HIST1101 ch 1-4 quiz

Which crop did the Europeans bring to the new world?

Wheat

Which explorer initiated the Spanish charting of the Southeastern region?

Ponce de León

What belief did the Quakers hold that other Protestant groups did not?

That war and aggression were wrong under all circumstances

On which modern day location did Christopher Columbus's fleet first land in the new world?

The Bahamas

What evidence suggests that the American colonies' Declaration of Independence against Great Britain was bound to happen decades before it did?

The colonies had developed their own economic structures independently from Great Britain

Which of the following nearly decimated the population of Hispaniola in the early 1500s?

Disease

What posed the biggest threat to the early peoples of the American Southwest prior to the year 1300?

Environmental changes

Which of the following was most helpful to the success of the Colombian Exchange in the New World?

Established Native American trade routes

The Russians were the first to explore which North American region?

Alaska

What evidence most clearly indicates that the Aztec people migrated to Mexico from the American Southwest?

An active turquoise trade existed between the regions

What caused the deaths of most of the native population of Hispaniola in the early 1500s?

An epidemic of smallpox

The Hohokam people of modern-day Arizona were best known for which of the following?

Canal construction

Which ideas of the European enlightenment were most influential to the American colonists?

Inalienable rights

The Western European curiosity that led to the Columbian exchange originated with which explorer's travels?

Marco Polo

Which of the following had the greatest role in the economic growth of Britains North American colonies in the 1700s?

The expansion of slavery

Which law had the greatest impact on the legal status of Africans in North America in the 1600s?

The law making slavery a hereditary condition inherited through a child's mother

How did the Europeans arrival in the new world have the most detrimental effect on its ecosystem?

The livestock brought by the Europeans devoured the native plants and animals

Evidence of a turquoise trade indicates that the Aztec people probably migrated to central Mexico from what area?

The southwest

Why did King Louis XIV first send French explorers to the Great Lakes region?

To find a direct route to china