In the Great Plains region, most pre-Columbian societies - correct answer engaged in sedentary farming.
Scholars estimate that human migration into the
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The first truly complex society in the Americas was that of the - correct answer Olmecs
Many pre-Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by - correct answer common linguistic roots
Prior to European contact, the eastern third of what is today the United States - correct answer had the most abundant food resources of any region of the continent.
The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began - correct answer with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait
What condition(s) in England in the sixteenth century provided incentive for colonization? - correct answer The availability of farmland was declining, while the population was growing.
African and American Indian societies tended to be matrilineal, which means - correct answer people traced their heredity through their mothers
Unlike Puritans, the Quakers - correct answer rejected the doctrine of original sin
King Charles I's treatment of Puritans could be characterized as - correct answer extremely hostile
In 1620, the Puritan Pilgrims who came to North America - correct answer hoped to create their ideal close-knit Christian community
During the early years, the survival and growth of the Plymouth colony - correct answer was due in large part to the assistance of the natives.
During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw - correct answer a life expectancy for men of just over forty years
The total number of Africans forcibly brought to all of the Americas as slaves is estimated to have been as many as - correct answer 11 million.
Seventeenth-century southern plantations - correct answer tended to be rough and relatively small
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the English indenture system? - correct answer Most indentured servants received land upon completion of their contracts
In the mid-1600s, New England Puritan ministers began preaching against the decline of - correct answer piety
In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was - correct answer highly valued
In the English colonies, Jews - correct answer could not vote or hold office
The witchcraft trials in Salem - correct answer saw the original accusers recant their charges.
Which statement regarding slavery in English North America in 1700 is FALSE? - correct answer The demand for slaves led to a steady rise in the prices paid for them
By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence, in part because of - correct answer illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire.
The first North American college was - correct answer Harvard.
In the English colonies, Roman Catholics - correct answer suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland
Which statement regarding colonial higher education is true? - correct answer Most colleges were founded by religious groups
Industrialization in colonial America was hampered by - correct answer All these answers are correct - a. English parliamentary regulations.
b. a small domestic market.
c. an inadequate labor supply.
d. an inadequate transportation network.
Which statement about the economy of the northern colonies is true? - correct answer The economy was more diverse than in the southern colonies.
The verdict of the 1734-1735 libel trial of New York publisher John Peter Zenger - correct answer increased freedom of the press in the colonies
What future American revolutionary figure surrendered to French forces in 1754 at Fort Necessity in the Ohio Valley? - correct answer George Washington
In North America as a result of the Seven Years' War, England - correct answer confirmed its commercial supremacy and increased its political control of the settled regions.
For most Indians in North America, the British victory in the French and Indian War - correct answer had disastrous effects on their future
The Proclamation of 1763 - correct answer was supported by many Indian tribal groups.
During the third phase of the French and Indian War, British leader William Pitt - correct answer gradually loosened his tight control over the colonists
In the aftermath of King George's War - correct answer relations among the English, French, and Iroquois deteriorated
Under the English constitution during the eighteenth century, - correct answer large areas of England had no direct political representation.
In 1774, the First Continental Congress - correct answer called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763
In the 1760s, "country Whigs" were English colonists who - correct answer considered the British government to be corrupt and oppressive.
When he became British prime minister, George Grenville - correct answer believed the American colonists had been indulged for far too long
In the 1760s, the Grenville ministry increased its authority in the colonies by - correct answer stationing regular British troops permanently in America.
Many colonists believed the legislation passed by the Grenville ministry in 1764-1765 - correct answer meant the British were trying to take away their tradition of self-government [Show Less]