- A historian's job is to
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interpret past events and their causes
find out about the past through scientific experiments
take surveys of what people believe occurred in the past
predict the future accurately
- Which source would provide an archaeologist with the most direct evidence about pre-Columbian Indians who settled in New York?
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artifacts left by the Iroquois
an interview with a historian who specializes in American cultures
a social studies textbook
an article about the Iroquois in an encyclopedia
- Different groups of Native American Indians developed different cultures mainly because each group
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came to America from different parts of the world
had to follow written traditions
wanted to be distinct from other groups
adapted to its environment in a different way
- Which statement best describes the behavior of the early European colonists in North America?
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They lived as individuals and did not create communities.
They rejected all European traditions in establishing their new communities.
They created communities similar to those they had left in Europe.
They almost completely copied Native American Indian communities.
- Base your answers to question 5 and 6 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. Give up your hunt of the deer and buffalo. Cultivate the land and protect it from wild animals. When you have property, you will find that our laws are good for this purpose. You will unite yourselves with us, form one people with us, and we shall be Americans. Source: Cultures in conflict by Feder and Bernard What is the author's attitude toward the culture of his own group and toward the culture of the group he is speaking to?
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He believes his group's culture has nothing to offer the other group.
He believes the other group's culture is better than his own group's culture.
He believes neither culture should change.
He believes his group's culture is better than the culture of the other group.
- The two groups referred to in the passage would be most likely to disagree about
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the ownership and use of the land
voting rights
conserving wild animals
farming methods
- Which Puritan belief is still an important ideal in modern United States society?
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It is important to work hard.
Amusements are evil.
The church needs to be purified.
There should be a union of church and state.
- The French and Indian War increased tension between Great Britain and the American colonists because
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the colonists hoped to win their independence during the war
the Native American Indians helped
Britain insisted that colonists help pay the debt caused by the war
the colonists were not allowed to fight in the war
- In colonial America, an aim of British mercantile policy was to force American merchants to
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produce all their own manufactured goods
provide raw materials to England only
sell more raw materials to countries other than England
compete with England for overseas markets
- Which was an economic method used by the American colonists to protest British taxes?
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writing to Parliment
starting Committees of Correspondence
boycotting British goods
raising Liberty poles