The American Yawp Chapter 2 Quiz

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

Apalachee

What was the first permanent European settlement in the current American Southwest?

Santa Fe

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

Bartolomé de las Casas

The Northwest Passage allegedly promised a water-route to ____________

Asia

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

Great Lakes

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

Netherlands

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

Trade with Indians

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

In the late sixteenth century, England went to war with which nation?

Spain

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

Hostile Indians

What proved to be the salvation of Jamestown?

Tobacco

The Headright Policy promised which of the following?

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

When did slavery first emerge in Virginia?

the same year a Dutch slave sold 20 Africans to the Virginia colonists

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

Curse of Ham