Alan Brinkley Chapter 1 American History Flashcards

970738059	which of the following was not a crop that europeans first encountered in the new world	sugar	1
970738060	what explains the brutality the conquistadores treated native people	the conquistadors thought the natives were savages and less than human, also the conquistadores were accustomed to waging war in a ruthless maner	2
970738061	openly challenged the authority of the roman catholic church	martin luther	3
970738062	before europeans arrived, the batives of the new world had very few animals that were	domesticated	4
970738063	which of the following diseases did europeans introduce to the bew world when they arrived in the 1500s	smallpox, chicken pox, measles, influenza	5
970738064	according to richard hakluyt, which of the following were important benefits of new world colonies	they reduced poverty, unemployment, and overcrowding,... They created new markets for english goods... They fostered economic independence for england	6
970738065	between 1500 and 1800, about __ of the people who arrived in the new world were african.	one-half	7
970738066	Before the european migration to the new world, west africans sold large numbers of slaves to all of the following areas except	the indian subcontinent	8
970738067	what best describes the puritans and their beliefs	they called for sweeping reforms of the church of england	9
970738068	earlier scholarship suggested that all early inhabitants of the americas came from	Asia	10
970738069	sir walter raleigh established ___ in honor of the english queen	virginia	11
970738070	what describes widely held theories about the dissapearance of roanoak settelera	ghe settlers left their settment and eventually blended with indian society... the settlers were slaughtered by indians in retaliation for earlier brutalities	12
970738071	people of mixed race, particularly of european and native american descent, are known as	mestizos	13
970738072	what best describes sixteenth and seventeenth century mercantilism	Its principles guided the economic policies of virtually all european nation-states	14
970738073	french theologian john ___ taught that god chose aome people to be saved and condemed others to damnation	calvin	15
970738074	what four locations were part of the spanish empire at its heights	coastal areas of south america, mexico, various carribean islands, the southern united states	16
970738075	european colonial power and where it established a colony in the early seventeenth century	spain-florida france-quebec holland-newyork england-newfoundland	17
970738076	what crops did the europeans encounter in the new world	squash maize potatoes	18
970738077	what describes why the english felt freer to establish colonies in the new world during the late sixteenth century	england sucessfully challenged spanish sea power	19
970738078	in addition to killing millions of native people with diseases, europeans also killed millions through	a deliberate policy of subjugation and extermination	20
970738079	scholars once believed that all early migrants to the americas came via an ancient land bridge across the	bering straight	21