ICC - American History - Chapter 1
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- The Indian empire that dominated modern Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest.
- Aztec
- At the time of the Spanish Conquest, the Native Americans' economy was based on what?
- Agriculture
- The eastern third of what is now the United States was inhabited by whom?
- Woodland Indians
- _____ ______ in North America tended to divide tasks according to gender (male or female).
- Indian Societies
- Paralleling the rise of commerce in Europe and was also in part responsible for the European rise in commerce.
- United and powerful Nation States
- Partly due to Columbus' voyages, ____ replaced _____ as the foremost seafaring nation.
- Spain replaced Portugal
- Through daring, brutality, and greed conquistadors made possible the creation of a ____ _____ in America.
- Spanish Empire
- What happened as most Indians began to convert to Catholicism?
- Most Indians continued to practice their native religion
- What was the MOST profound thing introduced to America as the Native Americans and Europeans first met?
- European Disease
- What was more important to Europe than the gold and silver from the new country?
- New crops that could feed larger numbers of people
- In matrilineal Indian and African Societies, who play a major or dominant role?
- Women
- When did the African slave trade begin?
- As early as the 18th century
- What cause the slave trade to increase dramatically in the 16th. century?
- Rising European demands for sugar
- Bringing Christianity to the Indian WAS or WAS NOT a reason for English colonization?
- WAS NOT
- According the the Mercantile Theory, what could make a nation strong?
- Exporting more than they Imported
- These were members of the Church of England that believed that the church had not given up a lot of the Roman Churches practices?
- Puritans
- As a result of what happened in Ireland, the English believed what?
- They should maintain a strict separation from the native populations
- This country produced the most successful fur trappers and traders.
- France
- Where was the first Permanent English settlement?
- Jamestown, Virginia
- This is the man whom Queen Elizabeth granted the land that the "Lost Colony was planted on?
- Sir Walter Raleigh
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(True or False)
The Aztec capital on present day Mexico City was called Cuzco. - False
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The large Indian trading center in the Mississippi River Valley near present day St. Louis was Cahokia. - True
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The Iroquios Confederation consisted of tribes in the southernmost region of the eastern seaboard. - False
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All Native Indian tribes traced their families through their father's line. - False
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By the end of the first voyage Columbus knew he had not reached China. - False
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Cortes might not have been able to defeat the Aztecs had it not been for the small pox outbreak in the Indian population. - True
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The oldest permanent European settlement in the United States is St. Augustine. - True
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The Catholic Church was as important as Brutality and force in the Spanish colonization of America. - True
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Encomiendas were large estates or land grants. - True
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New Mexico brought Spain almost as much gold and silver as Mexico did. - False
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The most important crop taken from America by Spain back to Europe was Squash. - False
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Europeans justified their treatment of the Indians because they considered them to be uncivilized savages. - True
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Spaniards seldom inter-married with the Native Indians. - False
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Mercantilism was a theory that discouraged colonization. - False
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Charter Companies were business partnerships operating with a monopoly from a monarch for a specific region. - True
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The doctrine that God had chosen some people to be saved and others condemned was preached by Martin Luther. - False
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The English Reformation began with a dispute between the Pope and the King. - True
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England's first experience with colonization was in Virginia. - False
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The first settlers in the Hudson River Valley were the Dutch. - True
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In 1606 King James exclusive right to settle along the southeast coast or North America to a group of London merchants. - True