Quiz Study Guide
A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadores.
TURE
FALSE
The Indian belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things is called "existentialism."
TRUE
FALSE
Before Europeans arrived in the New World, Native Americans were without extensive trading networks, irrigation systems, or large cities.
TRUE
FALSE
Which was not expressed by Bartolomé de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indes in 1552?
He wrote that Spanish Catholics burned Native American children alive.
He described how the Spanish made forced laborers of Indians of all ages.
He asserted that Indians should be able to keep their land.
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 was not a significant motivation behind European colonization in the New World?
The acquisition of profitable lands and precious metals
The spread of democracy to the Americas
The religious and cultural uplift of peoples Europeans considered "barbaric"
the attainment of national glory
Women in this European settlement enjoyed far more independence than in other colonies.
English
Spanish
Dutch
French
Which was not a means by which Cortés conquered the Aztecs?
He was aided by a smallpox epidemic that killed many Aztecs.
He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons.
In European exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New World after 1492, all of the following were true except
Africans were enslaved and treated with great cruelty.
Millions of Indians died from diseases brought by the Europeans.
Europeans brought with them a broad-ranging tolerance for others' viewpoints; kindness and tolerance being the mark of civilized peoples.
Europeans imagined the Americas as a place of golden cities and fountains of youth.
This dwelling structure in New Mexico stood five stories high and had more than 600 rooms.
Cahokia
Oneida
Pueblo Bonita
Catawba
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?
Indentured servants
African slaves
Wage laborers
Indians
While the Dutch came to North America to trade, not conquer, they hardly kept this belief, as a three-year war resulted in the deaths of 200 colonists and 1,000 Indians from which tribe?
Bari
Algonquian
Chippewa
Diegueno
In 1610, Spain established the capital of New Mexico at ____, the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest.
Santa Fe
Albuquerque
Roswell
Los Alamos
During the Pueblo Revolt, which of the following names were ordered to never be spoken again?
Isabella
Rebecca
Elizabeth
Mary
Which of the following was not a prominent cultural belief among Indian societies of North America?
Spiritual power resided in all aspects of the natural world.
Only holders of property should take part in tribal governance.
Hunting and fishing were for men; farming was largely for women.
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.
TRUE
FALSE
The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was:
indentured servitude.
religious freedom.
land ownership.
slave ownership.
The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?
African slaves
peninsulares
grandchildren of the English Great Migration
women only
In 1600s Virginia, a feme sole could do all of the following except
act as a lawyer in court.
manage her own plantation.
Vote
Which of the following was not a characteristic of early New England society?
equality of the sexes in general church affairs, but not in government affairs
intolerance of individual deviations from prevailing values
extensive autonomy and self-government in local affairs
highly patriarchal family life
England’s king enticed his relatives and allies to the New World by granting them plots of land.
TRUE
FALSE
Because Puritan Massachusetts was deeply religious, ministers were frequently elected to colonial offices.
TRUE
FALSE
Towns banished individuals for such offenses as complaining about the colony in their letters home to England.
TRUE
FALSE
The Indian leader, ____, led a surprise attack that killed one-quarter of Virginia’s settlers in a single day.
Opechancanough
Powhatan
Squanto
When supplies reached the Roanoke colony in 1590, the inhabitants had mysteriously vanished leaving only a word carved in a tree as a clue to their whereabouts.
TRUE
FALSE
A key motivation behind early English settlement in the American colonies was
the profits to be made in transatlantic commerce.
acquisition of land, and thus a measure of personal independence.
all of these.
escape from the material and spiritual corruptions of England.
Which of the following was not a central theme of Puritan thought?
The quest for material prosperity is a sign of moral corruption.
The Church of England is overly steeped in ritual and dogma.
True "freedom" means following God's will, not one's own natural impulses.
Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants would immediately acquire a large estate.
TRUE
FALSE
The early settlers of English America enjoyed the least amount of rights compared to colonists of other empires.
TRUE
FALSE
The event that started the Pequot War was
the burning of the Mystic village.
a newly forced alliance with the Creek Indian tribes.
the killing of a fur trader by the Pequots.
the selling of the Indians into Caribbean slavery.
Which of the following was not a significant trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?
the elimination of gender hierarchies
a dramatic increase in population
enlarged public debate over the meaning of freedom
The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at
Jamestown, Virginia.
New Haven, Connecticut.
New Amsterdam, New Netherlands.
Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for advocating freedom of individual conscience and religious choice.
TRUE
FALSE
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