American Pageant 14th edition Bailey Chapter 1 quiz
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 True | The geography of the North American continent was fundamentally shaped be the glaciers of the Great Ice Age. |
| False | North America was first settled by people who came by boat across the water of the Pacific Strait from Japan to Alaska. |
| False | The early Indian civilizations of Mexico and Peru were built of the economic foundations of cattle and wheat growing. |
| True | Most North American Indians lived in small semi-nomadic agricultural and hunting communities. |
| True | Many Indian cultures like the Iroquois traced the decent through the female line. |
| False | No Europeans had ever set foot on the American continents prior to Columbus's arrival in 1492. |
| True | A primary motive for the European voyages of discovery was the desire to find a less expensive route to Asian goods and markets. |
| False | The beginnings of African slavery developed in response to the Spanish conquest of the Americas. |
| False | Columbus immediately recognized in 1492 that he had come across new continents previously unknown to Europeans. |
| False | The greatest effect of the European intrusion on the Indians of the Americas was to increase their population through intermarriage withe the whites. |
| True | Spanish gold and silver from the Americas fueled inflation and economic growth in Europe. |
| False | The Spanish Conquistadors had little to do with the native peoples of Mexico and refused to intermarry with them. |
| False | The province of New Mexico was first settled by French colonizers from the North. |
| True | Spain expanded its empire into Florida and New Mexico partly to block French and English intrusions. |
| True | The Spanish empire in the New World was larger, richer, and longer-lasting than that of the English. |
| a. | The geologically oldest mountains in North America are |
| b. | The Indian peoples of the New World |
| a. | The Iroquois Confederacy remained a strong political and military influence until |
| a. | Among the important forces that first stimulated European interest in trade and discovery was |
| d. | Among the most important American Indian products to spread to the Old World were |
| c. | The primary staples of Indian agriculture were |
| b. | The number of Indian in North America at the time Columbus arrived was approximately |
| c. | Before Columbus arrived the only Europeans to have temporarily visited North America were |
| a. | The Portuguese were the first to enter the slave trade and establish large -scale plantations using slave labor in |
| b. | Much of the impetus for Spanish exploration and pursuit of glory came from Spain's recent |
| c. | A crucial political development that paved the way for the European colonization of America was |
| b. | The primary reason for the drastic decline in the Indian population after the encounter with the Europeans was |
| b. | Cortes and his men were able to conquer the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan partly because |
| a. | The primary early colonial competitor with Spain in the New World was |
| d. | The belief that the Spanish only killed and tortured and stole in the Americas while doing nothing good is called |
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