photo apocalypto and textbook
These two historical sources have each of the following in common EXCEPT?
A. They are both based on history, but have entertainment as their primary purpose.
B. Both have included professional historians in their creation.
C. Each has been both praised and criticized by other academics, such as historians and anthropologists.
D. Each source deals with one or more controversial topics.
E. Neither is free of their creators' overt bias and/or point of view
ANSWER: A

photo marcus rediker
All of the following statements involving historian Marcus Rediker and his work concerning the history of slavery in America are accurate, EXCEPT
A. As an academic, he has correctly sought out and used primary sources and historical documents as the basis of work.
B. Technically, he is guilty of bias when discussing English colonial slavery but using West Indies sugar plantation statistics, which reveal clearly worse atrocities and statistics involving the sheer number of slaves, their treatment, and their deaths.
C. Because he is an expert, and too close to his subject, his findings and writings will be highly suspicious.  That is why your instructor included him as a topic in class lecture and discussion.
D. He challenged the accuracy that former slave ship captain John Newton came to his religious conversion and anti-slavery stance the way it is often depicted in the hymn Amazing Grace.
E. He wrote a book called The Slave Ship, which concerns the history of the Middle Passage experience of the 18th Century.
ANSWER: C

Often in a survey history course, generalizations are made.  Of the following examples, all are cases of generalizing that hamper the discovery of the real, historical truth of the situation, EXCEPT
A. referring to all non-Catholic religious denominations, such as Puritans, Separatists, Quakers, Baptists, and Evangelicals as merely "Protestants".
B. referring to the various indigenous populations of North America as as merely "Native Americans".
C. referring to Massachusetts Bay colonists living in coastal towns or in the country on the frontier as merely "Puritans" and those colonists living in New England and those in the Chesapeake region as merely "English Settlers".
D. referring to both excise, internal taxes and import, external taxes as similar and equally disruptive and responsible for the claim "no taxation without representation"
E. all of these generalizations will lead to numerous inaccuracies when studying American History
ANSWER: E


WEB COMIC QUESTION
This image from the web comic "Written in Bone" shows the facial reconstruction of a skeleton who was most likely
A. an executed soldier from the Battle of Severn River in 1655
B. a female and original settler from the Jamestown colony who died of disease
C. a male indentured servant who died from violent causes
D. a Native American who probably died in the French and Indian War
E. a tobacco farmer from the Chesapeake region whose cause of death is unknown
ANSWER: C



CHART QUESTIONS
americas pop
This chart serves as evidence of the truth of which of the following statements?
A. The American Indian population declined more rapidly in the 17th Century than it did in the 18th Century.
B. The African population continued to increase as a percentage of the total population after its peak in about 1800.
C. The growth of the Mestizo and Mulatto populations together comprised the majority of the entire population after 1800.
D. The Native American population was the majority group for the 16th, 17th, and most of the 18th centuries after European contact.
E. None of the statements based on this chart are truthful
ANSWER: D

exports
All of the following statements about this chart are true EXCEPT
A. A majority of the value of exported grain came from the Middle Colonies 
B. Chesapeake tobacco alone was more valuable then all of the exports of the New England and Middle colonies combined. 
C. Tobacco was the highest valued export of the entire British colonies on the North American continent from 1768-1772.
D. While the Lower southern colonies grew the most rice, during the 1768-1772 time period, its value was still below that of tobacco.
E. The exports of the New England colonies were the least valuable of the four regions in this chart.
ANSWER: B

chart pop1750
All of the following statements are directly supported or could be inferred  by the data in this population chart, EXCEPT
A. It can provide a reason that the French lost to the British in the French and Indian War 1754-1763
B. The Native American threat to the English colonial frontiers was a reality, not just imagined fear, during this time period.
C. Native Americans outnumbered the combination of all European settlers in North American in 1750.
D. It can provide a reason why the Spanish did not only present a threat to the English in the Seven Year's War, but also why it couldn't serve as a meaningful ally to Catholic France.
E. All of the above are accurate statements based on this chart
ANSWER: E