Test Flashcards
One hundred years after Columbus, the nation whose interest in the new world enraged King Philip II was ___________.
England
Archaeological evidence suggests that plant cultivation in the __________ began 5,000 years ago.
highlands of Mexico
Desert farmers like the Pima and Yuma lived in_______.
dispersed settlements called rancherias.
From 1650 to 1700, the main cause of turmoil in the English colonies was _________.
the expansion of English settlement.
The conflict between England and Holland in the mid-seventeenth century was mainly over _________.
commercial rivalry
Connecticut and Rhode Island were both established by __________.
religious dissenters migrating out of Massachusetts.
Who wrote “The Destruction of the Indies?”
las Casas
The Spanish explorations into the south and southwest of North America in the 1530s-1540s were led by ____________.
De Soto and Coronado
Why might native communities have resisted shifting to agriculture?
farming offered fewer advantages in some areas.
Folsom technology was a refinement of what culture?
Clovis
Which major challenge did the Anasazi face in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?
the climate became drier
Which of these helped make the South ideal for farming?
its mild climate
Which phrase best describes a Kiva?
Anasazi subterranean religious center
Which of these was at the top of the social structure of slave colonies?
wealthy planters
In the slave culture, the African influence in religion was especially evident in _______.
death and burial rituals
King William’s war was primarily between the English and the _________.
French
In De Soto’s exploration of the South in North America, he failed to find another Aztec empire. The people he did find were ________.
Mississipian
In 1488, Vasco de Gama __________.
rounded the Southern tip of Africa
What was the most important outcome of Jacques Cartier’s exploration of North America?
he discovered the St. Lawrence river
The first slave plantation colony established in America was ______.
Portugese Brazil
The best explanation for the greater reliance on slavery in the British North American South than in the North is that slavery was more ________.
profitable in plantation economies.
Anthony Johnson’s experience illuminates _______.
the ambiguous status of Africans in Virginia
Which of these explains the majority of decline in the Indian population in the Americas?
new diseases
The spread of deadly diseases between Europe and the Americas followed which pattern?
Spain to Mexico via the Andes
Chief Wingina saw the early Roanoke colonists as ____________.
potential allies to increase his power
What do historians call the medieval European social system?
Feudalism
Which of these nations took the lead in the African slave trade after 1640?
England
The Dutch West India Company began sponsoring European settlement in the Hudson Valley in the 1640s in response to _______.
developments in New England
Spanish Policy in New Mexico after 1696 most closely resembled the colonial policies of __________.
France in Canada
Compared to European preindustrial societies, the populations of eighteenth-century America grew____________.
three times faster
After he led a successful revolt against the Spanish, Pueblo leader Pope was despised ten years later by his people because ________.
they missed Spanish support in their struggle with the Apaches.
With the many ethnic groups present, this may have first formed the foundation of a common African American culture.
music and dance
Both Bacon’s Rebellion and Culpeper’s Rebellion showed conflict between these two communities:
Tidewater and frontier regions of Virginia and North Carolina
If you were a member of a community governed by a puritan congregation, you were most likely living in ________.
New England
The primary function of a chief in a farming community was to ____________.
superview the economy
People following the craft system of apprentice. journeyman, and matter would be most likely to be found in __________.
a colonial town
The bow and arrow was first developed _______.
on the Great Plains
In eighteenth-century British North America, the gap between rich and poor __________-
steadily widened
The Enlightenment was based on a faith in ___________.
human reason
Which century saw the importation of the greatest number of slaves into British North America?
eighteenth
One direct African influence on white southern culture was ___________.
cooking
Metacomet, leader of the Wampanoags led a fierce but futile war against New Englanders know as __________.
King Philip’s War
The colonies were bounded by the Appalachian Mountains on the West. What ocean bordered the east?
Atlantic
What English colony was founded, in part, to create a buffer zone against Spanish invasions from Florida?
Georgia
With what culture did the Hohokam share many traits?
Mesoamerican
The African American song “Buddy Quow” illustrates the ____________.
powerful awareness of their oppression
The British colonial area that profited the most from conducting the slave trade was _____________.
New England
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.
Pennsylvania
In the eastern portion of North America, the preeminent concern of Indian peoples was population growth in the _______.
British colonies
In what area of eighteenth-century America would one find Solados de cuera?
New Spain
Which of these was the largest and most prosperous European colony on North America in 1750?
New Spain
Coronado and Onate were both initially drawn to New Mexico in a quest for a ________.
wealthy Indian empire
The Glorious Revolution in England had significant implications for the colonies because England now had a __________.
constitutional monarchy
How did English religious policy change when James I came to the throne?
James I abandoned Queen Elizabeth;s policy of religious tolerance.
American colonial possessions of which country formed a huge “crescent?”
France
