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Chapter_01_New_World_Beginnings

American Pageant 16th Edition By David M. Kennedy

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Chapter_01_New_World_Beginnings

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

53. The European explorers who followed Columbus to North America

  a. intended to found a new nation.
  b. continued to view themselves as Europeans.
  c. did not consider America as the western rim of the European world.
  d. no longer saw themselves as subjects of European kings.
  e. saw little difference between their lives in America and their lives in Europe.

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Part One: Founding the New Nation

 

54. The colonists who ultimately embraced the vision of America as an independent nation had in common all of the following characteristics except

  a. the desire to create an agricultural society.
  b. a shared goal of living unfettered by the tyrannies of royal authority, official religion, and social hierarchies.
  c. a growing reverence for ideals such as liberty.
  d. an unwillingness to subjugate others.
  e. a majority were English speaking with English customs.

 

ANSWER:   d
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Part One: Founding the New Nation

 

55. All of the following were characteristics of the original thirteen colonies except

  a. Puritans carved tight, pious, and relatively democratic communities in New England.
  b. the belief they were a single people with a common destiny, who ought to break from Britain.
  c. the southern colonies consisted of large landholders, mostly Anglican, on plantations using slave labor.
  d. there were internal conflicts over economic interests, ethnic rivalries, and religious practices.
  e. the middle colonies were the most diverse with estates interspersed with modest homesteads.

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Part One: Founding the New Nation

 

56. The ideals that the colonists cherished as synonymous with American life included reverence for all of the following except

  a. individual liberty.
  b. self-government.
  c. opposition to slavery.
  d. religious tolerance.
  e. economic opportunity.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Part One: Founding the New Nation

 

57. Identify the statement that is false.

  a. Each of the thirteen colonies enjoyed a good deal of self-rule before the 1760s.
  b. Many colonies profited from trade within the British Empire.
  c. The French and Indian War strengthened ties between the thirteen colonies and Britain.
  d. After the French and Indian War, the colonists needed greater protection from Britain.
  e. As late as 1775, most people in the colonies still clung to some hope of reconciliation with Britain.

 

ANSWER:   d
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Part One: Founding the New Nation

 

58. By the 1770s, which of the following issues helped bring about a crisis of imperial authority?

  a. Taxation, self-rule, and trade restrictions
  b. Slavery
  c. Few colonists clung to any hope of accommodation with Great Britain
  d. The coronation of a new king
  e. The rise to power of radical patriots in the American colonies

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Part One: Founding the New Nation

 

59. The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of

  a. similar mountain ranges on the various continents.
  b. nearly identical species of fish in long-separated freshwater lakes throughout the world.
  c. marsupials on the various continents.
  d. the continued shifting of the earth’s crust.
  e. geological evidence of soil samples common among all continents.

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Shaping of North America

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