APUSH Unit 1

Which of the following was not a technological advancement during the Renaissance that made European expansion possible?

• Accurate navigation technology (compass, etc.)

• Gunpowder

• Improved shipbuilding

• Improved mapmaking

• Increased knowledge of native cultures

Columbian exchange refers to the spread of people, food, ideas, and culture between:

• The Americas, Asia, and Europe

• The Caribbean, Europe, and Asia

• North America, Africa, and Europe

• South America, Europe, and Africa

• North America, South America, and Europe

The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs in Mexico was:

• Samuel Champlain

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Hernan Cortes

The process in which the Spanish conquered native empires in the Americas and land and native labor was granted to individual Spaniards by the king was known as:

• Asiento System

• Mercantilism

• Columbian Exchange

• Demarcation

• Encomienda System

Which of the following motives for exploration does de las Casas seem to be criticizing most directly?

• Converting the natives to Christianity

• National glory

• Intellectual curiosity

• Personal financial gain

Which of the following was the most dramatic effect of the Columbian exchange on the New World?

• A dramatic increase in European populations due to improved diets from the introduction of corn.

• A decline in population and livelihood for Native Americans, brought on by the introduction of slave labor.

• Longer life expectancy for Native Americans due to the introduction of the horse as an improved mode of transportation.

• The destruction of up to 90 percent of the Native American population from diseases like smallpox.

The institution known as encomienda allowed the

• native people to enslave members of other tribes.

• Europeans to marry Native Americans.

• governments of Europe to abolish the practice of Indian slavery and to establish African slavery.

• European governments to grant Indians’ labor to colonists if they promised to Christianize them.

Which of the following motives for exploration is de las Casas most likely to think is the most justified?

• Financial gain

• National glory

• Intellectual curiosity

• Converting the natives to Christianity

The development that brought “corne” to the attention of botanists such as Gerard is best known as the

• Encomienda System

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Enlightenment

• Columbian Exchange

Gerard’s description of “corne” in the excerpt best reflects which of the following?

• Curiosity about American Indian ways of life

• Inability to find uses for North American crops

• Concerns about economic threats posed by North American imports

• Assumptions about the superiority of European culture