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Which of the following was a major difference between the encomienda system and slave labor in the Spanish colonies?
Options: The encomienda system was developed specifically for plantation agriculture, whereas slaves were used only in mines., The encomienda system imported servants from Europe, whereas the slavery system mostly exploited Native Americans., The encomienda system exploited the labor of Native Americans, whereas slavery more typically extracted labor from enslaved Africans., The encomienda system paid laborers wages, whereas wages were not paid to enslaved people.

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The encomienda system exploited the labor of Native Americans, whereas slavery more typically extracted labor from enslaved Africans.

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The excerpt makes the overall argument that the Trans-Atlantic economy?

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drove long-lasting economic shifts across Europe, Africa, and the Americas

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The ideas expressed in the excerpt most strongly suggest which of the following about how Native Americans responded to colonization?

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They resisted European efforts to repress their culture.

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Which of the following most immediately resulted from the Columbian Exchange? Options: Expansion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Growth of feudalism in Europe, Decline of Native American populations due to disease, Rise of mercantilism as an economic system

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Decline of Native American populations due to disease

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French exploration of North America contributed to which of the following? Options: The ongoing shift from feudalism to capitalism in western Europe, An economy based on agricultural surpluses in French North America, Population decline in France as a result of migration to the American colonies, Western European acceptance of the racial and cultural equality of American Indians

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The ongoing shift from feudalism to capitalism in western Europe

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An implication of Las Casas’ argument is that a major cause of the decline of the native populations in the Americas after 1492 was the: importation of European and African wildlife to the Americas, large-scale clashes between native armies and the Spanish, resistance of indigenous groups to religious conversion, epidemics brought to the Americas by Europeans

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epidemics brought to the Americas by Europeans

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Which of the following was true of the Northeast American Indian tribes at the time Europeans first began colonization? Options: Their economies depended entirely on hunting and gathering., Their political and linguistic differences hindered their united opposition to the Europeans., Their populations were immune to European diseases., Their warriors rarely engaged in intertribal warfare.

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Their political and linguistic differences hindered their united opposition to the Europeans.

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Why were Massachusetts Bay officials banishing Anne Hutchinson? Options: She challenged gender roles and Puritan orthodoxy., She was found guilty of practicing witchcraft., She preached the doctrine of predestination., She gave birth to a child out of wedlock., She opened an unlicensed tavern.

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She challenged gender roles and Puritan orthodoxy.

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Which of the following happened as a result of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676? Tensions between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry were exposed.

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Tensions between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry were exposed.

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Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century were primarily seeking to

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profit economically