Reading for Questions 1 – 3 “The Americas were discovered in…

Reading for Questions 1 – 3 “The Americas were discovered in 1492, and the first Christian settlements established by the Spanish thefollowing year…. [I]t would seem… that the Almighty selected this part of the world as home to the greater part of the human race…. [T]heir delicate constitutions make them unable to withstand hard work or suffering and render them liable to succumb to almost any illness, no matter how mild. . . . It was upon these gentle lambs… that, from the very first day they clapped eyes on them, the Spanish fell like ravening wolves upon the fold, or like tigers and savage lions who have not eaten meat for days. . . . The native population, which once numbered some five hundred thousand, was wiped out by forcible expatriation to the island of Hispaniola.” Bartolomé de Las Casas, 1552  Question: In their colonization of the Americas, the Spanish used the encomienda system to

“The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of Go…

“The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; [but] it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. . . . Can a democratic assembly, who annually revolve in the mass of the people, be supposed steadily to pursue the public good? Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.” — Alexander Hamilton, speech at the Constitutional Convention, 1787 Hamilton’s views expressed in the excerpt most directly supported which of the following?

Reading Question 16 – 17 “English expectations of the New Wo…

Reading Question 16 – 17 “English expectations of the New World and its inhabitants died hard. America was supposed to be a land of abundance, peopled by natives who would not only share that abundance with English but increase it under English direction. Englishmen simply did not envisage a need to work for the mere purpose of staying alive. The problem of survival as they saw it was at best political and at worst military.  Although Englishmen long remained under the illusion that the Indians would eventually become useful English subjects, it became apparent fairly early that Indian labor was not going to sustain the founders of Jamestown”. Edmund Morgan, historian, “The Labor Problem at Jamestown, 1607 – 1618”, published in 1971   Question: Which of the following was a long-term result of the situation in Jamestown described in the excerpt?