Give Me Liberty Chapt. 1

(Q041) How did the Dutch settlers near present-day Wilmington, Delaware, circumvent the West India Company's trade monopoly over North American colonization?

They claimed to be operating under the Swedish flag.

(Q043) How did Indians gain power in some areas after European colonization began?

They pitted European colonizers against each other.

(Q084) Believing they knew the secret to winning the Indians' affection, the French adopted a more humane policy of dealing with the Indians than their imperial rivals.

True

(Q054) Colonial America was a hierarchical society in which some European colonists were indentured servants, Indians were held in forced labor, and Africans were slaves.

True.

(Q067) Horses, cows, and pigs were plentiful in the Americas before Europeans arrived.

False

(Q075) In the Spanish colonies, race and class remained unimportant as socially defined systems of power.

False

(Q032) Why did the explorer Henry Hudson sail into New York Harbor in 1609?

He was trying to find a north west passage to Asia.

(Q072) The absence of livestock in the Western Hemisphere before European arrival prevented the plowing of fields and the use of animal waste as fertilizer by Native Americans.

True

(Q035) How did the Dutch interact with Native American tribes in North America?

X They engaged exclusively in peaceful trading relationships.

(Q034) Dutch shareholders were called patroons because they

agreed to transport tenants for agricultural labor.

(Q025) Which of these crops formed the basis of Native American agriculture?

corn

(Q030) A child born of an Indian and a mestiza in the Spanish colonies was a

coyote.

(Q004) Which of the following was a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus?

populous urban centers

(Q036) Because French and Dutch settlements were more dependent on Indians as trading partners and allies than the English, Native Americans exercised more

power and freedom with Europeans in relations with these settlements.

(Q073) As the climate warmed, the early inhabitants of the Americas experienced a food increase as the immense animals they hunted increased in number.

False

(Q076) A common conception throughout Europe was that freedom was more political or social in status than a moral or spiritual condition.

False

(Q079) Modern Brazilians continue to venerate the Virgin of Guadalupe, who originated in the colonial era as a vision of the Virgin Mary with dark skin.

False

(Q082) New France attracted a large number of colonists compared to other European colonies in the Americas.

False

(Q015) Bartolomé de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1552 argued that

Indians should continue to practice their native faiths.

(Q028) Which African kingdom provided Europe with most of its gold?

Mali

(Q037) For centuries before the conquest of the Americas, Europeans had intersected with__________ populations in North Africa and Eurasia.

Muslim

(Q020) The southern portion of the Iberian Peninsula was occupied until 1492 by which of the following religious groups?

Muslims

(Q047) Spanish settlers in the New World comprised a mix of laborers, soldiers, priests, bureaucrats, craftsmen, and professionals.

True

(Q048) A major goal of Spanish colonization was to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.

True

(Q057) Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.

True

(Q062) On the eve of colonization of the Americas, freedom in Europe was framed in hierarchical, top-down terms, with each level of society enjoying its own degree of freedom.

True

(Q083) In the eighteenth century, Spanish colonial authorities adopted a more tolerant attitude toward traditional religious practices and made fewer demands on Indian labor.

True

(Q012) The European practice of "coverture" included that

in marriage, a wife surrendered her legal identity.

(Q023) Who were the mestizos in the Americas?

persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin

(Q001) The primary goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was

sanctuary for persecuted religious sects.

(Q039) Which of the following European nations in the early seventeenth century experienced a "golden age" in the form of a rapid rise in wealth, the sciences, and the arts?

the Netherlands

(Q029) Why did news of the 1492 voyage of Columbus spread rapidly in Europe?

the invention of printing with movable type

(Q026) Which of the following was a major reason why early Europeans thought that Native Americans were barbaric?

their religion and ceremonial practices

(Q027) Despite China's growing territorial power, their purpose in exploration was

to impress other world peoples with their might.

(Q013) The first African slaves were shipped to the New World in what year?

1619

(Q046) A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadores.

False

(Q049) Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America prior to European colonization.

False

(Q061) Europeans in the 1500s held firmly to the view that all men are created equal.

False

(Q063) Most European men in the 1500s owned property and could vote.

False

(Q069) Perhaps 8 million Native Americans died in the century and a half following first contact, the greatest loss of human life in history.

False

(Q081) In 1508, Spain established the first permanent colony in the Americas in what is now Cuba.

False

(Q085) The French invented the joint-stock company, which proved central to the development of modern capitalism.

False

(Q018) In the 1500s and 1600s, the Spanish in the Americas relied on which of the following groups to work fields and mines?

Native American workers

(Q007) The three European colonizing countries in North America in the seventeenth century were

Spain, France, the Netherlands.