Question 1

Which of the following is true of Spain's explorations of the New World?

Accepted Answer

A)  Individual conquistadores always traveled alone. 
B)  Members of the Spanish parties suffered greatly from disease. 
C)  Florida was the first region in the present-day continental United States that Spain colonized. 
D)  Spain sought to forestall Portuguese incursions into the New World. 
E)  Spain's explorations had no impact on the size of the Native American population. 
A)  Individual conquistadores always traveled alone. 
B)  Members of the Spanish parties suffered greatly from disease. 
C)  Florida was the first region in the present-day continental United States that Spain colonized. 
D)  Spain sought to forestall Portuguese incursions into the New World. 
E)  Spain's explorations had no impact on the size of the Native American population.

Question 2

What was a borderland? Compare the roles the French,Dutch,and Indians played in the borderlands of North America.In the seventeenth century,did any group have an advantage? Explain your answer.

Accepted Answer

The answer of What was a borderland? Compare the roles...

Question 3

The Spanish aim was to exterminate or remove the Indians from the New World.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Where did the first peoples to the Americas come from?

Accepted Answer

A)  Iceland. 
B)  Greenland. 
C)  Africa. 
D)  Asia. 
E)  Europe. 
A)  Iceland. 
B)  Greenland. 
C)  Africa. 
D)  Asia. 
E)  Europe.

Question 5

As early as 1615,the ________ people of present-day southern Ontario and upper New York State forged a trading alliance with the French,and many of them converted to Catholicism.

Accepted Answer

A)  Pequot 
B)  Lenni Lenape 
C)  Iroquois 
D)  Cherokee 
E)  Huron 
A)  Pequot 
B)  Lenni Lenape 
C)  Iroquois 
D)  Cherokee 
E)  Huron

Question 6

Which of the following statements about Spanish America is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Over time, Spanish America evolved into a hybrid culture-part Spanish, part Indian, and, in some areas, part African. 
B)  Mestizos enjoyed much political freedom and held most of the high government positions. 
C)  Spaniards outnumbered the Indian inhabitants after fifty years of settlement. 
D)  The Catholic Church played only a minor role in Spanish America. 
E)  Spanish America was very rural and had few urban centers. 
A)  Over time, Spanish America evolved into a hybrid culture-part Spanish, part Indian, and, in some areas, part African. 
B)  Mestizos enjoyed much political freedom and held most of the high government positions. 
C)  Spaniards outnumbered the Indian inhabitants after fifty years of settlement. 
D)  The Catholic Church played only a minor role in Spanish America. 
E)  Spanish America was very rural and had few urban centers.

Question 7

In 1608,Samuel de Champlain founded:

Accepted Answer

A)  Montreal. 
B)  New York. 
C)  Champlain. 
D)  Quebec. 
E)  Albany. 
A)  Montreal. 
B)  New York. 
C)  Champlain. 
D)  Quebec. 
E)  Albany.

Question 8

By 1550,the Spanish empire in the New World exceeded the ancient Roman Empire in size.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Hernán Cortés

Accepted Answer

A) claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500 
B) founded Quebec 
C) Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492 
D) Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians 
E) British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press 
A) claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500 
B) founded Quebec 
C) Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492 
D) Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians 
E) British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press

Question 10

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-mound builders

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and give the historical significance of...

Question 11

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-"coverture"

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and give the historical significance of...

Question 12

Which one of the following is true about Native Americans and material wealth?

Accepted Answer

A)  Chiefs were expected to share some of their goods rather than hoard them. 
B)  Eastern Native Americans were more materialistic than those who lived west of the Mississippi. 
C)  Wealth mattered less to them than to Europeans, but inherited social status was equally important to both peoples. 
D)  Native Americans actually suffered more social inequality than Europeans did. 
E)  Native Americans had no material wealth. 
A)  Chiefs were expected to share some of their goods rather than hoard them. 
B)  Eastern Native Americans were more materialistic than those who lived west of the Mississippi. 
C)  Wealth mattered less to them than to Europeans, but inherited social status was equally important to both peoples. 
D)  Native Americans actually suffered more social inequality than Europeans did. 
E)  Native Americans had no material wealth.

Question 13

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Great League of Peace

Accepted Answer

A) society centered on the mother's family 
B) Spanish brutality 
C) uprising against Spanish colonists in New Spain 
D) Dutch landowners of large estates 
E) large-scale farm owned by a Spanish landlord
F)persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
G)Spanish reform measures toward Indians
H)a married woman surrendering her legal identity
I)transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between New and Old Worlds
J)confederation of five Iroquois tribes
K)person born in the Spanish colonies of European ancestry
L)ancient residents of the Mississippi Valley region 
A) society centered on the mother's family 
B) Spanish brutality 
C) uprising against Spanish colonists in New Spain 
D) Dutch landowners of large estates 
E) large-scale farm owned by a Spanish landlord
F)persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
G)Spanish reform measures toward Indians
H)a married woman surrendering her legal identity
I)transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between New and Old Worlds
J)confederation of five Iroquois tribes
K)person born in the Spanish colonies of European ancestry
L)ancient residents of the Mississippi Valley region

Question 14

Like the Spanish,the French often intermarried with the Indians,resulting in mixed-race children.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Native American religious ceremonies:

Accepted Answer

A)  had nothing to do with farming or hunting. 
B)  were related to the Native American belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things. 
C)  were designed to show that supernatural forces must control man. 
D)  were the same in every community. 
E)  did not exist until arriving Europeans insisted on knowing about Native American customs. 
A)  had nothing to do with farming or hunting. 
B)  were related to the Native American belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things. 
C)  were designed to show that supernatural forces must control man. 
D)  were the same in every community. 
E)  did not exist until arriving Europeans insisted on knowing about Native American customs.

Question 16

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Pedro Cabral

Accepted Answer

A) claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500 
B) founded Quebec 
C) Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492 
D) Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians 
E) British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press 
A) claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500 
B) founded Quebec 
C) Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492 
D) Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians 
E) British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press

Question 17

Acoma was an Indian city in present-day ________ that the Spanish destroyed.

Accepted Answer

A)  New Mexico 
B)  Florida 
C)  Cuba 
D)  California 
E)  Puerto Rico 
A)  New Mexico 
B)  Florida 
C)  Cuba 
D)  California 
E)  Puerto Rico

Question 18

The Pueblo Indians encountered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century:

Accepted Answer

A)  had engaged in settled village life only briefly before the Spanish arrived. 
B)  had been almost completely isolated from any other people before the Spanish arrived. 
C)  used irrigation systems to aid their agricultural production. 
D)  were called mound builders because of the burial mounds they created. 
E)  created a vast empire that included control of the Incas. 
A)  had engaged in settled village life only briefly before the Spanish arrived. 
B)  had been almost completely isolated from any other people before the Spanish arrived. 
C)  used irrigation systems to aid their agricultural production. 
D)  were called mound builders because of the burial mounds they created. 
E)  created a vast empire that included control of the Incas.

Question 19

Most,although not all,Indian societies were matrilineal.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Columbus first sailed to what is now Venezuela.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 1: A New World

Which of the following is true of Spain's explorations of the New World?

What was a borderland? Compare the roles the French,Dutch,and Indians played in the borderlands of North America.In the seventeenth century,did any group have an advantage? Explain your answer.

The Spanish aim was to exterminate or remove the Indians from the New World.

Where did the first peoples to the Americas come from?

As early as 1615,the ________ people of present-day southern Ontario and upper New York State forged a trading alliance with the French,and many of them converted to Catholicism.

Which of the following statements about Spanish America is true?

In 1608,Samuel de Champlain founded:

By 1550,the Spanish empire in the New World exceeded the ancient Roman Empire in size.

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Hernán Cortés

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -mound builders

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -"coverture"

Which one of the following is true about Native Americans and material wealth?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Great League of Peace

Like the Spanish,the French often intermarried with the Indians,resulting in mixed-race children.

Native American religious ceremonies:

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Pedro Cabral

Acoma was an Indian city in present-day ________ that the Spanish destroyed.

The Pueblo Indians encountered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century:

Most,although not all,Indian societies were matrilineal.

Columbus first sailed to what is now Venezuela.

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