The first African slaves were transported to the New World in what year? |
1502 |
Who were the mestizos? |
Persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin |
During the Pueblo Revolt, which of the following names were ordered to never be spoken again? |
Mary |
Which was not expressed by Bartolomé de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indes in 1552? |
He believed that Indians ought to be allowed to continue to practice their native faiths as a true sign of Christian love and toleration. |
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence? |
Cortés’s conquest of the Aztecs; Las Casas’s Destruction of the Indies; Spanish abolition of Indian enslavement |
Which was not a means by which Cortés conquered the Aztecs? |
He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons. |
A significant outcome of the Portuguese arrival in West Africa was: |
An expansion of Africa’s internal slave trade. |
Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind European colonization in the New World? |
(16-17, 21) The spread of democracy to the Americas |
The oldest site in the present-day United States to be continuously inhabited by Europeans is: |
(29) St. Augustine, Fl. |
Who were the peninsulares? |
(24) Persons of European Birth |
Which of the following was not a prominent cultural belief among Indian societies of North America? |
(11, 13) Only holders of property should take part in tribal governance. |
Which was not a characteristic of American Indians? |
(3) There were 4 different tribes in the Americas |
In European exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New World after 1492, all of the following were true except: |
(26-27) Europeans brought with them a broad-ranging tolerance for others’ viewpoints; kindness and tolerance being the mark of civilized peoples. |
Which of the following European countries did not have a colonial presence in seventeenth-century North America? |
(35) Germany |
Which of these crops did not form the basis of Native American agriculture? |
(7) Wheat |
Which was not an aspect of Native American religious beliefs? |
(7-8) Their written religious text was called the Wicca. |
The reconquista happened in what year? |
(19) 1492 |
The chief goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was: |
(17) The establishment of a trading empire in Asia. |
Which of the following was not a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus? |
(3-6) Large cities were unknown to the Americas. |
Which was not a characteristic of "coverture"? |
(14) Children became the property of the state upon a husband’s death. |
In which country did the reconquista occur? |
(19) Spain |
The freedom of a Christian man or woman meant/means: |
(13) Subservience, ubmission, and servitude to God |
Which of the following was a characteristic or action of the Zuni Indians of the Southwest? |
(6) They diverted the Colorado River as part of their ritualistic ancestor worship. |
Which is not an achievement of the Indians of North America in the thousands of years before Columbus’s arrival? |
(5-6) People in present-day Arizona constructed a large circle of red-earthen boulders. |
Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses (what year did it occur) |
1517 |
Vasco da Gama sails to the Indian Ocean |
1498 |
Pedro Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal |
1500 |
Bartolomeu Dias reaches the Cape of Good Hope |
1487 |
Reconquista of Spain |
1492 |
US History Chapter 1 Practice Quiz
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