Circle all the TRUE statements. Columbus's voyage and subsequent Spanish contact with Native Americans:

Circle all the TRUE statements. Columbus's voyage and subsequent Spanish contact with Native Americans:

a) Led to a devastating series of epidemics and population loss among Native Americans that speeded European conquest

b) Was at first challenging to European traditions of knowledge

c) Coincided with an outbreak of syphilis in Europe that is traceable to Columbus's men

d) Was spurred by European political, religious, and economic interests turning west after the fall of Constantinople

e) Introduced Europeans to corn, tomatoes, and potatoes

Which of the following statements about George Washington are NOT true? (may have more than 1 answer)

a) He had a reputation among white Virginians for being a diligent and honest land surveyor

b) His military genius was based on keeping the Continental Army alive rather than engaging in a decisive battle with the British Army

c) He accepted the 1763 Proclamation Line as a definitive boundary protecting Indian lands

d) He longed to spend more time on his plantations, which ran on the labor of enslaved men, women, and children.

e) He saw the emergence of political parties as a positive development for American democracy.

All of the following are true statements about North American slavery EXCEPT (may have more than 1 answer): 

a) African slaves were more likely to live and reproduce in North America than their counterparts elsewhere in the Americas

b) Slave owners entered detailed advertisements in newspapers to recover escaped slaves, servants, and other property

c) South Carolina's planters got rich cultivating and processing sugar

d) In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Virginia slave market usually got the slaves leftover from sales in Barbados and Jamaica

e) A small percentage of slaves in the transatlantic trade came to North America

Nineteenth century Philadelphia can be described as (more than one answer is possible):

a) A site of nativist violence against Irish immigrants

b) A city that created new institutions to deal with social problems

c) A fractured landscape of white ethnic and religious enclaves protected by fire fighting gangs

d) A city remarkable for its racial tolerance

e) A center for small scale manufacturing rather than large corporate manufacturing

Circle all the TRUE statements. During the 1856 election, the Republican Party platform supported the following positions:

a) The repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854.

b) The admission of Kansas as a free state.

c) Congressional legislation prohibiting slavery in the territories.

d) Social, political, and economic equality for all races.