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HIST 101 Survey of American History I Exams’ Answers

Many ancient humans migrated to the Americas over a

A) wooden bridge.

B) land bridge.

C) volcanic crater.

D) cobblestone road.

Answer: B

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 3

Skill: Factual

Topic: The People of America Before Columbus

2) As a result of the development of agriculture in the Americas, the members of native tribes

A) abandoned regional trading networks.

B) engaged solely in agricultural tasks.

C) lost faith in religious leaders.

D) grew in numbers and founded separate societies.

Answer: D

Diff: 3 Page Ref: 4-5

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: The People of America Before Columbus

3) The Spanish encountered the Aztec people in Mexico in the year

A) 1492.

B) 1519.

C) 1545.

D) 1619.

Answer: B

Diff: 3 Page Ref: 5

Skill: Factual

Topic: The People of America Before Columbus

4) The Aztecs, one of the Meso-American empires, created a(n)

A) empire that controlled a population estimated at between 10 and 20 million people.

B) highly stratified society.

C) capital city that amazed the Spanish with its grandeur.

D) sophisticated agricultural system.

Answer: D

Diff: 3 Page Ref: 5

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: The People of America Before Columbus

5) The Pueblo people of the American Southwest, encountered by the Spanish in the 1540s,

A) built ceremonial mounds on which to worship their gods.

B) failed to develop agricultural techniques suitable for their arid environment.

C) used irrigation canals, dams, and hillside terracing to water their arid maize fields.

D) made their clothing and utensils from buffalo hides and bones.

Answer: C

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 5-6

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: The People of America Before Columbus

6) In the seventeenth century, European explorers in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys were amazed to find

A) the remnants of ancient European visitors.

B) Native Americans living as forest primitives.

C) hundreds of large ceremonial mounds.

D) a highly developed and far-flung Indian society.

Answer: C

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 7

16) Puritan minister Roger Williams supported

A) mandatory church attendance for all colonists.

B) complete separation of church and state.

C) colonial usurpation of Indian lands.

D) New England’s affiliation with the Church of England.

Answer: B

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 66

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: Puritanism in England

17) Which of the following elements contributed to the cohesion of Puritan village life in New England?

A) substantial investments in bound labor

B) absence of women and children

C) cold and rainy weather

D) predominance of families

Answer: D

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 67

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: Puritanism in England

18) New Englanders built more private and comfortable houses at an earlier stage than colonists in the Chesapeake because of the

A) stunted and unstable family life in New England.

B) less worldly and materialistic attitudes of southerners.

C) unhealthy climate and environment in New England.

D) need of southerners to invest available capital in labor.

Answer: D

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 68

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: Puritanism in England

19) Which of the following hallmarks of American society might be traced to the Puritans?

A) celebration of religious and cultural diversity

B) individual freedom of thought and action

C) stress on literacy and education

D) separation of church and state

Answer: C

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 69

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: Puritanism in England

20) The root cause of King Philip’s War in New England stemmed from the anger of young Wampanoags at the colonists’

A) refusal to sell them guns and supplies.

B) unwillingness to admit Native Americans to white churches and colleges.

C) attacks on their land base and political sovereignty.

D) alliance with their hated enemies, the Narragansetts.

Answer: C

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 70-71

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: Puritanism in England

21) Which of the following factors was most instrumental in securing victory for the New England colonists in King Philip’s War?

A) political cohesion among the colonies

B) efficient mobilization of colonial manpower and supplies

C) internal problems for the Indians, such as food shortages, disease, and defections

D) conversion of King Philip to Christianity

Answer: C

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 70-71

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: Puritanism in England

22) Slavery never became the foundation of the northern colonial workforce because

A) labor-intensive crops were not grown by the Puritans.

B) New England merchants refused to participate in the international slave trade.

C) colonists there viewed slavery as immoral.

D) it proved impossible to train slaves as domestic servants or artisans.

Answer: A

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 72

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: Puritanism in England

23) By the early seventeenth century, the French

A) developed a fur trade in Canada.

B) rapidly populated the province of Quebec.

C) befriended the Iroquois in local Indian wars.

D) became preoccupied with internal struggles.

Answer: A

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 72

Skill: Interpretive

Topic: From the St. Lawrence to the Hudson

24) The Dutch colony of New Netherland

A) restricted all newcomers to membership in the Dutch Reformed Calvinist Church.

B) had to rely upon English merchants for overseas trade.

C) became the colony of New York following English takeover in 1664.

D) was blocked from inland trade by hostile Iroquois Indians.

Answer: C

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 73

Skill: Factual

Topic: From the St. Lawrence to the Hudson

25) The architects of the Carolina colony

A) designed the most democratic of all the colonial governments.

B) intended to create a hereditary aristocracy of wealthy manor lords.

C) commissioned the capture of Indians for sale as slaves in New England and the West Indies.

D) wished to pursue radical social experiments begun during the English civil war.

Answer: B

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 74

Skill: Factual

Topic: Proprietary Carolina

26) After experimenting with various crops, the colonists of South Carolina decided to concentrate upon the cultivation of

A) rice.

B) cotton.

C) sugar.

D) indigo.

Answer: A

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 76

Skill: Factual

Topic: Proprietary Carolina

27) By 1720, the population of South Carolina

A) shared common social and religious goals.

B) enjoyed a relatively disease-free environment.

C) consisted mostly of black slaves.

D) engaged in a variety of economic pursuits.

Answer: C

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 76

Skill: Factual

Topic: Proprietary Carolina

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