Here are the answers to each of your questions based on the information provided:
Question 14: The most significant difference between the northern and southern Carolina settlements was that
Answer: the Southern settlement grew rich on rice while poorer farmers in the North grew tobacco.
Question 15: According to this excerpt from the text, which was the most significant factor in the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas?
Answer: disease.
Question 16: The Virginia Company authorized a general assembly in Virginia so that colonists could --
Answer: self-govern on local level.
Question 17: Considering this reading and other readings from your text, which of the following made Pennsylvania under William Penn different from other colonies?
Answer: Colonists generally treated Native Americans with respect.
Question 18: What was the primary goal that Spanish settlers shared in the South and Southwest regions?
Answer: finding wealth.
Question 19: If you were a wheat farmer, where would you most likely live?
Answer: the Middle Colonies.
Question 20: Based on what you know about Native American relationships with Spanish colonists, what can you infer about the way the Spanish viewed Native Americans?
Answer: Spanish colonists felt that they were superior to Native Americans.
Question 21: Which of the following were problems faced by the English colonists at Jamestown? Select all that apply.
Answer:
- The location of the colony made life difficult for the settlers.
- The settlers believed that farming was beneath them, so they did not plant crops for the winter.
(Note: Only select two responses, as the prompt does not indicate to select all applicable responses regardless of being multiple-choice style.)
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