Chapter 2 Review

Which conquistador landed on the east coast of present-day Mexico in 1519?

• A) Francisco Pizarro

• B) Hernán Cortés

• C) Juan Ponce de León

•  D) Christopher Columbus

Queen Isabella hoped to convert Native Americans to Christianity.

• True

• False

Which country’s colonists maintained a profitable fur trade in North America?

• Portugal

• France

• England

• spain

Explorers searched the coast of North America looking for the Northwest Passage to Asia.

• TRue

• False

Who publicly condemned the cruel treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish?

• De la Casas

• Columbus

• Pizarro

• Cortes

In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed to America with the Niña, Pinta, and the

• Santa Maria

• Isabell

• King John

• Queen Elizabeth

What did the French establish in the Americas?

• A) slave trade

• B) gold and silver mines

• C) fishing and fur trade

• D) new communities

Which of these powerful empires was conquered by Hernán Cortés?

• Inca

• Aztec

• Powhatan

• Iriquios

Whose army conquered the Inca Empire?

• A) Atahualpa

• B) Francisco Pizarro

• C) Hernán Cortés

• D) Montezuma

Which of these was an essential part of the economy of the Spanish colonies?

• A) Native American currency

• B) priests

• C) enslaved workers

• D) tobacco