Chapter 1 Midterm Flashcards
The colonists who ultimately embraced the vision of America as an independent nation had in common all of the following qualities except
An unwillingness to subjugate others
The ideals that the colonists cherished as synonymous with American life included reverence for all of the following except
Opposition of slavery
By the 1770s which of the following issues helped bring about a crisis of imperial authority?
Trade restrictions
The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of
The discovery of nearly identical species of fish in long-separated freshwater lakes of various continents
Which of the following mountain ranges was probably created before the continental separation approximately 350 million years ago?
The Appalachians
The Great Ice Age accounted for the origins of North America’s human history because
It exposed a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America
The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to
The development of agriculture
All of the following are true of Inca, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations except
They had the use of large draft animals such as horse and oxen
Native American (Indian) civilization was least highly developed in
North America
At the time of the European colonization of North America the number of Indian tribes was estimated at approximately
200
Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to
All of the above
In the last half of the fifteenth century some forty thousand Africans were forced into slavery by Portugal and Spain to
Work on plantations on the Atlantic sugar islands
Which of the following New World plants revolutionized the international economy?
All of the following
Within a century after Columbus’ landfall in the New World, the Native American population was reduced by nearly
90 percent
The institution of encomienda allowed the
European governments to give Indians to colonists if the promised to Christianize them
