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1. In the sixteenth century, the Spanish crown granted encomiendas to which of the following groups?
Indians that have converted to Catholics
6. Which of the following groups provided the labor for Brazil’s profitable plantations in 1620?
Conquistadors
or
African Slaves
11. Lord Baltimore, the proprietor of Maryland, established that colony as a haven for?
Catholics
16. When they settled in the New World in 1630, the Puritans’ first priority was to.
Create a strict society that would model true Christianity in America.
21. Which American colony was established in the 1660s as a haven for Quakers?
Pennsylvania
2. By the mid-1500s, Spain’s main goal in North America was to?
Maintain its dominance and power in religion.
7. Which of the following statements describes the English migrants who initially settled in the Jamestown colony in the early 1600s?
Early Jamestown settlers expected to profit from gold and Indian labor.
12. In North America’s plantation colonies, most indentured servants?
Didn't escape from poverty
17. Which of the following New England colonies required church membership in order to be able to vote?
Massachusets Bay.
22. The Navigation Acts of the mid-seventeenth century included which of the following stipulations?
The requirement that Americans maintain a favorable balance of trade with England
3. King Henry VIII started the English Reformation by?
Declaring himself supreme head of the new church in England.
8. What accounted for the uneasy relations that persisted between Powhatan’s people and the Jamestown settlers for more than a decade after 1607?
Both groups' inability to reach an agreement about who would pay tribute to whom.
13. Which of the following factors encouraged migrants to New France in the seventeenth Century?
Generous terms for indentured servitude.
18. Why did the largest landholdings in seventeenth century New England towns usually belong to wealthier families?
Men of higher social status tended to receive the largest land grants from their towns.
23. Which of the following statements describes the change in English economic philosophy toward the colonies beginning in the 1650s?
No longer content with a favorable balance of trade with European countries, the English government controlled trade with the colonies.
4. Two hundred thousand Spaniards from Castile migrated to America in the 1500s in order to escape?
High taxes on agricultural and military service.
The economic livelihood of the Virginia colony in the 1700s depended on which of the following products?
Tobacco
Which of the following describes the Dutch colony of New Netherland in the seventeenth Century?
The venure failed to attract many settlers.
19. Which of the following was characteristic of both the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut Colonies?
Oridinary farmers had more political power most Chesapeake men.
24. For which of the following reasons did Britain’s King James II create the Dominion of New England in 1686?
James believed it was necessary to prevent further colonial revolts.
5. Why was the influx of American gold and silver into the English economy during the sixteenth century significant?
It stimulated further economic expansion.
10. Which of the following characteristics was a common feature of royal colonies throughout English America in the seventeenth century?
An elected assembly
15. Why did Plymouth begin to thrive after its first year while Jamestown struggled for many Years?
The religious dicipline of the Plymouth settlers encouraged a stronger work ethic
20. Where did the first colonists who settled South Carolina and introduced racial slavery in the 1660s come from?
English Caribbean Colony of Barbados
25. For which of the following reasons did the 1686 Dominion of New England anger American colonists?
It limited the rights of the people by abolishing existing colonial legislatures, banning town hall meetings, and requiring colonists in Massachusetts to pay an annual fee.