Exam 1: A New World

A) claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B) founded Quebec
C) Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D) Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
E) British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F) Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G) sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H) America was named for him
I) first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J) explored Florida
K) led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L) developed a movable-type printing press

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A) The Chinese were not looking to discover new places.
B) The Chinese wanted to spread their religion.
C) The Portuguese had no interest in establishing trade ports.
D) The Portuguese did not want to spread Christianity and hoped to learn from other world religions.
E) The Portuguese naval fleet consisted of more ships that were much larger than Chinese vessels.

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A) claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B) founded Quebec
C) Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D) Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
E) British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F) Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G) sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H) America was named for him
I) first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J) explored Florida
K) led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L) developed a movable-type printing press

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A) society centered on the mother's family
B) Spanish brutality
C) uprising against Spanish colonists in New Spain
D) Dutch slaves with land
E) large-scale farm owned by a Spanish landlord
F) persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
G) Spanish reform measures toward Indians
H) a married woman surrendering her legal identity
I) transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between New and Old Worlds
J) confederation of five Iroquois tribes
K) Spanish control of Indian labor
L) ancient residents of the Mississippi Valley region

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A) It was the subject of a great deal of favorable publicity throughout Europe.
B) Its commitment to religious toleration was a source of great embarrassment for less-tolerant powers like England and Spain.
C) Its population was limited at best, because France feared that a significant emigration would undermine its role as a great European power.
D) The only women allowed to reside there were nuns, a reflection of the French commitment to spreading Catholicism.
E) Seigneuries were the only democratic areas in the colony.

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A) It was where the Indians revolted and booted out the Spanish.
B) It was the first permanent colony in what would become the United States.
C) It later broke away from Spain and became an independent nation.
D) Under the Spanish, it did not allow slavery.
E) Natives were immune to disease.

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A) They supported tolerance in religious matters in their colony.
B) Their colony was the first in the Americas to have a bill of rights.
C) They allowed freedom of speech.
D) They issued the Edict of New Netherland, declaring the Puritans to be heathens because they refused to allow religious freedom.
E) They gave men ownership of their wives, which gave married men the property ownership and independence they needed to participate in political activities.

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A) Tucson.
B) Albuquerque.
C) El Paso.
D) San Diego.
E) Santa Fe.

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A) The colony's elected assembly enjoyed greater rights of self-government than any English colonial legislative body.
B) The Dutch commitment to liberty prompted the colony to ban slavery there.
C) Religious intolerance led the Dutch to ban all Jewish peoples from the colony.
D) Of all the colonies in the New World, New Netherland required the longest period of service from indentured servants.
E) Married women retained a legal identity separate from that of their husbands.

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A) Over time, Spanish America evolved into a hybrid culture-part Spanish, part Indian, and, in some areas, part African.
B) Mestizos enjoyed much political freedom and held most of the high government positions.
C) Spaniards outnumbered the Indian inhabitants after fifty years of settlement.
D) The Catholic Church played only a minor role in Spanish America.
E) Spanish America was very rural and had few urban centers.

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A) a woman's responsibility to wear a scarf covering her head when in public.
B) knowing your place in society, especially at church when sitting in the pews.
C) a tax one pays on one's property that is assessed quarterly.
D) a woman surrendering her legal identity when she marries.
E) a binding legal agreement between an indentured servant and his or her master.

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A) Amsterdam.
B) Geneva.
C) Marseilles.
D) London.
E) Brussels.

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A) Montreal.
B) New York.
C) Champlain.
D) Quebec.
E) Albany.

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