History Test 1 Pt 1

1. Columbus’ Goal was to reach ______________ by sailing west from Europe.

1. T/F: Nathaniel Duke is believed to be the first Englishman cultivate Orinoco tobacco in Virginia.

• A.

  True

• B.

  False

1. T/F: The French solution for ridding themselves of unwanted Protestants was to send them to French colonies in the New World.

• A.

  True

• B.

  False

1. In the 1660’s, New Netherlands was captured by the ___________________.

1. T/F: As West Indian natives began to die off the Spaniards first attempted to replace them with natives from North America.

• A.

  True

• B.

  False

1. T/F: During their heyday the great urban centers of Peru and Mesoamerica had no counterparts in North America.

• A.

  True

• B.

  False

1. Coronado’s 1540 expedition was followed in 1595 by the expedition of ____________________________.

In all Columbus made __________ voyages to the New World.

1. The Viking settlements in Greenland lasted from about 986 to _________.

1. The Spanish and Portuguese Christians united in the 1400’s to drive  _________ from the Iberian Peninsula.

1. _________ imported to New Mexico by the Spanish would prove to have the longest lasting impact on the native society and economy.  

1. The _________ Act was an attempt by Parliament to define and control the economic relationship of the colonies and Great Britain.

1. T/F: One of Columbus’ major miscalculations was his estimation of the circumference of the earth.

• A.

  True

• B.

  False

1. T/F: Tenochtitlan was the first Aztec leader to defeat a Spanish army.

• A.

  True

• B.

  False

1. _________ as introduced by the Mississippian culture was the basis of the agricultural revolution in the Eastern woodlands.

1. T/F: Pennsylvania was established as a refuge for members of the Dutch Reformed Church.

• A.

  True

• B.

  False

1. It is generally believed that the ancestors of the Native Americans migrated from ____________ to North America via the _________ land bridge.

1. T/F: The Pilgrims could have been accurately labeled as the “illegal aliens” of their day.

• A.

  True

• B.

  False

 

1. Archeological finds of human habitation in and around Clovis, New Mexico have been dated as far back as _________ years.

1. The ____________ Indians were bitter enemies of the French.

1. The Spanish intent in colonizing Texas was to prevent _______________________________________________________.

1. The __________ revolt in New Mexico, in 1680, was the largest and most successful of all Indian-Spanish conflicts.

1. Although the revolt in #22 above was eventually crushed it forced the Spanish to abandon the system of forced _________ and ___________. ($)

1. ____________  son of the leader of the Viking expedition discussed in #9 above led an expedition to North America around the year 1000..

1. ____________ proved to be the economic savior of the Jamestown settlement.