1301 World History Unit 1 Exam Multiple Choice

In the Northwest, Native groups relied on

Salmon

Improvements in all of the following increased opportunities for colonists to purchase consumer goods EXCEPT

Standardized currency

Which of these systems of slave labor offered enslaved people the greatest independence in the use of their time?

Task System

Charles I was executed in what year?

1649

What proved to be the salvation of Jamestown?

Tobacco

Enslaved Africans sold in North America differed from most slave communities. What was the most important distinction?

Higher percentage of women

Puritans derived their theology primarily from which system of Christian thought?

Calvinist

Slave status was tracked through which family member?

Mother

the "Three Sisters" refers to what three agricultural products grown by native groups in the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean, an area known as the Eastern Woodlands

Corn, beans, and squash

Agriculture in North and South American arose sometime between

Nine thousand and five thousand years ago

Where did the Great Awakening begin?

New England

Maya, Zapotec, and Nahua ancestors in Mesoamerica painted their histories on plant-derived textiles and carved them into hemp fiber

False

In ____________________ the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile consolidated the two most powerful kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula.

Spain

Christopher Columbus believed the Earth was

2/3 the size it actually is

Which of the following European countries offered the most religious liberty?

Netherlands

Eastern Woodland peoples wove plant fibers, embroidered skins with porcupine quills, and modeled the earth to make sites of complex ceremonial meaning

True

The plains and prairie land Native Americans relied on

Bison

Algonquian-speaking Ojibwes used birch-bark scrolls to record medical treatments, recipes, songs, stories, and more.

True

Columbus described what people as the following:"They are very gentle and without knowledge of what is evil; nor the sins of murder or theft....Your highness may believe that in all the world there can be no better people. . . . They love their neighbors as themselves, and their speech is the sweetest and gentlest in the world, and always with a smile."

Arawaks

After his arrival as a missionary in Charles Town, Carolina, in _____________________________, Reverend Francis Le Jau quickly grew disillusioned by the horrors of American slavery.

1706

What is the current estimate of the number of Africans forcibly relocated from Africa to the New World?

11 to 12 million

Bacon's Rebellion occurred in which year?

1676

Founded in _________________ under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain, Quebec provided the foothold for what would become New France.

1608

Educated Asians and Europeans of the fifteenth century knew the world was round

True

Which of the following colonies had a majority enslaved African population?

South Carolina

In_________________________, no permanent British North American colony was more than thirty-five years old.

1642

Bartolomé de Las Casas is known for

A priest who tried to defend native people during Columus' voyages

Most slaves were taken from which region in Africa?

West Africa

What is the name for the practice whereby a married woman loses all of her political and economic rights to her husband?

Coverture

Pacific Northwest weavers wove goat hair into soft textiles with particular patterns

True

Two thousand years ago, some of the largest culture groups in North America were the _____________________groups, centered in the current-day Greater Southwest (the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico), the Mississippian groups located along the Great River and its tributaries, and the Mesoamerican groups of the areas now known as central Mexico and the Yucatán. (spelling counts)

Puebloan

The expansion of the Iroquois pushed many Algonquian-speaking Indians into the "middle ground," located in what region?

Great Lakes

What was the most common means for colonists to acquire Native American slaves?

War

In ___________________________, the Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses, a limited representative body composed of white landowners that first met in Jamestown. That same year, a Dutch slave ship sold twenty Africans to the Virginia colonists. Southern slavery was born.

1619

More than 5 million Native Americans were enslaved by the English

False

The Dutch used what kind of labor to construct New Amsterdam?

Enslaved Africans

England's so-called "Golden Age," that included the works of Shakespeare, occurred under the reign of which monarch?

Elizabeth I

What was the first English group to turn against slavery?

Quakers

The Reconquista describes

Spain expelling the Muslims

What is the name of the prophet who inspired Pontiac's Rebellion?

Neolin

Which colony outlawed slavery in 1750?

Slavery was legal in every North American British colony at that time

The Headright Policy promised which of the following?

50 acres for anyone paying the passage of an English immigrant to Virginia

Evidence found at Monte Verde, a site in modern-day Chile, suggests that human activity began there at least _____________ years ago.

14,500

What was the largest American city during the late eighteenth century?

Philadelphia

Jamestown was established in a disastrous location. What proved to be the worst aspect of the location?

Brackish tidal water

Scandinavian seafarers reached the New World around the same time as Columbus.

False

What were the major political parties in colonial America?

There were no major political parties in colonial America

Which of the following resulted from Pontiac's War?

Creation of the Proclamation Line of 1763

The Spanish crown concluded centuries of intermittent warfare—the Reconquista—by expelling Muslim Moors and Iberian Jews from the Iberian peninsula in the year

1492

Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico was home to ancestral ________________ peoples between 900 and 1300 CE.

Puebloan

Farther west, in ___________________________, Juan de Oñate led four hundred settlers, soldiers, and missionaries from Mexico into New Mexico.

1598

What portion of residents in 1700 New York City was enslaved?

40%

The writings of which Spanish missionary most directly led to the development of the Black Legend?

Bartolomé de las Casas

Justification from African slavery partly derived from interpretations of a biblical curse placed on Noah. This curse was known as _______?

Curse of Ham

Of the eighty-seven years between the Glorious Revolution (1688) and the American Revolution (1775), Britain was at war with France and French-allied Native Americans for thirty-seven of them.

True

How did the culture of rice cultivation reach colonial Carolina?

Enslaved Africans

One in twenty colonists lived in cities by the year _______________________.

1775

Who led the Pueblo Revolt?

Pope

The Spanish king adopted which of the following policies for enslaved Africans who escaped English territory to St. Augustine, Florida?

Slaves escaping from the English were freed

Protestants led the revolt against King Charles I in what is now called

The English Civil War

In the first half of the sixteenth century, Spanish colonizers fought frequently with Florida's Native peoples as well as with other Europeans. In the 1560s Spain expelled French Protestants, called _______________________________________.

Huguenots

Juan Ponce de León arrived in the area named La Florida in the year ______________________.

1513

Which of the following best describes the economic activity of the Dutch in New Netherlands

Trade with Indians

What was the name of the most powerful Native American group in sixteenth-century Florida?

Apalachee

The Northwest Passage allegedly promised a water-route to ____________

Asia

When did slavery first emerge in Virginia?

The Dutch sold 20 Africans to Virginia colonists

Christopher Columbus on his first voyage met what people

Arawaks

The Hundred Years' War were mainly between

France and England

Vasco da Gama was

Portuguese

What was a motivating factor in the creation of colonies such as Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island?

Religion

An English Ship flying the Dutch flag sold twenty Africans to the Virginia colonists in which year?

1619