History

Front 1

Which is not an achievement of the Indians of North America in the thousands of years before Columbus's arrival?

Back 1

people in present-day Arizona constructed a large circle of red-earthen boulders.

Front 2

A significant outcome of the Portuguese arrival in West Africa was:

Back 2

an expansion of Africa's internal slave trade.

Front 3

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Back 3

Cortes's conquest of the Aztecs; Las Casas's Destruction of the Indies; Spanish abolition of Indian enslavement

Front 4

The English government in the seventeenth century was:

Back 4

a mixed government in which the power of the king was restrained.

Front 5

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

Back 5

Germany

Front 6

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

Back 6

wheeled transportation.

Front 7

On the eve of the colonization of the New World, which was not the case in Europe?

Back 7

Drinking alcoholic beverages was against the law.

Front 8

Which was not a characteristic of American Indians?

Back 8

There were four different tribes in the Americas

Front 9

Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind European colonization in the New World?

Back 9

the spread of democracy to the Americas

Front 10

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

Back 10

St. Augustine, Florida.

Front 11

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

Back 11

He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons.

Front 12

Which was not a characteristic of "couverture"?

Back 12

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

Front 13

The first African slaves were transported to the New World in what year?

Back 13

1502

Front 14

In the 1500s and 1600s, the Spanish in Central and South America relied on many of which of the following groups to work fields and mines?

Back 14

Indians

Front 15

Which was not expressed by Bartolome de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indes in 1552?

Back 15

He believed that Indians ought to be allowed to continue to practice their native faiths as a true sign of Christian love and toleration.

Front 16

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

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subservience, submission, and servitude to God

Front 17

In European exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New World after 1492, all of the following EXCEPT _________ were true:

Back 17

Europeans brought with them a broad-ranging tolerance for others' viewpoints; kindness and tolerance being the mark of civilized peoples.

Front 18

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

Back 18

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

Front 19

Which of the following was not a prominent cultural belief among Indian societies of North America?

Back 19

Only holders of property should take part in tribal governance.

Front 20

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

Back 20

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

Front 21

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

Back 21

Large cities were unknown to the Americas.

Front 22

The chief goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was:

Back 22

the establishment of a trading empire in Asia.

Front 23

Which was not an aspect of Native American religious beliefs?

Back 23

Their written religious text was called the Wicca.

Front 24

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 24

False

Front 25

In 1493, the Catholic Pope, Alexander VI, divided all the Americas between Spain and Britain.

Back 25

False

Front 26

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

Back 26

True

Front 27

In 1537, Pope Paul III decreed Indian slavery ended, but not African slavery.

Back 27

True

Front 28

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 28

True

Front 29

In 1492 the population of Europe was greater than that of the Americas.

Back 29

False

Front 30

Small-scale slavery in which Indians enslaved other Indians existed in Indian society.

Back 30

True

Front 31

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was swiftly crushed by Spanish authorities.

Back 31

False

Front 32

The trans-Atlantic voyages of Columbus were sponsored by Spain, which had just achieved its own territorial unification.

Back 32

True

Front 33

When the author, Eric Foner, uses the term "unfree labor" he refers to those persons who were performing work not for free as volunteers, but for wages.

Back 33

False

Front 34

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

Back 34

False

Front 35

Colonial America was a hierarchical society in which some European colonists were indentured servants, Indians were held in forced labor, and Africans were slaves.

Back 35

True

Front 36

At the time of first contact with the Europeans, perhaps 12,000,000 people lived in the Inca kingdom.

Back 36

True

Front 37

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

Back 37

False

Front 38

To justify their colonial ventures, Spain invoked the threat of Protestantism.

Back 38

True

Front 39

On the eve of colonization of the Americas, freedom in Europe was framed in hierarchical, top-down terms, each level of society enjoying its own degree of freedom.

Back 39

True

Front 40

The Aztecs lived in a peaceful, non-violent society.

Back 40

False

Front 41

Europeans in the 1500s held firmly to the view that all men are created equal.

Back 41

False

Front 42

A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadors.

Back 42

False

Front 43

Before Europeans arrived in the New World, Native Americans were without extensive trading networks, irrigation systems, or large cities.

Back 43

False

Front 44

After four trips across the Atlantic, Columbus recognized he had not reached Asia.

Back 44

False

Front 45

New Netherland extended all the way down from Quebec to the lower Mississippi Valley.

Back 45

False

Front 46

Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.

Back 46

True

Front 47

Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders.

Back 47

True

Front 48

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

Back 48

False

Front 49

Spanish settlers in the New World comprised a mix of laborers and soldiers, priests and bureaucrats, craftsmen and professionals.

Back 49

True

Front 50

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

Back 50

True

Front 51

Perhaps 80 million Native Americans died in the century and a half following first contact in consequence of diseases carried by Europeans.

Back 51

True