Question 1

________,a native of Genoa,sailed in the employ of England on an unsuccessful search for a northwest passage through the New World to the Orient.

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Question 2

By the seventeenth century,the Spanish gave up their efforts to assimilate the Indians to Spanish ways.

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 B)False

Question 3

How did Spanish settlements and attitudes toward native populations in the New World differ from those of the English?

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Question 4

Christopher Columbus called the native people he encountered on his voyages "Indians" because

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A)  he believed they came from the East Indies in the Pacific.
B)  it is what the natives called themselves.
C)  he mispronounced their actual name.
D)  Norse seamen had first used the term.
E)  he wanted to hide his discovery from rival explorers.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 5

The most radical Puritans were called ________.

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Question 6

King ________ of Spain sent a fleet to invade England near the end of the sixteenth century.

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Question 7

Which statement about Spanish settlements in the New World is FALSE?

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A)  Spanish gold and silver mines were enormously productive.
B)  Spanish colonies would form one of the largest empires in the history of the world.
C)  The Catholic Church was very interested in spreading Christianity in Mexico.
D)  The first Spanish settlers were mostly interested in farming.
E)  Many Spanish settlements helped establish elements of European civilization permanently in America.F) C) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 8

In contrast with the European tradition,African families tended to be matrilineal.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

What condition in England in the sixteenth century provided an incentive for colonization?

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A)  The availability of farmland was declining,while the population was growing.
B)  The demand for wool was declining,while the population was growing.
C)  Pastureland was being converted to crop production,while the population was declining.
D)  Both the food supply and the population were declining.
E)  Both the food supply and the population were increasing.F) C) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 10

Which statement regarding the economic theory of mercantilism is FALSE?

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A)  It presumed that the world's wealth was finite.
B)  It increased competition among nations.
C)  It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies.
D)  It assumed that exporting goods was preferable to importing goods.
E)  Its principles spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.F) D) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 11

By 1550,Spaniards had explored the coast of North America as far north as Oregon in the west.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Portuguese exploration of the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a faster sea route to East Asia.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which statement best describes the role of women in pre-Columbian North American tribes?

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A)  In some tribes,men took care of the children as the women tended the fields.
B)  In all tribes women cared for the children and prepared meals.
C)  In no tribes did women participate in the social and economic organization of the tribe.
D)  In all tribes women and men engaged in hunting.
E)  In all tribes women were responsible for farming.F) B) and D)
G) D) and E)

Question 14

The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established at ________.

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Question 15

The pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Southwest

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A)  were primarily hunters of small game.
B)  built large irrigation systems for farming.
C)  lived in small,nomadic tribes.
D)  created an economy exclusively based on trade.
E)  primarily pursued moose and caribou for sustenance.F) D) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 16

Some historians have suggested that European diseases virtually exterminated many native tribes.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Why did the Spanish Empire rise and fall between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries?

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Question 18

The Roanoke disaster virtually killed the colonizing impulse in England for a long time.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The European countries that controlled the African slave trade did so in which chronological order,from earliest to latest?

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A)  the Portuguese,the Dutch,the English
B)  the English,the Spanish,the Dutch
C)  the Dutch,the English,the Spanish
D)  the English,the Dutch,the Portuguese
E)  the Portuguese,the Spanish,the DutchF) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 20

In 1513,which European became the first to see the Pacific Ocean?

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A)  Amerigo Vespucci
B)  Vasco de Balboa
C)  Juan Ponce de León
D)  Ferdinand Magellan
E)  Hernando CortésF) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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Which statement regarding the economic theory of mercantilism is FALSE?

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________,a native of Genoa,sailed in the employ of England on an unsuccessful search for a northwest passage through the New World to the Orient.

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Portuguese exploration of the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a faster sea route to East Asia.

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Which statement about Spanish settlements in the New World is FALSE?

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The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established at ________.

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By 1550,Spaniards had explored the coast of North America as far north as Oregon in the west.

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What condition in England in the sixteenth century provided an incentive for colonization?

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The most radical Puritans were called ________.

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In contrast with the European tradition,African families tended to be matrilineal.

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The European countries that controlled the African slave trade did so in which chronological order,from earliest to latest?

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King ________ of Spain sent a fleet to invade England near the end of the sixteenth century.

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By the seventeenth century,the Spanish gave up their efforts to assimilate the Indians to Spanish ways.

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Some historians have suggested that European diseases virtually exterminated many native tribes.

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Which statement best describes the role of women in pre-Columbian North American tribes?

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How did Spanish settlements and attitudes toward native populations in the New World differ from those of the English?

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