Give Me Liberty Ch. 1-15

Which of the following European countries did not have a colonial presence in seventeenth-century North America

Germany

Which was not a mean by which Cortez conquered the Aztecs?

He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons

Who were the mestizos

Persons of mixed Spanish & Indian origin

The oldest site in the present day United States to be continuously inhabited by Europeans is:

St. Augustine, Florida

Which of the following was not a notable feature of sixteenth-century Spanish America

The Spanish crown took little interest in the administration of colonial affairs

Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind European colonization in the New World?

The spread of democracy to the Americas

A key motivation behind early English settlement in the American colonies was

All: -escape from the material and spiritual corruptions of England -the profits to be made in transatlantic commerce -acquisition of land, and thus a measure of personal independence

A significant outcome of the Portuguese arrival in West Africa was:

An expansion of Africa's internal slave

Before 1800, the largest settled community in what is now the United State was

Cahokia

Which was not a characteristic of "coverture"?

Children became the property of the state upon a husbands death

Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were

High rates of death and disease

The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was

Land ownership

Which of these crops did not form the basic of Native American agriculture?

Wheat