Deck 1: A New World

Question 1

After exploring the Atlantic Coast in the late sixteenth century,an Englishman writes in his journal about untouched wilderness.What could this description mean to a European?

A) The land was beautiful.
B) It would take the expedition too much effort to build a settlement.
C) The Native Americans had protected the land.
D) The Native Americans never used this area,so the land now belonged to the English.
E) The Native Americans were actually hiding in tree forts.

Answer 1

The Native Americans never used this area,so the land now belonged to the English.

Question 2

Native American religious ceremonies:

A) had nothing to do with farming or hunting.
B) were related to the Native American belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things.
C) were designed to show that supernatural forces must control man.
D) were the same in every community.
E) did not exist until arriving Europeans insisted on knowing about Native American customs.

Answer 2

were related to the Native American belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things.

Question 3

Where did mound-building tribes flourish?

A) Near the Atlantic Ocean.
B) In the Ohio River Valley.
C) In present-day New Mexico.
D) In present-day south Florida.
E) Near the Hudson River.

Answer 3

In the Ohio River Valley.

Question 4

Where did the first peoples to the Americas come from?

A) Iceland.
B) Greenland.
C) Africa.
D) Asia.
E) Europe.

Question 5

In approximately 7000 BCE,agriculture developed in the Americas in:

A) the Mississippi Valley.
B) Mexico and Peru.
C) the Yucatan Peninsula.
D) Chesapeake Bay.
E) Brazil.

Question 6

Which one of the following is true about Native Americans and material wealth?

A) Chiefs were expected to share some of their goods rather than hoard them.
B) Eastern Native Americans were more materialistic than those who lived west of the Mississippi.
C) Wealth mattered less to them than to Europeans,but inherited social status was equally important to both peoples.
D) Native Americans actually suffered more social inequality than Europeans did.
E) Native Americans had no material wealth.

Question 7

"Coverture" refers to:

A) a woman's responsibility to wear a scarf covering her head when in public.
B) knowing your place in society,especially at church when sitting in the pews.
C) a tax one pays on one's property that is assessed quarterly.
D) a woman surrendering her legal identity when she marries.
E) a binding legal agreement between an indentured servant and his or her master.

Question 8

Both the Aztec and Inca empires were:

A) rural and poor.
B) small in population but sophisticated in infrastructure.
C) large,wealthy,and sophisticated.
D) large in geographic size but sparsely populated.
E) rural,with few impressive buildings.

Question 9

In 1776,Adam Smith observed what fact about the Western Hemisphere?

A) There was not enough land.
B) There were not enough slaves.
C) There were too many contagious diseases transmitted back to Europe.
D) Colonies had done more harm than good for western Europe.
E) Indians had suffered great misfortunes.

Question 10

When compared to European societies,how did Indian gender relations differ?

A) European women had more individual rights than their Indian counterparts.
B) Indian women sometimes selected tribal leaders.
C) European women were more likely to be granted a divorce.
D) Most,but not all,Indian societies were matrilineal.
E) Neither European nor Indian women engaged in premarital sex.

Question 11

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

A) had engaged in settled village life only briefly before the Spanish arrived.
B) had been almost completely isolated from any other people before the Spanish arrived.
C) used irrigation systems to aid their agricultural production.
D) were called mound builders because of the burial mounds they created.
E) created a vast empire that included control of the Incas.

Question 12

When Europeans arrived,many Native Americans:

A) tried to use them to enhance their standing with other Native Americans.
B) immediately opened treaty negotiations.
C) learned their languages.
D) hid in nearby cave dwellings.
E) simply attacked them.

Question 13

Which indigenous group formed the Great League of Peace?

A) Choctaws.
B) Iroquois.
C) Hurons.
D) Chickasaws.
E) Cherokees.

Question 14

A commonality shared between the Asians who crossed the Bering Strait and the Europeans who crossed the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years later was:

A) the need to spread religion.
B) the desire to conquer new peoples.
C) the search for food items.
D) that neither was willing to take risks.
E) that both brought slaves from Africa.

Question 15

Pre-Columbian Native Americans lacked metal tools:

A) because no metal deposits existed in the Americas.
B) so Europeans felt they were superior.
C) resulting in no dams or irrigation.
D) because they saw these tools as contradicting their religion.
E) so they could not build large structures.

Question 16

When European clergy read to Native Americans from the Bible about God creating the world in six days,was there anything relatable for Native Americans?

A) Most Native Americans did not have any religion to compare with Christianity.
B) No Native American religions believed in creation myths.
C) Most Native Americans compared the Bible with their own written version of the Old Testament.
D) Some Native Americans stated that they were a lost tribe of Israel.
E) Many Native Americans concurred with the idea of a single supreme being creating the world.

Question 17

How did Native Americans view the concept of land ownership?

A) Native Americans believed that land should be permanently preserved.
B) Individuals could own land outright.
C) Families had the right to use land,but they did not actually own the land.
D) Native Americans emphasized the dollar value of land.
E) A family could claim land for its descendants,but an individual could not.

Question 18

Pueblo Indians lived in what is now:

A) the eastern United States.
B) the southwestern United States.
C) Mexico.
D) the northeastern United States.
E) Central America.

Question 19

An example of a freedom that most Native Americans would hold in high esteem would be:

A) the opportunity for the chief to sell land to a European.
B) an economic freedom that would lead to a Native Americans becoming the wealthiest member of the tribe.
C) the chance to work with other tribe members to build a house.
D) the right of free speech.
E) the opportunity for some families to dominate others in the tribe.

Question 20

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

A) was a set of ideas today known as "religious toleration."
B) mingled ideas of freedom with servitude to Jesus Christ-concepts that were seen as mutually reinforcing.
C) found expression in countries dominated by Catholics but not in primarily Protestant ones.
D) argued that all Christians should have equal political rights.
E) referred to the policy of trying to overthrow any non-Christian regime around the world.

Question 21

Who in the sixteenth-century Spanish empire would have the most authority?

A) A Native American chief.
B) A Catholic priest.
C) A locally born wealthy landowner.
D) An administrative official from Spain.
E) A criollo.

Question 22

The ritual sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs:

A) occurred one at a time and therefore were minimal.
B) prompted most Aztecs to oppose their leaders,who opposed the sacrifices.
C) disgusted Europeans despite their own practices of publicly executing criminals and burning witches at the stake.
D) were always held at an arena in Tenochtitlán that resembled the Roman Colosseum.
E) cost the Spanish several hundred men before Cortés conquered the Aztecs.

Question 23

Portuguese trading posts along the western coast of Africa were called factories because:

A) the merchants were known as factors.
B) the trading posts made the goods there in makeshift factories.
C) the African slaves built factories along the coast to manufacture guns.
D) the slave traders called their system a labor factory.
E) that is how the Africans translated "trading post."

Question 24

In the fifteenth century,a big impetus for European exploration was:

A) a sea route to Asia to obtain luxury goods.
B) gold in China.
C) religious relics in India.
D) obtaining the compass from Asia.
E) spreading African slavery to the Americas.

Question 25

Which of the following statements about Spanish America is true?

A) Over time,Spanish America evolved into a hybrid culture-part Spanish,part Indian,and,in some areas,part African.
B) Mestizos enjoyed much political freedom and held most of the high government positions.
C) Spaniards outnumbered the Indian inhabitants after fifty years of settlement.
D) The Catholic Church played only a minor role in Spanish America.
E) Spanish America was very rural and had few urban centers.

Question 26

What was the most significant result of Ferdinand Magellan's explorations?

A) He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
B) He died in the Caribbean islands.
C) He led the conquering of the Aztecs.
D) His voyages showed that the circumference of the earth was longer than what Columbus had estimated.
E) He and his men were the first Europeans to encounter bison.

Question 27

To solidify Spain's unification,what did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella do?

A) They required Jews and Muslims to convert to Catholicism.
B) They refused to sponsor voyages of exploration.
C) They banned the Protestant faith in Spain.
D) They joined with the Moor leadership to bring about harmony.
E) They returned gold to Indians in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 28

A substantial difference between the Spanish colonies in Mexico and Santa Fe was that:

A) Santa Fe was settled first.
B) Mexico had few Native Americans.
C) Santa Fe did not concern itself with conversions.
D) Mexico had more Spanish settlers because of gold.
E) Mexico did not need to be conquered.

Question 29

The Columbian Exchange was:

A) the agreement that documented what Christopher Columbus would give to Spanish leaders in return for their sponsorship of his travel to the New World.
B) the transatlantic flow of plants,animals,and germs that began after Christopher Columbus reached the New World.
C) John Cabot's exploration of the New World,which brought more of the goods that Columbus had found back to the Old World.
D) responsible for introducing corn,tomatoes,and potatoes to the Americas.
E) the first store in the New World,named for the man who founded it.

Question 30

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

A) Many of the early arrivals came to direct Native American labor.
B) From the beginning,they arrived as families.
C) They were all at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
D) They soon outnumbered Native Americans.
E) Only the residents of the Malaga province migrated.

Question 31

African enslavement of other Africans:

A) resulted from the arrival of Europeans.
B) included no form of rights for the slaves.
C) was the only kind of labor on that continent.
D) involved the enslavement of criminals,debtors,and war captives.
E) accelerated with the arrival of the French in the 1520s.

Question 32

In 1492,the Native American population:

A) was at least 100 million.
B) lived exclusively in villages of no more than 1,000 individuals.
C) declined catastrophically due to exposure to the Black Plague.
D) lived mostly in what is today the United States.
E) lived mostly in Central and South America.

Question 33

A significant difference between the Vikings and Columbus was that:

A) trade was not of consequence to the Vikings.
B) Columbus received much more publicity for his voyages.
C) Columbus and other explorers for Spain did not use violence.
D) the Vikings did not use sails.
E) Columbus was an atheist.

Question 34

What was a difference between Chinese and Portuguese navigation?

A) The Chinese were not looking to discover new places.
B) The Chinese wanted to spread their religion.
C) The Portuguese had no interest in establishing trade ports.
D) The Portuguese did not want to spread Christianity and hoped to learn from other world religions.
E) The Portuguese naval fleet consisted of more ships that were much larger than Chinese vessels.

Question 35

After conquests ended and settlements were built,who stood atop the social hierarchy in Spanish America?

A) Mestizos.
B) Criollos.
C) Peninsulares.
D) Conquistadores.
E) Aztec chiefs.

Question 36

When Native Americans first encountered Europeans,what led to the European diseases being so deadly?

A) Native Americans had been struggling with basic survival.
B) The diet of most Native Americans lacked meat,so they had no consistent amounts of protein.
C) Most Europeans spread the diseases on purpose.
D) The Native Americans had no tribal doctors or healers.
E) Centuries of continental isolation meant the Native Americans had no immunity.

Question 37

The Spanish empire in America:

A) included most of the populated part of the New World but few of its natural resources,making the empire rich in people but poor economically.
B) paled in comparison with the ancient Roman Empire.
C) was,unlike the French and English New World empires,a mostly urban civilization.
D) was centered in Lima,Peru.
E) allowed religious freedom and therefore attracted colonists from throughout Europe.

Question 38

What geographic error did Columbus make?

A) He grossly underestimated the size of the earth.
B) He thought the earth was not round but flat.
C) He was certain that India was east of the Americas.
D) He expected the weather in India to be the same as in North Atlantic.
E) He confused the Atlantic Ocean with the Indian Ocean.

Question 39

What role did religion play in Columbus's explorations?

A) None whatsoever.
B) Columbus was determined to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
C) Catholics in Spain and Italy supported his expeditions because they wanted to end Muslim control of the eastern trade.
D) Columbus benefited from Ferdinand and Isabella's efforts to promote tolerance in Spain.
E) Spain wanted Columbus to find a refuge for the Jews that the king was driving out of the country.

Question 40

Why were Bartolomeu Dias's and Vasco da Gama's voyages important?

A) Their voyages contributed to Christianity reaching Africa for the first time.
B) Their voyages opened up much more direct trade with Asia.
C) Their voyages led to numerous Portuguese colonies starting in sub-Saharan Africa.
D) Their voyages increased the wealth of the Italian city-states.
E) Their voyages had the endorsement of Christopher Columbus.

Question 41

The Black Legend described:

A) the Aztecs' view of Cortés.
B) English pirates along the African coast.
C) Spain as a uniquely brutal colonizer.
D) Portugal as a vast trading empire.
E) Indians as savages.

Question 42

According to Bartolomé de Las Casas:

A) Spain needed to institute a more humane system of Native American slavery in order to avoid offending Pope Paul III.
B) Spain had caused the deaths of millions of innocent people in the New World.
C) despite his opposition to slavery,he needed to keep his slaves so that he would have time to devote to working for abolition and emancipation.
D) slavery needed to be eliminated entirely from the Earth.
E) converting Native Americans to anything but Catholicism would lead to their death.

Question 43

The actions of Bartolomé de las Casas can best be described in modern-day terminology as that of a(n):

A) whistleblower.
B) irrational man.
C) religious zealot.
D) curious intellectual.
E) greedy businessman.

Question 44

Acoma was an Indian city in present-day ________ that the Spanish destroyed.

A) New Mexico
B) Florida
C) Cuba
D) California
E) Puerto Rico

Question 45

What was the significance of Puerto Rico?

A) It was where the Indians revolted and booted out the Spanish.
B) It was a rare colony that had gold.
C) It later on broke away from Spain and became an independent nation.
D) Under the Spanish,it did not allow slavery.
E) Natives were immune to disease.

Question 46

The actions of the Pueblo Indians at Santa Fe in 1680 can best be described as:

A) not being interested in religion.
B) being docile.
C) accepting of new cultures.
D) being lazy and unwilling to work.
E) being assertive.

Question 47

People from ________ were most likely to go to other European countries or rival colonies before settling in one of their own ________ colonies.

A) England; English
B) the Netherlands; Dutch
C) Portugal; Portuguese
D) France; French
E) Spain; Spanish

Question 48

Unlike Spanish missionaries,the Jesuits did what in regard to converting Indians?

A) The Jesuits did not suppress traditional Indian religious customs.
B) They converted Indians to Protestant faiths instead of Catholicism.
C) They rarely had success with their conversions.
D) The Jesuit conversion methods went against the directives of Samuel de Champlain.
E) The Jesuit methods did not help with French and Indian relations.

Question 49

What was in the "Declaration of Josephe"?

A) He described how Pueblos lived harmoniously with the Spanish.
B) He discussed the importance of the Catholic faith to his tribe.
C) He asserted how his tribe had rejected Christianity from the beginning.
D) He described how his attempt to convert other tribes had failed.
E) He declared that the Spanish God was dead.

Question 50

The first French explorations of the New World:

A) brought great riches to France.
B) were intended to locate the Northwest Passage.
C) led to successful colonies in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
D) were in response to an intense rivalry with the Netherlands.
E) created no permanent settlements until the eighteenth century.

Question 51

Exploring the North American interior in the 1500s,________ was the first European to encounter the immense herds of buffalo that roamed the Great Plains.

A) Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
B) Hernando de Soto
C) Jacques Marquette
D) Juan Ponce de León
E) Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

Question 52

How did French involvement in the fur trade change life for Native Americans?

A) It didn't; Native Americans were already hunting beaver and buffalo for their skins.
B) Native Americans benefited economically but were able to avoid getting caught in European conflicts and rivalries.
C) The French were willing to accept Native Americans into colonial society.
D) The English and French quests for beaver pelts prompted a surge in the Native American population.
E) It forced Native Americans to learn new trapping techniques that were far superior to their old ways.

Question 53

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

A) Tucson.
B) Albuquerque.
C) El Paso.
D) San Diego.
E) Santa Fe.

Question 54

Where was the Spanish settlement Santa Elena located?

A) Florida.
B) Texas.
C) New Mexico.
D) Virginia.
E) South Carolina.

Question 55

In 1608,Samuel de Champlain founded:

A) Montreal.
B) New York.
C) Champlain.
D) Quebec.
E) Albany.

Question 56

France's relations with Native American tribes can be described as a marriage of necessity because:

A) Native Americans were needed to mine for gold.
B) tobacco was the cash crop for the French.
C) very few French came to North America.
D) Native Americans rejected Christianity.
E) the Spanish had much better relations with Native Americans in North America.

Question 57

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

A) Martin Buber
B) Ulrich Zwingli
C) Martin Luther
D) Reinhold Niebuhr
E) Johannes Gutenberg

Question 58

Which statement is true of New France?

A) It was the subject of a great deal of favorable publicity throughout Europe.
B) Its commitment to religious toleration was a source of great embarrassment for less tolerant powers like England and Spain.
C) Its population was limited at best,because France feared that a significant emigration would undermine its role as a great European power.
D) The only women allowed to reside there were nuns,a reflection of the French commitment to spreading Catholicism.
E) Seigneuries were the only democratic areas in the colony.

Question 59

The New Laws of 1542:

A) led Protestant Europeans to create the Black Legend about Spanish rule in the Americas.
B) introduced the encomienda system.
C) were adopted at the urging of Gonzalo Pizzaro,brother of Peru's conqueror.
D) stated that Indians would no longer be enslaved in Spanish possessions.
E) forbade the enslavement of Africans in New Spain.

Question 60

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

A) Individual conquistadores always traveled alone.
B) Members of the Spanish parties suffered greatly from disease.
C) Florida was the first region in the present-day continental United States that Spain colonized.
D) Spain sought to forestall Portuguese incursions into the New World.
E) Spain's explorations had no impact on the size of the Native American population.

Question 61

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Christopher Columbus

A)claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B)founded Quebec
C)Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D)Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
E)British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press

Question 62

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Hernán Cortés

A)claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B)founded Quebec
C)Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D)Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
E)British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press

Question 63

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

A) The colony's elected assembly enjoyed greater rights of self-government than any English colonial legislative body.
B) The Dutch commitment to liberty prompted the colony to ban slavery there.
C) Religious intolerance led the Dutch to ban all Jewish peoples from the colony.
D) Of all the colonies in the New World,New Netherland required the longest period of service from indentured servants.
E) Married women retained a legal identity separate from that of their husbands.

Question 64

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
John Cabot

A)claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B)founded Quebec
C)Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D)Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
E)British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press

Question 65

Patroonship in New Netherland:

A) was a great success,bringing thousands of new settlers to the colony.
B) meant that shareholders received large estates for transporting tenants for agricultural labor.
C) was like a system of medieval lords.
D) led to one democratic manor led by Kiliaen van Rensselaer.
E) involved joint Dutch and Indian control of farmland.

Question 66

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Pedro Cabral

A)claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B)founded Quebec
C)Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D)Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
E)British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press

Question 67

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Bartolomé de Las Casas

A)claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B)founded Quebec
C)Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D)Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
E)British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press

Question 68

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Samuel de Champlain

A)claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B)founded Quebec
C)Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D)Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
E)British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press

Question 69

As governor of New Netherland,Petrus Stuyvesant:

A) welcomed all religious faiths to the colony.
B) favored Catholics over Jews in New Amsterdam.
C) encouraged the Dutch colonists to convert the Indians.
D) saw women as equals in the Dutch Reformed Church.
E) refused the open practice of religion by Quakers and Lutherans.

Question 70

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Adam Smith

A)claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B)founded Quebec
C)Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D)Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
E)British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press

Question 71

In colonial America,what was an example of a borderlands area?

A) Cahokia.
B) The Great Lakes.
C) Jamestown.
D) The Florida coastline.
E) Mexico City.

Question 72

In regard to history,what was a borderland?

A) A defined boundary between nations.
B) The area around the coastline.
C) An area with no trade.
D) A settled area.
E) An unclear geographical and cultural border.

Question 73

How did the Dutch manifest their devotion to liberty?

A) They supported tolerance in religious matters in their colony.
B) Their colony was the first in the Americas to have a bill of rights.
C) They allowed freedom of speech.
D) They issued the Edict of New Netherland,declaring the Puritans to be heathens because they refused to allow religious freedom.
E) They gave men ownership of their wives,which gave married men the property ownership and independence they needed to participate in political activities.

Question 74

Henry Hudson:

A) set sail into the bay that bears his name as a representative of the British empire.
B) was searching for the Pacific coast.
C) hoped to find the Northwest Passage to Asia.
D) set up a Dutch colony based on the idea of consent of the governed.
E) was the architect of the Dutch overseas empire.

Question 75

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

A) France.
B) The Netherlands.
C) Britain.
D) Spain.
E) Portugal.

Question 76

As early as 1615,the ________ people of present-day southern Ontario and upper New York State forged a trading alliance with the French,and many of them converted to Catholicism.

A) Pequot
B) Lenni Lenape
C) Iroquois
D) Cherokee
E) Huron

Question 77

A seventeenth-century colonial woman who believed she was cheated out of money would have the best chance of having her case heard if she lived in:

A) New Amsterdam.
B) Mexico City.
C) Jamestown.
D) Quebec.
E) Santa Fe.

Question 78

Which 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?

A) Amsterdam.
B) Geneva.
C) Marseilles.
D) London.
E) Brussels.

Question 79

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Amerigo Vespucci

A)claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B)founded Quebec
C)Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D)Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
E)British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H)America was named for him
I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J)explored Florida
K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L)developed a movable-type printing press

Question 80

In their relations with Native Americans,the Dutch:

A) sought to imitate the Spanish.
B) concentrated more on economics than religious conversion.
C) tried to drive Native Americans into the Puritan colony.
D) avoided warfare at all costs.
E) called them members of a deceitful race.