1. which was a reason that rice-farming promote the spread of slavery?

a) it required large numbers of workers laboring in hot, humid, unhealthy conditions.

b) it required skills that african slaves from barbados had already learned.

c) it produced enormous profits for planters that allowed them to purchase slaves.

d) it produced a good harvest but little profit, so labor needed to be very cheap.

2.
of which was the western section of pennsylvania considered a part?

a) the backcountry

b) the south

c) new france

d) a native american empire

3. what was the result of king philip’s war?

a) metacom was killed, and the english colonies were free to expand.

b) a treaty between king philip and metacom ended the conflict quickly.

c) metacom was captured, and the wamanoags forced to sign a treaty agreeing to leave.

d) metacom was unable to overrun any english towns, so he gave up the fight.

4. what was the main reason for the decrease in native americans in new england by the 1670s?

a) diseases caught from the europeans

b) overcrowding by english colonists

c) being driven out by puritan leaders

d) warfare with the colonists over the fur trade

5.which was an important part of new england’s economy by the 1660s?

a) slavery

b) textile production

c) shipbuilding

d) tobacco farms

6.
why did bacon’s rebellion collapse?

a) the virginia governor declared bacon and his men rebels.

b) the english stopped consuming tobacco.

c) its leader, nathaniel bacon, became sick and died.

d) bacon was defeated at jamestown.

7.
what was the “backcountry”?

a) a frontier region extending through several colonies, from pennsylvania to georgia

b) the western edge of pennsylvania, where the border was undefined

c) a frontier region to the west of new york

d) an area west of new hampshire, that was claimed by new hampshire and new york

8.what happened to the participants of bacon’s rebellion?

a) the governor granted them a portion of the established farms along the coast.

b) the governor sent them back to england in chains.

c) the governor hanged 23 of them.

d) the governor granted them land in native american territory.

9.
for which group’s benefit was the colony of maryland established?

a) atheists

b) jews

c) catholics

d) protestants

10.
which statement about georgia’s beginnings is true?

a) spanish farmers were invited to join the english settlers in georgia.

b) georgia’s founders wanted it to be a colony of large, rich plantations.

c) small farmers were forbidden to settle in georgia for the first 20 years.

d) slavery was originally banned in georgia, but later became legal.

1)A) The rice fields of the South Carolina and the rest of the south were located in the swampy area around the coast. This area is humid, hot, and was ripe with wild animals such as alligators. The african slaves were brought because they were strong, had some immunity against the tropical diseases that abound in the area, and had some knowledge about rice cultivation since rice has been grown in Africa sin the 3rd millenium BC.

2)A) The backcountry. The backcountry consisted of the areas in colonial america that were far from the coast. The Appalachian Mountains were located in the backcountry for example. In the backcountry of Pennsylvania, many people settled, mostly germans (for example the Amish came from Switerland and who still lived in the area), and scots-irish (people of scottish descent who lived in modern-day Northern Ireland, and ended up emigrating to the United States).

3)A) At the end of the war, Metacom was killed. The reason that led to this war was the conflict over the land, because the english colonists wanted to exapand, therefore, with Metacom leader, they were able to continue the expansion all over New England.

4)A) Even if Native Americans were killed during conflicts with the colonists, and by the 1670s were already having issues over the use of land with the colonists, most of native americans in New England were killed by diseases. Plagues and outbreaks of smallpox, measles, typhus killed entire villages in different years, both because of contact with the french colonists in modern-day Quebec, and the english colonists in New England.

5)C) Shipbuilding, by the 1660s, almost every port in New England had a shipbuilding economy. The most important shipbuilding port was Boston. Other important ports were in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Shipbuilding was a key part of the economy in New England and helped industrialize the region decades after.

6)C) Nathaniel Bacon died of disentery even before the english reinforcements could arrive from England. He was replaced in leading the rebellion by his follower John Ingram, but John Ingram was not as good as a leader and the rebellion collapsed very soon.

7)A) In the colonial era, the backcountry consisted of the regions that were far from the atlantic coast. In other words, the backcountry consisted of the Appalachian mountains, and the piedmont of the Appalachian mountains.

8)C) The governor hanged 23 of them, the governor of Jamestown by the time, William Berkley, killed most of the rebels, and managed to capture several of them 23) and hanged them in public display.

9)C) Catholics, The founder of the colony of Maryland, Lord Baltimore, was an english lord, and a catholic, and asked the king of England to allow him to found (and fund) a colony in America for catholics in England to settle, who were victims of persecution in England.

10)B) Goergia founders wanted Georgia to be like neighboring South Carolina (many of them came from South Carolina). By the time, South Carolina was already a colony full of plantations of rice, tobacco, indigio and other crops, and had many slaves.

the united states presidential election of 1844 was the 15th quadrennial presidential election, held from november 1, to december 4, 1844. democrat james k. polk defeated whig henry clay in a close contest that turned on the controversial issues of slavery and the annexation of the republic of texas.

wealthy plebeians became part of the roman nobility. however, despite changes in the laws, the patricians always held a majority of the wealth and power in ancient rome. a third social class in roman society was the slaves. around one third of the people living in rome were slaves.

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