American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 1: THE COLLISION OF CULTURES

True or False Quiz

1
In 1606, James I gave the exclusive right to colonize along the southeast coast to a group of London merchants.
A)True
B)False
2
The large Indian trading center in the Mississippi River Valley near present-day St. Louis was Cahokia.
A)True
B)False
3
The Iroquois Confederation consisted of tribes in the southernmost region of the eastern seaboard.
A)True
B)False
4
Cortés might not have been able to defeat the Aztecs had it not been for an epidemic of smallpox that decimated the native population.
A)True
B)False
5
The oldest permanent European settlement in the present-day United States is St. Augustine.
A)True
B)False
6
New Mexico became one of the most important provinces in Spanish America.
A)True
B)False
7
The riches of America ultimately hurt Spain because they caused that country to ignore attempts to promote agricultural and domestic growth in the colonies.
A)True
B)False
8
The most important Native American crop brought back by the Europeans was squash.
A)True
B)False
9
Europeans felt justified in their treatment of the Indians because they considered the Indians uncivilized savages.
A)True
B)False
10
Spaniards seldom intermarried with the Native Americans.
A)True
B)False
11
Today it is generally believed that there were fewer Native Americans when the Europeans arrived than there were a century later.
A)True
B)False
12
Mercantilism was a theory that discouraged nations from having colonies.
A)True
B)False
13
Joint-stock companies were the means by which investors could share the risks and the profits of colonizing ventures.
A)True
B)False
14
The doctrine that God "elected" some people to be saved and condemned others to damnation was preached by Martin Luther.
A)True
B)False
15
The English Reformation began with a political dispute between king and pope not with a religious dispute over matters of theology.
A)True
B)False
16
England's first experience with colonization was in Virginia.
A)True
B)False
17
The first Europeans to settle in the Hudson River Valley were the Dutch.
A)True
B)False
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