Quiz 1

Question 1

Which City Was the Center of a Large Pre-Columbian Mississppian Culture?
1. Chaco Canyon
2. Cahokia
3. Tenochtitlan
4. Cusco

Answer 1

Cahokia

Question 2

The Sistem de Castas defined People in Spanish colonies on the basis of what differences?
1. Skin Color
2. “Purity of Blood” defined as distance of relation to Spanish ancestors
3. Relative Wealth
4. Social standing in the community

Answer 2

“Purity of Blood” defined as distance of relation to Spanish ancestors

Question 3

What was the most economically important cash crop in the Spanish colonies of South America and the Caribbean?
1. Rice
2. Tobacco
3. Corn
4. Sugar

Answer 3

Sugar

Question 4

What was the term for the system of land grants and collective slavery in the early Spanish colonies?
1. Ecomienda
2. Sistema de castas
3. Quilombos
4. Chattel Slavery

Answer 4

Ecomienda

Question 5

What was the “Middle Ground”
1. A truce developed between Puritan settlers in New England and surrounding Native groups
2. A form of cultural contact and trading between French fur traders and Native people in the Great Lakes region
3. The route followed by slave ships carrying slaves from Africa to the New World
4. The central square in Spanish Missions where Native people were baptized as Christians

Answer 5

A form of cultural contact and trading between French fur traders and Native people in the Great Lakes region

Question 6

What is the name for the treaty struck by the Pope that divided the New World between Portugal and Spain?
1. The Treaty of Tordesillas
2. The Canary Islands Compromise
3. The Northwest Passage
4. The Treaty of Hispaniola

Answer 6

The Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 7

The “enclosure movement” refers to which to the following?
1. The effort by Spain to increase control of territory sorrunding the Missions
2. A system of treaties that transferred ownership of larger and larger areas of land from Native Americans to colonists
3. The act of removing agricultural land from common access and making it private property in the English countryside
4. A strategy early colonists used to capture Native American slaves and ship them to the West Indies

Answer 7

The act of removing agricultural land from common access and making it private property in the English’ countryside

Question 8

What cash crop reversed the fortunes of the early English colonies in North America and created huge new incentives for their expansion?
1. Sugar
2. Tobacco
3. Corn
4. Cotton

Answer 8

Tobacco

Question 9

What makes the system of chattel slavery different from other forms of slavery?
1. The idea that individual enslaved people are the personal property of owner
2. The idea that the condition of slavery can be imposed on a collective group
3. The ability of enslaved people to purchase their freedom
4. The limitation of slavery to a specific term of servitude

Answer 9

The idea that individual enslaved people are the personal property of an owner

Question 10

Which of these was an important consequence of Bacon’s Rebellion?
1. The passage by Parliament of new legal restrictions on settlers’ westward expansion.
2. The end of resistance by the Pequot people to New England settlers
3. A legal ruling declaring that slavery had never been legal within England
4. The passage of new colonial laws which enforced much stronger separation between indentured servants and African people in slavery

Answer 10

The passage of new colonial laws which enforced much stronger separation between indentured servants and African people in slavery