What measures were undertaken by the directors of the Virginia Company to try to save their troubled Jamestown colony between 1607 and 1624? What was the chief obstacle they had to overcome?
What will be an ideal response?
Directors adopted the headright system, sent women for wives, and allowed an elected assembly. They had to overcome the colony's reputation as a death trap, Native-American hostility, and the chronic shortage of labor.
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The United States entered World War I in
A) 1918. B) 1917. C) 1920. D) 1914.
What new methods of hunting or food production were introduced by Europeans to Native Americans in North America?
a. the use of domesticated plants for agriculture b. a focus on the hunting of beaver c. the use of steel knives d. the tapping of maple trees for syrup
For what reason did Aristotle rank human souls as more important than those of animals?
a. Human souls were rational. b. God created human souls to be superior. c. He didn't. Aristotle believed that all souls, human and animal, were kindred. d. He didn't. Aristotle denied that animals had souls.
The first mill in the United States was built by
A) ?Francis Cabot Lowell. B) ?Patrick Lyon. C) ?Samuel Slater. D) ?Eli Whitney. E) ?None of these are correct.