US History chapter 1

Perhaps 8 million Native Americans died in the century and a half following first contact, the greatest loss of human life in history.

False

The system by which Indian villagers remained legally free and entitled to wages but were still required to perform a fixed amount of labor each year was called hacienda.

False

African slaves comprised the majority of the 10 million people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the Americas in the years from 1492 to 1820.

True

Believing they knew the secret to winning the Indians' affection, the French adopted a more humane policy of dealing with the Indians than their imperial rivals.

True

Slaves, in the traditional African example, tended to be

criminals, debtors, and captives in war.

Native American religious beliefs and practices included

medicine men in positions of authority.

At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, Native Americans had not developed

metal tools and machines.

Because French and Dutch settlements were more dependent on Indians as trading partners and allies than the English, Native Americans exercised more

power and freedom with Europeans in relations with these settlements.

Indian societies of North America possessed the cultural belief that

spiritual power resided in all aspects of the natural world

The primary goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was

the establishment of a trading empire in Asia

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

Cahokia.

After four trips across the Atlantic, Columbus recognized he had not reached Asia.

False

As the climate warmed, the early inhabitants of the Americas experienced a food increase as the immense animals they hunted increased in number.

False

Before Europeans arrived in the New World, Native Americans lacked extensive trading networks, irrigation systems, or large cities.

False

In the Spanish colonies, race and class remained unimportant as socially defined systems of power.

False

Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America prior to European colonization.

False

New Netherland extended from Quebec to the lower Mississippi Valley.

False

What mistake did Columbus make regarding exploration to the New World?

He underestimated the size of the Earth

How did the Dutch settlers near present-day Wilmington, Delaware, circumvent the West India Company's trade monopoly over North American colonization?

They claimed to be operating under the Swedish flag.

Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.

True