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43 Cards in this Set
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The chief goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was:
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the establishment of a trading empire in Asia.
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At the time of first contact with the Europeans, perhaps 12 million people lived in the Inca kingdom.
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True
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The reconquista was the reconquest of Spain from the Moors.
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True
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Which of the following European countries did not have a colonial presence in seventeenth-century North America?
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Germany
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At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, Native Americans had not developed:
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wheeled transportation.
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Which was not a means by which Cortez conquered the Aztecs?
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He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons.
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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 a hundred years of Christian religious wars.
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True
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Which was not a characteristic of "coverture"?
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Children became the property of the state upon a husband's death.
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Most European men in the 1500's owned property and could vote.
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False
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Which of the following was a characteristic or action of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest?
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They diverted the Colorado River as part of their ritualistic ancestor worship.
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Of the ten million people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the Americas in the 328 years from 1492 to 1820, most were white Europeans.
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False
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Which of the following was not a notable feature of sixteenth-century Spanish America?
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The Spanish crown took little interest in the administration of colonial affairs.
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The freedom of a Christian man or woman meant/means:
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subservience, submission, and servitude to God.
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Which of the following was not a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus?
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Large cities were unknown to the Americas.
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During the Pueblo Revolt, which of the following names were ordered to never be spoken again?
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Mary
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Horses, cows, pigs, and sheep were unknown to the Americas until Europeans brought them there.
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True
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The reconquista happened in
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1492
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The oldest site in the present-day United States to be continuously inhabited by Europeans is:
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St. Augustine, Florida.
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Who were the mestizos?
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Persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin.
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Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America.
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False
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At the time of Portugal's Atlantic exploration, the economies of West Africa were organized chiefly around slavery.
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False
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all European nations had established churches, and religious wars between nations (and sometimes within them) were fierce.
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True
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Which of these crops did not form the basis of Native American agriculture?
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Wheat
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The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?
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Grandchildren of the English Great Migration.
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Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was:
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tobacco
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Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for:
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Catholics
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Which of the following crops did John Rolfe introduce to the English colonies?
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Tobacco.
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Because Puritan Massachusetts was deeply religious, ministers were frequently elected to colonial offices.
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False
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The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600's led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?
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Indentured servants.
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Which of the following was not a significant trend of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English society?
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The elimination of gender hierarchies.
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Having fled religious intolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts:
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were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity
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Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were:
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high rates of death and disease.
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The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that:
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just and equal laws made by male representatives on board were to rule.
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Which of the following was not a characteristic of early New England society?
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Equality of the sexes in church affairs, but not in government affairs.
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The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was:
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land ownership.
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At the end of their period of indenture, indentured servants were often given "freedom dues" and became a free member of society.
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True
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Colonial Massachusetts was organized into self-governing towns.
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True
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The "Rights of Englishmen" were established in the Magna Carta.
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True
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The Pilgrims were Puritans.
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False
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Most immigrants to America from England in the 1600's were poor, young, single men.
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True
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John Rolfe was the first governor of Virginia.
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False
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Which of the following colonies was established first?
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Virginia
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Anne Hutchinson scandalized Massachusetts authorities both for her unorthodox religious ideas and for her "unwomanly" engagement in public issues.
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True
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