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HIST 7A - CHAPTERS 1 - The Collision of Cultures

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Question 1

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

Question 2

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Indian religions
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  • 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

Question 3

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Paralleling the rise of commerce in Europe, and in part responsible for it, was the
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  • 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

Question 4

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Despite the Indians' public conversion to Catholicism,
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  • 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

Question 5

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The first and perhaps the most profound result of the meeting of Native American and European cultures was the
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  • 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

Question 6

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Ultimately more important to Europe than the gold and silver found in the New World was the
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  • 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

Question 7

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In the sixteenth century, the market for slaves initially grew dramatically as a result of
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  • 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

Question 8

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As a result of experiences in conquering and subduing Ireland, the English believed that
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  • 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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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Besides an increase in demand for foreign goods, what other factor motivated European maritime expansion in the fifteenth century?
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  • 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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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How did mercantilist theory encourage European colonization in the Americas?
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  • 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

Question 17

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Why did the English become interested in colonization in the sixteenth century?
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  • 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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began
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  • 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

Question 21

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By the late fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, the desire in Europe to look for new lands was spurred by
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  • 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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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In Spanish colonial societies, mestizos
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  • 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

Question 24

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By the sixteenth century, what condition in England provided the strongest incentive for colonization?
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  • 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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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An important consequence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was that
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  • 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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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Which of the following does NOT describe the original human inhabitants of the Americas?
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  • 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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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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.
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  • True
  • False

Question 40

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Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Columbus.
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  • 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

Question 41

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

Question 42

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Pope's Revolt was
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  • 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

Question 43

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Horses in North America
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  • 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

Question 44

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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
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  • only about 250,000
  • over 100 million
  • between 60 and 90 million
  • less than 10 million

Question 45

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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?
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  • 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

Question 46

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Which best describes "Mercantilism"?
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  • 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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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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.
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  • East India Company
  • Hudson Bay Company
  • London Company
  • English Overseas Company

Question 49

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Virginia was named after
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  • 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

Question 50

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