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Most Missed Questions from Unit 1 Quiz
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The most significant factor that allowed large numbers of nomadic hunters to enter the heart of North America was A) the domestication of horses. B) global warming. C) population growth. D) the search for new food supplies. E) the growing diversity of people. Answer: B

From the beginning of colonization, Spain regarded her New World domain as primarily A) a source of precious metal. B) a place to send exiled Moors and Jews. C) an opportunity to further promote the Catholic faith. D) a supplier of cheap Native American labor to be used on Spanish estates. E) a place to establish penal colonies. Answer: A

The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed that the best way to reform the Church of England was to A) separate from it and reform it from the outside. B) rely on help from the English monarchy. C) remain in the Church and reform it from the inside. D) refuse to associate with it in any way. E) actively work to destroy the tenets with which they disagreed. Answer: C

Anne Hutchinsonʹs skillful self-defense at her trial before the magistrates of Massachusetts Bay was ruined by A) her affinity for the dictum of works. B) her claim of personal revelation. C) her reliance on the Scriptures. D) her rejection of free grace. E) the fact that she was female. Answer: B

The main staple of the Carolina coloniesʹ economy by the close of the seventeenth century was A) rice. B) cotton. C) tobacco. D) timber. E) indigo. Answer: A

The most important reason for the difference between the New England and Chesapeake colonies was based on A) differing environmental conditions. B) the much higher mortality rate of the Chesapeake colonies. C) the practice of slavery in the southern colonies. D) contrasting economic systems. E) varying degrees of ethnic diversity in the populations. Answer: B

Which statements about Baconʹs Rebellion is false? A) Bacon would probably have been accepted into the ruling clique had he only waited. B) Bacon led a rebellion to prevent Governor Berkeley from waging a war of extermination against the Susquehannock Indians. C) Bacon was perceived as a hero by the common people of Virginia. D) Bacon and his men burned Jamestown to the ground. E) Bacon, a member of a respectable English family, had only recently arrived in Virginia. Answer: B

The English takeover of New Netherland (which was subsequently renamed New York) A) had little immediate effect on the colony. B) was followed by the expulsion of the Dutch. C) led to the prompt creation of a legislature. D) met with armed resistance by the Dutch. E) sparked a war between the English and the Dutch. Answer: A

The explanation for the tremendous population growth of seventeenth-century New England can be found in the A) extraordinary fertility of New England women. B) emphasis Puritans placed on having large families. C) fact that local Native American tribes were remarkably friendly. D) long lives of New England settlers. E) agricultural richness of the New World. Answer: B

Factors which retarded population growth in seventeenth -century Virginia and Maryland included each of the following EXCEPT A) many young women had to delay marriage until their terms of service were complete. B) infant mortality rates were very high. C) marauding Indians kidnapped many women and children. D) life expectancies were short. E) the gender ratio was seriously unbalanced. Answer: C

Which rebellion was an outgrowth of tensions between the older Dutch patrons and the new Anglo-Dutch elite? A) Baconʹs Rebellion B) Coodeʹs Rebellion C) Leislerʹs Rebellion D) the Glorious Rebellion E) Shayʹs Rebellion Answer: C