Test bank for the unfinished nation concise history of the american
people 9th editionby alan brinkley
Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) The largest civilizations and political systems of pre-Columbian Native Americans north
of Mexico were less elaborate than the largest civilizations of Mexico and further south.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The eleventh-century explorations and discoveries of Leif Eriksson were common
knowledge in the European world of the fifteenth century.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Portuguese exploration in the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a route to
central and eastern Asia by sailing around Africa.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Christopher Columbus spent his early seafaring years in the service of the Portuguese.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) On his first voyage to the New World, Columbus realized that he discovered an entirely
new continent.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) By 1550, Spaniards had explored the coast of North America as far north as Oregon in
the west.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,7) The early Spanish settlers were successful at establishing plantations, but not at finding
gold or silver.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Spanish mines in America yielded ten times as much gold and silver as the rest of the
world’s mines together.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Spanish colonists often intermarried with the Pueblo Indians they had colonized.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) By the seventeenth century, the Spanish had given up their efforts to assimilate the
Indians to Spanish ways.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) European life was relatively unchanged by the biological and cultural exchanges that took
place after discovery of the New World.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) The nature in which native cultures in the Americas treated the sick helped spread
infectious diseases brought by European colonists.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,13) Owing to their commitment to Catholicism, male Spanish immigrants had very little
sexual contact with Indian women.
⊚ true
⊚ false
14) As a result of a constant conflict with the much larger native population, the Spanish
decided to allow the Pueblos to own land.
⊚ true
⊚ false
15) Cattle, sheep, and sugar were three New World products introduced to Europe.
⊚ true
⊚ false
16) In contrast with the European tradition, African families tended to be matrilineal.
⊚ true
⊚ false
17) The internal African slave trade was not well established until Europeans began to
demand slave labor for the New World.
⊚ true
⊚ false
18) During the sixteenth century, England was experiencing a decline in the food supply and
population.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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, 19) The preaching of John Calvin led his followers to believe that the way they led their lives
might reveal to them their predestined damnation or salvation.
⊚ true
⊚ false
20) Puritans were the first English colonizers.
⊚ true
⊚ false
21) The Roanoke disaster virtually killed the colonizing impulse in England for a long time.
⊚ true
⊚ false
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
22) The Clovis people began their existence in North America
A) with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.
B) with the explorations of Christopher Columbus.
C) as a result of the development of the wheel.
D) long after the last ice age ended.
E) from the southern tip of South America.
23) Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred
approximately
A) 2,000 years ago.
B) 5,000 years ago.
C) 9,000 years ago.
D) 11,000 years ago.
E) 18,000 years ago.
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people 9th editionby alan brinkley
Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) The largest civilizations and political systems of pre-Columbian Native Americans north
of Mexico were less elaborate than the largest civilizations of Mexico and further south.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The eleventh-century explorations and discoveries of Leif Eriksson were common
knowledge in the European world of the fifteenth century.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Portuguese exploration in the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a route to
central and eastern Asia by sailing around Africa.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Christopher Columbus spent his early seafaring years in the service of the Portuguese.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) On his first voyage to the New World, Columbus realized that he discovered an entirely
new continent.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) By 1550, Spaniards had explored the coast of North America as far north as Oregon in
the west.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,7) The early Spanish settlers were successful at establishing plantations, but not at finding
gold or silver.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Spanish mines in America yielded ten times as much gold and silver as the rest of the
world’s mines together.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Spanish colonists often intermarried with the Pueblo Indians they had colonized.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) By the seventeenth century, the Spanish had given up their efforts to assimilate the
Indians to Spanish ways.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) European life was relatively unchanged by the biological and cultural exchanges that took
place after discovery of the New World.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) The nature in which native cultures in the Americas treated the sick helped spread
infectious diseases brought by European colonists.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,13) Owing to their commitment to Catholicism, male Spanish immigrants had very little
sexual contact with Indian women.
⊚ true
⊚ false
14) As a result of a constant conflict with the much larger native population, the Spanish
decided to allow the Pueblos to own land.
⊚ true
⊚ false
15) Cattle, sheep, and sugar were three New World products introduced to Europe.
⊚ true
⊚ false
16) In contrast with the European tradition, African families tended to be matrilineal.
⊚ true
⊚ false
17) The internal African slave trade was not well established until Europeans began to
demand slave labor for the New World.
⊚ true
⊚ false
18) During the sixteenth century, England was experiencing a decline in the food supply and
population.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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, 19) The preaching of John Calvin led his followers to believe that the way they led their lives
might reveal to them their predestined damnation or salvation.
⊚ true
⊚ false
20) Puritans were the first English colonizers.
⊚ true
⊚ false
21) The Roanoke disaster virtually killed the colonizing impulse in England for a long time.
⊚ true
⊚ false
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
22) The Clovis people began their existence in North America
A) with migrations across an ancient land bridge over the Bering Strait.
B) with the explorations of Christopher Columbus.
C) as a result of the development of the wheel.
D) long after the last ice age ended.
E) from the southern tip of South America.
23) Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred
approximately
A) 2,000 years ago.
B) 5,000 years ago.
C) 9,000 years ago.
D) 11,000 years ago.
E) 18,000 years ago.
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