Time Period 1 - 4 review

Which of the following was an outcome of the Columbian Exchange?

• The life expectancy of Native Americans increased.

• Horses and smallpox were introduced in Europe.

• The diets of Europeans improved.

• The population of Europe decreased.

Which of the following was a similarity between the encomienda system and slavery in the Spanish colonies?

• The Spanish used both labor systems for plantation agriculture as well as for mining in their American colonies.

• Both labor systems relied on Spanish partnerships with West African traders and rulers.

• Both systems resulted in the widespread conversion of laborers to Christianity.

• The Spanish used both systems to ensure that laborers in their colonies were free from abuse.

Which of the following is an example of how Native Americans resisted European conquest?

• The Pueblo Revolt

• forming alliances like the Iroquois Confederacy

• migrating further west

• all of these

Colonists from which of the following European nations generally had the most cooperative relations with American Indians?

• England

• France

• Spain

• Portugal

Which of the following was a primary feature of social relations established in the Spanish colonies in the Western Hemisphere?

• The development of a rigid racial hierarchy

• The growth of friendship and cooperation with native peoples

• The emergence of racially mixed populations mingling European settlers, Native Americans, and Africans

• A close-knit, homogeneous society with a thriving mixed economy of agriculture and commerce based on export crops

Mercantilism as applied by Britain to its North American colonies meant that the British government

• subsidized colonial merchants

• encouraged the colonists to trade with other foreign countries

• encouraged the colonies to become economically self-sufficient

• regulated colonial shipping and tobacco production

An economic effect of Bacon's Rebellion was ..

• an increase in royal taxes

• the decision by planters to rely on native american labor

• the decision by planters to rely on African American slave labor

• encourage the growth of indentured servitude

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

• recreate an Old World feudalistic society in the New World

• create a perfect religious commonwealth as an example to the rest of the world

• profit economically

• create a refuge for political dissidents

In the Colonial period, Quakers were known for all of the following EXCEPT

• acceptance of a greater role for women in public worship

• opposition to the institution of slavery

• advocacy of freedom of worship

• limited diversity

The Great Awakening of the 1740s led to

• splits among existing religious denominations and the rise of new churches

• colonists were engrained with a new attitude that encouraged them to question authority

• Helped unify the colonies from a cultural perspective

• all of these