Quiz Study Guide

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

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

The Indian belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things is called "existentialism."

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

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

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

Women in this European settlement enjoyed far more independence than in other colonies.

In which country did the reconquista occur?

A major goal of Spanish colonization was to convert the Indians to Catholicism.

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

The Aztecs lived in a peaceful, nonviolent society.

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

This dwelling structure in New Mexico stood five stories high and had more than 600 rooms.

Which African kingdom provided Europe with most of its gold? Correct!

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?

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?

In 1610, Spain established the capital of New Mexico at ____, the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest.

In the Spanish colonies, race and class were not important.

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

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

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

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

The Great League of Peace included all but the following

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

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.

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

The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?

In 1600s Virginia, a feme sole could do all of the following except

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

England’s king enticed his relatives and allies to the New World by granting them plots of land.

Slavery was never allowed in the devoutly Christian colony of Massachusetts.

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

Towns banished individuals for such offenses as complaining about the colony in their letters home to England.

The Indian leader, ____, led a surprise attack that killed one-quarter of Virginia’s settlers in a single day.

Harvard College was principally founded to educate young men into the ministry.

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.

The first Thanksgiving celebrated the Pilgrims' survival and a successful harvest.

A key motivation behind early English settlement in the American colonies was

Which of the following was not a central theme of Puritan thought?

Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants would immediately acquire a large estate.

The early settlers of English America enjoyed the least amount of rights compared to colonists of other empires.

The event that started the Pequot War was

Intermarriage between Indians and English settlers was common.

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

Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for

The first permanent English settlement in the area now known as the United States was at

Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for advocating freedom of individual conscience and religious choice.

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

Seventeenth-century New England quickly developed into a land of large plantations and landless servants.