

Initial Contact and Conquest in North America
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Which of the following animals did not originate in the Old World of Europe, Africa, or Asia?
Llamas
Cattle
Sheep
Pigs
Which of the following crops originated in the New World?
Oats
Peanuts
Barley
Coffee
What crop was so controversial that monarchs in Europe and China attempted to ban its use?
Tobacco
Rice
Potato
Wheat
Which of the following crops did not originate in the New World?
Tobacco
Maize
Potato
Wheat
Which of the following European diseases was responsible for the greatest number of Amerindian deaths in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?
Measles
Influenza
Bubonic Plague
Smallpox
Which of the follow was well known for his criticism of the Europeans’ treatment of the Indians of Meso- and South America?
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Hernán Cortés
Bartholomew de las Casas
Pedro Cabral
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Divided the New World between the Spanish and the Portuguese.
Specified that the encomienda system should be disbanded.
Allowed the use of Incas in the mines of Peru.
Formally recognized the conquest of the Aztec Empire by Cortés and his soldiers.
The majority of the natives killed in the exploration period were slaughtered by the Europeans who possessed superior weapons.
True
False
The first explorer to reach Brazil and claim it for the throne of Portugal was:
Christopher Columbus
Pedro Cabral
Ferdinand Magellan
Jacques Cartier
Recruiting native allies played an important role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec.
True
False
The myth of Quetzalcoatl relies on sources that are contemporaneous with the conquest of the Aztec.
True
False
The system that helped provide labor for the Spanish mines and sugar plantations was the:
Quinto
Audiencia
Encomienda
Residencia
The Brazilian economy was largely based on
Sugar
Coffee
Silver
Indigo
The ______________ was part of the bureaucracy of Spanish rule and oversaw developments in New Spain until the close of the colonial period.
Encomienda
Mita
Council of the Indies
Donatários
______________’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.
Samuel de Champlain
Stadacona
Jacques Cartier
René Goulaine de Laudonnière
The French settlement in Florida was settled by Protestants unwelcome in France known as ______________.
Huguenots
Anabaptists
Apostates
Catholics
The Jesuits
were a group of missionaries.
were largely unsuccessful in converting local Indians.
were a great source of knowledge about the Indians of New France.
all of the above
The Dutch practiced which of the following practices in establishing themselves as an economic powerhouse in the Caribbean?
legitimate trade
piracy
smuggling
all of the above
The Dutch East India Company possessed the power to
establish colonies
punish criminals
negotiate treaties
wage war
all of the above
The Navigation Acts specified enumerated goods that
colonists could not export.
colonists could manufacture the same goods as produced in Britain.
colonists could only ship within the British Empire.
colonists could only trade to other colonists.
Most colonists in eighteenth century North America were largely self-sufficient, so they did not need to import consumer goods from Britain.
True
False
Colonial governors possessed the right to veto legislation passed by the colonial assemblies.
True
False
During the eighteenth century, colonial assemblies
lost their power to appropriate taxes.
were appointed by the king.
included both men and women.
expanded their power and influence.
Early Methodists were called that because they were so methodical.
True
False
One of the most contentious areas of struggle in Queen Anne’s War and King George’s War was
Florida.
the Carolinas.
Acadia.
the Mississippi.
Metacom’s War was significant because
it marked the shift in policy in Indian warfare to a policy of extinction.
it allowed the Wampanoag to retake much of Massachusetts.
although the British won, it devastated many towns and the colonial economy.
A and B
all of the above
Queen Anne’s War was significant because the ______________helped shift the control of the continent to England.
conquest of Florida
conquest of the Carolinas
conquest of New England
conquest of Acadia