American Pageant Chapter 1 Quiz
This is a quiz on Chapters 1of American Pageant. Be sure to read the question carefully FOR EACH QUESTION, 4 CHOICES WILL BE GIVEN. CHOOSE THE ANSWER CHOICE THAT IS NOT TRUE.
- 1.The Shaping of North America: FOR EACH QUESTION, 4 CHOICES WILL BE GIVEN. CHOOSE THE ANSWER CHOICE THAT IS NOT TRUE.
- A.
The Appalachian mountains formed after the Rockies
- B.
The Great Ice Age covered Europe, America and Africa
- C.
Rivers like the Mississippi and Columbia Rivers were shaped by glaciers
- D.
225 million years ago, a super continent drifted away, opening oceans
- 2.The First Discoveries of America
- A.
When Europeans arrived in North America, 72 million Native Americans already lived there
- B.
It is believed that the first nomadic hunters went to North America through the Bering Sea land bridge
- C.
A major staple crop for Incas, Mayans and Aztecs was the potato
- D.
Europeans introduced horses to North America
- 3.The Earliest Ameicans
- A.
The Mound Builders resided in the Ohio River Valley
- B.
Maize, along with beans and the potato were the 3 sister crops
- C.
The Iroquois lived in North Eastern woodlands
- D.
Native Americans believed that they were inferior to nature
- 4.Indirect Discovery of the New World
- A.
The first Europeans to venture to North America were the Spanish
- B.
A major incentive for sailing west from Europe was to find a passageway to India
- C.
A major incentive for exploration was that Europeans wanted to expand its nation-states
- D.
The Europeans were seeking people to convert, and therefore explored the New World
- 5.Europeans Enter Africa
- A.
The major trade good that Europe wanted from Africa's West Coast was gold.
- B.
Bartholomew Dias was sailed to the Cape of Good Hope
- C.
Vasco Da Gama was a Spanish sailor who reached India
- D.
The Spanish looked westwards towards the New World for colonization and trade because the Portuguese had controlled Africa's coast
- 6.Columbus Comes upon a New World
- A.
Christopher Columbus' accidental discovery of America is known as the most successful failure in history
- B.
A major advantage Spain gained from Columbus' discovery was the supply of Raw materials offered by the New World
- C.
Spain was a wealthy nation-state, but it was without the power to conquer and colonize
- D.
Spain had new navigation technology like the Mariner's Compass
- 7.When Worlds Collide
- A.
The potato and sugar were two revolutionary crops that changed Europeans' diets
- B.
50% of Native Americans perished 100 years after Columbus' discovery
- C.
The most significant factor of Native American deaths was disease
- D.
The old world and new world exchanged crops and animals
- 8.The Spanish Conquistadores
- A.
Spain secured the New World after the Treaty of Tordesillas
- B.
The Treaty of Tordesillas gave Africa and Brazil to Portugal
- C.
Spain was able to focus fully on the New World because it was finished with the Reconquista
- D.
Mestizos mean Spanish-born people living in the New World
- 9.The Conquest of Mexico
- A.
Cortes was hated by all neighbors of the Aztecs
- B.
Cortes was allowed to approach Montezuma because Cortes seemed to be Quetzalcoatl
- C.
Tenochitlan was a beautiful city with floating gardens
- D.
Smallpox was the main killer of Aztecs
- 10.The Spread of Spanish America
- A.
English colonies were much more successful than Spanish ones
- B.
The Spanish built St. Augustine to protect Florida
- C.
The Spanish tried to convert the natives to Catholocism
- D.
By surpressing the native's religion, rebellions like Pope's Rebellion occurred, destorying Catholic stuff
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