Chapter 17-ap world

Though it began as a proprietary colony and as a refuge for Quakers, this colony was the first to have sole right to form a government as a given by Britain.

D. Pennsylvania

Plantation economies grew all of the following labor intensive crops expect

D. Squash

The worst one strain of malaria originated from

D. The African slave trade

Why did Brazil develop more slowly than other areas of Latin America?

D. The local population was smaller and less urbanized, requiring a different labor structure.

Within fifteen years of its settlement, the colony at Jamestown lost _ percent of its population.

A. 80

What effect did European horses have on the America?

A. Increased military capacity and hunting efficiency

Between 1651 and 1673 the English Navigation Acts sought to

A. Severely limit colonial trading and production competition

What was the most deadly of the epidemics in the Americas?

A. Smallpox

By the end of the 16th century, Portugal controlled the Brazilian coast while this country controlled most of the remaining areas of Central and South America?

A. Spain

Which of the following became the richest institution of the Spanish colonies?

A. The Catholic Church

Death rates among Amerindian peoples during the epidemics of the early colonial period were

A. Very high

The highest-ranking Spanish officials in the colonies were

A. Viceroys

Which of the following Old World foods did settlers introduce to New World agriculture?

A. Wheat, olives, grapes, and garden vegetables

An encomienda was

A. a form of forced labor and tribute

In French Canada, Jesuit efforts to convert the native people to Christianity led to the

A. founding of schools, hospitals, and churches

Which of the following is not one way that slaves expressed their resistance to the colonial masters in Latin America?

A. signing petitions

In colonial Spanish America the term used to describe someone of Europeans descent born in the new world was

D. Creoles

The most influential defender of Amerindian in the Early colonial period was a Catholic priest named

B. Bartolome de las Casas

Early Spanish and Portuguese settlers in the Americas sought to institute colonial societies similar to the Old World including patriarchal families networks founded on this religion.

B. Catholic

The French settlement in America resembled Spanish and Portuguese colonies more than those of England in that they wanted to

B. Extract resources and convert the population to Christianity

In Virginia, colonial government consisted of a governor, his council, and elected representatives known as the

B. House of Burgesses

The primary Amerindian allies of the French were the Algonquin and the native enemies of the French were

B. Iroquois

Why did Massachusetts have a lower mortality rate than southern and Caribbean colonies?

B. Massachusetts had more families and greater stability of population

The two groups of Protestant dissenters that colonized New England were who?

B. Pilgrims and Puritans

Why did the people of the New World lack immunity to the diseases of the Europeans?

B. Their long isolation from other continents

The castas of Latin America included mixed-race people such as

D. Mestizos and Mulattos

In Brazil, Amerindian slaves were increasingly ravaged by disease and warfare and were eventually superseded by

C. African slaves

The most important agent for transmitting European beliefs, language, and culture in Spanish America and Brazil was the

C. Catholic Church

How were the Europeans languages and cultures primarily transmitted to indigenous populations?

C. Conversion efforts by the Catholic Church

The leaders of French expansion, the coureurs de bois were

C. Frenchmen living among the natives

The hybrid culture of African and American was most standardized by the evolution of a common idol along the Carolina coast called

C. Gullah

Spain's lesser nobles were called

C. Hidalgos

One of the significant factors delaying English and French settlement of the Americas was

C. Involvement in the wars of religion during the Reformation

The Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1535, with its capital in Mexico City, encompassed

C. Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Islands

The economic development of the colonies in Mexico and Peru was dominated by sugar plantations and

C. Silver mining

One of the major reasons for the growth of the world population after 1700 was

C. The spread of more high-calorie per acre staple crops like maize and potatoes from the New World

Tupac Amaru II was

C. a Peruvian Amerindian leader

Migrants to British colonies in the Americas who paid for passage by agreeing to work for a set term ranging from four to seven years were called:

C. indentured servants

One difference between northern and southern English colonies was that

C. northern economies were more commercially more far-reaching

The majority of slaves granted manumission

C. purchased their freedom

In what ways were the English and French American colonies similar to the Spanish and Portuguese American colonies?

E. All of the above

Which of the following were ways that the Amerindian population reacted to the colonial economy

E. All of the above

The French and Indian war resulted in the

E. Both A and B

A significant effect of the flood of silver from the Americans into the Europeans economy was

E. Reinvestment in local European farming techniques

The largest slave revolt in South Carolina took place in 1739 and was called

E. Stono Rebellion

The forced labor system in which Amerindian men in Peru worked two to fourth month of the year in the mines was

E. The mita

Which of the following is true of the puritans

E. They wanted to purify the Church of England, not break from it

Enormous wealth was generated by the Spanish through

E. silver and gold mines

What export product dominated the Brazilian economy by the 17th century?

E. sugar