Initial Contact and Conquest in North America

Which of the following animals did not originate in the Old World of Europe, Africa, or Asia?

Which of the following crops originated in the New World?

What crop was so controversial that monarchs in Europe and China attempted to ban its use?

Which of the following crops did not originate in the New World?

Which of the following European diseases was responsible for the greatest number of Amerindian deaths in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?

Which of the follow was well known for his criticism of the Europeans’ treatment of the Indians of Meso- and South America?

The Treaty of Tordesillas

The majority of the natives killed in the exploration period were slaughtered by the Europeans who possessed superior weapons.

The first explorer to reach Brazil and claim it for the throne of Portugal was:

Recruiting native allies played an important role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec.

The myth of Quetzalcoatl relies on sources that are contemporaneous with the conquest of the Aztec.

The system that helped provide labor for the Spanish mines and sugar plantations was the:

The Brazilian economy was largely based on

The ______________ was part of the bureaucracy of Spanish rule and oversaw developments in New Spain until the close of the colonial period.

______________’s expeditions in Canada established the local Indians’ interest in French trade when the leader of Stadacona tried to detain him in order to control French and Indian trade networks.

The French settlement in Florida was settled by Protestants unwelcome in France known as ______________.

The Jesuits

The Dutch practiced which of the following practices in establishing themselves as an economic powerhouse in the Caribbean?

The Dutch East India Company possessed the power to

The Navigation Acts specified enumerated goods that

Most colonists in eighteenth century North America were largely self-sufficient, so they did not need to import consumer goods from Britain.

Colonial governors possessed the right to veto legislation passed by the colonial assemblies.

During the eighteenth century, colonial assemblies

Early Methodists were called that because they were so methodical.

One of the most contentious areas of struggle in Queen Anne’s War and King George’s War was

Metacom’s War was significant because

Queen Anne’s War was significant because the ______________helped shift the control of the continent to England.