History Exam 1

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 English workers who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called indentured servants The majority of African slaves coming to the New World were delivered to South America and the West Indies After 1680, reliance on slave labor in colonial America rapidly increased because all of the above The Half-Way Covenant admitted the unconverted children of existing members to baptism but not full membership Compared with most seventeenth-century Europeans, Americans lived in affluent abundance The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was __________, whereas __________ was the least ethnically diverse the middle colonies, New England The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South were not distributed evenly among whites The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was lumbering One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted in New England