The Unfinished Nation: A
Concise History of the American
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People, 10th Edition
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TEST BANK
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Alan Brinkley
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Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
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and Students
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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.
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⊚ false
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2) The eleventh-century explorations and discoveries of Leif Eriksson were common
knowledge in the European world of the fifteenth century.
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⊚ false
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3) Portuguese exploration in the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a route to
central and eastern Asia by sailing around Africa.
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⊚ false
4) Christopher Columbus spent his early seafaring years in the service of the Portuguese.
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⊚ true
⊚ false
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5) On his first voyage to the New World, Columbus realized that he discovered an entirely
new continent.
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⊚ false
6) By 1550, Spaniards had explored the coast of North America as far north as Oregon in
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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.
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⊚ true
⊚ false
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8) Spanish mines in America yielded ten times as much gold and silver as the rest of the
world’s mines together.
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9) Spanish colonists often intermarried with the Pueblo Indians they had colonized.
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⊚ false
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10) By the seventeenth century, the Spanish had given up their efforts to assimilate the
Indians to Spanish ways.
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11) European life was relatively unchanged by the biological and cultural exchanges that took
place after discovery of the New World.
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⊚ false
12) The nature in which native cultures in the Americas treated the sick helped spread
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infectious diseases brought by European colonists.
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⊚ false
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, 13) Owing to their commitment to Catholicism, male Spanish immigrants had very little
sexual contact with Indian women.
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14) As a result of a constant conflict with the much larger native population, the Spanish
decided to allow the Pueblos to own land.
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⊚ false
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15) Cattle, sheep, and sugar were three New World products introduced to Europe.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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16) In contrast with the European tradition, African families tended to be matrilineal.
⊚ true
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⊚ false
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17) The internal African slave trade was not well established until Europeans began to
demand slave labor for the New World.
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⊚ false
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18) During the sixteenth century, England was experiencing a decline in the food supply and
population.
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⊚ true
⊚ false
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