What happened to Bacon's Rebellion after Bacon died of fever?
a. It collapsed entirely.
b. It went "underground" but returned during the American Revolution.
c. It was ended by Berkeley's charitable pardoning of rebel leaders.
d. It was ended by a royal commission and investigation.
e. It was carried on by his first lieutenant.
A
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Historians would agree with each of the following statements EXCEPT
a. most colonies proved to be profitable investments for the mother country. b. hesitant governments were sometimes encouraged in the new imperialism by industrial leaders. c. areas Europeans sought to dominate in the new imperialism were often less profitable than they had imagined. d. less emigration from Europe to the colonies occurred than proponents of colonial development had hoped. e. colonies brought the mother country intangible benefits that far outweighed the costs of administration.
The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was
a. the rebellion against British rule and potato famine. b. influx of immigrants from mostly Eastern European countries. c. the granting of limited home rule to most of Ireland by Great Britain. d. the migration from the countryside to the city. e. the increasing use of English instead of Gaelic.
Matteo Ricci was
A. the Italian explorer who sailed to Japan in the late fifteenth century. B. mainly responsible for the introduction of American crops such as manioc to China. C. a Roman Catholic missionary in China. D. the chief Italian who negotiated trade issues with the Qing emperor Qianlong. E. the Italian merchant who spent twenty years with Khubilai Khan and wrote of his adventures.
Which of the following statements best describes the California Indian experience in the first half of the nineteenth century?
a. Their population declined as a result of disease epidemics in the Spanish period, but after California became a state in the Union, the federal government undertook a health care program that resulted in a slight increase in their numbers. b. The original population of over one million had been reduced to a mere 100,000 by 1860, due to both disease epidemics and American genocide. c. While the Indian population by 1860 had dropped to little more than thirty thousand, it was still the largest Indian population of any state in the Union. d. The genocide of California Indians resulted in their near extinction by 1860.