Question 1
The first permanent English settlement in North America was
A) Massachusetts Bay.
B) Plymouth.
C) New York.
D) Jamestown.
E) Quebec.
Question 2
When the Potos mines in Peru opened in 1545
A) the price of silver plummeted for two decades.
B) European migrants flooded into Peru to get jobs in the mines.
C) the English fought and lost a war to capture the mines.
D) the cost of precious metals imported into Europe quadrupled.
E) None of these are correct.
Question 3
Scientific management aimed to
A) organize laborers into unions.
B) compel the national government to regulate big business.
C) prevent discrimination in hiring practices.
D) decrease work inefficiencies among laborers.
E) bring women into management positions in factories.
Question 4
The concept of scientific management was developed by
A) William Graham Sumner.
B) Frederick Taylor.
C) John D. Rockefeller.
D) Herbert Spencer
E) None of these are correct.
Question 5
In Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu
A) expelled all missionaries.
B) invited Protestant missionaries to visit.
C) executed all missionaries.
D) converted to Catholicism.
E) invited French Catholic missionaries to stay.