Hist 172 Csulb Midterm 1 |100 Questions| With Correct Answers.

Why has one historian described the pilgrims as the "beneficiaries of catastrophe"? {Ans: They arrived in a region that had been devastated by a massive epidemic disease just four years earlier.}Statistically, about _____ of enslaved Africans brought to the New World during the Atlantic slave trade were brought to North America: A) 5% B) 40% C9) 25% D) 20% {Ans: A) 5%}Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "4. For having protected, favored, and emboldened the Indians against his Majesty's loyal subjects, never contriving, requiring, or appointing any due or proper means of satisfaction for their many invasions, robberies, and murders committed upon us. . . Of this and the aforesaid articles we accuse Sir William Berkeley as guilty of each and every one of the same, and as one who has traitorously attempted, violated, and injured his Majesty's interest here by a loss of a great part of this his colony and many of his faithful loyal subjects." A) John Winthrop, 1630 B) Anne Hutchinson, 1638 C) Roger Williams, 1636 D) Nathaniel Bacon, 1676 {Ans: D) Nathaniel Bacon, 1676}Which of the following is a reason why England left a standing army in the colonies