally less interested in the Catholic conversion of native
peoples than were other European colonial powers - Precise Answer ✔✔E
4. Mercantilists believed that
a. A mother country needed to import more goods than it exported
b. National power had no relationship to the size of one's colonial empire
c. The mother country produced raw materials and colonies produced finished
products
d. A country's economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold and
silver in its treasury
e. Colonies drained a country of its resources - Precise Answer ✔✔D
5. The issue of religion figured most prominently in which of the following?
a. Pizarro's conquest of the Incan empire in the 1530s
b. The establishment of an English colony at Roanoke in the 1580s
c. Coronado's expedition into the American southwest in the 1540s
d. The establishment of English colonies in Massachusetts in the early 17th century
e. The French relationship with the Huron and Ottawa Indian in the 18th century -
Precise Answer ✔✔D
6. Which of the following statements best describes French colonial enterprises in
North America
a. The number of French colonists settling permanently in America grew rapidly
because of profitable opportunities in commercial agriculture
b. The French operated extensive mining operations in the Ohio Valley
,c. The French profited from fur trades with the Indians of the North American
interior
d. The main French colonial cities were located along the Hudson River
e. The French enjoyed a strong military and commercial alliance with the Iroquois
Confederacy - Precise Answer ✔✔C
7. Arrange the following events in correct chronological order: (A) colony of
Georgia founded, (B) founding of Jamestown colony, (C) the Restoration of the
English monarchy, (D) colony of Pennsylvania founded, (E) reign of King Henry
VIII
a. A, B, C, D, E
b. A, C, D, B, E
c. E, B, C, D, A
d. A, B, D, C, E
e. E, D, A, C, B - Precise Answer ✔✔C
8. The English acquisition of New York and New Jersey in the 1660s
a. Required the territory to be purchased from the local Indian tribes at a fair price
b. Required James Duke of York to launch a military operation to seize them from
the Dutch
c. Was the result of a treaty with the Spanish
d. Led to a substantial increase in African slave labor
e. Required all Dutch settlers to surrender their lands and leave the region - Precise
Answer ✔✔B
9. All of the following were important facets of English colonization except
a. The English monarchy was less powerful than those of Spain or France ad did
not exert tremendous control over English colonial ventures in America
, b. The experience with Irish colonization encouraged the creation of English
"colonies of exclusion" in America
c. The English were very interested in the conversion of native populations and
sent large number of Anglican ministers to America to conduct missionary work
d. England possessed a well-developed commercial economy and wealthy
merchant class by the end of the 16th century
e. The enclosure process had created a large population of landless poor people in
England - Precise Answer ✔✔C
10. When Richard Hakluyt wrote in his Discourse on Western Planting in 1584
that colonies in America could be used "for the manifold employment of numbers
of idle men, and for breading of many sufficient" he was referring implicitly to
a. The impact of the enclosure process and the problem of the "wandering poor"
b. The military value of American colonies in supplying troops to the English army
c. The ability of English colonies to employ native labor in the production of cash
crops
d. The willingness of English missionaries to travel to the new world to convert
native populations
e. The vast quantities of gold and silver that Virginia had to offer - Precise Answer
✔✔A
11. Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 involved all of the following except
a. The dominance of small farmers and western frontiersmen in the Virginia
colonial government
b. The struggle over land between Indians and whites
c. Land pressures created by the growing population of colonial Virginia
d. Personal animosity between Nathaniel Bacon and colonial governor of Virginia
e. Political instability associated with the continued reliance on indentured
servitude - Precise Answer ✔✔A
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