World History 1112 Lesson 4: New Patterns in the New World (Chapter 18)

A Native American reported an appearance of Our Lady of _________ in 1531, in a place where the native goddess Tonantzin used to be venerated. a. Tlaxcala. b. Acapulco .c. Lourdes. d. Guadalupe.

D) Guadalupe

By means of land-labor grants called __________, Spanish entrepreneurs were entitled to use forced indigenous or imported slave labor to exploit natural resources in the New World. a. Encomiendas. b. Haciendas. c. Cabildos. d. Criollos.

a. Encomiendas.

To support the mining centers and administrative cities, the Spanish colonial government ___________ the development of agricultural estates (haciendas). a. Encouraged. b. Suppressed. c. Heavily taxed. d. Dismissed as impractical.

a. Encouraged.

Having laid waste to Cuzco, Pizarro founded a new Andean capital at __________ in 1535 .a. Lima. b. Santiago de Chile. c. São Paulo. d. Cartagena.

a. Lima.

Portuguese colonial cities and Jesuits repeatedly clashed over the ____________ of the "pioneers" (bandeirantes) into the Brazilian interior. a. Slave raids. b. Tax evasion. c. Scientific discoveries. d. Silver mining.

a. Slave raids.

From the middle of the seventeenth century, the pueblos de indios were fully functional, self-administering units, with councils (________), churches, schools, communal lands, and family parcels. a. Zacatecas. b. Cabildos. c. Criollos. d. Pampas.

b. Cabildos.

The Spanish quest for the mythical ____________ or "golden city" was fruitless .a. Shangri-La. b. El Dorado. c. El Jefe. d. Del Rio.

b. El Dorado.

The most successful _________ settlement in North America was in the subtropical district at the mouth of the Mississippi River, called "Louisiana", where some 300 settlers and 4000 African slaves founded sugar plantations. a. English. b. French. c. Spanish. d. Dutch.

b. French.

__________ was the first institution of higher learning in North America, devoted to teaching the "correct" balanced Calvinist Protestantism. a. Yale Divinity School. b. Harvard College. c. College of William and Mary. d. Providence College.

b. Harvard College.

When the city of ___________ was captured in November 1519, the emperor Moctezuma II was forced to swear allegiance to Emperor Charles V. a. Campeche. b. Tenochtitlán. c. Veracruz. d. Tlaxcala.

b. Tenochtitlán.

An estimated __________ Spaniards emigrated from Europe to the Americas between 1500 and 1800. a. 1,000,000. b. 10,000. c. 300,000. d. 30,000,000.

c. 300,000.

The Columbian Exchange characterizes the transfer of plants, animals, and ________ between the Americas and the rest of the world. a. Minerals. b. Population. c. Diseases. d. Ideas.

c. Diseases.

By the early seventeenth century, a powerful elite of Spanish who ___________, called Creoles, was in place to assist the Spanish administrators. a. Had accompanied the conquistadors in the 1510s. b. Had joined a specially created Franciscan order of priests. c. Had been born in the Americas. d. Had been brought across the Atlantic to marry the men and produce children.

c. Had been born in the Americas.

Juana Inés de la Cruz secretly studied Latin, Greek, and _________ in her maternal grandfather's library. a. Hebrew. b. French. c. Nahuatl. d. Mayan.

c. Nahuatl.

The term "casta" originated in the desire of the Iberian and Creole settlers to draw distinctions among degrees of ___________. a. Wealth and status. b. Commitment to Catholicism. c. Racial mixture. d. Age and establishment of possession.

c. Racial mixture.

In the 1540s the Spanish government introduced ___________ called repartimientos, which was a continuation of the mit'a system devised by the Inca for taxation. a. Khipu-calculated tax-tables. b. Apartments for young women. c. Rotating labor assignments. d. Tithe-based church endowments.

c. Rotating labor assignments.

Of the approximately 144,000 estimated Native Americans in New England in 1600, fewer than 15,000 remained by ______. a. 1607 b. 1690. c. 1776. d. 1620.

d. 1620

The "conquistadors" Francisco Pizarro, Hernán Cortés, and Alonso Ortíz all originated in the Spanish region of __________. a. Catalonia. b. Granada. c. Valencia. d. Estremadura.

d. Estremadura.

Leading a motley force of about 530 Spanish men, _________defeated a much larger indigenous force at Tabasco in 1518. a. Francisco Pizarro. b. Minas Gerais. c. Alonso Ortíz. d. Hernán Cortés.

d. Hernán Cortés.