Ap World History

Which of the following is NOT true of the native Americans that the English and French came into contact with?

The native Americans guarded their claims to private ownership of land even more jealously than the Europeans.

The last emperor of the Inca empire was

Atahualpa

The first people of the Americas to come into contact with the Spanish were the

Taíno

The first plentiful labor force for North America was

Indentured servants

The conquistador who conquered the Incas was

Pizarro

To provide labor for their sugar plantations, the Portuguese

Relied on imported African slaves as laborers

The native population in what is now the United States stood at five million to ten million in 1492, and at _ in 1800.

Six hundred thousand

The English, French, and Dutch

Were more interested in setting up permanent colonies than were the Spanish

The power of the viceroys was checked by reviews conducted by the

Audiencias

Hernán Cortés was responsible for the conquest of the

Aztecs

Spanish migrants who were born in Europe were known as

Peninsulares

Plantations created a high demand for

Cheap labor

The English colony of Jamestown

Was nearly destroyed due to mass starvation

Which of the following sites in North America was originally a Dutch colony?

New York

The two centers of Spanish royal authority in the Americas were

Lima and Mexico City

The chief Spanish royal administrators in the Americas were

The viceroys

The métis were

Individuals of French and indigenous parentage

The encomenderos were

Spanish settlers

In North America, the Europeans initially found a profitable commodity when they bartered for

Furs

The population of the Caribbean went from about 4 million in 1492 to the 1540s.

A few thousand

The term mestizo refers to

An individual of indigenous and European parentage

The conquistadores

Eventually lost control and were replaced with formal rule by the Spanish crown

The last emperor of the Aztec empire was

Motecuzoma II

For the Spanish, the greatest attraction of the Americas was

Precious metals

The Treaty of Tordesillas

Split Central and South America between Spain and Portugal

Doña Marina was

A Mexican woman who aided Cortés in his conquest of the Aztecs

Which of the following was NOT a difference between the Spanish approach to colonization and that of the English and French?

The English and French viewed the indigenous populations as their equals

The most important factor in explaining the Spanish victory over the Aztecs and Incas was the

Devastating loss of life caused by European-borne diseases

Christopher Columbus’s first plan was to

Build trading posts where merchants could trade with the local population

By the seventeenth century, the most prominent site of agriculture in Spanish America was the

Hacienda

The Virgin of Guadalupe essentially became a national symbol for

Mexico