Test

Question 1

One hundred years after Columbus, the nation whose interest in the new world enraged King Philip II was ___________.

Answer 1

England

Question 2

Archaeological evidence suggests that plant cultivation in the __________ began 5,000 years ago.

Answer 2

highlands of Mexico

Question 3

Desert farmers like the Pima and Yuma lived in_______.

Answer 3

dispersed settlements called rancherias.

Question 4

From 1650 to 1700, the main cause of turmoil in the English colonies was _________.

Answer 4

the expansion of English settlement.

Question 5

The conflict between England and Holland in the mid-seventeenth century was mainly over _________.

Answer 5

commercial rivalry

Question 6

Connecticut and Rhode Island were both established by __________.

Answer 6

religious dissenters migrating out of Massachusetts.

Question 7

Who wrote “The Destruction of the Indies?”

Answer 7

las Casas

Question 8

The Spanish explorations into the south and southwest of North America in the 1530s-1540s were led by ____________.

Answer 8

De Soto and Coronado

Question 9

Why might native communities have resisted shifting to agriculture?

Answer 9

farming offered fewer advantages in some areas.

Question 10

Folsom technology was a refinement of what culture?

Answer 10

Clovis

Question 11

Which major challenge did the Anasazi face in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?

Answer 11

the climate became drier

Question 12

Which of these helped make the South ideal for farming?

Answer 12

its mild climate

Question 13

Which phrase best describes a Kiva?

Answer 13

Anasazi subterranean religious center

Question 14

Which of these was at the top of the social structure of slave colonies?

Answer 14

wealthy planters

Question 15

In the slave culture, the African influence in religion was especially evident in _______.

Answer 15

death and burial rituals

Question 16

King William’s war was primarily between the English and the _________.

Answer 16

French

Question 17

In De Soto’s exploration of the South in North America, he failed to find another Aztec empire. The people he did find were ________.

Answer 17

Mississipian

Question 18

In 1488, Vasco de Gama __________.

Answer 18

rounded the Southern tip of Africa

Question 19

What was the most important outcome of Jacques Cartier’s exploration of North America?

Answer 19

he discovered the St. Lawrence river

Question 20

The first slave plantation colony established in America was ______.

Answer 20

Portugese Brazil

Question 21

The best explanation for the greater reliance on slavery in the British North American South than in the North is that slavery was more ________.

Answer 21

profitable in plantation economies.

Question 22

Anthony Johnson’s experience illuminates _______.

Answer 22

the ambiguous status of Africans in Virginia

Question 23

Which of these explains the majority of decline in the Indian population in the Americas?

Answer 23

new diseases

Question 24

The spread of deadly diseases between Europe and the Americas followed which pattern?

Answer 24

Spain to Mexico via the Andes

Question 25

Chief Wingina saw the early Roanoke colonists as ____________.

Answer 25

potential allies to increase his power

Question 26

What do historians call the medieval European social system?

Answer 26

Feudalism

Question 27

Which of these nations took the lead in the African slave trade after 1640?

Answer 27

England

Question 28

The Dutch West India Company began sponsoring European settlement in the Hudson Valley in the 1640s in response to _______.

Answer 28

developments in New England

Question 29

Spanish Policy in New Mexico after 1696 most closely resembled the colonial policies of __________.

Answer 29

France in Canada

Question 30

Compared to European preindustrial societies, the populations of eighteenth-century America grew____________.

Answer 30

three times faster

Question 31

After he led a successful revolt against the Spanish, Pueblo leader Pope was despised ten years later by his people because ________.

Answer 31

they missed Spanish support in their struggle with the Apaches.

Question 32

With the many ethnic groups present, this may have first formed the foundation of a common African American culture.

Answer 32

music and dance

Question 33

Both Bacon’s Rebellion and Culpeper’s Rebellion showed conflict between these two communities:

Answer 33

Tidewater and frontier regions of Virginia and North Carolina

Question 34

If you were a member of a community governed by a puritan congregation, you were most likely living in ________.

Answer 34

New England

Question 35

The primary function of a chief in a farming community was to ____________.

Answer 35

superview the economy

Question 36

People following the craft system of apprentice. journeyman, and matter would be most likely to be found in __________.

Answer 36

a colonial town

Question 37

The bow and arrow was first developed _______.

Answer 37

on the Great Plains

Question 38

In eighteenth-century British North America, the gap between rich and poor __________-

Answer 38

steadily widened

Question 39

The Enlightenment was based on a faith in ___________.

Answer 39

human reason

Question 40

Which century saw the importation of the greatest number of slaves into British North America?

Answer 40

eighteenth

Question 41

One direct African influence on white southern culture was ___________.

Answer 41

cooking

Question 42

Metacomet, leader of the Wampanoags led a fierce but futile war against New Englanders know as __________.

Answer 42

King Philip’s War

Question 43

The colonies were bounded by the Appalachian Mountains on the West. What ocean bordered the east?

Answer 43

Atlantic

Question 44

What English colony was founded, in part, to create a buffer zone against Spanish invasions from Florida?

Answer 44

Georgia

Question 45

With what culture did the Hohokam share many traits?

Answer 45

Mesoamerican

Question 46

The African American song “Buddy Quow” illustrates the ____________.

Answer 46

powerful awareness of their oppression

Question 47

The British colonial area that profited the most from conducting the slave trade was _____________.

Answer 47

New England

Question 48

In the 1730s and 1740s, __________ abandoned its tradition of fair dealing and perpetrated a series of f fraudulent seizures of western lands from the Delaware Indians.

Answer 48

Pennsylvania

Question 49

In the eastern portion of North America, the preeminent concern of Indian peoples was population growth in the _______.

Answer 49

British colonies

Question 50

In what area of eighteenth-century America would one find Solados de cuera?

Answer 50

New Spain

Question 51

Which of these was the largest and most prosperous European colony on North America in 1750?

Answer 51

New Spain

Question 52

Coronado and Onate were both initially drawn to New Mexico in a quest for a ________.

Answer 52

wealthy Indian empire

Question 53

The Glorious Revolution in England had significant implications for the colonies because England now had a __________.

Answer 53

constitutional monarchy

Question 54

How did English religious policy change when James I came to the throne?

Answer 54

James I abandoned Queen Elizabeth;s policy of religious tolerance.

Question 55

American colonial possessions of which country formed a huge “crescent?”

Answer 55

France