Us History Chapter 1 Quiz

According to Bartolome de Las Casas:

Around 9,000 years ago, agriculture developed in the Americas around:

Bartolome de Las Casas argued that Indians:

Before the arrival of Columbus, Native North Americans:

Both the Aztec and Inca empires were:

Europeans - particularly the English, French, and Dutch - generally claimed North American Indian land as their own based on:

How did Spain justify enslaving Native Americans?

How did the Dutch manifest their devotion to liberty?

In 1492, the Native American population:

In 1517, the German priest ___________ began the Protestant Reformation by posting his Ninety-Five Theses, which accused the Catholic Church of worldliness and corruption.

In 1519, who became the first European explorer to encounter the Aztec empire?

In Europe on the eve of colonization, one conception of freedom, called "Christian liberty":

In their relations with Native Americans, the Dutch:

John Cabot sailed to:

New France was characterized by:

The Black Legend described:

The Columbian Exchange was:

The first center of the Spanish empire in America:

The first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, established in 1610, was:

The French explorations of the New World:

The Jesuit religious order was particularly influential in:

The Pueblo Indian uprising of 1680:

The Pueblo Indians encountered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century:

The reconquista was the reconquest of Spain from the:

The repartimiento system established by the Spanish in the mid-1500s:

The ritual sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs:

The Spanish justified their claim to land in the New World through all of the following EXCEPT:

The transatlantic flow of people and goods such as corn, potatoes, horses, and sugarcane is called:

What does the seal of New Netherland, adopted by the Dutch West Indian Company in 1630, suggest is central to the colony's economic prospects?

What European city was known in the early seventeenth century as a haven for persecuted Protestants from all over Europe and even for Jews fleeing Spain?

What geographic error did Columbus make?

Which European country dominated international commerce in the early seventeenth century?

Which one of the following is true of religion in the seventeenth-century Europe?

Which of the following is true of agriculture in Spanish America?

Which one of the following is true of Spanish emigrants to the New World?

Which one of the following is true about Spanish America?

Which of the following is true of Spain's explorations of the New World?

Which of the following is true of freedom in New Netherland?

Which of the following statements about the Indians of North America is FALSE?

Which one of the following statements about gender relations is FALSE for most Native American societies?

Which one of the following statements about the Pueblo Revolt is FALSE?

Which one of the following statements about New Netherland is FALSE?

Which one of the following statements is true of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan?

Which one of the following was NOT true of women in Native American societies?

Which one of the following was true of New France?

Which one of the following was true of French relations with Native Americans?

Why did European exploration of the New World proceed so rapidly after Columbus's discoveries?

Why did the Portuguese begin exploration to find a water route to India, China, and the East Indies?

"Christian liberty" was the basis for religious toleration:

African society did not practice slavery before Europeans came.

Agriculture did not come to the American continents, around Mexico and Peru, until 1,000 years ago.

By 1550, the Spanish empire in the New World exceeded the ancient Roman empire in size.

Columbus established the first permanent settlement on Hispaniola in 1502.

Columbus first sailed to what is now Venezuela.

Columbus was Spanish.

Cortes conquered the capital city of the Aztec empire with an army of over 1,000 men.

Everywhere in Europe, family life depended on male dominance.

Like the Spanish, the French often intermarried with the Indians, resulting in mixed-race children.

Most, although not all, Indian societies were matrilineal.

Portuguese seafarers initially explored the African coast.

Relations between the Pueblo Indians and colonial authorities deteriorated throughout the seventeenth century.

Spain insisted that the primary goal of colonization was to save the Indians from heathenism.

The catastrophic decline in the native populations of Spanish America was mostly due to the fact that they were not immune to European diseases.

The Indians of North America believed that land was a common resource and the basis of economic life.

The Indians, although diverse, all seemed to observe religious ceremonies centered around hunting or farming.

The Spanish reconquista required that all Muslims and Jews convert to Catholicism or leave Spain immediately.

When the Edict of Nantes, which had granted religious toleration to French Protestants (Huguenots), was revoked in 1685, some 100,000 Huguenots fled France for New France.