Straighterline USHistory 101 Quiz 1

Many pre-Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by

Select one:

a. the shared use of a series of forts.

b. common linguistic roots.

c. economic compacts.

d. intertribal religious festivals.

e. the Iroquois Confederacy

b. common linguistic roots.

One important consequence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was that

Select one:

a. France came to dominate Spain.

b. Catholicism was swept from western Europe.

c. England found the seas more open to their control.

d. the Reformation extended into Spain.

e. Spain was forced to relinquish its New World empire.

c. England found the seas more open to their control.

The teachings of John Calvin

Select one:

a. produced a strong desire among his followers to lead lives that were virtuous.

b. were most rapidly accepted in southern Europe.

c. were officially adopted by the Church of England.

d. were at odds with Catholic doctrines, but not with Catholic practices.

e. helped to promote the doctrine of free will so vital to encouraging exploration.

a. produced a strong desire among his followers to lead lives that were virtuous.

The first profitable economic development in Jamestown resulted from

Select one:

a. the discovery of gold and silver.

b. fur trade with the Indians.

c. the production of tobacco.

d. development of fisheries and lumber.

e. the cultivation of cotton.

c. the production of tobacco.

The colony established by people seeking to separate from Pennsylvania was

Select one:

a. Maryland.

b. New Jersey.

c. Delaware.

d. New York.

e. Kentucky.

c. Delaware.

Most seventeenth-century English immigrants to the North American colonies were

Select one:

a. aristocrats.

b. religious dissenters.

c. laborers.

d. commercial agents.

e. landowners.

c. laborers.

The first plantations in colonial North America emerged in the tobacco-growing areas of

Select one:

a. New York and New Jersey.

b. North Carolina and South Carolina.

c. Georgia and South Carolina.

d. Delaware and Pennsylvania.

e. Virginia and Maryland.

e. Virginia and Maryland.

The "triangular trade" in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity?

Select one:

a. rum

b. sugar

c. slaves

d. molasses

e. All these answers are correct.

e. All these answers are correct.

The total number of Africans forcibly brought to all of the Americas as slaves is estimated to have been as many as

Select one:

a. 4 million.

b. 7 million.

c. 11 million.

d. 19 million.

e. 26 million

c. 11 million.

Rice production in colonial America

Select one:

a. was very difficult and unhealthy work.

b. relied largely on free white labor.

c. represented a new crop to most Africans.

d. was found mostly in the Chesapeake colonies.

e. mostly occurred in inland regions.

a. was very difficult and unhealthy work.

Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought

Select one:

a. emphasized the importance of religious faith.

b. rejected most religious thought.

c. had little influence on American intellectual thought.

d. challenged concepts such as "natural laws."

e. suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives.

e. suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives.

Which statement regarding slavery in English North America in 1700 is FALSE?

Select one:

a. There were about 25,000 slaves in the colonies.

b. Blacks outnumbered whites in some areas.

c. There were twice as many black men as black women.

d. The demand for slaves led to a steady rise in the prices paid for them.

e. Blacks were heavily concentrated in a few southern colonies.

d. The demand for slaves led to a steady rise in the prices paid for them.

The Church of England was the official faith of

Select one:

a. New Jersey.

b. Massachusetts.

c. Virginia.

d. Connecticut.

e. all of the colonies.

c. Virginia.

A common form of resistance of enslaved Africans to their condition was

Select one:

a. arson.

b. destruction of crops.

c. running away.

d. seizing weapons and forming an uprising.

e. poisoning food.

c. running away.

After the Bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were

Select one:

a. political pamphlets.

b. hymnals.

c. almanacs.

d. historical writings.

e. drinking songs.

c. almanacs.

By 1776, what proportion of white males were literate in colonial America?

Select one:

a. less than a quarter

b. about a third

c. just less than half

d. more than half

e. almost all

d. more than half

The proportion of all blacks in the colonies living on a plantation of at least ten slaves was over

Select one:

a. one-fourth.

b. one-third.

c. one-half.

d. three-fourths.

e. nine-tenths.

d. three-fourths.

In Puritan New England, full membership in town governance was limited to

Select one:

a. all land-owning adults.

b. "selectmen."

c. adult males who were church members.

d. all church members.

e. land-owning males.

c. adult males who were church members.

During the eighteenth century, rising consumerism in the American colonies was encouraged by

Select one:

a. the quickly rising purchasing power of members of the lower classes.

b. the association of material possessions with loyalty to the crown.

c. the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists.

d. increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material possessions with status in the upper class.

e. the rising ideal of equality of condition among colonists and the association of material possessions with personal virtue and refinement.

d. increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material possessions with status in the upper class.

By the 1770s, the two largest port cities in colonial North America were

Select one:

a. Philadelphia and New York.

b. Boston and Newport.

c. Philadelphia and Charleston.

d. New York and Boston.

e. Boston and Charleston.

a. Philadelphia and New York.

Which of the following statements about slave work is FALSE?

Select one:

a. Field hand was the predominant occupation of both male and female slaves.

b. Some slaves on larger plantations learned trades and crafts.

c. Skilled slaves were at times hired out to other planters.

d. A few slaves were able to buy their freedom.

e. Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.

e. Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.

During the first stage (1754-1756) of the French and Indian War,

Select one:

a. only the Iroquois Indians were allied with the French.

b. the Iroquois remained largely passive.

c. English colonists fought with the support of the Iroquois.

d. the colonists fought with the French against the English.

e. the colonists fought primarily against the Iroquois.

b. the Iroquois remained largely passive.

The French and Indian War was fought in

Select one:

a. India.

b. the West Indies.

c. the North American interior.

d. Europe.

e. All these answers are correct.

e. All these answers are correct.

The first clash of the French and Indian War took place near what is now

Select one:

a. Detroit.

b. Buffalo.

c. Pittsburgh.

d. St. Louis.

e. Chicago

c. Pittsburgh.

The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713

Select one:

a. ended King William's War.

b. transferred territory from the French to the English in North America.

c. was a considerable victory for Spain in North America.

d. slowed England's western expansion of its American colonies.

e. transferred territory from the English to the French in the Caribbean.

b. transferred territory from the French to the English in North America.

Through the first half of the eighteenth century, the Iroquois Confederacy formed agreements and traded with

Select one:

a. England only.

b. England, and then France.

c. both France and England at the same time.

d. France only.

e. no European powers.

c. both France and England at the same time.

In the aftermath of King George's War

Select one:

a. relations among the English, French, and Iroquois deteriorated.

b. the French moved out of the Ohio Valley.

c. the Iroquois decided not to grant any future trade concessions to the English.

d. military activity west of England's North American colonies steadily declined.

e. the English abandoned many of their fortresses in the interior.

a. relations among the English, French, and Iroquois deteriorated.

The Mutiny (or Quartering) Act of 1765

Select one:

a. required colonists to evacuate their farms to occupying British soldiers.

b. was regarded by objecting colonists as a form of taxation without consent.

c. resulted in the killing of several British soldiers by colonists.

d. allowed British officers to force colonists into military service for England.

e. declared that all ships in the colonial navy must have a British officer on board.

b. was regarded by objecting colonists as a form of taxation without consent.

Taverns were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because

Select one:

a. they were the only public places where one could legally speak without fear of arrest.

b. they become central meeting places to discuss ideas about resistance.

c. the tavern was one of the few places where men and women gathered together to speak.

d. colonists increasingly resented the heavy British duties on alcohol.

e. All these answers are correct.

b. they become central meeting places to discuss ideas about resistance.

The colonial boycott of tea in 1773

Select one:

a. was based on colonists' anger at having to pay a new tax.

b. involved relatively small numbers of people.

c. was led in large part by women, who were the primary consumers of tea.

d. had little financial effect on England.

e. resulted in the arrest of the Daughters of Liberty.

c. was led in large part by women, who were the primary consumers of tea.

Colonial protests directed against the Townshend Duties took the form of

Select one:

a. the Boston Massacre.

b. colonial governments increasing taxes on British merchants.

c. the banning of British merchant ships from some colonial ports.

d. a colonial nonimportation agreement.

e. the Boston Tea Party.

a colonial nonimportation agreement.

The leading colonial figure involved in the Boston Massacre was

Select one:

a. Samuel Adams.

b. Thomas Jefferson.

c. Patrick Henry.

d. James Otis.

e. George Mason.

a. Samuel Adams.

In 1775, the Conciliatory Propositions

Select one:

a. called on Parliament to reduce taxes for the sake of colonial peace.

b. saw Parliament agree to the terms of the First Continental Congress.

c. were issued as an appeal by the British government to colonial moderates.

d. temporarily reduced tensions in the colonies.

e. forced Parliament to send more troops to Boston.

c. were issued as an appeal by the British government to colonial moderates.

The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Pacific Northwest

Select one:

a. did not have permanent settlements.

b. developed political systems as sophisticated as those of the Maya and Aztecs.

c. fished salmon as their principal occupation.

d. were the most peaceful of pre-Columbian societies.

e. were known as the Inuit.

c. fished salmon as their principal occupation.

Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred approximately

Select one:

a. 2,000 years ago.

b. 5,000 years ago.

c. 9,000 years ago.

d. 11,000 years ago.

e. 18,000 years ago.

d. 11,000 years ago.

The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Southwest

Select one:

a. were primarily hunters of small game.

b. built large irrigation systems for farming.

c. lived in small, nomadic tribes.

d. created an economy exclusively based on trade.

e. primarily pursued moose and caribou for sustenance.

b. built large irrigation systems for farming.

The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began

Select one:

a. with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.

b. with the explorations of Christopher Columbus.

c. as a result of the development of the wheel.

d. long after the last ice age ended.

e. from the southern tip of South America.

a. with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.

Native American religions were closely linked to

Select one:

a. the idea of apocalypse.

b. human sacrifice.

c. ideas of male dominance.

d. visions from the world of spirits.

e. the natural world.

e. the natural world.

The "starving time" in Jamestown during the winter of 1609--1610 was partly the result of

Select one:

a. a barricade set up by the Indians, which kept the colonists from hunting and cultivating food inland.

b. the extermination of the Indians who used to grow crops.

c. an influx of rats from settlers' ships that ate much of the stored grains.

d. a drought that led to crop failures.

e. the sinking of the colonists' supply ship in the Atlantic.

a. a barricade set up by the Indians, which kept the colonists from hunting and cultivating food inland.

The Virginia Company

Select one:

a. never sanctioned military action against the Native Americans of Virginia.

b. deeply opposed the importation of Africans to the colonies.

c. was absorbed by the crown because it was becoming too powerful.

d. had its charter revoked by James I.

e. found most of its Virginia ventures to be very profitable.

d. had its charter revoked by James I.

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