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Questão 1

Questão
The eastern third of what is now the United States was occupied by the
Responda
  • Plains Indians
  • Mountain tribes
  • Coastal tribes
  • Pineland tribes
  • Woodland Indians

Questão 2

Questão
Indian religions
Responda
  • used totem poles in their ceremonies
  • were tied closely to the natural world
  • were not very important for their culture
  • emphasized monotheism
  • were centered on human sacrifice

Questão 3

Questão
Paralleling the rise of commerce in Europe, and in part responsible for it, was the
Responda
  • return of the Black Death
  • rise of united and powerful nation-states
  • invention of the compass
  • discovery of a direct route to the Indies by sailing west
  • start of the African Slave Trade

Questão 4

Questão
Despite the Indians' public conversion to Catholicism,
Responda
  • rebellions against whites ceased.
  • most natives continued to practice their own religious rituals
  • native religions died out
  • Spain lost control of St. Augustine
  • Spain was able to control all Southwestern tribes

Questão 5

Questão
The first and perhaps the most profound result of the meeting of Native American and European cultures was the
Responda
  • native adoption of European ways of waging war
  • exchange of plants and animals
  • importation of European diseases
  • European adaptation of native customs
  • intermarriage of Europeans and natives

Questão 6

Questão
Ultimately more important to Europe than the gold and silver found in the New World was the
Responda
  • discovery of new forms of religious worship
  • domination of the mestizos
  • importation of new crops that could feed larger numbers of people
  • Indian labor force
  • architectural knowledge gained from the Aztecs

Questão 7

Questão
In the sixteenth century, the market for slaves initially grew dramatically as a result of
Responda
  • a desire to Christianize Africans
  • the need for labor in the rice plantations of South Carolina
  • the need for labor in the cotton fields
  • the rising European demand for sugar cane
  • the English entry into the slave market

Questão 8

Questão
As a result of experiences in conquering and subduing Ireland, the English believed that
Responda
  • they could not build a complete society of their own
  • Catholicism should be exported to North America
  • they should intermarry with Native Americans
  • they must maintain a rigid separation from the native population
  • all they needed to do was subdue the natives and rule them

Questão 9

Questão
The Iroquois Confederation consisted of tribes in the southernmost region of the eastern seaboard.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 10

Questão
Cortes might not have been able to defeat the Aztecs had it not been for an epidemic of smallpox that decimated the native population.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 11

Questão
The oldest permanent European settlement in the present-day United States is the Spanish colonial city of St. Augustine.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 12

Questão
Europeans felt justified in their treatment of the Indians because they considered the Indians uncivilized savages and heathens.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 13

Questão
Besides an increase in demand for foreign goods, what other factor motivated European maritime expansion in the fifteenth century?
Responda
  • the emergence of new, better organized nation-states
  • a decline in population brought on by the Black Death
  • a decline in Islamic commercial and military strength
  • an increase in conflict between European monarchies

Questão 14

Questão
Which European nation was the first to encounter the New World and establish a presence in North America?
Responda
  • France
  • England
  • Spain
  • Portugal

Questão 15

Questão
Which feature of Spanish colonial society contrasted most with North American ENGLISH settlements?
Responda
  • political structures
  • gender relations
  • agricultural system
  • interethnic marriage

Questão 16

Questão
How did mercantilist theory encourage European colonization in the Americas?
Responda
  • By arguing that global resources were finite, it encouraged European monarchies to colonize the Americas as part of the European power rivalry
  • by arguing that state power was connected to exports, it encouraged the development of colonial economies
  • by calling for expansion of state revenues, mercantilism encouraged Europeans to seek gold and silver to fund colonial ventures in the Americas
  • by arguing that state economies could offer wide opportunitiesfor all, mercantilism encouraged the formation of colonial territories and regional economies

Questão 17

Questão
Why did the English become interested in colonization in the sixteenth century?
Responda
  • they feared their regional rivals and hoped to establish new communities far from Europe
  • they were suffering from religious strife, as well as economic hardships and increasing land scarcity
  • they were determined to expand their territory and become a vast landed empire
  • they were jealous of the Portuguese and Spanish success and sought New World colonies of their own

Questão 18

Questão
Which region was the first to experience English colonization?
Responda
  • South Africa
  • the Caribbean
  • Ireland
  • North America

Questão 19

Questão
Which of the following characteristics became a key feature of English colonization?
Responda
  • social separation into class groups
  • economic partnerships between colonists and natives
  • intermarriage with native women
  • rigid separation between colonists and natives

Questão 20

Questão
The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began
Responda
  • as a result of the development of the wheel
  • long after the last ice age ended
  • from the southern tip of South America
  • with the explorations of Christopher Columbus
  • with migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait

Questão 21

Questão
By the late fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, the desire in Europe to look for new lands was spurred by
Responda
  • a desire to escape the Black Death
  • the absence of a merchant class in Europe
  • the declining political power of many European monarchs
  • the expansion of feudalism in Europe
  • rapid and significant population growth in Europe

Questão 22

Questão
The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century (early) was
Responda
  • England
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • the Netherlands
  • France

Questão 23

Questão
In Spanish colonial societies, mestizos
Responda
  • were officially illegal but generally tolerated
  • was the name given to Catholic priests, friars, and missionaries
  • were considered to be at the top of the social hierarchy
  • soon made up the largest segment of the population
  • were usually sold into slavery

Questão 24

Questão
By the sixteenth century, what condition in England provided the strongest incentive for colonization?
Responda
  • both the food supply and the population were declining
  • both food supply and the population were increasing
  • the demand for wool was declining, while the population was growing
  • pastureland was being converted to crop production, while the population was declining
  • the availability of farmland was declining, while the population was growing

Questão 25

Questão
The first permanent English settlement in the New World was
Responda
  • Jamestown
  • Boston
  • Raleigh
  • Roanoke
  • Plymouth

Questão 26

Questão
An important consequence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was that
Responda
  • the Protestant Reformation extended into Spain
  • Catholicism was swept away from Western Europe
  • England found the seas more open to their control
  • Spain was forced to relinquish its New World empire
  • France came to dominate Spain

Questão 27

Questão
Roanoke had a troubled beginning, but eventually became a successful English colony.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 28

Questão
Some historians have suggested that European diseases virtually eliminated some Native American tribes.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 29

Questão
European life was relatively unchanged by the biological and cultural exchanges that took place after the European "discovery" of the New World.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 30

Questão
Cattle, sheep, and sugar were three New World products that were introduced into Europe in the Columbian Exchange.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 31

Questão
The French had friendlier relations with Native Americans than either the Spanish or the English.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 32

Questão
Venereal syphilis was a disease first acquired by Spanish sailors in the New World, which later spread all over Europe.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 33

Questão
The origins of Native Americans are east Asia, near present-day Siberia.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 34

Questão
Which of the following does NOT describe the original human inhabitants of the Americas?
Responda
  • they followed the animals from Siberia across the frozen Bering Strait
  • they hunted big game, including megafauna like woolly mammoths, and may have play a role in their extinction
  • they maintained contact with their ancient relatives in Siberia
  • created Clovis points, a more sophisticated arrow point, in the Americas

Questão 35

Questão
Native American groups were all about the same, with little difference in lifestyle among them.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 36

Questão
The two food items from the New World that had the most influence on the Old World were
Responda
  • Lima beans and maize
  • Maize, beans, and squash
  • Sugar and citrus
  • Maize and Potato
  • Avocados and chiles

Questão 37

Questão
The smallest and weakest of the colonial empires in the New World was initially the
Responda
  • Spanish
  • English
  • Portuguese
  • French

Questão 38

Questão
The Europeans who came to the New World were primarily EXPLORERS, looking only to gain knowledge about the world.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 39

Questão
The Native American civilizations in the area that would later become the United States were elaborate civilizations, with monumental architecture like the Aztecs and Incas in Mexico and South America.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 40

Questão
Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Columbus.
Responda
  • he understood that he could reach Asia by sailing west because the Earth was round
  • he was the first to realize the Earth was not flat
  • he utilized the stars for navigation
  • he used ships with lateen sails which allowed him to sail more effectively against the wind
  • he thought he had reach India, and died without knowing he had reached the New World

Questão 41

Questão
The Spanish found gold and silver in their colonies, and so did the English.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 42

Questão
Pope's Revolt was
Responda
  • an uprising by Southwest Indians when the Spanish tried to prevent them from practicing all native religion
  • a war between Native Americans and the English colonists
  • the first encounter between the Spanish and Native Americans in California
  • the first slave uprising in the English New World colonies
  • the outcome of the conquest of the Aztecs in Mexico

Questão 43

Questão
Horses in North America
Responda
  • provided milk to both Native Americans and European colonists
  • had always lived on the Great Plains with the bison
  • came from horses brought by Cortez
  • were used throughout history by Native Americans in the buffalo hunt

Questão 44

Questão
The population in Europe had been lowered by the Black Death in the 1300s so that only about 90 million were living at the time of the conquest of the New World. Estimates place the population of Native Americans in the New World at
Responda
  • only about 250,000
  • over 100 million
  • between 60 and 90 million
  • less than 10 million

Questão 45

Questão
The Enlightenment was a philosophy that was prominent in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries that influenced the colonials in the New World. Which is NOT TRUE about the Enlightenment?
Responda
  • government should be for the benefit of the people
  • emphasized the power of human reason
  • belief in religion, not science, to explain the things around them
  • people had certain "inalienable" rights that could not be taken away
  • people were not born good or bad, more like a clean slate

Questão 46

Questão
Which best describes "Mercantilism"?
Responda
  • free trade, with no protections or trade restrictions like tariffs
  • colonies would grow economically at the expense of the "mother country"
  • buying as much as possible from other countries, and not making anything themselves
  • one nation could only grow at the expense of another, therefore they must keep a favorable balance of trade

Questão 47

Questão
King Henry VIII changed England from the Roman Catholic to the __________ form of Christianity due to his feud with the Pope over divorce.
Responda
  • Eastern Orthodox, like Russia
  • there were no changes of religion under Henry VIII
  • Animisn, like Native American religions
  • Protestant (Church of England)

Questão 48

Questão
The English government basically granted two charters to companies for land in what would become the United States. The Plymouth charter was in the north around Boston, while the ____________ was in the Chesapeake and the south.
Responda
  • East India Company
  • Hudson Bay Company
  • London Company
  • English Overseas Company

Questão 49

Questão
Virginia was named after
Responda
  • The Virgin of Guadalupe
  • the first English woman to step onto North American soil, who was a virgin
  • The Virgin Mary
  • Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen

Questão 50

Questão
To extract profits from the New World, the French and Dutch both concentrated on
Responda
  • finding gold and silver
  • farming corn, beans, and squash
  • buffalo hides
  • setting up textile mills
  • fur trapping

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