Chapter 2

Question 1

What was the name of the most powerful Native American group in sixteenth-century
Florida?
a. Apalachee
b. Calusa
c. Timucua
d. Choctaw

Answer 1

a. Apalachee

Question 2

What was the first permanent European settlement in the current American Southwest?

a. El Paso
b. Santa Fe
c. Albuquerque
d. Mesa

Answer 2

b. Santa Fe

Question 3

The writings of which Spanish missionary most directly led to the development of the Black Legend?

a. Bernal Díaz
b. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
c. Nicolás de Ovando
d. Bartolomé de las Casas

Answer 3

d. Bartolomé de las Casas

Question 4

The Northwest Passage allegedly promised a water-route to ____________

a. The Great Lakes
b. The Caribbean
c. Asia
d. Heaven

Answer 4

c. Asia

Question 5

The expansion of the Iroquois pushed many Algonquian-speaking Indians into the “middle
ground,” located in what region?
a. Quebec
b. Mississippi Valley
c. Great Lakes
d. New England

Answer 5

c. Great Lakes

Question 6

Which of the following European countries offered the most religious liberty?

a. Spain
b. England
c. France
d. Netherlands

Answer 6

d. Netherlands

Question 7

Which of the following best describes the economic activity of the Dutch in New
Netherlands?
a. Fishing
b. Mining
c. Trade with Indians
d. Sugar plantations

Answer 7

c. Trade with Indians

Question 8

The Dutch used what kind of labor to construct New Amsterdam?

a. Enslaved Africans
b. Indian slaves
c. Huguenots
d. Indentured servants

Answer 8

a. Enslaved Africans

Question 9

England’s so-called “Golden Age,” that included the works of Shakespeare, occurred under
the reign of which monarch?
a. Henry VIII
b. James I
c. Elizabeth I
d. Edward VI

Answer 9

c. Elizabeth I

Question 10

In the late sixteenth century, England went to war with which nation?

a. Netherlands
b. Spain
c. Portugal
d. France

Answer 10

b. Spain

Question 11

Jamestown was established in a disastrous location. What proved to be the worst aspect of
the location?
a. Vulnerable to attacks from the Atlantic
b. Brackish tidal water
c. Seasonal wildfires
d. Hostile Indians

Answer 11

d. Hostile Indians

Question 12

12. What proved to be the salvation of Jamestown?
    a. Tobacco
    b. Pocahontas
    c. Defeat of the Spanish
    d. John Rolfe

Answer 12

a. Tobacco

Question 13

The Headright Policy promised which of the following?

a. 50 acres for anyone paying the passage of an English immigrant to Virginia
b. 20 slaves for any free Englishman willing to migrate to Virginia
c. Freedom of religion for all in Virginia
d. Exemption from the Navigation Acts for all Virginians

Answer 13

a. 50 acres for anyone paying the passage of an English immigrant to Virginia

Question 14

14. When did slavery first emerge in Virginia?
    a. Slaves arrived with the very first colonists
    b. The Dutch sold 20 Africans to Virginia colonists
    c. After the defeat of Opechancanough
    d. After Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 14

b. The Dutch sold 20 Africans to Virginia colonists

Question 15

Justification from African slavery partly derived from interpretations of a biblical curse
placed on Noah. This curse was known as _______?
a. Powhatan’s Curse
b. Curse of Shem
c. Curse of Ham
d. Canaan’s Curse

Answer 15

c. Curse of Ham