Test Bank
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History Of The
American People 2025 Release
By Alan Brinkley, Giggie, Huebner
,Test Bank For The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of
the American People 2025 Release
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
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
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
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History Of The
American People 2025 Release
By Alan Brinkley, Giggie, Huebner
,Test Bank For The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of
the American People 2025 Release
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
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
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
