The Jesuit religious order was particularly influential in: |
New France |
How did Native Americans conceive of property? |
Families might use a specific plot of land for season |
In England, social inequality: |
was part of a hierarchical society |
What geographic error did Columbus make? |
He grossly underestimated the size of the Earth. |
What does the seal of New Netherland, adopted by the Dutch West India Company in 1630, suggest in central to the colony’s economic prospects |
Fur |
Spanish Florida: |
Was little more than an isolated military settlement. |
Which one of the following was true of French relations with Native Americans? |
Jesuit missionaries tried to convert Native Americans, but gave them far more independence than did Spanish missionaries. |
What European city was known in the early seventeenth century as haven for persecuted Protestants from all over Europe and even for Jews fleeing Spain? |
Amsterdam |
Why did European exploration of the New World proceed so rapidly after Columbus’s discoveries? |
Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press enabled the rapid dissemination of information. |
As colonization began, the European idea of freedom: |
Included the idea of abandoning sin to embrace the teachings of Jesus Christ. |
Which one of the following statements about African slavery within Africa is FALSE? |
Only men were taken for the slave trade. |
The Spanish set up outposts from Florida to South Carolina in part because: |
Spanish missionaries hoped to convert local Native Americans to Christianity. |
How did Spain justify enslaving Native Americans? |
The Spanish believed that enslavement could liberate Native Americans from their backwardness and savagery and introduce them to Christian civilization. |
How did the Dutch manifest their devotion to liberty? |
They supported freedom of religion in their colony. |
Pueblo Indians lived in what is now: |
the southwestern United States |
Which one of the following statements about Spanish America is true? |
Over time, Spanish America evolved into a hybrid culture–part Spanish, part Indian, and, in some areas, part African. |
Which one of the following was NOT true of women in Native American societies? |
Women made all decisions about trade relations with other tribes. |
Which statement about the Pueblo Revolt is FALSE? |
It was inspired by the Pope, but he died before the actual revolt took place. |
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. |
Huron |
Europeans–particularly the English, French, and Dutch– generally claimed North American Indian land as their own based on: |
their view that Indians did not use the land properly. |
In 1517, the German priest ___________ began the Protestant Reformation by posting his Ninety-Five Theses, which accused the Catholic Church of worldliness and corruption. |
Martin Luther |
Both Aztec and Inca empires were: |
large, wealthy, and sophisticated. |
The government of the Spanish empire in America: |
Included local officials who held a great deal of control. |
Far more important to most Indian societies than freedom as personal independence were all of the following except: |
secure rights to owning land. |
According to Bartolome de Las Casas: |
Spain had caused the deaths of millions of innocent people in the New World. |
The first center of the Spanish empire in America: |
Was the island of Hispaniola |
In 1519, who became the first European explorer to encounter the Aztec empire? |
Hernán Cortés |
Bartolomé de Las Casas argued that Indians: |
should enjoy "all guarantees of liberty and justice" as subject of Spain. |
What role did religion play in the Columbus’s explorations? |
Catholics in Spain and Italy supported his expeditions because they wanted to end Muslim control of the eastern trade. |
What motivated the Portuguese to begin exploration to find a water route to India, China and the East Indies? |
To eliminate the Muslim "middlemen" in the luxury goods trade |
Portuguese trading posts along the western coast of Africa were called factories because: |
The merchants were known as factors |
Which one of the following is true of religion in seventeenth-century Europe? |
Religious uniformity was thought to be essential to public order. |
Alarmed by the destructiveness of the conquistadores, the Spanish crown replaced them with a more stable system of government headed by: |
lawyers and bureaucrats. |
The Black Legend described: |
Spain as uniquely brutal colonizer. |
Which statement about the Indian of North America is FALSE? |
Indians lacked genuine religion. |
Which statement about New Netherland is FALSE? |
Women had many liberties, but could not retain their legal identity after marriage. |
"Coverture" refers to: |
A woman surrendering her legal identity when she marries. |
Patroonship in New Netherland: |
meant that shareholders received large estates for transporting tenants for agricultural labor. |
Amerigo Vespucci: |
helped to correct Columbus’s theory that he had found the route to Asia. |
Exploring the North American interior in the 1500s, ______ was the first European to encounter the immense herds of buffalo that roamed the Great Plains. |
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado |
In their relations with Native Americans, the Dutch: |
concentrated more on economics than religious conversion. |
Europeans tended to think which one of the following about Native Americans and their cultures? |
Native Americans failed to make use of the land, so it was acceptable for Europeans to take it and use it. |
The repartimiento system established by the Spanish in the mid-1500s: |
recognized Indians as free but required them to perform a fixed amount of labor. |
Slavery in Africa: |
involved the enslavement of criminals, debtors and war captives. |
Which European country dominated international commerce in the early seventeenth century? |
The Netherlands |
Under English law in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, women: |
surrendered their legal identities when they married. |
New France was characterized by: |
more peaceful European-Indian relations than existed in New Spain. |
The reconquista was the reconquest of Spain from the: |
Moors. |
The New Lands of 1542: |
commanded that Indians no longer be enslaved in Spanish possessions. |
Which one of the following was true of New France? |
Its population was limited at best, because France feared that a significant emigration would undermine its role as a great European power. |
Which one of the following is true of freedom in New Netherland? |
Married women retained a legal identity separate from that of their husbands. |
Which one of the following lists the events in proper chronological order, from first to last? |
Spain adopts New Laws, Pueblo Revolt, Quebec founded, the Dutch settle Manhattan. |
In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded: |
Quebec |
The Columbian Exchange was: |
the transatlantic flow of plants, animals, and germs that began after Christopher Columbus reached the New World. |
The city situated along the Mississippi River with between 10,000 and 30,000 residents in the year 1200 is today known as: |
Cahokia |
Which one of the following statements is true of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán? |
It had a complex system of canals, bridges, and dams, with the Great Temple at the center. |
The first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, established in 1610, was: |
Santa Fe |
In 1942, the Native American population: |
lived mostly in Central and South America |
The Spanish empire in America: |
was, unlike the French and English New World empires, a mostly urban civilization. |
Around 7000 B.C.E., agriculture developed in the Americas around: |
Mexico and Peru |
The Pueblo Indian uprising of 1680: |
helped lead to the most complete victory for Native Americans over Europeans. |
The first French explorations of he New World: |
were intended to locate the Northwest Passage. |
Europeans generally believed all of the following about Indians EXCEPT that: |
Indians had enormous potential to assimilate European ways. |
Henry Hudson: |
hoped to find the Northwest Passage to Asia |
When Europeans arrived, many Native Americans: |
tried to use them to enhance their standing with other Native Americans. |
Which statement about gender relations is FALSE for most Native American societies? |
Tribal leaders were almost always women. |
Native American religious ceremonies: |
were related to the Native American belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and intimate things. |
Which one of the following is true about Spanish emigrants to the New World? |
Many of the early arrivals came to direct Native American labor. |
The transatlantic flow of people and goods such as corn, potatoes, horses, and sugar cane is called: |
The Columbian Exchange |
Before the transatlantic slave trade began, approximately 100,000 African slaves were transported between 1450 and 1500 to: |
Portugal and Spain |
Which of the following is true of Spain’s explorations of the New World? |
Florida was the first region in the present-day United States that Spain colonized. |
Adam Smith recorded in 1776 that the "two greatest and most important" events in the history of mankind were the: |
a discovery of America and the Portuguese sea route around Africa to Asia |
Acoma was an Indian city in present-day _______ that the Spanish destroyed. |
New Mexico |
Before the arrival of Columbus, Native North Americans: |
had elaborate trade networks. |
John Cabot sailed to: |
Newfoundland |
How did French involvement in the fur trade change life for Native Americans? |
The French were willing to accept Native Americans into colonial society. |
Which of the following was NOT a technique that Spanish conquistadores used to conquer Native American empires? |
Negotiating treaties |
The Spanish justified their claim to land in the New World through all of the following EXCEPT: |
defeating the English fleet in 1588. |
The Pueblo Indians encountered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century: |
used irrigation systems to aid their agricultural production. |
In Europe on the eve of colonization, one conception of freedom, called "Christian liberty,": |
mingled ideas of freedom with servitude to Jesus Christ–concepts that were seen as mutually reinforcing, not contradictory. |
French Canada: |
consisted mainly of male colonists. |
The ritual sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs: |
a disgusted Europeans despite their own practices of publicly executing criminals and burning witches at the stake. |
Which one of the following is true of agriculture in Spanish America? |
Spain introduced wheat as a crop. |
By the eighteenth century, colonial farm families: |
viewed land ownership almost as a right, precondition of freedom. |
Nathaniel Bacon: |
actually was socially closer to the elite than to the indentured servants who supported him. |
What was the Covenant Chain? |
an alliance made by the governor of New York and the Iroquois Confederacy |
Elizabeth Sprigs, an indentured servant in Maryland, found her experience to be: |
extremely harsh, barely better than that of a slave’s. |
All of the following were factors enticing migration to the British colonies EXCEPT: |
absence of restraints on economic opportunity. |
Which of the following was true of poverty in the colonial period? |
Limited supplies of land, especially for inheritance, contributed to poverty. |
What was William Penn’s most fundamental principle? |
religious freedom |
Which one of the following is true of slaver? |
The English word "slavery" derives from "Slav," reflecting the slave trade in Slavic peoples until the fifteenth century |
What commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during the seventeenth century? |
sugar |
William Penn obtained the land for his Pennsylvania colony because: |
the king wanted to cancel his debt to the Penn family and bolster the English presence in North America. |
Pennsylvania’s treatment of Native Americans was unique in what way? |
Pennsylvania purchased Indian land that was then resold to colonists and offered refuge to tribes driven out of other colonies/ |
The English Bill of Rights of 1689: |
listed parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury. |
Slavery developed more slowly in North American than in the English West Indies because: |
the high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to die within a short time. |
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina: |
proposed a feudal society in the New World, complete with hereditary nobility. |
Indians in eighteenth-century British America: |
were well integrated into the British imperial system. |
What was the impact of King Philip’s War (1675-1676)? |
Native Americans destroyed twelve Massachusetts towns, which helped establish them in the minds of New Englanders as bloodthirsty savages. |
Which of the following was not a factor that made African slavery appealing to English planters in the New World? |
A long English legal tradition of discrimination against dark-skinned peoples eased the legalization of slavery. |
Of colonists in British North America, which group was the wealthiest? |
South Carolina rice planters |
As English colonial society became more structured in the eighteenth century, what were the effects on women? |
Women’s work became more clearly defined as tied closely to the home. |
The first English Navigation Act, adopted during the rule of Oliver Cromwell: |
aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch. |
By the eighteenth century, consumer goods such as books and ceramic plates: |
were found in many colonial residents’ homes. |
What ironic consequence did William Penn’s generous policies, such as religious toleration and inexpensive land, have? |
They contributed to the increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on African slave labor. |
The Glorious Revolution of 1688: |
resulted mainly from the fears of English aristocrats that the birth of James II’s son would lead to a Catholic succession. |
The economy of the Carolina colony: |
originally centered on cattle-raising and trade. |
Anglicization" meant all of the following EXCEPT: |
colonists were determined to speak English as perfectly as those who lived in England. |
Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691: |
it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders. |
Ideas of race and racism in seventeenth century England: |
had not fully developed as modern concepts. |
In what ways did England reduce colonial autonomy during the 1680s? |
It created the Dominion of New England, run by a royal appointee without benefit of an elected assembly. |
What form of behavior did William Penn ban in his Pennsylvania colony? |
swearing |
Which of the following is true of slave resistance in the colonial period? |
Some slaves were the offspring of white traders and therefore knew enough English to turn to the legal system, at least until Virginia lawmakers prevented them from doing so. |
What was one of Pennsylvania’s only restrictions on religious liberty? |
Holding office required an oath affirming a belief in Jesus Christ, which eliminated Jews from serving. |
Before founding Pennsylvania, William Penn assisted a group of English Quakers to set up a colony in what became: |
New Jersey |
How did English rule affect the Iroquois Confederacy? |
After a series of complex negotiations, both groups aided each other’s imperial ambitions. |
What role did Native Americans play in British imperial wars during the eighteenth century? |
They did much of fighting in the wars. |
Governor William Berkeley’s regime: |
was a corrupt alliance of the Virginia colony’s wealthiest tobacco planters. |
The Walking Purchase of 1737: |
was a fraudulent deal for the Lenni Lenape Indians. |
What inspired the 1715 uprising by the Yamasee and Creek peoples against English colonists in Carolina? |
high debts incurred by the Yamasee and Creek in trade with the English settlers |
Who finally ended the Salem Witch trials? |
the Massachusetts governor |
Why did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692? |
The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others. |
Captain Jacob Leisler, the head of the rebel militia that took control of New York in 1689: |
was overthrown and killed in so grisly a manner that the rivalry between his friends and foes polarized New York politics for years. |
Which of the following best sums up population diversity in colonial British America? |
Great Britain originally promoted emigration to the colonies as a means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century, opening the colonies to a more diverse group of settlers. |
When the Virginia House of Burgesses decreed that religious conversion did not release a slave from bondage: |
it meant that, under Virginia law, Christians could own other Christians. |
During the colonial era, Philadelphia: |
became home to a varied population of artisans and craftsmen. |
Who in the Pennsylvania colony was eligible to vote? |
a majority of the male population |
English and Dutch merchants created a well-organized system for "redemptioners." What was this system for? |
for carrying indentured German families to America where they would work off their transportation debt |
According to laws in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake: |
free blacks had the right to sue and testify in court. |
Which man was once a slave, only to be freed and own slaves himself? |
Anthony Johson |
The Glorious Revolution witnessed uprisings in colonial America, including ones in: |
New York and Maryland |
How did the colonial elite view their role in society? |
It meant the power to rule–the right of those blessed with wealth and prominence to dominate others. |
The Charter of Liberties and Privileges in New York: |
reflected in part an effort by the British to exert their influence and control over the Dutch. |
"Enumerated" goods: |
were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that could only be sold initially in English ports. |
What sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the mid seventeenth century? |
the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. |
William Penn was a member of which religious group? |
Quakers |
The separation of church and state: |
existed only in a few colonies. |
Which one of the following is true of the English West Indies in the seventeenth century? |
By the end of the century, the African population far outnumbered the European population on most islands. |
According to New England Puritans, witchcraft: |
resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes. |
According to the economic theory known as mercantilism: |
the government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power |
Spain’s Las Siete Partidas, a series of laws touching on slavery: |
gave slaves some opportunities to claim rights under the law in the Spain’s American empire. |
Bacon’s Rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia? |
the replacing of indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia’s plantations |
North American crops and products: |
were part of a commercial trade network that knitted together a far-flung empire. |
The Scottish and Scotch-Irish immigrants to the colonies: |
were often physicians, merchants and teachers. |
As accusations and executions multiplied in Salem, what was the long-term impact of the witchcraft trials there? |
The number of witchcraft prosecutions in Massachusetts declined markedly. |
What historical evidence demonstrates that blacks were being held as slaves for life by the 1640s? |
Property registers list white servants with the number of years they were to work, but blacks (with higher valuations) had no terms of service associated with their names. |
Bacon’s Rebellion was a response to: |
worsening economic conditions in Virginia |
Which of the following was true of small farmers in 1670s Virginia? |
The lack of good land, high taxes on tobacco, and falling prices reduced their prospects. |
Slavery labor in the Chesapeake region increasingly supplanted indentured servitude during the last two decades of the seventeenth century, in part because: |
improving conditions in England reduced the number of transatlantic migrants. |
When England took over the Dutch colony that became New York: |
the English ended the Dutch tradition of allowing married women to conduct business in their own names. |
Carolina grew slowly until: |
rice as a staple crop was discovered to be extremely profitable. |
Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England? |
A woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband. |
Which of the following was true of agriculture in the colonies during the eighteenth century? |
Because New York’s landlords had taken over so much land, agriculture grew more slowly in New York than in other colonies. |
Which of the following was true of the colonial elite? |
They controlled colonial government. |
To Quakers, liberty was: |
Universal entitlement |
How did the new Massachusetts charter of 1691 change that colony’s government? |
It made Massachusetts a royal colony rather than under the control of Puritan saints |
In its early years, Carolina was the "colony of a colony" because its original settlers included many: |
landless sons of wealthy planters in Barbados. |
The Virginia slave code of 1705: |
embedded the principle of white supremacy in law. |
The German migration to the English colonies: |
led to the formation of many farming communities. |
Unlike slavery in America, slavery in Africa: |
was more likely to be based in the household than on an agricultural plantation. |
Great Britain sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the eighteenth century? |
Protestants from non-English and less prosperous parts of the British Isles. |
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