Describe how both religious and economic factors stimulated English expansion in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
What will be an ideal response?
Religious: Protestant England challenged the New World hegemony of Spain; religious dissenters, persecuted in England, migrated to America. English monarchs viewed America as a convenient dumping ground for religious dissidents.
Economic: The enclosure movement, population growth, and price inflation created a displaced, unemployed, and mobile population available for immigration. The quest for national wealth and greatness suggested the need for colonies as suppliers of raw materials and consumers of English trade goods.
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A) surplus of women settlers. B) well-ordered, church-dominated society. C) remarkably high death rate. D) large number of unmarried widows.
How did President Jefferson plan to reverse what he perceived to be a drift toward despotism that had occurred in the 1790s?
A) by eliminating the national debt, thereby reducing the need for taxes. B) by destroying the opposition Federalist party. C) by acquiring additional territory that could help to bolster American freedom. D) by strengthening the army to stand guard against tyrants. E) by sending cash payments to America's foreign foes.
According to Plutarch, the great Hellenistic scientist Archimedes did not write down his findings about pulleys because he
a. was illiterate. b. feared persecution and censorship. c. was afraid that people would steal his ideas. d. considered such practical applications beneath him.
Much of Sumerian labor was done by slaves, many of whom were acquired
a. by trading with the Aryans of India b. from special slave-breeding programs c. as captives taken in war d. as gifts to the kings from his people e. from trade with Egypt