APUSH American Pageant Unit 1 Chap1 New World Beginnings
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| 1239778568 | The crop that became the staple of life in Mexico and South America was | Corn | 1 | |
| 1239778569 | The groups that were responsible for slave trading in Africa long before the Europeans had arrived were | The Arabs and the Africans | 2 | |
| 1239778570 | The stage was set for a cataclysmic shift in the course of history when | European clamored for more and cheaper products from Asia; Africa was established as a source of slave labor; the Portuguese demonstrated the feasibility of the long range ocean navigation; the Renaissance nurtured a spirit of optimism and adventure | 3 | |
| 1239838150 | What contributed to the emergence of the new interdependent global economic system? | Europe providing the market and the capital; Africa providing the labor; New World providing its raw materials; the advancement and improvement of technology | 4 | |
| 1239838151 | European explorers introduced what to the New World? | Smallpox | 5 | |
| 1239838152 | By the 1770s what issue helped bring about a crisis of imperial authority? | trade restrictions | 6 | |
| 1239838153 | The colonists who ultimately embraced the vision of America as an independent nation had what characteristics in common? | The desire to create an agricultural society; learning to live their lives unfettered by the tyrannies of royal authority, official religion, or social hierarchies | 7 | |
| 1239838154 | What New World plants revolutionized the international economy? | maize, poatoes, beans, and tomatoes | 8 | |
| 1239838155 | Spain began to fortify and settle its North American border lands in order to | protect its Central and South American domains form encroachments by England and France | 9 | |
| 1239838156 | The origins of the modern plantation system can be found in | Portuguese slave trade | 10 | |
| 1239838157 | In the last half of the fifteenth century some forty thousand Africans were forced into slavery by Portugal and Spain to | work on plantations on the Atlantic sugar islands | 11 | |
| 1239838158 | In 1492, when Europeans arrived in the Americas, the total of the two continents' populations was perhaps | 54 million | 12 | |
| 1239838159 | Native American civilization was least highly developed in | North America | 13 | |
| 1239838160 | As a result of Pope's Rebellion in 1680 | the Pueblo Indians destroyed every Catholic church in province of New Mexico | 14 | |
| 1239838161 | The Aztec Chief Moctezuma allowed Cortes to enter the capital of Tenochtitlan because | Moctezuma believed that Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl | 15 | |
| 1239838162 | After his first voyage, Christopher Columbus believed that he had | sailed to the outskirts of the East Indies | 16 | |
| 1239838163 | The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of | the discovery of nearly identical species of fish in long-separated freshwater lakes of various continents | 17 | |
| 1239838164 | Which features were created in North America ten thousand years ago when the glaciers retreated? | the Great Lakes, the Great Salt Lake, the mineral-rich desert, thousands of shallow depressions which formed lakes | 18 | |
| 1239838165 | The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to | the development of agriculture | 19 | |
| 1239838166 | Which were original territories of North American Indian populations within the current borders of the United States? | Northeast, Southeast, Great Plains, Great Basin | 20 | |
| 1239838167 | The Christian crusaders were indirectly responsible for the discovery of America because | they brought back news of the valuable Far Eastern spices, drugs, and silk | 21 | |
| 1239838168 | The institution of encomienda allowed the | European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to Christianize them | 22 | |
| 1239838169 | European contact with Native American cultures led to | the deaths of millions of Native Americans, who had little resistance to European diseases | 23 | |
| 1239838170 | Some of the more advanced Native American cultures | established large, bustling cities; made strikingly accurate astronomical observations; studied mathematics; carried on commerce | 24 | |
| 1239838171 | Men in the more settled agricultural groups in North America performed tasks such as | hunting, gathering fuel, clearing fields for planting, and fishing | 25 |
