APUSH Unit 1 Quiz

Questions 1-2 ref er to the excerpt below.

"To oppose those hordes of northern tribes, singly and alone, would prove certain destruction. We can make no progress in that way. We unite ourselves

into one common band of brothers. We must have but one voice. Many voices makes confusion. We must have one fire, one pipe and one war club. This will give us strength. If our warriors are united they can defeat the enemy and drive them from our land; If we do this, we are safe ....

"And you of the different nations of the south, and you of the west, may place yourselves under our protection, and we will protect you. We earnestly desire the alliance and friendship of you all .... "

-Chief Elias Johnson, Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians, 1881

Which of these was a common reaction by Indians to Europeans and represented a rejection of Chief Johnson's suggestions?

• (A) Converting to Christianity

• (B) Migrating westward

• (C) Selling their land

• (D) Accepting European leadership

Questions 1-2 ref er to the excerpt below.

"To oppose those hordes of northern tribes, singly and alone, would prove certain destruction. We can make no progress in that way. We unite ourselves

into one common band of brothers. We must have but one voice. Many voices makes confusion. We must have one fire, one pipe and one war club. This will give us strength. If our warriors are united they can defeat the enemy and drive them from our land; If we do this, we are safe ....

"And you of the different nations of the south, and you of the west, may place yourselves under our protection, and we will protect you. We earnestly desire the alliance and friendship of you all .... "

-Chief Elias Johnson, Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians, 1881

Which of the following factors best explains why Native American efforts to unite were rare?

• (A) Most tribes were isolated from each other

• (B) Europeans discouraged tribes from uniting

• (C) People had different foods and cultures

• (D) Tribes had traditions of independence

Questions 3-5 ref er to the excerpt below.

"Concerning the treatment of Native American workers:

When they were allowed to go home, they often found it deserted and had no

other recourse than to go out into the woods to find food and to die. When they fell ill, which was very frequently because they are a delicate people unaccus-

tomed to such work, the Spaniards did not believe them and pitilessly called them lazy dogs, and kicked and beat them; and when illness was apparent they sent them home as useless, giving them some cassava for the twenty- to eighty-league journey. They would go then, falling into the first stream and dying there in desperation; others would hold on longer, but very few ever made it

home. I sometimes came upon dead bodies on my way, and upon others who were gasping and moaning in their death agony, repeating 'Hungry, hungry.'"

-Bartolome de Las Casas, priest and social reformer,

In Defense of the Indian, c. 1550

Which of the following best explains the underlying cause of the Spanish actions described by Las Casas?

• (A) Racism

• B) Religion

• (C) Desire for wealth

• (D) Fear of native power

Questions 3-5 ref er to the excerpt below.

"Concerning the treatment of Native American workers:

When they were allowed to go home, they often found it deserted and had no

other recourse than to go out into the woods to find food and to die. When they fell ill, which was very frequently because they are a delicate people unaccus-

tomed to such work, the Spaniards did not believe them and pitilessly called them lazy dogs, and kicked and beat them; and when illness was apparent they sent them home as useless, giving them some cassava for the twenty- to eighty-league journey. They would go then, falling into the first stream and dying there in desperation; others would hold on longer, but very few ever made it

home. I sometimes came upon dead bodies on my way, and upon others who were gasping and moaning in their death agony, repeating 'Hungry, hungry.'"

-Bartolome de Las Casas, priest and social reformer,

In Defense of the Indian, c. 1550

The primary audience that Las Casas hoped to influence by his writing was (two answers)

• (A) the monarchs of Spain

• (B) the Roman Catholic Church

• (C) the conquistadores

• (D) the Native Americans

Questions 3-5 ref er to the excerpt below.

"Concerning the treatment of Native American workers:

When they were allowed to go home, they often found it deserted and had no

other recourse than to go out into the woods to find food and to die. When they fell ill, which was very frequently because they are a delicate people unaccus-

tomed to such work, the Spaniards did not believe them and pitilessly called them lazy dogs, and kicked and beat them; and when illness was apparent they sent them home as useless, giving them some cassava for the twenty- to eighty-league journey. They would go then, falling into the first stream and dying there in desperation; others would hold on longer, but very few ever made it

home. I sometimes came upon dead bodies on my way, and upon others who were gasping and moaning in their death agony, repeating 'Hungry, hungry.'"

-Bartolome de Las Casas, priest and social reformer,

In Defense of the Indian, c. 1550

Which of the following factors that affected Native Americans is directly

implied but not stated in this excerpt?

• (A) Many Spaniards were sympathetic to the Native Americans

• (B) The Catholic Church was trying to help the Native Americans

• (C) European diseases were killing millions of Native Americans

• (D) The Spanish faced strong resistance from Native Americans

Questions 6-7 ref er to the excerpt below.

"Apart from his navigational skills, what most set Columbus apart from other Europeans of his day were not the things that he believed, but the intensity with

which he believed in them and the determination with which he acted upon those beliefs ....

"Columbus was, in most respects, merely an especially active and dramatic embodiment of the European-and especially the Mediterranean-mind and soul of his time: a religious fanatic obsessed with the conversion, conquest,

or liquidation of all non-Christians; a latter-day Crusader in search of per-sonal wealth and fame, who expected the enormous and mysterious world he had found to be filled with monstrous races inhabiting wild forests, and with

golden people living in Eden."

-David E. Stannard, historian, American Holocaust: Columbus and the

Conquest of the New World, 1992

Which of the following European nations would be the least likely to share the characteristics Stannard uses in describing Columbus?

• (A) England

• (B) Italy

• (C) Portugal

• (D) Spain

Questions 6-7 ref er to the excerpt below.

"Apart from his navigational skills, what most set Columbus apart from other Europeans of his day were not the things that he believed, but the intensity with

which he believed in them and the determination with which he acted upon those beliefs ....

"Columbus was, in most respects, merely an especially active and dramatic embodiment of the European-and especially the Mediterranean-mind and soul of his time: a religious fanatic obsessed with the conversion, conquest,

or liquidation of all non-Christians; a latter-day Crusader in search of per-sonal wealth and fame, who expected the enormous and mysterious world he had found to be filled with monstrous races inhabiting wild forests, and with

golden people living in Eden."

-David E. Stannard, historian, American Holocaust: Columbus and the

Conquest of the New World, 1992

Which of the following is a reason historians are most likely to criticize the view of Columbus expressed in this excerpt? (two answers)

• (A) It ignores the period in which Columbus lived

• (B) It displays a bias against Christians

• (C) It skips over the progress brought by Columbus

• (D) It uses highly charged language