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"In thirty-three days I passed over to the Indies with the fleet which the most illustrious King and Queen.. .gave me; where I found very many islands peopled with inhabitants beyond number. And, of them all, I have taken possession for their Highnesses.. .To the first which I found, I gave the name San Salvador.. ." The author of this statement was A) Prince Henry, the Navigator. B) John Cabot. C) Dinnis Diaz D) Jacques Cartier.
E) Christopher Columbus
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 2. Columbus and other early explorers searched for a direct all-water route to Asia because they A) hoped to gain easier access to highly valued Asian goods. B) believed that they could locate the "ten lost tribes of Israel." C) could help western Europe win the Crusades against the Muslims. D) could prove that the earth was round rather than flat.
E) thought Japan and China were rich and not the poor countries Marco Polo described.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 3. Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal was noted for A) voyaging to the area of Brazil long before Columbus. B) supervising voyages searching for a westward route to Asia. C) sponsoring the slave trade which brought so much profit to his nation. D) discovering the southern tip of Africa.
E) improving and codifying navigational knowledge in order to find a route to Asia.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 4. The map, "Voyages of Discovery," depicts the circumnavigation of the world in 1519-1521 by A) Da Gamma. B) Cabot and Hudson. C) Cartier. D) Magellan and del Cano.
E) Frobisher
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D
When Columbus landed in America, the chief reason that he thought he had landed in "the Indies" was A) the great wealth of the native population. B) the ease with which the natives understood his language. C) his discovery of the place of the Grand Khan. D) his firm belief that he had sailed far enough westward to reach them.
E) the plants there were similar to those in Asia.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 6. By the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), Spain had authority to exploit all of A) North and South America except Brazil. B) Africa and the Middle East except Egypt. C) South America except Colombia. D) Asia except Japan.
E) North America and Central America, but not South America,
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 7. Your textbook describes Spain's American empire as A) treating the Indians as equals by establishing joint ventures with them. B) seeing the Americas as lands of opportunity and freedom, yet fearing other countries might introduce slavery. C) failing totally to transplant Spanish culture in the Americas. D) protecting the freedom of the individual and guarding the welfare of the community.
E) trying to implant Spanish civilization and to save Indian souls, but also committing
unprovoked aggression.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 8. In the 1670s thousands of Pueblo rebelled to drive the A) Spanish from New Mexico. B) Portuguese out of Brazil. C) Spanish from Florida. D) French out of Texas.
C) political figures could use its challenge to Rome's spiritual authority in order to increase their power. D) the Catholic church made many enemies by strongly attacking luxury and corruption.
E) it encouraged democratic revolutions to overthrow monarchies throughout Europe.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 13. The king who brought the Protestant Reformation to England by declaring himself head of the English Church in order to divorce his first wife was A) Charles V. B) Henry VIII. C) James I. D) Richard III.
E) William III.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 14. The bold captain encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I to plunder Spanish merchant ships on the high seas was A) Martin Frobisher. B) Sir Walter Raleigh. C) John Cabot. D) Humphrey Gilbert.
E) Francis Drake.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 15. Spain could no longer block English entry into the New World because of the A) Treaty of Castile with Philip II of Spain. B) success of Walter Raleigh's colony at Roanoke Island. C) English destruction of the invading Spanish Armada. D) revolt of the Low Countries against Spanish authority.
E) collapse of Spanish settlements in what became New England.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 16.
In arguing for royal assistance for English colonization, Richard Hakluyt stressed the A) military advantages of building forts to threaten Spanish treasure fleets. B) millions of heathen souls who could be saved. C) likelihood of settling religious dissenters and criminals in the New World. D) possibilities of jointly exploiting the New World with Spain.
E) need to prevent Dutch expansion.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 17. According to your text, the organizing force in the effort to found English colonies came from A) Protestant reformers. B) Queen Elizabeth. C) political reformers. D) merchant capitalists.
E) King James.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 18. The earliest British colonies were initially financed by A) Elizabeth I. B) joint-stock companies. C) James I. D) Amsterdam bankers.
E) Protestant dissenters.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 19. The most direct motive of the London Company in securing its charter was A) providing for religious freedom. B) spreading Christianity. C) relieving unemployment in England. D) raiding Spanish shipping.
E) making money.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 20.
Ten years after its founding, this colony was described as "in buildings, fortifications, and of boats, much ruined.. ." and "the bridge in pieces, the well of fresh water spoiled.. .the market- place and streets, and all other spare places, planted with tobacco." It was A) Georgia. B) Pennsylvania. C) Massachusetts Bay. D) Plymouth.
E) Virginia.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 25. Puritans objected to the way Queen Elizabeth I's bishops interpreted the Protestant doctrine of predestination because the bishops argued that A) the morality of individual behavior on earth had no effect on God's decision about a person's salvation. B) people who knew they were saved need not be bound by earthly laws. C) God was unconcerned with the salvation of individuals. D) a person's efforts to lead a good life might cause God to change His mind and save a person who was previously damned.
E) the correctness of an individual's religious beliefs had no effect on whether a person
was saved or damned.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 26. The Pilgrims left England primarily because they A) were expelled from England by the government. B) believed the Church of England was too corrupt to save. C) wanted to form a profitable trading company. D) sought to establish a successful Catholic commonwealth.
E) wanted to establish a colony where everyone could have freedom of religion.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 27. The Mayflower Compact was an early example of the idea that A) a society should be based on a set of rules chosen by its members. B) a colony should treat the Native Americans honestly and fairly. C) the colonists needed to have a financial stake in their success. D) the Pilgrims needed to clarify their religious reasons for leaving England.
E) toleration of all religions is a foundation of American society.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 28. The religious dissenters who established Plymouth colony were the A) Ranters. B) Quakers. C) Puritans. D) Pilgrims.
E) Catholics.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 29. Many Puritans left England around 1630 to settle in Massachusetts Bay because A) Jamestown and Plymouth were economically successful. B) Anglican cleric William Laud was removing ministers with Puritan sympathies and tightening his centralized control of the church. C) their religious leader was commanded in a mystical vision to migrate. D) they read about the amazing fertility of the land and decided they would gain great wealth overnight.
E) Anglican cleric William Laud ordered them to forfeit their property or leave.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 30. "When England began to decline in religion,.. .instead of purging out Popery,.. .the multitude of irreligious.. .and Popish.. .persons spread the whole land like grasshoppers.. .And because.. .England was filled with.. .malignant adversaries, Christ creates a new England.. .where the Lord will create a new heaven and a new earth in, new churches and a new commonwealth together." This statement was from A) Elizabeth I. B) a member of the Jamestown colony. C) Archbishop William Laud. D) a Puritan or Pilgrim colonist.
E) James I.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 31. The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was
She was banished from Massachusetts for claiming that she regularly received divine insights. A) Betty Sewall B) Anne Bradstreet C) Eliza Pinckney D) Margaret Brent
E) Anne Hutchinson
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 36. In the proprietary colony, the proprietor's income resulted primarily from A) profits gained from trading with the Native Americans. B) annual rents from lands granted to settlers. C) import and export duties paid by the colonists. D) payments from the monarchy.
E) raids on Spanish shipping.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 37. The colony founded as a religious refuge for Catholics was A) Pennsylvania. B) Rhode Island. C) New Jersey. D) Virginia.
E) Maryland.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 38. The religion of Maryland's colonists was A) partly Protestant, but a large majority were Catholic. B) almost entirely Puritan. C) partly Catholic, but a large majority were Protestant. D) almost entirely Catholic.
E) partly Catholic, but a large majority were Quakers.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C
The colony whose charter was a grandiose plan, written with the help of political philosopher John Locke and designed to recreate a hereditary nobility and feudal society was A) New York. B) Maryland. C) New Jersey. D) Carolina.
E) Georgia.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 40. ________ traders were most likely to see Indians as essential trading partners. A) Portuguese B) Dutch C) English D) French
E) Spanish
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 41. New York was an English colony because the English A) planted a colony there before any other colonizing power. B) immigrants to the area gradually overwhelmed foreign interests. C) captured the area from the Dutch. D) convinced the inhabitants to vote to accept English control.
E) defeated the French in the War of Spanish Succession.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 42. The Quakers' religious beliefs were based on A) submission to governmental authority. B) a hierarchical society led by a hereditary nobility. C) an educated and ordained ministry. D) direct, mystical experience of religious truth.
E) religious intolerance.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D
Correct Answer(s): C 47. One source of problems between the Europeans and the Native Americans was the common European misunderstanding of the Native Americans' A) sharp division of labor between men's and women's work. B) common language and culture throughout the hemisphere. C) desire to preserve the environment in its purest state. D) emphasis upon material wealth.
E) idea of communal land tenure.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 48. According to your text, the cultural chasm between Europeans and Indians was most evident in the area of A) religion because Europeans thought most Indians were part of the lost tribes of Israel. B) warfare because Indians burned European towns whereas Europeans thought that attacking Indian villages was unchristian. C) material property because Europeans could not understand why Indians were so devoted to amassing vast collections of personal property. D) warfare because Europeans fought in large groups to destroy their enemies, whereas Indians fought more often to display their courage or avenge a wrong.
E) gender relations because Europeans thought Indian men were too feminine.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 49. Part of the so-called "Columbian exchange" which was domesticated by many tribes to form a staple of their diet and which also contributed enormously to the success of the English colonies, was A) cattle. B) corn. C) deer. D) rice.
E) wheat.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 50. According to your text, what was the relative impact of Native American and European cultures on each other?
A) Europeans profited extensively; Native Americans gained nothing. B) Native Americans eagerly adopted European technology; Europeans adopted no Native American technology. C) The influence of European culture was limited to those tribes in immediate contact with colonies. D) The colonists' fear of becoming like Native Americans caused a reactive change that made them Americans rather than just transplanted Europeans.
E) Native American culture had no impact on Europeans, whereas European culture
totally transformed Native American societies.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D
