Multiple Choice Questions from American Promise Chapters 2 & 3.
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers
the question.
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The transatlantic exchange of goods, people, & ideas between the New World
& Europe is referred to as the
a. | Pan-Atlantic Market System | c. | Free Enterprise
System | b. | Columbian Exchange | d. | Atlantic Trade Route |
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In the 1500s, the British & French
a. | tried to duplicate Spain’s New World discoveries & successes but were
diverted by religious wars in Europe. | b. | sent explorers into the New World, but were
unable to sustain thriving colonies. | c. | successfully colonized in North America only in
territory where the Spanish were not already present. | d. | saw no benefit to colonization as long as they
could successfully raid Spanish treasure ships. |
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King James’s land grant to the Virginia Company of over 6 million acres
& everything they might contain was in essence a(n)
a. | royal license to poach on Spanish claims & on Indian lands. | b. | attempt to ally with
France to weaken Spain’s control over Europe. | c. | attempt to challenge the Catholic
Church’s authority to legitimatize territorial conquests. | d. | declaration of war
against Powhatan & the Roanoke Indians. |
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Only 38 of the 144 Englishmen who made the 1st voyage to what would become
Jamestown, Virginia, survived the 1st year. This high mortality rate can best be explained
by
a. | malnutrition, disease, & the failure to let go of traditional notions of class
& labor. | b. | malnutrition & sporadic fights with the Indians. | c. | disease,
cannibalism, & ignorance of farming methods. | d. | bad drinking water, cannibalism, &
starvation. |
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The majority of the original settlers who came to Jamestown & the Virginia
Colony were
a. | gentlemen & their servants. | c. | artisans &
laborers. | b. | soldiers. | d. | planters & ex-convicts. |
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Under Royal Government in Virginia, the colony’s inhabitants could vote
for
a. | members of the English Parliament. | c. | the colony’s
governor. | b. | any law dealing with taxation. | d. | local
burgesses. |
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The crop that finally turned Virginia into a stable colony was
a. | corn. | c. | rice. | b. | tobacco. | d. | cotton. |
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Headrights were initiated by the Virginia Company & continued by the royal
government as an incentive to encourage settlement in the Virginia Colony. A headright
a. | permitted the head of a family the right to vote in the House of
Burgesses. | b. | granted the right of primogeniture to immigrants as well as the right to purchase
land at steep discounts. | c. | granted the head of non-English immigrant
families the rights of English citizenship. | d. | granted fifty acres of land to every settler
who paid his own transportation to the Chesapeake. |
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A servant labor system in the British colonies was created by
a. | the New World’s labor shortage & the poverty of Englishmen who were willing
to work. | b. | the poverty of the English people who sought to escape debtor’s prison or
religious persecution. | c. | racism & the lower cost of an African slave
compared to that of an indentured servant. | d. | following the Spanish model of a slave labor
system. |
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Indentured servants tended to be
a. | poor young men born in the colonies. | b. | poor young men born in
England. | c. | young men & older women from England. | d. | Native Americans
& prisoners from England. |
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Indentured servants saw themselves as
a. | people without rights & with little chance of ever receiving their “freedom
dues.” | b. | unpaid slaves. | c. | free people who were servants
temporarily. | d. | virtual prisoners without hope of release. |
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Masters in the Chesapeake were so hungry for labor that they
a. | did not hesitate to devise legal ways to extend the time their servants owed
them. | b. | convinced England to send convicts for long-term servitude. | c. | captured Indians
& forced them to work. | d. | bought up small farmers’ land, forcing
the farmers to work for them. |
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The availability of land propelled the evolution of Chesapeake society &
shaped a
a. | relatively classless society governed by religous doctrine. | b. | society with a
degree of frontier equality & a pattern of settlement different from that of
England. | c. | pattern of settlement & class structure very similar to that of rural
England. | d. | relatively classless society that acted only on economic factors & not on
religious beliefs. |
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