Question 1

Both the Aztec and Inca empires were:

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large, wealthy, and sophisticated.

Question 2

Which one of the following statements is TRUE of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan?

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it was on of the world's largest cities.

Question 3

Before the arrival of Columbus, Native North Americans:

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had elaborate trade networks.

Question 4

Which statement about the Indians of North America is FALSE?

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Indians lacked genuine religion.

Question 5

Europeans&mdash;particularly the English, French, and Dutch&mdash;generally claimed North American Indian land as their own based on:

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their view that Indians did not use the land properly.

Question 6

Which one of the following is TRUE of religion in seventeenth-century Europe?

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Religious uniformity was thought to be essential to public order.

Question 7

Slavery in Africa:

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involved the enslavement of criminals, debtors, and war captives.

Question 8

What role did religion play in Columbus's explorations?

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Catholics in Spain and Italy supported his expeditions because they wanted to end Muslim control of the eastern trade.

Question 9

Why did European exploration of the New World proceed so rapidly after Columbus's discoveries?

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Gutenberg's invention of the printing press enabled the rapid dissemination of information.

Question 10

The Colombian Exchange was:

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the transatlantic flow of plants, animals, and germs that began after Christopher Columbus reached the New World.

Question 11

Which of the following was NOT a technique that Spanish conquistadores used to conquer Native American empires?

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negotiating treaties

Question 12

Why did England consider Spain its enemy by the late 1500s?

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because of religious differences: England had officially broken with the Roman Catholic Church, while Spain was devoutly Catholic

Question 13

As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:

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efforts were made to encourage those who had been evicted to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis.

Question 14

In the economic exchanges between the English colonists and eastern Native Americans:

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Native Americans initially welcomed the colonists' goods.

Question 15

Tobacco production in Virginia:

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enriched an emerging class of planters and certain members of the colonial government.

Question 16

Why did Puritans decide to emigrate from England in the late 1620s and 1630s?

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The Church of England was firing their ministers and censoring their writings.

Question 17

How did most Puritans view the separation of church and state?

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They allowed church and state to be interconnected by requiring each town to establish a church and levy a tax to support the minister.

Question 18

In regards to religious toleration, the Puritans:

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saw only their faith as the truth.

Question 19

Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as:

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dangerous to social harmony and community stability.

Question 20

At Anne Hutchinson's trial:

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she violated Puritan doctrine by claiming that God spoke to her directly rather than through ministers or the Bible.

Question 21

Of colonists in British North America, which group was the wealthiest?

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South Carolina rice planters

Question 22

Pennsylvania's treatment of Native Americans was unique in what way?

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Pennsylvania purchased Indian land that was then resold to colonists and offered refuge to tribes driven out of other colonies.

Question 23

What ironic consequence did William Penn's generous policies, such as religious toleration and inexpensive land, have?

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They contributed to the increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on African slave labor.

Question 24

Which of the following was not a factor that made African slavery appealing to English planters in the New World?

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A long English legal tradition of discriminating against dark-skinned peoples eased the legalization of slavery.

Question 25

An important Virginia law in 1662 reinforced slavery by:

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making any children born of a slave mother automatically a slave.

Question 26

Bacon's Rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia?

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the replacing of indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia's plantations

Question 27

As slave society consolidated in the Chesapeake region, what happened to free blacks?

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They lost many of their rights.

Question 28

Why was slavery less prevalent in the northern colonies?

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The small farms of the northern colonies did not need slaves.

Question 29

With the Peace of Paris (1763):

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France lost its North American empire.

Question 30

What was the primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?

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to open up more land for settlement.

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