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The origins of the majority of human with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.
existence in North America began
Prior to European contact, the eastern third had the most abundant food resources of any region of the continent.
of what is today the United States
The pre-Columbian North American fished salmon as their principal occupation.
peoples in the Pacific Northwest
Scholars estimate that human migration 11,000 years ago.
into the Americas over the Bering Strait
occurred approximately
Which statement best describes the role of In all tribes, women cared for the children and prepared meals.
women in pre-Columbian North American
tribes?
Native American religions were closely the natural world.
linked to
The cause of the failure of the Roanoke is historically inconclusive.
colony
In what way did sixteenth-century A large number of new crops became available in Europe.
Europeans benefit from trade between the
Americas and Europe?
In King Philip's War, Indians made effective flintlock rifle.
use of a relatively new weapon, the
Captain John Smith helped the Jamestown imposing work and order on the colonists.
settlement survive by
The New York colony emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch.
Warfare between Englishmen and included an Indian attack on Jamestown that killed hundreds of colonists.
Powhatan Indians in Virginia
In the mid-1600s, New England Puritan piety.
ministers began preaching against the
decline of
During the seventeenth century, the Royal deliberately restricted the supply of slaves to the North American colonies.
African Company of England
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, The "triangular trade" in the Atlantic dealt rum, sugar, slaves, & molasses
with which commodity?
The seventeenth-century medical practice the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.
of deliberately bleeding a person was
based on
By 1700, English colonial landowners began of a declining birthrate in England.
to rely more heavily on African slavery in
part because
In the seventeenth and eighteenth had little or no knowledge of sterilization.
centuries, medical practitioners
During the eighteenth century, rising increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material
consumerism in the American colonies was possessions with status in the upper class.
encouraged by
The verdict of the 1734-1735 libel trial of increased freedom of the press in the colonies.
New York publisher John Peter Zenger
The proportion of all blacks in the colonies three-fourths.
living on a plantation of at least ten slaves
was over
Which of the following statements about Colonial slave codes forbade teaching slaves skilled trades and crafts.
slave work is FALSE?
In the English colonies, Roman Catholics suffered their greatest persecution in Maryland.
The first North American college was Harvard.
Which statement regarding colonial higher Most colleges were founded by religious groups.
education is true?
In colonial New England Puritan were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands and
communities, women households.
By 1776, what proportion of white males more than half
were literate in colonial America?
The witchcraft trials in Salem saw the original accusers recant their charges.
During the third phase of the French and gradually loosened his tight control over the colonists.
Indian War, British leader William Pitt
In North America during the eighteenth Iroquois.
century, the most powerful native group
was the
In the aftermath of King George's War relations among the English, French, and Iroquois deteriorated.
Through the first half of the eighteenth both France and England at the same time.
century, the Iroquois Confederacy formed
agreements and traded with
In North America as a result of the Seven confirmed its commercial supremacy and increased its political control of the settled
Years' War, England regions.
For most Indians in North America, the had disastrous effects on their future.
British victory in the French and Indian War
Who among the following lead protests Samuel Adams
and riots against the Stamp Act?
The Stamp Act of 1765 helped to unite the colonies in opposition to the English government.
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