Give Me Liberty Chapter 1
Amerigo Vespucci
America was named for him
Adam Smith
British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
Patroons
Dutch landowners of large estates
"Christian liberty" was the basis for religious toleration.
False
African society did not practice slavery before Europeans came.
False
Agriculture did not come to the American continents, around Mexico and Peru, until approximately 1000 CE
False
Columbus established the first permanent settlement on Hispaniola in 1502.
False
Columbus first sailed to what is now Venezuela.
False
Columbus was Spanish.
False
Cortés conquered the capital city of the Aztec empire with an army of over 1,000 men.
False
Thanks to Martin Luther, the movable-type printing press is one of the most important inventions in modern times, helping to rapidly disseminate information around the world.
False
The French established the first permanent European settlement in what would become New York City.
False
The Spanish aim was to exterminate or remove the Indians from the New World.
False
The Spanish were the first to sail down the western coast of Africa, establishing trading posts, called factories.
False
The mound builders were a sophisticated ancient peoples living in the American Southwest.
False
Under English law, women held many legal rights and privileges.
False
When the Edict of Nantes, which had granted religious toleration to French Protestants (Huguenots), was revoked in 1685, 100,000 Huguenots fled France for New France.
False
Christopher Columbus
Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
Black Legend
Spanish brutality
Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
New Laws
Spanish reform measures toward Indians
Before helping to colonize New France, the Jesuits had previously established missions in Asia.
True
By 1550, the Spanish empire in the New World exceeded the ancient Roman Empire in size.
True
During the Pueblo Revolt, the Indians destroyed symbols of Catholic culture, like crosses and statues of the Virgin Mary.
True
Like the Spanish, the French often intermarried with the Indians, resulting in mixed-race children.
True
Most, although not all, Indian societies were matrilineal.
True
Peninsulares stood atop the social hierarchy in Spanish America.
True
Portuguese seafarers initially hoped to locate African gold.
True
Spain insisted that the primary goal of colonization was to save the Indians from heathenism.
True
The Indians of North America believed that land was a common resource and the basis of economic life.
True
The Indians, although diverse, all seemed to observe religious ceremonies centered around hunting or farming.
True
The Spanish reconquista required that all Muslims and Jews convert to Catholicism or leave Spain immediately.
True
The catastrophic decline in the native populations of Spanish America was mostly due to the fact that they were not immune to European diseases.
True
"Coverture"
a married woman surrendering her legal identity
Juan Ponce de Léon
explored Florida
John Cabot
first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
Samuel de Champlain
founded Quebec
Haciendas
large-scale farm owned by a Spanish landlord
Zheng He
led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
Criollos
person born in the Spanish colonies of European ancestry
Mestizos
persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
Vasco de Gama
sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
Matrilineal
society centered on the mother's family
Johannes Gutenberg
developed movable-type printing press
Mound builders
ancient residents of the Mississippi Valley region
Pedro Cabral
claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
Great League of Peace
confederation of five Iroquois tribes
Columbian Exchange
transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between New and Old Worlds
Pueblo revolt
uprising against Spanish colonists in New Spain