American Pageant 14th edition Bailey Chapter 1 quiz

283665828	True	The geography of the North American continent was fundamentally shaped be the glaciers of the Great Ice Age.
283665829	False	North America was first settled by people who came by boat across the water of the Pacific Strait from Japan to Alaska.
283665830	False	The early Indian civilizations of Mexico and Peru were built of the economic foundations of cattle and wheat growing.
283665831	True	Most North American Indians lived in small semi-nomadic agricultural and hunting communities.
283665832	True	Many Indian cultures like the Iroquois traced the decent through the female line.
283665833	False	No Europeans had ever set foot on the American continents prior to Columbus's arrival in 1492.
283665834	True	A primary motive for the European voyages of discovery was the desire to find a less expensive route to Asian goods and markets.
283665835	False	The beginnings of African slavery developed in response to the Spanish conquest of the Americas.
283665836	False	Columbus immediately recognized in 1492 that he had come across new continents previously unknown to Europeans.
283665837	False	The greatest effect of the European intrusion on the Indians of the Americas was to increase their population through intermarriage withe the whites.
283665838	True	Spanish gold and silver from the Americas fueled inflation and economic growth in Europe.
283665839	False	The Spanish Conquistadors had little to do with the native peoples of Mexico and refused to intermarry with them.
283665840	False	The province of New Mexico was first settled by French colonizers from the North.
283665841	True	Spain expanded its empire into Florida and New Mexico partly to block French and English intrusions.
283665842	True	The Spanish empire in the New World was larger, richer, and longer-lasting than that of the English.
283665843	a.	The geologically oldest mountains in North America are
283665844	b.	The Indian peoples of the New World
283665845	a.	The Iroquois Confederacy remained a strong political and military influence until
283665846	a.	Among the important forces that first stimulated European interest in trade and discovery was
283665847	d.	Among the most important American Indian products to spread to the Old World were
283665848	c.	The primary staples of Indian agriculture were
283665849	b.	The number of Indian in North America at the time Columbus arrived was approximately
283665850	c.	Before Columbus arrived the only Europeans to have temporarily visited North America were
283665851	a.	The Portuguese were the first to enter the slave trade and establish large -scale plantations using slave labor in
283665852	b.	Much of the impetus for Spanish exploration and pursuit of glory came from Spain's recent
283665853	c.	A crucial political development that paved the way for the European colonization of America was
283665854	b.	The primary reason for the drastic decline in the Indian population after the encounter with the Europeans was
283665855	b.	Cortes and his men were able to conquer the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan partly because
283665856	a.	The primary early colonial competitor with Spain in the New World was
283665857	d.	The belief that the Spanish only killed and tortured and stole in the Americas while doing nothing good is called