Gml Chapter 2

Front 1

The chief goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was:

Back 1

the establishment of a trading empire in Asia.

Front 2

At the time of first contact with the Europeans, perhaps 12 million people lived in the Inca kingdom.

Back 2

True

Front 3

The reconquista was the reconquest of Spain from the Moors.

Back 3

True

Front 4

Which of the following European countries did not have a colonial presence in seventeenth-century North America?

Back 4

Germany

Front 5

At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, Native Americans had not developed:

Back 5

wheeled transportation.

Front 6

Which was not a means by which Cortez conquered the Aztecs?

Back 6

He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons.

Front 7

When Columbus first sailed to America in 1492, Christian Europe was entirely Catholic; twenty-five years later, following Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the Protestant Reformation had begun, and Europe was thrown into more than a hundred years of Christian religious wars.

Back 7

True

Front 8

Which was not a characteristic of "coverture"?

Back 8

Children became the property of the state upon a husband's death.

Front 9

Most European men in the 1500's owned property and could vote.

Back 9

False

Front 10

Which of the following was a characteristic or action of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest?

Back 10

They diverted the Colorado River as part of their ritualistic ancestor worship.

Front 11

Of the ten million people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the Americas in the 328 years from 1492 to 1820, most were white Europeans.

Back 11

False

Front 12

Which of the following was not a notable feature of sixteenth-century Spanish America?

Back 12

The Spanish crown took little interest in the administration of colonial affairs.

Front 13

The freedom of a Christian man or woman meant/means:

Back 13

subservience, submission, and servitude to God.

Front 14

Which of the following was not a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus?

Back 14

Large cities were unknown to the Americas.

Front 15

During the Pueblo Revolt, which of the following names were ordered to never be spoken again?

Back 15

Mary

Front 16

Horses, cows, pigs, and sheep were unknown to the Americas until Europeans brought them there.

Back 16

True

Front 17

The reconquista happened in

Back 17

1492

Front 18

The oldest site in the present-day United States to be continuously inhabited by Europeans is:

Back 18

St. Augustine, Florida.

Front 19

Who were the mestizos?

Back 19

Persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin.

Front 20

Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America.

Back 20

False

Front 21

At the time of Portugal's Atlantic exploration, the economies of West Africa were organized chiefly around slavery.

Back 21

False

Front 22

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all European nations had established churches, and religious wars between nations (and sometimes within them) were fierce.

Back 22

True

Front 23

Which of these crops did not form the basis of Native American agriculture?

Back 23

Wheat

Front 24

The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?

Back 24

Grandchildren of the English Great Migration.

Front 25

Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was:

Back 25

tobacco

Front 26

Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for:

Back 26

Catholics

Front 27

Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?

Back 27

Tobacco.

Front 28

Because Puritan Massachusetts was deeply religious, ministers were frequently elected to colonial offices.

Back 28

False

Front 29

The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600's led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?

Back 29

Indentured servants.

Front 30

Which of the following was not a significant trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?

Back 30

The elimination of gender hierarchies.

Front 31

Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts:

Back 31

were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity

Front 32

Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were:

Back 32

high rates of death and disease.

Front 33

The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that:

Back 33

just and equal laws made by male representatives on board were to rule.

Front 34

Which of the following was not a characteristic of early New England society?

Back 34

Equality of the sexes in church affairs, but not in government affairs.

Front 35

The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was:

Back 35

land ownership.

Front 36

At the end of their period of indenture, indentured servants were often given "freedom dues" and became a free member of society.

Back 36

True

Front 37

Colonial Massachusetts was organized into self-governing towns.

Back 37

True

Front 38

The "Rights of Englishmen" were established in the Magna Carta.

Back 38

True

Front 39

The Pilgrims were Puritans.

Back 39

False

Front 40

Most immigrants to America from England in the 1600's were poor, young, single men.

Back 40

True

Front 41

John Rolfe was the first governor of Virginia.

Back 41

False

Front 42

Which of the following colonies was established first?

Back 42

Virginia

Front 43

Anne Hutchinson scandalized Massachusetts authorities both for her unorthodox religious ideas and for her "unwomanly" engagement in public issues.

Back 43

True