American Pageant Chapter 1

Which of the following events occurred about 10,000 years ago and largely shaped the present North American landscape?

• Last retreat of the Great Ice Age glaciers

• Arrival of the first human settlers

• Meteorological catastrophe that killed the dinosaurs

• Shifting of the earth's tectonic plates that once united the Americas and Africa

The most persuasive theory regarding the origins of American Indians is that they originally came from which of the following parts of the globe?

• Europe

• The South Pacific islands

• Siberia

• Africa

Which of the following groups established the largest, most powerful Indian confederacy during the sixteenth century in what is now the United States?

• Iroquois

• Pueblos

• Anasazi

• Inca

For centuries prior to their arrival in the New World, Europeans spent a great deal of time and resources trying to find an easy trade route to which of the following places?

• The Middle East

• Asia

• Vinland

• Newfoundland

The Portuguese sugar plantations in the Atlantic islands gave rise to which of the following trades that fundamentally shaped the New World?

• Slave

• Silk

• Spice

• Drug

True or False: Columbus arrived in the New World just before the dawn of the Renaissance.

• False

• True

Which of the following is the term used to refer to the transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and Old World societies after 1492?

• The Treaty of Tordesillas

• Capitalism

• The Columbian exchange

• Encomienda

Which of the following systems did Bartolome de las Casas refer to as "a moral pestilence invented by Satan"?

• The intermarriage of Indians and Spaniards

• The Columbian exchange

• African slavery

• Encomienda

The event known as noche triste refers to which of the following pivotal events?

• The day that Don Juan de Onate invaded the pueblo peoples in present-day New Mexico

• The night that Bartolome de las Casas sailed back to Spain from the New World

• The night that Cortes attacked the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan

• The day that Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas

The primary reason for massive population decline among Indians after European arrival was not warfare but disease

• True
• False