FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT COLLEGE HISTORY

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT COLLEGE HISTORY

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-Guarantee passing score -70 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Which of the following is not an item Europeans introduced to Native Americans?

Answer:

wampum

Question 2: Where did the Protestant Reformation begin?

Answer:

Northern Europe

Question 3: What was the Middle Passage?

Answer:

the transatlantic journey that enslaved Africans made to America Question 4: Compare and contrast European and Native American views on property.

Answer:

Native Americans didn't have any concept of owning personal property and believed that land should be held in common, for use by a group. Europeans saw land as something individuals could own

Question 5: What was patroonship?

Answer:

a Dutch system of granting tracts of land in New Netherland to encourage colonization Question 6: Which of the following statements best represents the division between Patriots and Loyalists?

Answer:

American colonists were divided among those who wanted independence, those who wanted to remain part of the British Empire, and those who were neutral.

Question 7: What was the most lucrative product of the Chesapeake colonies?

Answer:

tobacco

Question 8: What was the main purpose of the Sugar Act of 1764?

Answer:

It strengthened enforcement of molasses smuggling laws.Question 9: What was the primary goal of Britain's wars for empire from 1688 to 1763?

Answer:

the British Empire had gained mastery over North America

Question 10: What was the chief goal of the Puritans?

Answer:

eliminate any traces of Catholicism from the Church of England

Question 11: What was the outcome of the Glorious Revolution?

Answer:

A transformation from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.

Question 12: Which country initiated the era of Atlantic exploration?

Answer:

Portugal

Question 13: What battle turned the tide of war in favor of the Americans?

Answer:

the Battle of Saratoga

Question 14: Why did diseases like smallpox affect Native Americans so badly?

Answer:

Native Americans had no immunity to European diseases.Question 15: Why did Columbus believe he could get to the Far East by sailing west? What were the problems with this plan?

Answer:

It was known that the Earth was round, so Columbus's plan seemed plausible. The distance he would need to travel was not known, however, and he greatly underestimated the Earth's circumference.

Question 16: Who were the main combatants in the French and Indian War?

Answer:

Great Britain against the French and their Native American allies

Question 17: Who were the Freemasons, and why were they significant?

Answer:

The Freemasons were a fraternal society that originated in London coffeehouses in the early eighteenth century. They advocated Enlightenment principles of inquiry and tolerance.

Question 18: What prompted the French and Indian War?

Answer:

Colonists from both France and England were running out of room to expand.

Question 19: Where did Christopher Columbus first land?

Answer:

the Bahamas Question 20: Which of the following is not one of the tasks women performed during the Revolution?

Answer:

Holding government offices

Question 21: Which colony provided the basis for the Declarations and Resolves?

Answer:

Massachusetts

Question 22: Which of the following was not a result of Dunmore's Proclamation?

Answer:

A majority of enslaved people in the colonies won their freedom.

Question 23: Which of the following is not true of the Puritan religion?

Answer:

Only men could participate.

Question 24: What sorts of labor systems were used in the Restoration colonies?

Answer:

Since the proprietors of the Carolina colonies were absent, English planters from Barbados moved in and gained political power, establishing slave labor as the predominant form of labor. In Pennsylvania indentured servitude abounded.Question 25: What were the major differences between the societies of the Aztec, Inca, and Maya and the Native peoples of North America?

Answer:

Aztec, Inca, and Maya developed centralized communities, denser, complex. Native Americans established decentralized communities, spread out, wilder.Question 26: Why didn't England make stronger attempts to colonize the New World before the late sixteenth to early seventeenth century?

Answer:

The English monarchy did not want to declare direct war on Spain by attempting to colonize the Americas.

Question 27: How could Spaniards obtain encomiendas?

Answer:

by serving the Spanish crown