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Chapter 1
The Columbian Exchange was:
A:
the transatlantic flow of plants, animals, and germs that began after Christopher Columbus
reached the New World.
The actions of Bartolomé de las Casas can best be described in modern-day
terminology as that of a(n):
WHISTLEBLOWER
African enslavement of other Africans:
involved the enslavement of war captives.
Where did the first peoples to the Americas come from?
Asia
When Native Americans first encountered Europeans, what led to the European
diseases being so deadly?
Centuries of continental isolation meant the Native
Americans had no immunity.
Who in the sixteenth-century Spanish empire would have the most authority?
An administrative official from Spain.
How did Native Americans view the concept of land ownership?
People had the right to
use land, but they did not actually own the land.
In approximately 7000 BCE, agriculture developed in the Americas in:
Mexico and the
andes
What geographic error did Columbus make?
He grossly underestimated the size of the
earth.
According to Bartolomé de Las Casas:
Spain had caused the deaths of millions of
innocent people in the New World.
Chapter 2
The expansion of the Iroquois pushed many Algonquian-speaking Indians into the
“middle ground,” located in what region?
Great Lakes
The Northwest Passage allegedly promised a water-route to ____________
ASIA
What was the first permanent European settlement in the current American Southwest
SANTA FE
The Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 believed in the Christian
doctrines of what religious leader
? John Calvih
What proved to be the salvation of Jamestown?
Tobacco
How did Pocahontas play a key role in Jamestown society?
She served as an
intermediary between Powhatan and English leaders.
Which of the following best describes the economic activity of the Dutch in New
Netherlands?
Trade with Native Americans
Which European country dominated international commerce in the early seventeenth
century?
Netherlands
\England’s so-called “Golden Age,” that included the works of Shakespeare, occurred
under the reign of which monarch?
Elizabeth 1
When did slavery first emerge in Virginia?
The Dutch sold 20 Africans to Virginia colonists
CHAPTER 3
Bacon’s Rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia?
The replacing of
indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia’s plantations.
Bacon’s Rebellion was a response to:
worsening economic conditions in Virginia.
Both King Philip’s War and Bacon’s Rebellion were conflicts that:
started with disputes
over Native American territory.
Nathaniel Bacon:
actually was socially closer to the elite than to the indentured servants
who supported him.
The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from
England returned home:
were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company’s interest in searching for gold as
opposed to building a functioning society.
The actions of the Pueblo Indians at Santa Fe in 1680 can best be described as:
being assertive.
What was the Middle Passage?
It was the second leg of the trans-Atlantic trade.
Which of the following is a true statement about the Atlantic slave trade’s effect in West
Africa?
It helped lead to the rise of militarized states in West Africa, whose large armies
preyed upon their neighbors in order to capture slaves.
Why was slavery less prevalent in the northern colonies?
The small farms of the
northern colonies did not need slaves.
Enslaved Africans sold in North America differed from most slave communities. What
was the most important distinction?
Higher percentage of women
CHAPTER 4
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