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