US History Ch.1-2 QUIZ – Flashcards
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When European clergy first read to Native Americans from the Bible about God creating the world in six days, to what were the Native Americans able to read?
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Many Native Americans concurred with the idea of a single supreme being creating the world.
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"Coverture" refers to:
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a woman surrendering her legal identity when she marries.
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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 persuade or even force those who had been evicted to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis.
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Slavery in Africa:
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involved the enslavement of criminals, debtors, and war captives.
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Europeans tended to think which one of the following about Native Americans and their cultures?
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Native Americans failed to make use of this land, so it was acceptable for Europeans to take it and use it.
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When Native Americans first encountered Europeans, what led to the European diseases being so deadly?
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Centuries of continental isolation meant the Native Americans had no immunity.
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The Black Legend described:
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Spain as a uniquely brutal colonizer.
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Patroonship in New Netherland:
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meant that shareholders received large estates fro transporting tenants for agricultural labor.
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What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?
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land
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Which of the following statements is true about the early history of jamestown?
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The death rate was extraordinarily high.
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To entice settlers to Virginia, the Virginia Company established the headlight system, which:
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provided land to settlers who paid their own and others' passage.
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In what way was Puritan church membership a restrictive status?
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Full membership required demonstrating that one had experienced divine grace.
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In the seventeenth century, New England's economy:
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centered on family farms and also involved the export of fish and timber.
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Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as:
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dangerous to social harmony and community stability.
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Boston merchants:
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challenged the subordination of economic activity to Puritan control.
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At the heart of the English Civil Wars was:
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a question of sovereignty in who would make decisions for the government.
