Chapter 1 InQuizitive Questions- US History
identify the characteristics of the Repartimiento System
#1: Natives were required to perform a fixed amount of labor #2: natives remained legally free #3: natives were paid wages
The late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries are often described as the early years of Europe's age of exploration. Place the following European voyages in chronological order.
#1: The Vikings established a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoudland #2: The Columbian expedition makes landfall in the Bahamas #3: Amerigo Vespucci explores the coast of South Africa #4: Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the globe
Indentify which technologies enabled people to travel
#1: invention of the compass #2: invention of the quadrant #3: development of the caravel
The inhabitants of what Native American city near present day St. Louis were known for building burial mounds
Cahokia
What country had a large naval fleet and could have located America before Columbus?
China
Why was Columbus more confident than others about his ability to sail westward?
Columbus used the Bible to calculate that Asia was only 3,000 miles to the west
Identify the innovations Native Americans lacked that limited the development of agriculture to certain regions
Correct Answers: #1: wheeled vehicles #2: Domesticated animals Incorrect Answers: #1: trade networks #2: irrigation systems
According to the widespread legal doctrine known as "coverture", when a woman married she surrendered her legal identity and became "covered" by that of her husband. What did coverture mean for married women?
Correct answers: #1: family life was dependent on male dominance and female submission #2: A married woman couldn't own property or sign contracts in her name #3: a married woman could not conduct business for the family Incorrect answers: #1: A married woman could seek divorce, regardless of the situation
Europeans held numerous ideas for freedom, Identify the characteristics of Christian liberty
Correct: #1: Servitude and freedom were mutually reinforced through the ideal of becoming a "servant to God" #2: less of a political or social status, and more of a moral or spiritual condition Incorrect #1: embrace religious toleration #2: very similar to native religious rites
Identify the statements that describe the population in the Spanish colonies
Correct: #1: Wives of colonist were required to leave Spain and join their husbands in the colonies #2:Persons born in Spain were the minority of the population in the Spanish Colonies #3: all single men were required to marry Incorrect: #1: Indians were not wanted in Spanish culture, and so they were no granted any rights
Identify the key characteristics of the Hopi and Zuni civilizations of Western Indians
Correct: #1: built planned towns with large multi-families dwellings #2: constructed dams and canals to gather and distribute water Incorrect: #1: traded exclusively with local groups #2: Maintained a strict separation between church and state, outlawing the construction of Kivas, or places of worship, near their settlements
Identify the most likely reasons the five tribes of Iroquois united under one confederacy
Correct: #1: to coodinate diplomatic relations between members of the league #2: to combine their fighting forces to defeat other native tribes in the area Not correct: #1: to form an alliance against Europe invasion #2: the more effctively isolate and quarantine themselves from Europe Disease
Identify the statements that describe the encounters between the peoples of the Americas and the Europeans
Describe: #1: The invention of printing made it possible for Europeans to share information and follow in each others sailing paths #2: The Europeans competed with each other, trying to amass as many native converts to their specific religion as possible #3: Europeans sought wealth in the New World, initially relying for either trade or labor Don't Describe: #1: Natives tended to welcome Europeans without hesitations
What petition was filed by Quakers demanding they be allowed to settle in a Dutch colony?
Flushing Remonstrance
Identify the key characteristics of either the French or Dutch colonies
French: #1: the country had patroons who were landowners who had tenants work on their land for profits #2: Religious toleration existed for colonists #3: legal rights existed for woman Dutch: #1: They married Indian woman, relying on them as guides, traders, and interpreters
Identify why Christopher Columbus most likely brought ten inhabitants from the Island of Hispaniola back to Spain?
He brought them back for conversion to Christianity
What impact did the unifying kingdoms of Aragon and Castil have on potential westward expansion for Spain
It enabled them to complete the eeconquista of Spain from the Moors, who had occupited the Iberian Peninsula for centuries
Who would Bartolome de Las Casas have the most in common with
Martin Luther King
Ideas of freedom for Native and European societies:
Native: #1: family ties and kinship were prioritized over individual needs #2: families owned the right to use land #3: supported the idea of freedom of religious choice Europeans #1: individual freedom was prioritized over group needs #2: freedom was associated with individual ownership of property #3: Moral behavior was directed by a written code of laws
Different economic conditions in different European colonies in North America produced different kinds of societies. Match each colony with a brief description of its social dynamics.
New Spain: The need for labor led to conflicts with the native population New France: The need for allies in the fur trade led to interdependence with the native population New England: The need for land led to conflict with the native population
The Pueblo Revolt( 1680) provides lessons for both natives and Spanish peoples. What were the outcomes of the Pueblo Revolt
Outcome: #1: The Spanish adopted a more tolerant attitude in their relations with natives #2: The pueblos rejected all symbols of European Culture #3: Natives rebuilt their place of worship Not an outcome: #1: the Spanish military was victorious
Life in the Spanish New World was complex, hierarchical, and full of new social distinctions that had not existed in Europe. Match the new social category with its correct descriptor
Peninsular: A person of high birth born in Europe and transplanted to the Americas Criollo: A person of Spanish ancestry born in the Americas Mestizo: A person of mixed ancestry
Identify the statement that best describes religious freedom in 17th century Europe
People in 17th century Europe were legally obligated to follow the faith of the Kingdom and had no private choice in the matter
identify the statement that describes the French treatments of Indians
The French had great admiration for the native societies and as a result they frequently adopted native ways
Most native american societies were matrilineal. Which of the following is characteristic of a matrilineal society>
children became members of the mothers family, not the fathers family
Identify the territory that wold be considered a borderland
the "middle ground" of the upper lakes
Identify the best statement that defines animism
the belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things
Identify the definition of Metis
the child of an Indian woman and French man