WorksheetsChapter 19: Early Latin America
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
An institution that had died out during Medieval Europe but survived in Iberia and was exported to the New World by Spain and Portugal was:
Feudalism
Serfdom
Slavery
Capitalism
In Spain, who were the only peoples allowed to trade with the Americas?
Conquistadors
Spainards
Natives
Letrados
The first Spanish colony in the New World was established on:
Hispaniola.
Cuba.
Puerto Rico.
The Antilles.
What accounted for the majority of the population loss suffered by the Native Americans after the European arrival?
Losses in warfare
Enslavement
Epidemic diseases
Internal civil conflicts
The greatest silver mine in Spanish America was located at:
Huancavelica.
Mexico City.
Santiago.
Potosi.
The Brazilian model of plantation colony was later followed in the 18th century by other European nations in:
Mexico.
Canada.
Panama.
the Caribbean.
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of Iberian society?
Heavy urbanization
Absence of slaveholding traditions
Emphasis on nobility
Emphasis on patriarchal ideals
Before 1800, the most profitable economic activity for Spain in its colonies was:
mining and smelting of metals.
ranching and herding.
agriculture.
manufacturing and processing of cottons and cloths.
The grants of Indians to individual Spaniards as a labor system were called:
obrajes.
consulados.
encomiendas.
audiencias.
Under the doctrine of mercantilism, Spain and Portugal encouraged their Latin American colonies to:
buy manufactured goods only from the mother country.
permit foreign merchants to trade within the empires.
practice free trade.
become self-sufficient.
The Spaniards would not take full control of the Inca Empire until ____________.
1571.
1570.
1604.
1572.
How did Caribbean cities differ from those of Europe?
American cities were laid out in a grid plan.
American cities lacked churches.
There was an absence of commerce in American cities.
There were no Caribbean cities.
The man responsible for the conquest of the Aztec empire in Mexico was:
Francisco Pizarro.
Pedro de Valdivia.
Hernan Cortes.
Francisco Vazquez de Coronado.
The tremendous decline of the Indian population in Mexico was matched by the rapid increase in:
technological development.
European livestock.
Spanish women.
Imports of cotton cloth.
Which of the following Indian institutions was retained by the Spanish in Mexico and Peru to serve European administrative purposes?
Native American religion
The priestly class
The Indian nobility
The Aztec emperor
When Portuguese domination of the sugar refining market ended in Brazil,
Holland seized control of the colony.
gold and gold strikes continually brought in new settlers and opened new lands.
France bought Brazil from Portugal.
Brazil began to produce wines for export.
The export of silver from the Americas led to all of these outcomes EXCEPT:
discouraging foreign rivals and pirates.
paying for Spain's religious and dynastic wars.
causing a sharp inflating in Western Europe.
exchange of silver from Chinese luxuries Europeans desired.
The dislocation of native plants and animals by European crops and domesticated animals, and the devastation of natives by European diseases are referred to as:
The Columbian Exchange.
The Great Migration.
An environmental disaster.
Ecological imperialism.
In regard to the atrocities and harsh treatment of the Indians by the conquistadors, the Spanish crown:
ignored complaints and supported the conquerors.
appointed the Church protector of the Indians.
often agreed with those who defended the Indians but did not stop the abuses.
created courts of inquiry and put the conquerors on trial for their crimes.
To furnish labor for their estates in the Americas, the Spanish:
imported peasants from Spain.
utilized Indian labor or imported African slaves.
began to use wage laborers.
recruited European settlers.
In order to administer its Latin American possessions, Spain:
permitted nobles to administer lands without royal interference.
retained local Indian rulers as clients provided, they were loyal to Spain.
built capital cities staffed with trained bureaucrats and royal officials.
intermarried with Indian elites to create an administrative class.
The earliest settlement in the northeastern coast of North America was:
Jamestown.
Panama.
Plymouth.
Santa Fe.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas?
the European disease of smallpox ravaged the native population, vastly reducing the native labor force
the Spaniards succeeded in exploiting internal weaknesses in the natives' power structure
the Spaniards significantly outnumbered the native population
a three-tiered society developed made up of European immigrants, Native Americans and Black slaves imported from Africa to make up for the loss of human lives caused by European disease among the indigenous labor force
The resulting hierarchy included two ranks of Creoles, an upper rank of gentes decentes, or "respectable people," and a lower rank of _________, or "popular people."
gentes humildes
gentes de pueblo
gentes trabajadoras
gentes desposeídas
The colonial governments replaced the labor of the encomienda with Indian labor extracted through local officials. Such forced labor was called:
Consulado.
Mita.
Obrajes.
Peninsulares.
Why was the discovery of mercury in Peru critical to the colonial economy?
Mercury was even more valuable than silver as an export commodity.
Mercury was a critical food component for the growing livestock inventories of New World ranches.
Mercury was indispensable to the extraction of silver from ore-bearing rock.
Mercury became a medium of exchange in place of money in the American economy.
Because of the switch from indigenous methods of mining to the extraction of silver through a process of amalgamation with mercury, silver production in the Americas expanded rapidly after:
1500
1650
1700
1580
The Spanish convoy system that controlled trade with the Americas was made possible by the development of:
galleons.
the astrolabe.
oared galleys.
gunpowder.
The Catholic church introduced all of the following to American life EXCEPT:
Universities.
the construction of baroque churches.
the sense of independence from the state.
establishing missions in outlaying areas.
By 1700, slaves comprised approximately what proportion of the Brazilian population?
one quarter
one third
two thirds
one half
