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What was the reason for the early, prolonged absence of humans in the Western Hemisphere?

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• North and South America had become detached from the continent of Pangaea. (True Answer )Correct

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How did the Wisconsin glaciation allow hunters to reach the Western Hemisphere?

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• The Wisconsin glaciation created the wide land bridge of Beringia. (True Answer )Correct

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Why did native peoples in California remain hunters and gatherers for hundreds of years after Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere?

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Both land and ocean provided an abundant food supply.€(True Answer )Correct

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How did Native American cultures adapt to the extinction of big game?

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• Paleo-Indians began foraging wild plant foods. (True Answer) Correct

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Archaic Indians who hunted the bison herds of the Great Plains were

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nomads who moved constantly with their prey. (True Answer )Correct

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Which of the following is an accurate description of Archaic Indians?

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Archaic Indians hunted smaller game with traps, nets, and hooks. (True Answer )Correct

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Multistory cliff dwellings and pueblos are residential structures associated with the

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Anasazi culture. (True Answer )Correct

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The Archaic Indians in the Great Basin inhabited a region with

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great environmental diversity. (True Answer )Correct

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The Anasazi culture disappeared due to

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a drought that lasted more than fifty years. (True Answer )Correct

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The Athapascan tribes—mainly Apache and Navajo—were

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skillful warriors who preyed on the sedentary pueblo Indians. (True Answer )Correct

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The League of Five Nations, which remained powerful well into the eighteenth century, was formed as

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a confederation of the Iroquoian tribes for the purposes of war and diplomacy. (True Answer )Correct

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Evidence indicates that before 1492, Native Americans

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practiced human sacrifice. (True Answer )Correct

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In AD 1492, the empire of the Mexica

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• encompassed up to 25 million people. (True Answer )Correct

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What was a long-term consequence of the catastrophic bubonic plague in Europe?

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• The plague stimulated exploration for new marketplaces. (True Answer )Correct

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Exploration and territorial expansion became popular with Europeans in the fifteenth century because

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• monarchs hoped to enlarge their power. (True Answer )Correct

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Why was Portugal an unlikely nation to lead Europe into the Age of Exploration?

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• Portugal had less than 2 percent of the population of Christian Europe. (True Answer )Correct

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Portugal's early interest in exploration and expansion stemmed from its desire to

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• expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. (True Answer )Correct

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The government of which country sponsored Christopher Columbus's 1492 exploration?

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• Spain (True Answer )Correct

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How did Ferdinand and Isabella react to Columbus's first voyage?

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• They believed Spain could challenge Portuguese dominance of the seas. (True Answer )Correct

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In order to adapt to the demands of lengthy ocean voyages, the Portuguese

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• developed a vessel known as the caravel. (True Answer )Correct

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Christopher Columbus, like most education Europeans, believed that

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• the earth was spherical and could therefore be circumnavigated. (True Answer )Correct

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In the early 1500s, Martin Waldseemüller was among the very first to understand that

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• there was a continent that existed separate from Europe and Asia. (True Answer )Correct

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The transatlantic exchange of goods, people, and ideas that began when Columbus arrived in the Caribbean, ending the age-old separation of the hemispheres. ____________

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c. Columbian Exchange

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A young slave woman, given to Cortés by the Tobasco people, who filled the crucial role of interpreter for Cortés. She was also Cortés's mistress.____________

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i. Malinali

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The system of coerced labor in New Spain grew directly out of Spaniards' assumption that

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• Spaniards were superior to Indians. (True Answer )Correct

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Which European power dominated the New World during the 1500s?

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• Spain, because it had the most colonial possessions (True Answer) Correct

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Like many other European colonies in the New World, New Spain developed a pattern of social organization in which

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• Europeans became a dominant minority. (True Answer )Correct

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Why did Richard Hakluyt support English colonization?

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• Colonies would provide a place for the unemployed to work. (True Answer )Correct

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The majority of the original settlers who came to Jamestown and the Virginia colony were

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• gentlemen and their servants. (True Answer )Correct

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What could the Virginia colonists have done to improve their prospects in 1607?

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• Learned how to farm (True Answer )Correct

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English soldier who accompanied the colonists to the New World and helped establish Jamestown in 1607. ____________

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• r. Captain John Smith

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The first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607 by colonists sponsored by the Virginia Company. ____________

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Jamestown

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Which factor contributed to the high mortality rate of the Englishmen who made the first voyage to what would become Jamestown, Virginia?

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• Disease (True Answer )Correct

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How did headrights encourage settlement in the Virginia colony?

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They provided fifty acres of land to every settler who paid his own way. (True Answer) Correct

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What explains the dispersion of settlements in the Chesapeake?

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• Tobacco farms required large amounts of land. (True Answer) Correct

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What happened in Maryland, Lord Baltimore's planned refuge for Catholics?

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• Catholics feuded with the Protestant majority. (True Answer)Correct

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How did the decline in the price of tobacco in the third quarter of the seventeenth century change the Chesapeake?

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Social divisions emerged. (True Answer )Correct

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Why did the social and political distance between planters and small farmers decrease between 1660 and 1700?

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• The colony increased its dependence on slave labor. (True Answer )Correct

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What happened to the Spanish colonial outposts in New Mexico and Florida?

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• They stagnated and primarily attracted religious missionaries. (True Answer )Correct

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Why did Nathaniel Bacon's demands distress the royal government and the elite planters of Virginia?

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• His plan transferred power to newcomers and small farmers. (True Answer )Correct

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Yeoman farmer

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a man who farms his own land

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By 1700, the British Caribbean annually exported nearly 50 million pounds of which product?

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• Sugar (True Answer)Correct

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Why did the colonies shift from an indentured servant labor force to a slave labor force?

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• Slavery provided a perpetual labor force. (True Answer )Correct

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Planters preferred a slave labor system over a servant labor system because slaves

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• could be controlled politically. (True Answer )Correct

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How do historians study the past?

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• They study artifacts but mainly concentrate on written documents to determine the attitudes of a people. (True Answer )Correct

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The Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal in 1494

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• Divided the Atlantic territories between Portugal and Spain

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