Which of the following was true of Christopher Columbus?
A. He was the first person to believe that the Earth is round.
B. He was an Italian navigator whose four voyages to the West were financed by the Spanish.
C. He accurately calculated the circumference of the Earth to be 26,000 miles.
D. He reviewed land, titles, and wealth from his discoveries and died the richest commoner in Europe.
E. He rejected offers from England and Portugal to finance his voyage.
Answer: B
AP American History
- Colonists objected to the Dominion of New England because _____
- The Catholic successor to Charles II of England who was overthrown in the Revolution if 1689 was _____
- Colonists in New York were angry with James, Duke of York, because he _____
- The autocratic governor of New York and the Domination of New England was _____
- Titus Oakes earned fame by _____
- Which of the following accurately distinguishes between the original Whigs and Tories?
- Nathanial Bacon was _____
- When Nathanial Bacon was elected to the Virginia assembly, William Berkeley _____
- The leader of the 1676 Virginia Rebellion was _____
- Sir William Berkeley _____
- The Great Swamp Fight was conflict between Puritans and _____
- Which of the following is not true of Metacom's (King Philip's) War?
- By 1675, about _____ of those Indians living in southeastern New England were in various stages of conversion to Christianity.
- The large-scale warfare between European settlers and the Indians of New England that began in 1675 was called _____
- Thomas Mathew, Sr., Thomas Mathew, Jr. and John Elliot _____
- The "Five Nations" of the colonial period were _____
- The Staple Act of 1663 regulated goods _____
- The Navigation Acts required that _____
- For the most part, England's North American colonies responded to the Navigation Acts.
- Which of the following was not stated in the Navigation Act passed in 1652?
- Seventeenth-century philosophers believed that _____
- According to the theory of mercantilism, _____
- The policy of mercantilism entails all of the following except that colonies should _____
- Only _____ avoided war with the Indians during the 1640s.
- Women stood the best chance of inheriting property in _____