HIS 144 Quiz 1 | 20 Questions and Answers

HIS 144 Quiz 1 | 20 Questions and Answers Many members of the English gentry became willing to emigrate to the American colonies after the break with the Catholic Church kept younger sons from having secure professional futures within the Church. Which was true for most immigrants to America? Most had little knowledge of English, so they commanded only the lowest paying jobs, Most had little education, Most remained close to the cities where they had landed - the East Coast's large cities, They usually had little or no understanding of American culture. The Columbian Exchange refers to the agricultural products and domestic animals that crossed from European civilizations to the New World and from the New World to Europe, the introduction of European diseases to Native Americans, such as syphilis, the decimation of native populations - by as much as two-thirds - from exposure to small pox and other diseases that they had never been exposed to and had no immunities against. Spain was not successful in its settlement of North America mainly because the Spanish sought quick profits and were dissuaded by clashes with Indians, believing that it would not be worth the investment to establish permanent colonies. By 1860, the foreign-born of the North comprised about ____ of the U.S. population. one-fifth The tenement buildings in which immigrants often lived frequently lacked all of the following, except violent crime. About how many Irish immigrated to America to escape the terrible potato famine of the 1840s in Ireland? one million New York City became America's largest city in the 1800s because migration from Europe and from the countryside combined to make the city's population reach 814,000 by 1860. Between 1660 and 1700, North America changed in which of the following ways? The non-native population grew from about 70,000 to about one