Final Exam

The development that brought "corne" to the attention of botanists such as Gerard is best known as the

• Columbian Exchange

• encomienda system

• trans-Atlantic slave trade

• Enlightenment

Gerard’s description of "corne" in the excerpt best reflects which of the following?

• Curiosity about American Indian ways of life

• Assumptions about the superiority of European culture

• Inability to find uses for North American crops

• Concerns about economic threats posed by North American imports

The confederacy formed to “exasperate the Indians against the English” was motivated primarily by which of the following?

• Fraudulent trade deals between the leaders of Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoags

• Dispossession of Wampanoag land and threats to their sovereignty

• Forced religious conversion of Wampanoags by Puritan missionaries

• Intermarriage with the English, which threatened Wampanoag cultural independence

Which of the following best characterizes relations between the English and American Indians in New England following Metacom’s War?

• Peaceful accommodation between both groups

• Religious freedom for the English and American Indians

• Dramatic decline and dispersion of the American Indian population

• Recognition of American Indian property and land rights

Compared with French and Spanish interactions with American Indians, English interaction with American Indians more often promoted

• respect for political alliances

• cultural blending

• separation between the groups

• assimilation of Americans Indians into colonial societies

The excerpt most strongly suggests that in 1774 which of the following was correct?

• The American colonists were united in their desire for independence from Great Britain.

• The American colonists felt the need to unite against the threat from American Indians.

• Some members of the First Continental Congress sought a compromise between submission to British authority and independence.

• Some members of the First Continental Congress thought it would be relatively easy to unify the colonies and win independence from Great Britain.

The key concern that Galloway’s plan was designed to address was the

• lack of American representation in the British Parliament

• demand for back pay for veterans of the French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War)

• complaint about high tariffs imposed on colonial merchants for exports to Great Britain

• continuing security threat posed by the French in Canada

The ideas expressed in the excerpt contributed most directly to which of the following?

• The extension of voting rights to African Americans in the North

• The end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade

• The mass migration of African Americans from the South to the North

• The adoption of plans for gradual emancipation in the North

Which of the following developments from the 1800s emerged from ideas most similar to those expressed in the excerpt?

• Campaigns by moral reformers to promote temperance

• Efforts by American Indians to achieve political sovereignty through treaties with the United States government

• The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

• The passage of legislation by southern states intended to nullify federal laws

Which of the following most likely helped to prompt the petition in the excerpt?

• American colonists’ declaration of independence from Britain

• British promises of land for service in the American Revolution

• The passage of the Stamp Act, a tax imposed on the American colonies by the British Parliament

• The proliferation of religious revivals in the eighteenth century, commonly referred to as the Great Awakening