Questions for America’s History

Chapter 1: The New Global World, 1450–1620

1. By A.D. 100, the Hopewell peoples, living in present-day Ohio, had spread their influence throughout North America by

A. developing extensive trading networks.B. traveling extensively in search of game.C. subjugating other native peoples through

military conquest.D. spreading their religious beliefs, based on

the construction of elaborate burial mounds.

2. Which of the following is true of most Native Americans who lived north of the Rio Grande in 1500 A.D.?

A. They lived in large religious centers of many thousands of people.

B. Their clan-based system of government was locally based and worked by consensus, not coercion.

C. Tribes were the fundamental social group and possessed a common identity and a shared ancestor.

D. They were organized in a system of powerful empires.

3. Which of the following best characterizes the political transformation associated with the Renaissance in Europe?

A. The landed nobility gained power from the trade of commodities.

B. Urban bankers and merchants allied against monarchs.

C. Peasants moved to urban areas and participated in politics.

D. Monarchs formed alliances with wealthy merchants and urban artisans against the nobility.

4. The practice of primogeniture

A. granted large estates in the Western Hemisphere to first-born sons.

B. forced many younger children to join the ranks of the roaming poor.

C. created intergenerational disputes.D. led fathers to provide dowries for their

daughters.

5. The most accurate assessment of the Arab role in the development of the Renaissance in Europe isA. Arab prisoners from the Crusades brought

new knowledge to Europe.

B. Europeans were exposed to the work of Arab scholars, who had preserved and extended the scholarship of ancient Greece and Rome.

C. Arab traders provided access to new wealth, allowing Europeans to construct institutions of higher learning.

D. Arab writers popular in Europe promoted the notion of civic humanism.

6. In 1531, an Indian convert in Mexico reported seeing

A. the Virgin of Guadalupe.B. John Calvin.C. Martin Luther.D. Moctezuma.

7. Which of the following was true of African systems of slavery?

A. People were sometimes sold into slavery by relatives in time of famine.

B. Slaves were never considered to be property.

C. The descendants of slaves generally had high class or caste status.

D. Hereditary bondage was unheard of.

8. John Calvin came from which of the following countries and established a Protestant regime in which other nation in the 1530s?

A. England/GermanyB. Holland/SpainC. Russia/GermanyD. France/Switzerland

9. Around 1800, the Spanish colonies stretched from the tip of South America to the northern border of present-day

A. Canada. B. California. C. Alaska. D. Russia.

10. Which of the following groups was not a part of the Spanish colonial population?

A. mestizosB. IndiansC. PuritansD. Enslaved Africans

Answer Key for Chapter 11. Answer is A

2. Answer is B

3. Answer is D

4. Answer is B

5. Answer is B

6. Answer is A

7. Answer is A

8. Answer is D

9. Answer is B

10. Answer is C