HIS144 Quiz 1 And HIS 144 Quiz #2
With Solved Solutions 2025-2026
Updated.
Many members of the English gentry became willing to emigrate to the American colonies after
- Answer 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? - Answer 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 - Answer 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 -
Answer 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. - Answer
one-fifth
The tenement buildings in which immigrants often lived frequently lacked all of the following,
except - Answer violent crime.
About how many Irish immigrated to America to escape the terrible potato famine of the 1840s
in Ireland? - Answer one million
New York City became America's largest city in the 1800s because - Answer migration from
Europe and from the countryside combined to make the city's population reach 814,000 by
1860.
With Solved Solutions 2025-2026
Updated.
Many members of the English gentry became willing to emigrate to the American colonies after
- Answer 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? - Answer 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 - Answer 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 -
Answer 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. - Answer
one-fifth
The tenement buildings in which immigrants often lived frequently lacked all of the following,
except - Answer violent crime.
About how many Irish immigrated to America to escape the terrible potato famine of the 1840s
in Ireland? - Answer one million
New York City became America's largest city in the 1800s because - Answer migration from
Europe and from the countryside combined to make the city's population reach 814,000 by
1860.
