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PERIOD 1: 1491-1607
MULTIPLE CHOICE
NARRBEGIN: MC Excerpt 1.1
The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
“It is a heavily populated land. We asked why they did not sow maize; they replied that they were not
doing so in order not to lose the crop, for during two consecutive years the rains had failed and the
weather had been so dry that all had lost their whole crop of maize, and they did not dare sow it again
until there had been copious rain. And they begged us to tell the heavens to rain, and implore them to
do so, and we promised that we would do this. We also asked them from where they had brought [the
maize they had], and they said from the direction the sun had set, and in all that land there was maize
everywhere.”
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Castaways, 1542
NARREND
1. This passage by de Vaca reflects which of the following?
A) European exploration of the Americas was fueled by desire for wealth.
B) New crops from Europe stimulated native cultures immediately after the Encounter.
C) Technological improvements introduced by Europeans produced changes to Native
American economies.
D) The spread of maize culture in North America, which had occurred prior to the Encounter.
ANS: D PTS: 1
OBJ: GEO-1.0 Explain how geographic and environmental factors shaped the development of
various communities, and analyze how the competition for and debates over natural resources have
affected both interactions among different groups and the development of government policies.
TOP: Key Concept 1.1.I SKL: Contextualization
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.1
2. The ideas in this passage most clearly reflect which of the following?
A) European notions of cultural and intellectual superiority over Native Americans
B) Advanced understandings among Native Americans of agriculture during the period
C) Policies of the Catholic church, which encouraged conversion of natives
D) Most Europeans believed that Natives in the New World were unfairly persecuted by
Europeans
ANS: B PTS: 1
OBJ: GEO-1.0 Explain how geographic and environmental factors shaped the development of
various communities, and analyze how the competition for and debates over natural resources have
affected both interactions among different groups and the development of government policies.
TOP: Key Concept 1.1.I SKL: Patterns of Continuity and Change over Time
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.1
3. The development of maize cultivation by the indigenous people encountered here by Cabeza De Vaca
would have had which of the following effects on that culture?
A) It would have destabilized the region due to the necessity of access to running water.
B) It would have allowed the development of a mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer
economy.
C) It would have encouraged the American Indians to develop mobile lifestyles.
D) It would have supported diversification and economic development.
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, ANS: D PTS: 1
OBJ: GEO-1.0 Explain how geographic and environmental factors shaped the development of
various communities, and analyze how the competition for and debates over natural resources have
affected both interactions among different groups and the development of government policies.
TOP: Key Concept 1.1.I SKL: Contextualization
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.1
4. Which of the following contributed most to the issues de Vaca describes in the passage?
A) The development of labor systems such as the encomienda system
B) Increasingly clear cultural understandings as languages were translated
C) Increasing contact between Native Americans and Europeans during the 16th century
D) Cultural misunderstandings between Native Americans and Europeans during the age of
encounter
ANS: D PTS: 1
OBJ: MIG-1.0 Explain the causes of migration to colonial North America, and later, the United
States, and analyze immigration’s effects on U.S. society. TOP: Key Concept 1.2.III
SKL: Contextualization NAR: MC Excerpt 1.1
NARRBEGIN: MC Excerpt 1.2
The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
“[The land in the New World] is a marvel; the mountains and hills, and plains, and fields, and land, so
beautiful and rich for planting and sowing, for breeding of cattle of all sorts, for building of towns and
villages…there are many spiceries, and great mines of gold and other metals. The people of this
island, and of all the others I have found and seen, or not seen, all go naked, men and women, just as
their mothers bring them forth….as soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island that I found, I took
some of them by force to the intent they should learn [our speech] and give me information of what
there was in those parts.”
Letter from Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santángel, 1493
NARREND
5. European conquest of the Americas flourished in this period for all of the following reasons except?
A) The introduction of widespread and deadly epidemics
B) Cultural and linguistic differences between Europeans and natives
C) Technological inferiority of Native Americans
D) Sophisticated and advanced cultures in pre-contact America which had adapted to diverse
environments
ANS: D PTS: 1
OBJ: WOR-1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between
empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North
America. TOP: Key Concept 1.2.II SKL: Causation
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.2
6. Which of the following cultural and economic shifts was NOT a result of the events described in the
passage?
A) Europeans increasingly isolated themselves and tried to maintain cultural and political
autonomy.
B) Europeans increasingly exploited Native Americans for labor.
C) Europeans dramatically altered their views of the social, political, and economic
relationships between themselves and natives.
D) There was an increased debate over how Native Americans should be treated by
, Europeans.
ANS: A PTS: 1
OBJ: WOR-1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between
empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North
America. TOP: Key Concept 1.2.II SKL: Causation
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.2
7. Which of the following occurred as a result of the kind of encounter seen in the passage?
A) Increasing homogenization of culture in the Americas
B) Increased intermixing of culture in the Americas
C) A decrease in economic exchange through triangle trade
D) A decline in technological superiority of Europeans
ANS: B PTS: 1
OBJ: WOR-1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between
empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North
America. TOP: Key Concept 1.2.III SKL: Contextualization
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.2
8. Which of the following had the most significant impact on developing the economy (as described in
the passage), which would evolve between 1491 and 1607?
A) The growth of racially mixed populations in the Americas
B) The development of sophisticated transportation networks
C) Increasingly complex cultural exchanges between Europeans and natives
D) The introduction of slave labor and the encomienda system
ANS: D PTS: 1
OBJ: WXT-1.0 Explain how different labor systems developed in North America and the United
States, and explain their effects on workers’ lives and U.S. society.
TOP: Key Concept 1.2.II SKL: Contextualization
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.2
NARRBEGIN: MC Excerpt 1.3
The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
“In 1564 approximately three hundred Huguenots – French Protestants – built a colony they called
Fort de la Caroline in Timucua country, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida. This intrusion did not
go unnoticed by the Spaniards who claimed la Florida. Within a year, adelantado [nobleman] Pedro
Mendez de Aviles established a post at St. Augustine and marched his troops forty miles to the north to
slaughter the Frenchmen, whom he regarded not only as trespassers but as vile heretics. Thus began a
Spanish occupation of strategic spots in the southeast that would last for nearly two hundred years.”
Daniel Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, 2001
NARREND
9. The events described by Richter most directly illustrate which of the following developments of the
sixteenth century?
A) Spanish traders often partnered with West Africans to recruit slave labor.
B) Indian labor was used to support plantation agriculture.
C) European nations competed for new sources of wealth in the Atlantic world.
D) Changing technology drove economic development in Europe and the Americas.
ANS: C PTS: 1
OBJ: GEO-1.0 Explain how geographic and environmental factors shaped the development of
TEST BANK
,American Pageant 16th Edition Kennedy Test Bank
PERIOD 1: 1491-1607
MULTIPLE CHOICE
NARRBEGIN: MC Excerpt 1.1
The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
“It is a heavily populated land. We asked why they did not sow maize; they replied that they were not
doing so in order not to lose the crop, for during two consecutive years the rains had failed and the
weather had been so dry that all had lost their whole crop of maize, and they did not dare sow it again
until there had been copious rain. And they begged us to tell the heavens to rain, and implore them to
do so, and we promised that we would do this. We also asked them from where they had brought [the
maize they had], and they said from the direction the sun had set, and in all that land there was maize
everywhere.”
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Castaways, 1542
NARREND
1. This passage by de Vaca reflects which of the following?
A) European exploration of the Americas was fueled by desire for wealth.
B) New crops from Europe stimulated native cultures immediately after the Encounter.
C) Technological improvements introduced by Europeans produced changes to Native
American economies.
D) The spread of maize culture in North America, which had occurred prior to the Encounter.
ANS: D PTS: 1
OBJ: GEO-1.0 Explain how geographic and environmental factors shaped the development of
various communities, and analyze how the competition for and debates over natural resources have
affected both interactions among different groups and the development of government policies.
TOP: Key Concept 1.1.I SKL: Contextualization
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.1
2. The ideas in this passage most clearly reflect which of the following?
A) European notions of cultural and intellectual superiority over Native Americans
B) Advanced understandings among Native Americans of agriculture during the period
C) Policies of the Catholic church, which encouraged conversion of natives
D) Most Europeans believed that Natives in the New World were unfairly persecuted by
Europeans
ANS: B PTS: 1
OBJ: GEO-1.0 Explain how geographic and environmental factors shaped the development of
various communities, and analyze how the competition for and debates over natural resources have
affected both interactions among different groups and the development of government policies.
TOP: Key Concept 1.1.I SKL: Patterns of Continuity and Change over Time
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.1
3. The development of maize cultivation by the indigenous people encountered here by Cabeza De Vaca
would have had which of the following effects on that culture?
A) It would have destabilized the region due to the necessity of access to running water.
B) It would have allowed the development of a mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer
economy.
C) It would have encouraged the American Indians to develop mobile lifestyles.
D) It would have supported diversification and economic development.
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, ANS: D PTS: 1
OBJ: GEO-1.0 Explain how geographic and environmental factors shaped the development of
various communities, and analyze how the competition for and debates over natural resources have
affected both interactions among different groups and the development of government policies.
TOP: Key Concept 1.1.I SKL: Contextualization
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.1
4. Which of the following contributed most to the issues de Vaca describes in the passage?
A) The development of labor systems such as the encomienda system
B) Increasingly clear cultural understandings as languages were translated
C) Increasing contact between Native Americans and Europeans during the 16th century
D) Cultural misunderstandings between Native Americans and Europeans during the age of
encounter
ANS: D PTS: 1
OBJ: MIG-1.0 Explain the causes of migration to colonial North America, and later, the United
States, and analyze immigration’s effects on U.S. society. TOP: Key Concept 1.2.III
SKL: Contextualization NAR: MC Excerpt 1.1
NARRBEGIN: MC Excerpt 1.2
The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
“[The land in the New World] is a marvel; the mountains and hills, and plains, and fields, and land, so
beautiful and rich for planting and sowing, for breeding of cattle of all sorts, for building of towns and
villages…there are many spiceries, and great mines of gold and other metals. The people of this
island, and of all the others I have found and seen, or not seen, all go naked, men and women, just as
their mothers bring them forth….as soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island that I found, I took
some of them by force to the intent they should learn [our speech] and give me information of what
there was in those parts.”
Letter from Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santángel, 1493
NARREND
5. European conquest of the Americas flourished in this period for all of the following reasons except?
A) The introduction of widespread and deadly epidemics
B) Cultural and linguistic differences between Europeans and natives
C) Technological inferiority of Native Americans
D) Sophisticated and advanced cultures in pre-contact America which had adapted to diverse
environments
ANS: D PTS: 1
OBJ: WOR-1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between
empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North
America. TOP: Key Concept 1.2.II SKL: Causation
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.2
6. Which of the following cultural and economic shifts was NOT a result of the events described in the
passage?
A) Europeans increasingly isolated themselves and tried to maintain cultural and political
autonomy.
B) Europeans increasingly exploited Native Americans for labor.
C) Europeans dramatically altered their views of the social, political, and economic
relationships between themselves and natives.
D) There was an increased debate over how Native Americans should be treated by
, Europeans.
ANS: A PTS: 1
OBJ: WOR-1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between
empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North
America. TOP: Key Concept 1.2.II SKL: Causation
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.2
7. Which of the following occurred as a result of the kind of encounter seen in the passage?
A) Increasing homogenization of culture in the Americas
B) Increased intermixing of culture in the Americas
C) A decrease in economic exchange through triangle trade
D) A decline in technological superiority of Europeans
ANS: B PTS: 1
OBJ: WOR-1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between
empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North
America. TOP: Key Concept 1.2.III SKL: Contextualization
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.2
8. Which of the following had the most significant impact on developing the economy (as described in
the passage), which would evolve between 1491 and 1607?
A) The growth of racially mixed populations in the Americas
B) The development of sophisticated transportation networks
C) Increasingly complex cultural exchanges between Europeans and natives
D) The introduction of slave labor and the encomienda system
ANS: D PTS: 1
OBJ: WXT-1.0 Explain how different labor systems developed in North America and the United
States, and explain their effects on workers’ lives and U.S. society.
TOP: Key Concept 1.2.II SKL: Contextualization
NAR: MC Excerpt 1.2
NARRBEGIN: MC Excerpt 1.3
The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
“In 1564 approximately three hundred Huguenots – French Protestants – built a colony they called
Fort de la Caroline in Timucua country, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida. This intrusion did not
go unnoticed by the Spaniards who claimed la Florida. Within a year, adelantado [nobleman] Pedro
Mendez de Aviles established a post at St. Augustine and marched his troops forty miles to the north to
slaughter the Frenchmen, whom he regarded not only as trespassers but as vile heretics. Thus began a
Spanish occupation of strategic spots in the southeast that would last for nearly two hundred years.”
Daniel Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, 2001
NARREND
9. The events described by Richter most directly illustrate which of the following developments of the
sixteenth century?
A) Spanish traders often partnered with West Africans to recruit slave labor.
B) Indian labor was used to support plantation agriculture.
C) European nations competed for new sources of wealth in the Atlantic world.
D) Changing technology drove economic development in Europe and the Americas.
ANS: C PTS: 1
OBJ: GEO-1.0 Explain how geographic and environmental factors shaped the development of
