Puritan and Points Question

1. According to your text, the Spanish vision of the Americas embodied "the central paradox of New World history." This was the conflict between Answer
||desiring to Christianize the Native Americans yet hoping to conquer them and steal their wealth.|
||seeing the Americas as a land of opportunity and freedom yet fearing they might become a land of slavery.|
||worshiping the purity and promise of the New World yet desiring to exploit its innocence. |
||protecting the freedom of the individual and guarding the welfare of the community.|
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Question 3

1. One source of problems between the Europeans and the Native Americans was the common European misunderstanding of the Native Americans' Answer
||sharp division of labor between men's and women's work.|
||common language and culture throughout the hemisphere.|
||idea of communal land tenure. |
||emphasis upon material wealth.|

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Question 4

1. One of the major reasons the Protestant Reformation succeeded was that Answer
||major defenders of Catholicism such as Luther and Calvin were poor leaders.|
||Italian merchants realized it made fewer financial demands on them than Catholicism.|
||political figures could use its challenge to Rome's spiritual authority to increase their power. |
||the Catholic church made many enemies by strongly attacking luxury and corruption.|

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Question 5

1. In arguing for royal assistance for English colonization, Richard Hakluyt stressed the Answer
||military advantages of building forts to threaten Spanish treasure fleets. |
||millions of heathen souls who could be saved.|
||likelihood of settling religious dissenters and criminals in the New World.|
||possibilities of jointly exploiting the New World with Spain.|

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Question 6

1. A serious problem in the early years of Jamestown was the Answer
||lack of pioneering skills among the settlers. |
||religious strife