In contrast to the English colonies, French colonies in the Americas focused more on __________.
a) trading
b) slavery
c) settlement
d) agriculture
a) trading
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Discuss the role and status of women in eighteenth-century colonial America.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following reflects the same principle as the one expressed in this statement?: “In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.”
a) “If you need to turn out a little more, you speed up the conveyor a little and the men speed up to keep pace.” b) “Buy a railroad ticket, get on a train, and there, where it lands you, there you will learn to edit amagazine.” c) “It is good business men that are corrupting our bad politicians. It is the leading citizens that are battening on our city.” d) “The resort to force, the wild talk of the nineties are over. Everyone is busily, happily getting ahead.”
Which of the following statements concerning immigrants to colonial America during the first half of the eighteenth century is correct?
A) Most German-speaking immigrants settled in Pennsylvania. B) Newly arrived immigrants usually settled in New England. C) Slave imports fell. D) Virginia experienced the greatest influx of new settlers.
Scholars speculate that Akhenaten's religious revolution may have been designed to achieve all of the following goals except:
a. Undermining the political power of the priests of Amun-Re. b. Easing the transition of power to his wife Nefertiti and son Tutenkhamen. c. Opening up Egyptian religion to participation by non-royal people. d. Solidifying his own power by replacing polytheism.