Quiz 1American History to 1865

In European exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New World after 1492, all of the following were true except:

Europeans brought with them a broad-ranging tolerance for others' viewpoints| kindness and tolerance being the mark of civilized peoples.

A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadors.

False

In 1493, the Catholic pope, Alexander VI, divided all the Americas between Spain and Britain.

False

Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America.

False

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

False

Of the 10 million people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the Americas in the 328 years from 1492 to 1820, most were white Europeans.

False

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was swiftly crushed by Spanish authorities.

False

When the author, Eric Foner, uses the term "unfree labor," he refers to those persons who were performing work, not for free as volunteers, but for wages.

False

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

Germany

Which was not a means by which Cortes conquered Aztecs

He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons

Which of the following was not a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus?

Large cities were unknown to the Americas.

Which of the following was not a prominent cultural belief among Indian societies of North America

Only holders of property should take part in tribal governance

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 was not a characteristic of American Indians?

There were four different tribes in the Americas.

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all European nations had established churches, and religious wars because between nations (and sometimes within them) were fierce.

True

Horses, cows, pigs, and sheep were unknown to the Americas until Europeans brought them there.

True

The reconquista was the reconquest of Spain from the Moors.

True

The transatlantic voyages of Columbus were sponsored by Spain, which had just achieved its own territorial unification.

True

To justify their colonial ventures, Spain invoked the threat of Protestantism

True

When Columbus first sailed to America in 1492, Christian Europe was entirely Catholic| twenty-five years later, following Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the Protestant Reformation had begun, and Europe was thrown into more than 100 years of Christian religious wars.

True

The freedom of a Christian man or woman meant/means:

subservience, submission, and servitude to God.

Prior to 1800, the largest settled community in what is now the United States was:

Cahokia

Which was not a characteristic of "coverture"?

Children became the property of the state upon a husband's death.

The first African slaves were transported to the New World in what year?

1502

The reconquista happened in what year?

1492