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| 304245738 | What was the "Columbian Exchange?" | The transfer of peoples, animals, plants and diseases between the New and Old World. | 0 | |
| 304245739 | How did disease affect the Amerindian peoples during the early colonial period? | It devastated the indigenous population and caused dramatic population changes. | 1 | |
| 304245740 | What was the most deadly of the epidemics in the Americas? | Smallpox | 2 | |
| 304245742 | What impact did the horse have on the Americas? | It increased the efficiency of hunters and the military capacity of warriors on the plains. | 3 | |
| 304245743 | By the end of the sixteenth century, what country occupied mist if the Brazilian coast? | Portugal | 4 | |
| 304245745 | The Council of the Indies was created for what purpose? | To supervise all government, ecclesiastical, and commercial activity in the Spanish colonies | 5 | |
| 304245746 | Why did the highest-ranking Spanish officials in the colonies enjoy broad power? | because of their distance from Spain | 6 | |
| 304245747 | The Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1535 encompassed what areas? | Mexico, the Southwest of what is now the United States, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean. | 7 | |
| 304245748 | The most important agent for transmitting European beliefs, language, and culture in Spanish America and Brazil was what? | the Catholic Church | 8 | |
| 304245749 | The most influential defender of Amerindians in the early colonial period was who? | Bartolome De Las Casas | 9 | |
| 304337138 | Which of the following became the richest institution of the Spanish colonies? | the Church | 10 | |
| 304337139 | The economic development of the colonies in Mexico and Peru was dominated by who? | silver rhining | 11 | |
| 304337140 | What was an encomienda? | A grant of authority over a population of AMerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods y the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the Amerindians. | 12 | |
| 304337141 | The forced labor system where the male Amerindian slaves was eventually superseded by who? | Mita | 13 | |
| 304337142 | Seventeenth-century sugar plantations of Brazil depended on what type of labor force? | slaves | 14 | |
| 304337143 | In Brazil, the economic importance of Amerindian slaves was eventually superseded by who? | African slaves | 15 | |
| 304337144 | The Spanish attempted to protect and control trade to the colonies by doing what? | They gave monopoly trade rights. | 16 | |
| 304337145 | Spain's lesser nobles were called? | Hidalgos | 17 | |
| 304337146 | Amerindian- born Spanish whites were called? | Creoles | 18 | |
| 304337147 | How did the slaves express their resistance to their colonisl masters in Latin America? | in many formas including sabotage, malingering, running away, and rebellion | 19 | |
| 304337148 | Slaves could be manumitted by? | purchasing their freedom or giving birth to a child of the master, or being that child | 20 | |
| 304337149 | The castas of Latin America included mixed race peoples such as? | Mestizos and Mulattos | 21 | |
| 304337150 | How did the English and French American colonies differ from the Spanish and Portuguese American colonies? | They didn't have the large, expensive colonial bureaucracies, and private companies and individual proprietors played a large role. | 22 | |
| 304337151 | The early English effort to found a colony in the Americas produced? | more failures than successes | 23 | |
| 304337152 | Which form of complementary labor was added ot the English colonies in the America? | indentured servants | 24 | |
| 304337153 | In Virginia, colonial government consisted of which offices or people? | A crown-appointed governor and his council, as well as the House of Burgesses | 25 | |
| 304337154 | How did the Amerindian population react to the colonial economy? | They joined in the trade of furs and skins and became very dependent on the Europeans for firearms, metal tools, textiles, and alcohol. | 26 | |
| 304337155 | What was the valuable plant used to produce dye? | Indigo | 27 | |
| 304337156 | The largest slave revolt that took place in 1739 in South Carolina was called what? | The Stono Rebellion | 28 | |
| 304337157 | The two groups of Protestant dissenters that colonized New England were who? | The Pilgrims and the Puritans | 29 | |
| 304337158 | How were the Massachusetts colonies different from the Chesapeake and South Carolina colonies? | Most newcomers came with their families. Also, the economy was not based on agriculture due to poor soils. | 30 | |
| 304337159 | Who first settled the Middle Atlantic region? | The Dutch | 31 | |
| 304337160 | Compare the French settlements in America to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies? | The French were committed to missionary activity among Amerindian peoples and emphasized the extraction of natural resources | 32 | |
| 304337161 | The leaders of French expansion, the coureurs de bois, were who? | Young Frenchmen/ the runners of the woods | 33 | |
| 304337162 | The Amerindian enemies of the French were who? | Iroquois Confederacy | 34 | |
| 304337163 | What was the French and Indian War, how did it progress and were the results? | It was a series of wars fought by Frnace and England. It eventually turned into the seven- years war. The French lost Quebec city, the capital, and lost the war. | 35 | |
| 304337164 | Why was Tupac Amaru II important? | The leader of one of the greatest rebellions. | 36 | |
| 304337165 | The English Navigations Act sought to do what? | severely limit colonial trading and production that competed directly with English manufacturers. | 37 |
