Question 1
Which of the following hindered Jamestowns early development?
A) the large number of gentlemen among the early arrivals
B) the large number of women among the early arrivals
C) the absence of a contractual relationship between the settlers and the Virginia Company
D) the large number of settlers who arrived in the first two years
Question 2
Richard Hakluyt was __________.
A) Englands leading publicist for overseas expansion
B) a French explorer and fur trader
C) a Protestant dissenter
D) the founder of the East India Company
Question 3
Richard Hakluyt believed that Virginia __________.
A) represented a great opportunity for England
B) was all but uninhabitable
C) was home to an Indian empire as wealthy as that of the Aztecs
D) would serve well as a depository for criminals and outcasts
Question 4
Which of the following helped increase interest in English migration to North America in the first half of the seventeenth century?
A) the discovery of gold
B) religious conflict
C) a famine
D) the robust English economy
Question 5
To address New Netherlands chronic labor shortage, Peter Stuyvesant __________.
A) brought in large numbers of indentured servants
B) enslaved local Indians
C) endorsed trade in African slaves
D) approved of the arrival of Jewish settlers.
Question 6
New Netherland was eventually taken over by __________.
A) France
B) Portugal
C) England
D) Spain
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Pont du Gard, near Nîmes, France.
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