AMERICAN HISTORY BRINKLEY CHAPTER 1 Flashcards

2746016810	The Indian empire that dominated modern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest was the?	Aztec	0
2746016811	At the time of the Spanish conquest, the economies of most of the Native Americans in South and Central America and Mexico were based on?	Agriculture	1
2746016812	the eastern third of what is now the United States was inhabited by the?	Woodland Indians	2
2746016813	Indian religions were?	Tied closely to the natural world	3
2746016814	Indian societies in North America tended to?	Divide tasks according ot gender	4
2746016815	Europe during the Middle Ages were?	Too divided and decentralized to inspire great ventures	5
2746016816	Paralleling the rise of commerce in Europe, and in part responsible for it, was?	the rise of united and powerful nation-states	6
2746016817	The first nation to fund exploriation beyond Europe was?	Portugal	7
2746016818	Partly because of Columbus's voyages, Spain?	Replaced Portugal as the foremost seafaring nation	8
2746016819	Through a combo of daring, brutality, and greed the conquistadors?	made possible the creation of a Spanish empire in America	9
2746016820	The indians' conversion to Catholicism?	most natives continued to practice their own religious rituals	10
2746016821	The Pueblo Revolt of 1680?	allowed the Pueblos to regain temporary political control of their communities	11
2746016822	The first result of the meeting of native and European cultures was the?	Importation of European diseases	12
2746016823	This was more important to Europe than gold and silver found in the new world.	Importation of new crops that would feed larger numbers of people	13
2746016824	In matrilineal Indian and African societies	woman play a major, often dominant, role	14
2746016825	The Afriacan slave trade began in?	the 8th century AD	15
2746016826	In the 16th century the market for slaves grew because?	The rising European demand for sugar cane	16
2746016827	What were the reasons for English colonization?	Escape religious strife, Escape the economic transformation, find new markets for English products, to defeat the Spanish Armada	17
2746016828	The members of the Church of England who proclaimed that the church ahd not given up Rome's offensive beliefs are?	Puritans	18
2746016829	As a result of their experiences in Ireland, the English believed that?	they must retain a rigid seperation from the native population.	19
2746016830	The country that produced the most successful fur traders and trappers was	The French	20
2746016831	the first permanent English settlement was?	Jamestown, Virginia	21
2746016832	The man to whom Queen Elizabeth granted the land on which the "lost colony" was planted was?	Walter Raliegh	22
2746016833	In 1606, James I gave the exclusive right to colonize along the southeast coast to a group of London merchants. T/F	True	23
2746016834	The large Indian trading center in the Mississippi River Valley near present-day St. Louis was Cahokia. T/F	True	24
2746016835	The Iroquois Confederation consisted of tribes in the southernmost region of the eastern seaboard. T/F	False	25
2746016836	Cortés might not have been able to defeat the Aztecs had it not been for an epidemic of smallpox that decimated the native population. T/F	True	26
2746016837	The oldest permanent European settlement in the present-day United States is St. Augustine. T/F	True	27
2746016838	New Mexico became one of the most important provinces in Spanish America. T/F	False	28
2746016839	The riches of America ultimately hurt Spain because they caused that country to ignore attempts to promote agricultural and domestic growth in the colonies. T/F	True	29
2746016840	The most important Native American crop brought back by the Europeans was squash. T/F	False	30
2746016841	Europeans felt justified in their treatment of the Indians because they considered the Indians uncivilized savages. T/F	True	31
2746016842	Spaniards seldom intermarried with the Native Americans. T/F	False	32
2746016843	Today it is generally believed that there were fewer Native Americans when the Europeans arrived than there were a century later. T/F	False	33
2746016844	Mercantilism was a theory that discouraged nations from having colonies. T/F	False	34
2746016845	Joint-stock companies were the means by which investors could share the risks and the profits of colonizing ventures. T/F	True	35
2746016846	The doctrine that God "elected" some people to be saved and condemned others to damnation was preached by Martin Luther. T/F	False	36
2746016847	The English Reformation began with a political dispute between king and pope not with a religious dispute over matters of theology. T/F	True	37
2746016848	England's first experience with colonization was in Virginia. T/F	False	38
2746016849	The first Europeans to settle in the Hudson River Valley were the Dutch. T/F	False	39