HIS 105 Practice test

The average slave field hand on a sugar plantation was estimated to live:

Five or six years.

The most successful _________ settlement in North America was in the subtropical district at the mouth of the Mississippi River in what is now Louisiana, where settlers with African slaves founded sugar plantations.

French

After achieving independence, the ________ elevated their spoken language, Kreyòl, into their national identity

Haitians

At the battle of Tippecanoe in _________, thousands of Tecumseh's followers from a variety of Native American nations came together, but they suffered a defeat at the hands of US troops in 1811

Indiana

In response to the "Boston Tea Party", Britain closed the harbor, demanded restitution, and passed the so-called Coercive Acts (called the "_______ Acts" in the American colonies)

Intolerable

Bismarck's Prussia fought wars for German unification with all of the following except:

Italy

Even with Japan's policy of seclusion, the government allowed merchants from China and ______ to visit Nagasaki

Korea

The term "casta" or caste was a collective name used to draw distinctions among degrees of

Racial mixture

In the 1540s the Spanish government introduced ___________ called repartimientos, which was a continuation of the mit'a system devised by the Inca for taxation.

Rotating labor assignments

Ships leaving from their home ports in England would exchange ___________ for slaves in West Africa.

Rum

Ming land taxes were paid to the government in ___________ via installments.

Silver

Mercantilist economic theory dictates that:

States should keep their economies blocked off from competitors and import as little and export as much as possible.

After Brazil, which region in the American received the largest number of African slaves?

The Caribbean

Between 250,000 and 1 million Taínos were killed when the Spanish came due to:

The Native Americans' lack of immunity against smallpox

What caused the European immigrant population to rise in Brazil during the late seventeenth century?

The discovery of gold.

The popularity of rum promoted:

The expansion of sugar planting and slavery, to their peak after 1750.

An estimated __________ Spaniards emigrated from Europe to the Americas between 1500 and 1800.

300,000

_______ published his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776

Adam Smith

In the Kongolese belief system, Portuguese Catholicism was:

Adapted to the indigenous African spiritual and cultural heritage.

In "chattel" slavery, the slave is, in legal terms:

An item of moveable personal property.

The machine accepted by the French Assembly for use in executions was designed by _________.

Antoine Louis

As a result of the Seven Years' War, France lost Canada to

Britain

Popular culture in Chinese villages included all of the following except

Confucianism

By means of land-labor grants called __________, Spanish entrepreneurs were entitled to use forced indigenous or imported slave labor to exploit natural resources in the New World.

Encomiendas

Around 1750, there were about 10,000 Boers (Dutch for "_______") in the Cape Colony, easily outnumbered by slaves.

Farmers

By 1557, the Portuguese had wrested the first European colony from the Chinese at _________, and they held it until 1999.

Macau

______ became a vital axis of world trade, with Chinese merchants exchanging spices and luxury goods for Spanish silver from the Americas.

Manila

The United States faced the vital question of how to incorporate new territory after its war with _________ from 1846 to 1848

Mexico

Jesuit missionaries were at times welcomed into China and Japan but were ultimately rejected as "subversive" elements by the ____ and the Tokugawa

Qing

According to the infamous "_______ edict" in 1645, all males, regardless of ethnicity, were required on pain of death to adopt the Manchu hairstyle of a shaved forehead and long pigtail in the back

Queue

After another doubling of its population by 1800, China moved toward what some historical demographers have called a high-level equilibrium trap, a condition in which:

The land has reached its maximum potential for feeding a population, and the surplus population begins to starve.

Slaveowners constantly faced

The threat of insurrection.

The _______ shoguns adopted Neo-Confucianism as the governing ideology, thus joining the commonwealth of Confucian "religious civilizations" in the region.

Tokugawa

The Atlantic system or the "_________" trade connected the American colonies with Africa and Europe.

Triangular

The Popes found Jesuit practices in China like ___________ problematic

Using tea and rice for the Eucharist instead of bread and wine

In Brazil, black freedmen and mulattoes:

Were farmers and craft producers.

By the mid-16th century, the conquistadors shifted from looting Native American empires and towns to exploiting native labor in _______ and in agriculture.

Working silver, gold, and mercury mines

To support the mining centers and administrative cities, the Spanish colonial government ___________ the development of agricultural estates (haciendas).

encouraged

In its final draft, the Declaration of Independence tacitly excluded the ________ of all Americans who were black slaves

one fifth

Patriotic feelings were roused in France in April 1792, when:

the government declared war on Austria