Powhatan extended aid to the Jamestown settlers because
a. they achieved a quick and decisive victory over his warriors.
b. he believed they were divine beings.
c. their weapons could help him consolidate his power over other tribes in the region.
d. the Algonquian religion taught the brotherhood of all people.
c
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Which of the following was a consequence of the new Christian awareness that arose during the later Middle Ages?
a. a new set of theological dogmas concerning the trinity b. a new set of techniques of prayer and devotion c. movement away from religious orders in southern Europe d. a new openness to different manners of spirituality
Most, although not all, Indian societies were matrilineal.
a. true b. false
The Union's spring campaign of 1864 in Virginia ended in:
a. a stalemate, with a ten-month siege at Petersburg. b. defeat and a humiliating retreat back to northern soil. c. the occupation of the Confederate capital of Richmond. d. replacing Ulysses Grant as commander of the Army of the Potomac with William T. Sherman.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo included all of the following outcomes EXCEPT
A) obtaining all of Texas to the Rio Grande, New Mexico, and land further west to California as far south as San Diego. B) Mexico was paid $15 million, which went to its creditors. C) 90,000 new citizens, who had been citizens of Mexico, and even more Indians, who preferred to stay independent of both countries. D) the muting of criticism of the war and its political outcomes by the war's opponents in Congress and across the United States.