History 170 Quiz #1 – Flashcards
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Today, scientist believe that the ancestors of the Native American peoples:
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Most likely migrated by land across the Alaska-Siberia land bridge, although some may have arrived by water.
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The first peoples who migrated to the Americas
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Were band of hunter-gatherers.
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In A.D. 1500, as many as___ million Native Americans lived north of the Rio Grande:
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15
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The Hopewell people were:
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Mound-builders in the Ohio, Valley who flourished about A.D. 100-400.
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In 1450, most people in western Europe were:
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Peasants
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The social order in Europe around 1450 is most accurately described as:
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Hierarchical and authoritarian
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the beginnings of Europeans' trade in African slaves?
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It was pioneered by Portuguese sea captains in the 1440's as they penetrated down the coast of West Africa.
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Hernando de Soto was:
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An adventurer who invaded what is today the southeastern United States.
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In contrast to the Spanish missionaries, the French Jesuits:
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Tried to understand the Indians' values and world view.
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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the Jamestown colony in 1607?
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Most of the settlers were gentlemen and adventures rather than farmers.
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the condition of Virginia by 1630
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The "headright" system was in place, granting to each incoming head of household 100 acres, plus an additional 100 acres for every adult family member or servant.
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the response of England to tobacco from the New World?
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Well-to-do men and women developed a craving for the weed.
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After the Virginia colony began to succeed from profits from tobacco, their next great staple crop was___
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Rice
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Whether African o European industries, this firs class of servants in the Virginia colony were both considered to be___
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Bonded
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When Europeans chose to sell themselves into indenture, it was because the next best use of their time, or their___ was very low
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Opportunity cost
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Germans who were convinced of opportunities in the Middle Colonies purchased their way to the New World as___
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Redemptioners
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The first staple crop of the Middle Colonies was
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Wheat
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Under the mercantile system, the chief system used in trading was coin either gold or silver. Astute men began to recognize they all had the same face value, even if some of the coins were heavier than others. They began to hoard these weightier coins, and this practice was later called:
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Greshams Law
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the settlement of North and South Carolina?
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The proprietors planned to set up a feudal type of government, but this plan failed.
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Late seventeenth-century Quakers were:
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Believers in an "inner light" of grace, or understanding, given by God to each man and woman.
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As result of the Glorious Revolution in England, King William and Queen Mary:
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Accepted a Declaration of Rights and limited monarchy.
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When the early eighteenth-century Anglo-French wars temporarily ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, Britain had:
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Won major territorial and commercial gains, including Newfoundland, Acadia, the Houston Bay region, and control of the Iroquois, and access to the western Indian trade.
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Most of the Africans brought to American as slaves were from___ Africa.
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West
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The increased commercial significance of___ was closely associated with the seventeenth and eighteenth-centery slave trade.
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Sugar
