) The Clovis people began their existence in North America
A) with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.
B) with the explorations of Christopher Columbus.
C) as a result of the development of the wheel.
D) long after the last ice age ended.
E) from the southern tip of South America.
Answer: A
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
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2) Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred approximately
A) 2,000 years ago.
B) 5,000 years ago.
C) 9,000 years ago.
D) 11,000 years ago.
E) 18,000 years ago.
Answer: D
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
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3) The first truly complex society in Mesoamerica was that of the
A) Maya.
B) Aztecs.
C) Inca.
D) Pueblo peoples.
E) Olmecs.
Answer: E
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
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4) The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Pacific Northwest
A) did not have permanent settlements.
B) developed political systems as sophisticated as those of the Maya and Aztecs.
C) fished salmon as their principal occupation.
D) were the most peaceful of pre-Columbian societies.
E) were known as the Inuit.
Answer: C
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
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5) The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Southwest
A) were primarily hunters of small game.
B) were largely agricultural.
C) lived in small, nomadic tribes.
D) created an economy exclusively based on trade.
E) primarily pursued moose and caribou for sustenance.
Answer: B
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
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6) Pre-Columbian peoples of the northern forests of North America
A) were nomadic big-game hunters.
B) lived in small sedentary tribes.
C) relied primarily on fishing for survival.
D) used horses.
E) developed a harsh religion that required human sacrifice.
Answer: A
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
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7) Prior to European contact, the eastern third of what is today the United States
A) was politically controlled by the Cahokia Indians.
B) contained no permanent settlements.
C) had the most abundant food resources of any region of the continent.
D) was populated by tribes that engaged in hunting and gathering but did not yet farm.
E) remained for the most part uninhabited.
Answer: C
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
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8) Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city?
A) St. Louis
B) Memphis
C) New Orleans
D) Baton Rouge
E) Detroit
Answer: A
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
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9) Many pre-Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by
A) the shared use of a series of forts.
B) common linguistic roots.
C) economic compacts.
D) intertribal religious festivals.
E) the Iroquois Confederacy.
Answer: B
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
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10) Among most Native Americans in the eastern part of North America, family association and clan membership were determined by
A) hunting or gathering superiority.
B) patrilineal line.
C) geographic location.
D) religious affiliation.
E) matrilineal line.
Answer: E
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Remember
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11) Which statement best describes the role of women in pre-Columbian North American tribes?
A) In some tribes, men took care of the children as the women tended the fields.
B) In all tribes, most of the work of caring for children and preparing meals was assigned to women.
C) In no tribes did women participate in the social and economic organization of the tribe.
D) In all tribes, both women and men engaged in hunting.
E) In all tribes, women were responsible for farming.
Answer: B
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Understand
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12) Regarding knowledge of the Americas prior to the fifteenth century, most Europeans
A) were aware of the travels of the Norse seaman Leif Eriksson in the eleventh century.
B) believed the Americas consisted of little more than several small islands.
C) were almost entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas.
D) assumed that the Americas were largely unpopulated.
E) had only heard of America from the travels of Marco Polo.
Answer: C
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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13) In the late fifteenth century, the desire in Europe to look for new lands was spurred in part by
A) significant population growth.
B) the absence of a merchant class.
C) the declining political power of many monarchs.
D) the expansion of feudalism.
E) a desire to escape the Black Death.
Answer: A
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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14) The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century was
A) Spain.
B) Portugal.
C) France.
D) the Netherlands.
E) England.
Answer: B
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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15) Christopher Columbus
A) was trained as a sailor through his long service to Italy.
B) was a man of little ambition.
C) believed that Asia could only be reached by sailing east.
D) believed the Americas consisted of a few islands.
E) thought the world was much smaller than it is in reality.
Answer: E
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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16) In his first voyage in 1492, Christopher Columbus
A) sailed along the coast of what is present-day Virginia.
B) mistook Cuba for Japan.
C) was briefly captured by natives he encountered.
D) was forced to put down a mutiny on the Santa Maria.
E) crossed the Atlantic Ocean in six weeks.
Answer: B
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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17) Christopher Columbus called the native people he encountered on his voyages "Indians" because
A) he believed they came from the East Indies in the Pacific.
B) it is what the natives called themselves.
C) he mispronounced their actual name.
D) Norse seamen had previously used the term.
E) he wanted to hide his discovery from rival explorers.
Answer: A
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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18) As a result of his third voyage in 1498, Christopher Columbus concluded that
A) all of the lands he had seen were in Asia.
B) he had never come even remotely close to Asia.
C) he had encountered an entirely new continent.
D) Asia could not be reached by a ship traveling west from Europe.
E) the lands he had discovered offered great mineral wealth.
Answer: C
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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19) Amerigo Vespucci
A) sailed on the voyages with Christopher Columbus.
B) was a leading critic of Columbus's claims.
C) hailed from Portugal.
D) never traveled to the New World.
E) helped spread recognition of the idea that the Americas were new continents.
Answer: E
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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20) Who was the first known European to look westward upon the Pacific Ocean, in 1513?
A) Amerigo Vespucci
B) Vasco de Balboa
C) Juan Ponce de León
D) Ferdinand Magellan
E) Hernando Cortés
Answer: B
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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21) What European explorer gave the Pacific Ocean its name?
A) Amerigo Vespucci
B) Vasco de Balboa
C) Juan Ponce de León
D) Ferdinand Magellan
E) Hernando Cortés
Answer: D
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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22) Hernando Cortés's conquest of the Aztecs in 1518 was made possible largely due to
A) political divisions within the Aztec leadership.
B) the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox.
C) the negotiating skills of the Spanish conquistadores.
D) Spanish alliances with enemies of the Aztecs.
E) the Spanish co-opting the Aztec religion.
Answer: B
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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23) Which statement about Spanish settlements in the New World is FALSE?
A) Spanish gold and silver mines were enormously productive.
B) The Spanish empire in the Americas would range from southern North America down through Chile and Argentina in South America.
C) The Catholic Church was very interested in spreading Christianity in Mexico.
D) The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming.
E) Many helped establish elements of European civilization permanently in America.
Answer: D
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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24) An encomienda was a
A) special title given to Spanish explorers of the New World.
B) religious ceremony.
C) Spanish-run community of assimilated Indians.
D) uniform worn by conquistadores.
E) license to exact tribute and labor from natives on large tracts of land.
Answer: E
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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25) The first permanent Spanish settlement in what is now the United States was
A) New Orleans.
B) St. Augustine.
C) Santa Fe.
D) St. Louis.
E) San Francisco.
Answer: B
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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26) In 1680, the Pueblo Indians rose in revolt against Spanish settlers after the Spanish
A) attempted to convert Pueblo agricultural communities to silver and gold mining.
B) made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
C) demanded tribute from the Indians.
D) began to export Pueblos out of the colony to be sold as slaves.
E) banned intermarriage between Spaniards and Pueblos.
Answer: B
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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27) To reduce conflicts, Spanish policy toward the Pueblo Indians in the eighteenth century involved all of the following EXCEPT
A) intensified efforts at assimilating the Pueblos.
B) a willingness to permit the Pueblos to own their own land.
C) toleration of tribal religious rituals.
D) an expansion of the encomienda system.
E) a stop to the commandeering of Indian labor.
Answer: D
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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28) What factor is believed to have most dramatically reduced New World native populations after contact with Europeans?
A) war
B) disease
C) starvation
D) enslavement
E) religious conversion
Answer: B
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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29) In what way did sixteenth-century Europeans benefit from trade between the Americas and Europe?
A) Food prices sharply rose as new crops flooded the European market.
B) Health care improved as Indian medical practices were widely practiced in Europe.
C) A large number of new crops became available in Europe.
D) Trade with the Americas ended future food shortages in Europe.
E) Forced immigration of Indian slaves reduced labor shortages in Europe.
Answer: C
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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30) Which of the following was NOT introduced by Europeans to the New World?
A) bananas
B) pigs
C) sugar
D) horses
E) corn
Answer: E
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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31) In Spanish colonial societies, mestizos
A) were considered to be at the top of the social hierarchy.
B) came to make up the largest segment of the population.
C) were officially illegal but generally tolerated.
D) were usually sold into slavery.
E) was the name given to Catholic priests, friars, and missionaries.
Answer: B
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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32) Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding African immigrants to the Americas between 1500 and 1800?
A) Almost all came against their will.
B) They made up over half of all immigrants to the New World.
C) Almost all came against their will, and they made up over half of all immigrants to the New World.
D) Almost all came voluntarily, making up somewhat less than half of all immigrants to the New World.
E) Almost all came voluntarily.
Answer: C
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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33) At the time of the beginning of the slave trade, most Africans
A) were primitive peoples dominated by warring tribal societies.
B) had little commercial contact with the Mediterranean world.
C) followed the Christian faith.
D) had well-developed economies and political systems.
E) had no important cities or trading centers.
Answer: D
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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34) Both African and American Indian societies tended to
A) have matrilineal families.
B) restrict women from farming.
C) grant women the dominant role in religion.
D) have patrilineal families.
E) restrict women from trade.
Answer: A
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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35) In the fifteenth century, slavery in Africa
A) was considered a permanent condition for the enslaved individual.
B) proscribed that children born of enslaved parents were also slaves.
C) was introduced by Europeans.
D) was made up of an exclusively African slave population.
E) generally allowed certain legal protections for the enslaved.
Answer: E
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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36) In what chronological order, from earliest to latest, did European countries control the African slave trade?
A) the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English
B) the English, the Spanish, the Dutch
C) the Dutch, the English, the Spanish
D) the English, the Dutch, the Portuguese
E) the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch
Answer: A
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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37) What condition(s) in England in the sixteenth century provided incentive for colonization?
A) The availability of farmland was declining, while the population was growing.
B) The demand for wool was declining, while the population was growing.
C) Pasture land was being converted to crop production, while the population was declining.
D) Both the food supply and the population were declining.
E) Both the food supply and the population were increasing.
Answer: A
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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38) Which statement regarding the economic theory of mercantilism is FALSE?
A) It presumed a nation could grow rich only at the expense of another nation.
B) It increased competition among nations.
C) It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies.
D) It assumed that exporting goods was preferable to importing goods.
E) Its principles spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Answer: C
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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39) In England during the early sixteenth century, mercantilism thrived mostly on the basis of trade in which commodity?
A) spices
B) slaves
C) lumber
D) corn
E) wool
Answer: E
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Remember
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40) In what way were Martin Luther and John Calvin important to English Puritans?
A) These two men would help found the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B) Luther and Calvin encouraged the Puritans to leave England for the New World.
C) Luther and Calvin advocated ideas of religious reform that influenced Puritan thought.
D) They were the most influential English Puritans of the seventeenth century.
E) Luther and Calvin helped to break the hold of predestination on the Puritan mind.
Answer: C
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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41) The teachings of John Calvin
A) produced a strong desire among his followers to lead lives that were virtuous.
B) were most rapidly accepted in southern Europe.
C) were officially adopted by the Church of England.
D) were at odds with Catholic doctrines, but not with Catholic practices.
E) helped to promote the doctrine of free will so vital to encouraging exploration.
Answer: A
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Remember
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42) The English Reformation resulted from
A) the threat of war between England and France.
B) a political dispute between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church.
C) the rise of Lutheranism within the English church.
D) the persecution by King James I of liberal priests.
E) the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Answer: B
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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43) At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the already festering English Puritan discontent was increased by
A) the suppression of English Catholics.
B) the end of rule by the Stuarts.
C) the rising influence of Quakers within the English church.
D) Queen Elizabeth's promotion of English theater.
E) the death of Queen Elizabeth.
Answer: E
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Remember
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44) England's first experience with colonization came in
A) North America.
B) the Caribbean.
C) Canada.
D) Ireland.
E) Africa.
Answer: D
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Remember
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45) From their colonial experiences in Ireland, the English concluded that
A) they should not try to convert indigenous peoples to English religious beliefs.
B) English colonists should maintain rigid separation from an indigenous population.
C) military expenditures were fiscally wasteful.
D) indigenous populations were essential as the major colonial labor source.
E) harsh treatment of indigenous populations could lead to rebellion.
Answer: B
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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46) Which statement about French colonization in the New World is FALSE?
A) French settlers exercised an influence disproportionate to their numbers.
B) The French, like the English, tried to remain separate from native peoples.
C) The French sometimes fought alongside some Indian tribes against others.
D) The early French colonial economy was based on an extensive fur trade.
E) The French often lived among the natives and married Indian women.
Answer: B
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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47) The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established in
A) Boston.
B) Raleigh.
C) Roanoke.
D) Plymouth.
E) Jamestown.
Answer: E
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Remember
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48) One important consequence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was that
A) France came to dominate Spain.
B) Catholicism was swept from western Europe.
C) England found the seas more open to their control.
D) the Reformation extended into Spain.
E) Spain was forced to relinquish its New World empire.
Answer: C
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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49) The colony of Virginia was named in honor of
A) Virginia Dare.
B) Walter Raleigh.
C) Humphrey Gilbert.
D) QueenElizabeth.
E) Queen Mary.
Answer: D
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Remember
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50) The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony
A) was a severe food shortage.
B) is historically inconclusive.
C) deterred the English from another colonizing effort for forty years.
D) was the death of the colony's governor.
E) was a virulent malarial epidemic.
Answer: B
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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51) The largest civilizations and political systems of pre-Columbian Native Americans north of Mexico were less elaborate than the largest civilizations of Mexico and further south.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Understand
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52) The eleventh-century explorations and discoveries of Leif Eriksson were common knowledge in the European world of the fifteenth century.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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53) Portuguese exploration in the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a route to central and eastern Asia by sailing around Africa.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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54) Christopher Columbus spent his early seafaring years in the service of the Portuguese.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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55) On his first voyage to the New World, Columbus realized that he discovered an entirely new continent.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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56) By 1550, Spaniards had explored the coast of North America as far north as Oregon in the west.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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57) The early Spanish settlers were successful at establishing plantations, but not at finding gold or silver.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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58) Spanish mines in America yielded ten times as much gold and silver as the rest of the world's mines together.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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59) Spanish colonists often intermarried with the Pueblo Indians they had colonized.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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60) By the seventeenth century, the Spanish had given up their efforts to assimilate the Indians to Spanish ways.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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61) European life was relatively unchanged by the biological and cultural exchanges that took place after discovery of the New World.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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62) The nature in which native cultures in the Americas treated the sick helped spread infectious diseases brought by European colonists.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
63) Owing to their commitment to Catholicism, male Spanish immigrants had very little sexual contact with Indian women.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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64) As a result of a constant conflict with the much larger native population, the Spanish decided to allow the Pueblos to own land.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
65) Cattle, sheep, and sugar were three New World products introduced to Europe.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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66) In contrast with the European tradition, African families tended to be matrilineal.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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67) The internal African slave trade was not well established until Europeans began to demand slave labor for the New World.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Remember
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68) During the sixteenth century, England was experiencing a decline in the food supply and population.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Remember
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69) The preaching of John Calvin led his followers to believe that the way they led their lives might reveal to them their predestined damnation or salvation.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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70) Puritans were the first English colonizers.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Remember
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71) The Roanoke disaster virtually killed the colonizing impulse in England for a long time.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Remember
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72) Compare the Indian civilizations north of Mexico with those in Central and South America.
Answer: Answers will vary.
Topic: America Before Columbus
Learning Objective: Describe the pre-contact peoples of America.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
73) Discuss the benefits and drawbacks for European and American societies resulting from contact and the trade that developed after 1500.
Answer: Answers will vary.
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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74) What motivated Europeans to establish settlements in the New World? What made it possible for them to undertake those settlements?
Answer: Answers will vary.
Topic: Europe Looks Westward
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.
Bloom's: Understand
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75) How did Spanish settlements and attitudes toward native populations in the New World differ from those of the English?
Answer: Answers will vary.
Topic: Europe Looks Westward; The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Explain how contact between European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affected both groups.; Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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76) Discuss the economic and religious factors critical to English colonization.
Answer: Answers will vary.
Topic: The Arrival of the English
Learning Objective: Describe the English arrival in the New World.
Bloom's: Understand
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