As African freedom movements became increasingly violent by the mid twentieth century, ____ promised to grant its colonies eventual independence
a. Great Britain
b. Portugal
c. Spain
d. United States
e. Holland
a
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Which of the following were the primary reasons that creating dynastic governments did not create strong government authority in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
a) A variety of local cultures and languages and a multitude of local lords meant that centralization moved slowly or not at all. b) The new dynastic governments were mainly concerned with controlling court life and bothered little with the countryside. Consider This: What do you know about how an individual viewed his or her own “country” in this period? See 1.8: Narrative: Breaking the Chain. c) Renaissance humanism inspired local lords to better educate themselves and enforce their rights against the monarchs in court. Consider This: What do you know about how an individual viewed his or her own “country” in this period? See 1.8: Narrative: Breaking the Chain. d) The new dynasties believed that by diffusing their authority they could keep locals from revolting. Consider This: What do you know about how an individual viewed his or her own “country” in this period? See 1.8: Narrative: Breaking the Chain.
Why did Portugal turn to slavery in its colonies earlier than other European states?
A) small population and labor shortage B) an entrenched racial ideology C) competition with Spain D) a richer and larger state that could better afford slaves
One reason Roger Williams was deported from the Massachusetts colony was that he
A. advocated the principle of plural marriage. B. argued that the colony should maintain allegiance to the Church of England. C. was a confirmed Separatist. D. proclaimed that the Indians had no right to the land occupied by the colonists. E. attempted to take over the leadership of the colony.
Tenskwatawa, the Prophet, argued that Indians would survive best if they __________
A) allied into a confederacy and destroyed the Americans B) joined with sympathetic missionaries and converted to Christianity C) turned into yeoman farmers and assimilated D) avoided Americans and returned to their traditional ways