Chapter 1 HIST

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France established a colony in

Quebec

The first english colony that was ATTEMPTED in North America

Roanoke

Spanish settlers in the Southwest received encomiendas, or ______.

The right to demand tribute and labor from the natives

Which of the following did most native peoples of the Southwest, South, and Northeast have in common?

A way of life that included agriculture

Which of the following did the Maya develop or use before Europeans arrived?

A written language, numerical system, accurate calendar, advanced agricultural system, and important trade routes into other areas of the continents.

In 1486, Bartholomeu Dias sailed around the southern tip of ___________ at _________.

Africa; the Cape of Good Hope

Which of the following were aspects of the newly emergent monarchies and nation-states in Europe toward the latter 1400s?

An interest in trading wish Asia, a desire to increase national wealth and power.

Recent scholarships suggest the some early inhabitants of the Americas sailed from _______ and settled as far Chile and Peru

Asia

Scholars once believed that all early migrants to the Americas came via an ancient land bridge across the _______

Bering Strait

Which of the following was a major trading center in the Mississippi River valley near modern day St. Louis from the seventh to the thirteenth countries?

Cahokia

French/Swiss theologian John ______ taught that God chose some people to be saved and condemned the others to damnation

Calvin

Which four of the following locations were part of the Spain Empire at its height?

Caribbean islands, Mexico, Southern US, costal areas of South America

Rather than conduct trade individually, sixteenth-century English merchants formed _______.

Chartered companies

Which of the following was one motive for Spanish settlement in the New World after the era of conquistadores?

Converting natives to Christianity

Which of the following did Europeans first encounter in the New World?

Corn/maieze , squash, pumpkins, beans, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes.

England dominated the slave trade during

Eighteenth Century

Dignitary for whom the colony of Virginia was named

Elizabeth

Severed England's ties to the catholic church

Elizabeth I

Which of the following best describes why the English felt freer to establish colonies in the New World during the late sixteenth century?

England successfully challenged Spanish sea power.

Which of the following best describes population trends in Europe during the early era of exploration?

Europe's population increased rapidly as trade increased

In which of the following ways was life different for late Archaic-era farmers as compared to their ancestors?

Farmers stayed in one place

What Archaic-period innovation let the way for creating larger civilizations?

Farming in fixed settlements

Which of the following distinguished agricultural societies in the Northeast from those in the South and Southwest?

Farming methods to quickly exploit the land, lack of permanent settlements

Which of the following are true regarding the beginnings of English exploration in North America?

Find a passage through the New World to the Orient. First documented contact with new world came five years after Spain's.

Spain established a colony in

Florida

Most tribes in North American were matrilineal which means that the family association and clan membership __________.

Flowed through the mother's lineage.

Which of the following are true regarding French settlers in America?

France's first colony was in Quebec, the french established close relationships with Native Americans

Which of the following helped spur European exploration and colonization during the late 1400s and early 1500s?

Growth in Europe's population in fifteenth century, new governments wanted to enhance the commercial development of their nations, and an interest in expanding trade with Asia.

Broke with the Catholic Church and established the church of England

Henry VIII

Which domesticated animal gradually became the central to the lives of many natives and transformed their societies?

Horse

England's first colonial experience was in ______.

Ireland

Which of the following are characteristics of the Inca civilization?

Irrigation systems, Paved roads, Complex administrative state

Favored English Catholics and "high church" forms of religious forms of religious ceremony.

James I

When Columbus landed in Cuba in 1492, he mistakenly believed he had reached ______.

Japan

In 1606, James I issued a new charter, which divided North America between the two merchant groups interested in colonization efforts. Who were the two merchant groups?

London group, Plymouth merchants

Holland established a colony in

Manhattan Island

Restored England's ties to Catholicism and persecuted protestants

Mary I

African societies tended to be _______ , meaning that people traced their heredity and inherited property from their mothers rather their fathers.

Matrilineal

In the Spanish colonial world, people of mixed race, particularly of European and Native American descent were known as ________.

Mestizos

Which of the following best describes the reason for Spanish and Portuguese exploitation of native labor?

Native laborers could be forced to work for little or no pay.

Which of the following best explains why millions of natives dies from the diseases Europeans brought to the New World?

Native traditions of caring for their ill inadvertently helped spread the contagious diseases.

Which of the following helped Cortes in his defeat of the Aztecs?

Smallpox epidemic, help from tlaxcalans, and use of body armor

England established a colony in

Newfoundland

In 1513, Vasco de Balboa became the first known European to see the ______.

Pacific Ocean

Which of the following were direct/indirect results of European population growth during the 1400s?

Rise of a new merchant class, increased interest in trade.

Holland/Dutch dominated the slave trade during

Seventeenth Century

Sea captain who helped inhabitants of the first Roanoke colony to evacuate

Sir Francis Drake

Colonizer who attempted to establish a British colony in Newfoundland

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Helped establish Roanoke

Sir Richard Grenville

Portugal dominated the slave trade during

Sixteenth Century

The most substantial Spanish efforts at colonization in what is now the United States took place in the _______.

Southwest

Which of the following were major sources of conflict between major sources of conflict between native peoples and the Spanish in the North?

Spanish attempts at religious conversion, Encomiendas

What was the heart of the uprising led by the Pope?

Spanish attempts to suppress native rituals

Which of the following is a way in which the French experience in North America differed from that of the English?

The French had fewer colonizers than the English.

Which of the following best summarizes the relationship between mercantilism, wool trade, and England's desire to colonize the New World?

The collapse of the European wool market led English merchants to look overseas for mercantile opportunities.

What caused European settlers to begin importing slaves from Africa?

Their system of coerced Indian labor did not satisfy the labor needs of the colonists.

Which of the following were important benefits of the New World colonies?

They reduced poverty, unemployment, and overcrowding. They created new markets for english goods, they fostered economic independence for England.

Which of the following best describes the Puritans and their beliefs?

They wanted to simplify worship and reform church leadership.

Which of the following was the main motivation for the Dutch to establish a presence in North America?

Trade

Sir Walter Raleigh established ______ in honor of the English queen.

Virginia

The new English merchant capitalists prospered by selling which product in foreign markets?

Wool and cloth

Which of the following is a misconception that Christopher Columbus had?

World was smaller than he thought, Asia extended farther than it does, nothing laid to the west between Europe and Asia

Which single event most helped to increase English interest in in New World colonization?

defeat of the Spanish Armada


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