Deck 1: New World Beginnings, 33,000 Bce-1769 Ce

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Francisco Pizarro

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hernando de Soto

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hernán Cortés

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Quetzalcoatl

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ferdinand of Aragon

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hiawatha

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot)

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Francisco Coronado

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Marco Polo

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Juan Ponce de León

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Father Junipero Serra

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Isabella of Castile

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Christopher Columbus

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Moctezuma

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
cartography

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bartolome de Las Casas

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Great Ice Age

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ferdinand Magellan

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Vasco Nunez Balboa

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Malinche (Doña Marina)
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Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Iroquois Confederacy

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
noche triste

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mound Builders

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
mestizos

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
encomienda

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"three sister" farming

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
conquistadores

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Acoma

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Moors

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
ecosystem

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Black Legend

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
St. Augustine, Florida

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
middlemen

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Aztecs

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Columbian Exchange

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
plantation

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
capitalism

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Incas

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Native Americans

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pueblo Indians

Question 42

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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____ India

Question 43

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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____ Spain

Question 44

All of the following were characteristics of the original thirteen colonies except

A)Puritans carved tight, pious, and relatively democratic communities in New England.
B)the belief they were a single people with a common destiny, who ought to break from Britain.
C)the southern colonies consisted of large landholders, mostly Anglican, on plantations using slave labor.
D)there were internal conflicts over economic interests, ethnic rivalries, and religious practices.
E)the middle colonies were the most diverse with estates interspersed with modest homesteads.

Question 45

Identify the statement that is false.

A)Each of the thirteen colonies enjoyed a good deal of self-rule before the 1760s.
B)Many colonies profited from trade within the British Empire.
C)The French and Indian War strengthened ties between the thirteen colonies and Britain.
D)After the French and Indian War, the colonists needed greater protection from Britain.
E)As late as 1775, most people in the colonies still clung to some hope of reconciliation with Britain.

Question 46

The ideals that the colonists cherished as synonymous with American life included reverence for all of the following except

A)individual liberty.
B)self-government.
C)opposition to slavery.
D)religious tolerance.
E)economic opportunity.

Question 47

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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____ West Indies

Question 48

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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____ England

Question 49

By the 1770s, which of the following issues helped bring about a crisis of imperial authority?

A)Taxation, self-rule, and trade restrictions
B)Slavery
C)Few colonists clung to any hope of accommodation with Great Britain
D)The coronation of a new king
E)The rise to power of radical patriots in the American colonies

Question 50

The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of

A)similar mountain ranges on the various continents.
B)nearly identical species of fish in long-separated freshwater lakes throughout the world.
C)marsupials on the various continents.
D)the continued shifting of the earth's crust.
E)geological evidence of soil samples common among all continents.

Question 51

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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____ South America

Question 52

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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____ Portugal

Question 53

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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____ North America

Question 54

The European explorers who followed Columbus to North America

A)intended to found a new nation.
B)continued to view themselves as Europeans.
C)did not consider America as the western rim of the European world.
D)no longer saw themselves as subjects of European kings.
E)saw little difference between their lives in America and their lives in Europe.

Question 55

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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____ China

Question 56

Which of the following mountain ranges was probably created before the continental separation, approximately 350 million years ago?

A)The Rockies
B)The Sierra Nevada
C)The Cascades
D)The Coast Range
E)The Appalachians

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Popé's Rebellion

Question 58

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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____ Asia

Question 59

The colonists who ultimately embraced the vision of America as an independent nation had in common all of the following characteristics except

A)the desire to create an agricultural society.
B)a shared goal of living unfettered by the tyrannies of royal authority, official religion, and social hierarchies.
C)a growing reverence for ideals such as liberty.
D)an unwillingness to subjugate others.
E)a majority were English speaking with English customs.

Question 60

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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____ Africa

Question 61

The early voyages of the Scandinavian seafarers did not result in permanent settlement in North America because

A)the Native Americans drove them out.
B)the area in which they landed could not support a large population.
C)no nation-state supported these ventures.
D)British adventurers defeated the Scandinavians in 1066.
E)the settlers died of disease.

Question 62

Some of the more advanced Native American cultures did all of the following except

A)engage in significant ocean voyages of discovery.
B)establish large, elaborate, and bustling cities.
C)make strikingly accurate astronomical observations.
D)study mathematics.
E)carry on commerce.

Question 63

The Great Ice Age accounted for the origins of North America's human history because

A)it exposed a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America.
B)the glacial withdrawal allowed migration from South America.
C)the glacial withdrawal formed freshwater lakes that supported life.
D)when it ended, European migration to the west became possible.
E)it prevented the migration of dangerous animals from the Bering isthmus.

Question 64

Which of the following was not a feature created in North America ten thousand years ago when the glaciers retreated?

A)The Great Lakes
B)The Great Salt Lake
C)A mineral-rich desert
D)Thousands of shallow depressions which formed lakes
E)The Grand Canyon

Question 65

The development of "three sister" farming on the southeast Atlantic seaboard

A)led to the dominance of the potato.
B)enabled the Anasazis to prosper.
C)ultimately failed to produce adequate amounts of food.
D)was attributed to three young women of the Cherokee peoples.
E)produced a rich diet that led to high population densities.

Question 66

All of the following are true of the Inca, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations except they

A)had advanced agricultural practices based primarily on the cultivation of maize.
B)lacked the technology of the wheel.
C)had the use of large draft animals such as the horse and oxen.
D)built elaborate cities and carried on far-flung commerce.
E)had talented mathematicians, which allowed them to make accurate astronomical observations.

Question 67

The Christian crusaders were indirectly responsible for the discovery of America because they

A)were victorious over the Muslims.
B)brought back news of valuable Far Eastern spices, drugs, and silk.
C)succeeded in establishing improved business relations between Muslims and Christians.
D)returned with captured Muslim maps showing the North and South American continents.
E)developed better navigational devices.

Question 68

The crop that became the staple of life in Mexico and South America was

A)wheat.
B)potatoes.
C)tobacco.
D)corn.
E)beans.

Question 69

Identify the statement that is false.

A)Most native peoples of North America lived in small, scattered, and impermanent settlements prior to the arrival of Europeans.
B)In more settled agricultural groups, women tended the crops while men hunted.
C)Many North American groups developed matrilineal cultures, where power and possessions passed down the female side of the family line.
D)Native Americans rejected the belief that the physical world was endowed with spiritual properties.
E)Native Americans had neither the desire nor the means to manipulate nature aggressively.

Question 70

One of the main factors that enabled Europeans to conquer native North Americans with relative ease was the

A)pacifistic nature of the native North Americans.
B)settled agricultural societies of North America.
C)absence of dense concentrations of population or complex nation-states in North America.
D)use of native guides for spying and surveillance activities.
E)lack of technological weaponry available to other native American cultures.

Question 71

Most likely the first Americans were

A)Norse seafarers from Scandinavia.
B)Spanish explorers of the fifteenth century.
C)people who crossed the land bridge from Eurasia to North America.
D)Portuguese sailors of Prince Henry the Navigator.
E)refugees from Africa.

Question 72

All of the following were original territories of North American Indian populations within the current borders of the United States except

A)Mesoamerica.
B)Northeast.
C)Southeast.
D)Great Plains.
E)Great Basin.

Question 73

The Iroquois Confederacy was able to menace its Native American and European neighbors because of

A)its military alliances, sustained by political and organizational skills.
B)the Iroquois warriors' skill with the Europeans' muskets.
C)the scattered nature of the Iroquois settlements, which made it difficult for their enemies to defeat them.
D)the alliance with the Aztecs and Incas.
E)its use of new weapons.

Question 74

What permitted bands of original Americans to make their way southward and eastward across the Americas, eventually reaching the far tip of South America thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived in the Americas?

A)the onset of an Ice Age in the Americas 10,000 years ago.
B)the same climatic warming in the Americas that melted the ice and drowned the bridge to Eurasia about 10,000 years ago
C)the introduction of horses and covered wagons into the Americas 10,000 years ago.
D)the development of cartography by these original Americans
E)none of these

Question 75

Native American (Indian) civilization was least highly developed in

A)North America.
B)Mexico.
C)Central America.
D)Peru.
E)Latin America.

Question 76

The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to

A)Spanish influences.
B)their way of life based on hunting and gathering.
C)the development of agriculture.
D)influences brought by early settlers from Siberia.
E)their use of draft animals and the wheel.

Question 77

Men in the more settled agricultural groups in North America performed all of the following tasks except

A)hunting.
B)gathering fuel.
C)tending crops.
D)clearing fields for planting.
E)fishing.

Question 78

Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to

A)break the hold that Muslim merchants had on trade with Asia.
B)reduce the price of goods from Asia.
C)gain more profits for themselves.
D)reduce the time it took to transport goods.
E)All of these

Question 79

All of the following set into motion the chain of events that led to a drive of Europeans toward Asia, the penetration of Africa, and the discovery of the New World except

A)economic hardships and overpopulation at home.
B)growing power of ambitious governments behind them.
C)they sought contact with a wider world.
D)they sought territories to conqueror.
E)they sought new places to trade with.

Question 80

Before the arrival of Europeans, most native peoples in North America

A)lived in large communities.
B)were more advanced than those in South America.
C)lived in small, scattered, and impermanent settlements.
D)populated the greater part of the continent.
E)relied on horses for transportation.