Question 1

Before the arrival of Columbus, most native peoples in North America

Accepted Answer

A)  lived in large communities. 
B)  were more advanced than those in South America. 
C)  lived in small, scattered, and impermanent settlements. 
D)  depended on hunting rather than agriculture for food. 
E)  relied on horses for transportation. 
A)  lived in large communities. 
B)  were more advanced than those in South America. 
C)  lived in small, scattered, and impermanent settlements. 
D)  depended on hunting rather than agriculture for food. 
E)  relied on horses for transportation.

Question 2

The introduction of American crops like maize, manioc, and sweet potatoes into Africa helped fuel

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A)  a population boom in Africa. 
B)  the introduction of new illnesses into Africa. 
C)  an African population decline. 
D)  a growing international trade between Africa and Europe. 
E)  an increase in the number of obese people. 
A)  a population boom in Africa. 
B)  the introduction of new illnesses into Africa. 
C)  an African population decline. 
D)  a growing international trade between Africa and Europe. 
E)  an increase in the number of obese people.

Question 3

Which of the following mountain ranges was probably created before the continental separation approximately 350 million years ago?

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A)  the Rockies 
B)  the Sierra Nevada 
C)  the Cascades 
D)  the Coast Range 
E)  the Appalachians 
A)  the Rockies 
B)  the Sierra Nevada 
C)  the Cascades 
D)  the Coast Range 
E)  the Appalachians

Question 4

One of the most dramatic transformations in North American Indians' way of life after the Europeans arrived was

Accepted Answer

A)  the Indians swift adaptation to urban existence. 
B)  the use of the horse to create highly mobile hunting societies. 
C)  the introduction of commercial trade in corn and potatoes with Europe. 
D)  the overturning of Indians' previously matriarchal social structure. 
E)  the steady growth in Indian population. 
A)  the Indians swift adaptation to urban existence. 
B)  the use of the horse to create highly mobile hunting societies. 
C)  the introduction of commercial trade in corn and potatoes with Europe. 
D)  the overturning of Indians' previously matriarchal social structure. 
E)  the steady growth in Indian population.

Question 5

Most likely the first humans to enter the American continents were

Accepted Answer

A)  Vikings from Scandinavia. 
B)  Spanish explorers of the fifteenth century. 
C)  nomadic Asian hunters. 
D)  Portuguese sailors of Prince Henry the Navigator. 
E)  ocean voyagers from the South Pacific islands. 
A)  Vikings from Scandinavia. 
B)  Spanish explorers of the fifteenth century. 
C)  nomadic Asian hunters. 
D)  Portuguese sailors of Prince Henry the Navigator. 
E)  ocean voyagers from the South Pacific islands.

Before the arrival of Columbus, most native peoples in North America

The introduction of American crops like maize, manioc, and sweet potatoes into Africa helped fuel

Which of the following mountain ranges was probably created before the continental separation approximately 350 million years ago?

One of the most dramatic transformations in North American Indians' way of life after the Europeans arrived was

Most likely the first humans to enter the American continents were

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Exam 1: New World Beginnings

Before the arrival of Columbus, most native peoples in North America

The introduction of American crops like maize, manioc, and sweet potatoes into Africa helped fuel

Which of the following mountain ranges was probably created before the continental separation approximately 350 million years ago?

One of the most dramatic transformations in North American Indians' way of life after the Europeans arrived was

Most likely the first humans to enter the American continents were

The Road to Revolution

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic

The Rise of a Mass Democracy

Forging the National Economy

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy

Drifting Toward Disunion

The Furnace of Civil War

The Ordeal of Reconstruction

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad

American Life in the Roaring Twenties

The Great Depression and the New Deal

Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War

America in World War II

The Eisenhower ERA

The Stormy Sixties

The Stalemated Seventies

America Confronts the Post-Cold War ERA

The American People Face a New Century

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