WGU EXAM #1 CHAPTERS 1-4UNITED
STATES HISTORY 101
The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Pacific Northwest - Correct Answers
-C. fished salmon as their principal occupation.
Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait
occurred approximately - Correct Answers -d. 11,000 years ago.
Which statement best describes the role of women in pre-Columbian North American
tribes? - Correct Answers -b. In all tribes, women cared for the children and prepared
meals.
Many pre-Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by - Correct
Answers -common linguistic roots.
The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began - Correct
Answers -a. with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.
The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Southwest - Correct Answers -built
large irrigation systems for farming.
In 1680, the Pueblo Indians rose in revolt against Spanish settlers after the Spanish -
Correct Answers -b. made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
The English Reformation resulted from - Correct Answers -b. a political dispute between
King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church.
The Puritan founders in Massachusetts who described their colony as a "city upon a hill"
- Correct Answers -a. felt they were creating a holy community that would be a model
for the world.
The rebellion led by Jacob Leisler took place in - Correct Answers -d. New York.
In 1608, Puritan Separatists that left England - Correct Answers -e. could not legally do
so without the king's permission.
, The "starving time" in Jamestown during the winter of 1609--1610 was partly the result
of - Correct Answers -a. a barricade set up by the Indians, which kept the colonists from
hunting and cultivating food inland.
Regarding colonial life expectancy during the seventeenth century, - Correct Answers -
e. life expectancy in New England was exceptionally high.
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the English indenture system? -
Correct Answers -a. Most indentured servants received land upon completion of their
contracts
The "triangular trade" in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity? - Correct Answers -e.
All these answers are correct.
The total number of Africans forcibly brought to all of the Americas as slaves is
estimated to have been as many as - Correct Answers -c. 11 million.
The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region - Correct
Answers -b. went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles.
Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought - Correct Answers -e. suggested that people
had considerable control over their own lives
A common form of resistance of enslaved Africans to their condition was - Correct
Answers -c. running away
In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies - Correct
Answers -e. All these answers are correct.
In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was - Correct Answers -d. both
highly valued and expected to be under the authority of women.
In English North American colonies, the application of slave codes was based on color
and - Correct Answers -a. nothing more.
By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence, in
part because of - Correct Answers -c. illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the
British Empire
In the English colonies, Jews - Correct Answers -e. could not vote or hold office.
The first North American college was - Correct Answers -b. Harvard.
In the 1760s, the revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because -
Correct Answers -b. cities were the centers of intellectual information.
STATES HISTORY 101
The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Pacific Northwest - Correct Answers
-C. fished salmon as their principal occupation.
Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait
occurred approximately - Correct Answers -d. 11,000 years ago.
Which statement best describes the role of women in pre-Columbian North American
tribes? - Correct Answers -b. In all tribes, women cared for the children and prepared
meals.
Many pre-Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by - Correct
Answers -common linguistic roots.
The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began - Correct
Answers -a. with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.
The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Southwest - Correct Answers -built
large irrigation systems for farming.
In 1680, the Pueblo Indians rose in revolt against Spanish settlers after the Spanish -
Correct Answers -b. made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
The English Reformation resulted from - Correct Answers -b. a political dispute between
King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church.
The Puritan founders in Massachusetts who described their colony as a "city upon a hill"
- Correct Answers -a. felt they were creating a holy community that would be a model
for the world.
The rebellion led by Jacob Leisler took place in - Correct Answers -d. New York.
In 1608, Puritan Separatists that left England - Correct Answers -e. could not legally do
so without the king's permission.
, The "starving time" in Jamestown during the winter of 1609--1610 was partly the result
of - Correct Answers -a. a barricade set up by the Indians, which kept the colonists from
hunting and cultivating food inland.
Regarding colonial life expectancy during the seventeenth century, - Correct Answers -
e. life expectancy in New England was exceptionally high.
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the English indenture system? -
Correct Answers -a. Most indentured servants received land upon completion of their
contracts
The "triangular trade" in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity? - Correct Answers -e.
All these answers are correct.
The total number of Africans forcibly brought to all of the Americas as slaves is
estimated to have been as many as - Correct Answers -c. 11 million.
The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region - Correct
Answers -b. went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles.
Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought - Correct Answers -e. suggested that people
had considerable control over their own lives
A common form of resistance of enslaved Africans to their condition was - Correct
Answers -c. running away
In the eighteenth century, religious toleration in the American colonies - Correct
Answers -e. All these answers are correct.
In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was - Correct Answers -d. both
highly valued and expected to be under the authority of women.
In English North American colonies, the application of slave codes was based on color
and - Correct Answers -a. nothing more.
By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence, in
part because of - Correct Answers -c. illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the
British Empire
In the English colonies, Jews - Correct Answers -e. could not vote or hold office.
The first North American college was - Correct Answers -b. Harvard.
In the 1760s, the revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because -
Correct Answers -b. cities were the centers of intellectual information.
