History Exam 1

Chapters 1-5 in Ameri

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The Christian crusaders were indirectly responsible for the discovery of America because they
Brought back news of valuable Far Eastern spices, drugs, and silk
Which group was responsible for slave trading in Africa long before the Europeans had arrived?
The Arabs and Africans
After his first voyage, Christopher Columbus believed that he had
Sailed to the outskirts of the East Indies
Within a century after Columbus's landfall in the New World, the Native American population was reduced by nearly
90 percent
The treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish conquistadores can be described as
At times brutal and exploitative
The guarantee that English settlers in the New World would retain the "rights of Englishmen" proved to be
The foundation for American liberties
The native peoples of Virginia (Powhatans) succumbed to the Europeans because they
All of the above
Under the Barbados slave code of 1661, slaves were
Denied the most fundamental rights
The colony of South Carolina prospered
By developing close economic ties with the British West Indies
Georgia's founders were determined to
Create a haven for people imprisoned for debt
King James I opposed the Separatists who wanted to break away entirely from the Church of England because he
Realized that if his subjects could defy him as their spiritual leader, they could defy him as their political leader
People who flouted the authority of the Puritan clergy in Massachusetts Bay were subject to which of the following punishments?
All of the above
The New England Indians' only hope for resisting English encroachment lay in
Intertribal unity against the English
As a result of England's Glorious Revolution in 1688,
All of the above
Indian policy in early Pennsylvania can be best described as
Benevolent