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Chapter 2 Review

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the Line of Demarcation?

a)

a) a vertical boundary through South American and present-day Mexico

b)

b) a vertical boundary through the Atlantic and present-day Brazil

c)

c) a horizontal boundary through West Africa

d)

d) a horizontal boundary though North America

2.

What did Amerigo Vespucci's explorations reveal?

a)

There was not a western trade route to Asia

b)

The Pacific Ocean was wider than he imagined

c)

South America was a huge landmass

d)

North America was densely populated

3.

Which statement explains how the defeats of the Aztec and the Inca are related?

a)

The spread of smallpox helped the Spanish in both conflicts.

b)

Additional troops from Spain were needed for both conflicts.

c)

Native American tribes were content before each conflict.

d)

Hernan Cortes's leadership helped the Spanish in each conflict.

4.

What caused the Aztec to rebel against Hernan Cortes and the Spanish?

a)

The Spanish rejected their god Quetzalcoatl.

b)

The Spanish kidnapped their emperor Moctezuma.

c)

The Spanish allied with dissatisfied Native Americans.

d)

The Spanish demanded gold and outlawed human sacrifice.

5.

What were conquistadors looking for in North America?

a)

polished stone

b)

silver mines

c)

cities of gold

d)

viceroys

6.

Why did the Spanish appoint viceroys?

a)

to rule the territories claimed by Spain

b)

to explore new lands in North America

c)

to search for gold in viceroyalties

d)

to establish trade routes in the New World

7.

What did Ferdinand Magellan do?

a)

completed first navigation around the world

b)

completed voyages for Spain and Portugal

c)

sailed around South America and landed on the island Guam

d)

sailed around South Africa and successfully reached India

8.

How did the conquistadors interact with the Aztec and the Inca?

a)

They respected both peoples.

b)

They used both peoples to locate gold.

c)

They used violence to control both peoples.

d)

They gave both peoples gifts to pass through their land.

9.

How did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca inspire other explorers to travel to North America?

a)

His travel writings suggested that there could be riches north of New Spain

b)

He became a governor and stood up for better treatment of Native Americans.

c)

His crew brought back stories of his expedition across the Pacific Northwest

d)

published Native American legends about cities of gold when he returned

10.

What was the route of Henry Hudson's 1609 trip to the Americas?

a)

sailing the Canadian coast and St. Lawrence River

b)

the Atlantic coast

c)

from Bristol, England, to Newfoundland

d)

from France to North Carolina

11.

How did Canada get its name?

a)

for the travel writings of Henry Hudson

b)

from a Huron-Iroquois word meaning "village of settlement"

c)

from the names of Giovanni da Verrazzano's ships

d)

from a Protestant group that landed there after fleeing Europe

12.

Why did Martin Luther accuse the Catholic Church of corruption?

a)

The Church supported exploration voyages to the Americas.

b)

The Church excluded Luther from Church rituals and membership.

c)

The Church supported the Spanish monarchy above all others.

d)

The Church claimed to forgive sins in exchange for money.

13.

Who were the Sea Dogs?

a)

Spanish explorers licensed to claim and rule in the Americas.

b)

Spanish sailors who sailed as part of the Spanish Armada.

c)

English sailors licensed by the monarch to attack enemy ships.

d)

English explorers who sailed to the Americas to claim land for England.

14.

Which English person was the first to circumnavigate the globe?

a)

Queen Elizabeth I

b)

Henry Hudson

c)

Francis Drake

d)

Charles Howard

15.

What are watershed lands?

a)

areas used to transport goods

b)

areas that remained unexplored

c)

areas known for fur trading

d)

areas drained by rivers

16.

What led to war between the Dutch and the Native Americans in 1640?

a)

the purchase of Manhattan

b)

the colonization of Canada

c)

exploration of the St. Lawrence River

d)

forces conversions to Catholicism

17.

Why did the transatlantic slave trade devastate entire cultures?

a)

Raiders burned and destroyed villages as they moved from place to place.

b)

European landowners kept people from the same communities together.

c)

Raiders captured young and productive members of the communities.

d)

European merchants increased demand for a short time.

18.

Which fact does NOT apply to how England beat the Spanish Armada?

a)

Stormy weather gave England an advantage.

b)

Spain had fewer soldiers on their ships.

c)

England's artillery fired quicker.

d)

England's ships were faster.

19.

Why did Samuel de Champlain's attempts to increase the population of New France fail?

a)

Champlain refused to work with Jesuit priests and their aims in Canada.

b)

People feared more conflicts between the French and the Native Americans.

c)

Potential colonists were not interested in participating in the fur trade.

d)

The French government refused to let Protestants settle in New France.

20.

Which group was the most powerful in the Spanish colonies?

a)

Spanish-born people and Creoles

b)

Mesitzos

c)

Native Americans

d)

enslaved Africans

21.

How did Bartolome de Las Casas help Native Americans?

a)

A) He encouraged a new social hierarchy in the colonies.

b)

B) He worked with haciendas to improve working conditions.

c)

C) He convinced the Spanish king to pass laws protecting Native Americans.

d)

D) He led a revolt against the Spanish in present-day New Mexico.

22.

What was the Columbian Exchange?

a)

a cultural meeting between Columbus, his crew, and the Native Americans

b)

a period when the Old World and the New World exchanged plants and animals

c)

a series of economic transactions between European explorers and colonists

d)

a treaty establishing trade between the Old World and the New World

23.

What were haciendas?

a)

social groups in Spanish society

b)

townships controlled by the viceroys

c)

missions used to convert Native Americans

d)

tracts of farmland given to wealthy colonists

24.

Which change was a positive consequence of the Columbian Exchange?

a)

Animals' roaming and grazing habits changed the American landscape.

b)

Native Americans incorporated European animals into their culture.

c)

Europeans carried diseases without showing symptoms or appearing sick.

d)

The Eastern Hemisphere was introduced to wheat, barley, rye, and more.

25.

Why was quinine so important for Europe, Africa, and Asia?

a)

It helped European powers increase their power at home.

b)

It was a cultural idea that revolutionized many societies.

c)

It helped the colonists develop immunity to smallpox.

d)

It was the only effective malaria remedy for 300 years.

26.

Which statement describes the labor system used on haciendas?

a)

Native American laborers worked the land in exchange for protection.

b)

Native American laborers worked the land for a portion of the crops.

c)

Native American laborers worked the land in exchange for food and shelter.

d)

Native American laborers worked the land for low wages.

27.

Why was the European encounter with the Americas significant?

a)

A) Europe needed the interaction to finally boost their economy.

b)

B) The Americas had agricultural advances that the Europeans needed.

c)

C) The Americas were too divided before the Europeans arrived.

d)

D) Formerly isolated areas were now connected to a global network.

28.

Which fact about chattel slavery is NOT true?

a)

People were classified as goods.

b)

Enslavement was temporary.

c)

Children of enslaved people were also enslaved.

d)

People had no human rights.

29.

Why did Francisco Pizarro want to conquer the Inca?

a)

He admired their empire.

b)

He wanted their gold and silver.

c)

He needed access to the Pacific Ocean.

d)

He was ordered to by Spain.

30.

Which event did NOT happen during Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's expedition through the American Southwest?

a)

Coronado and his men saw the Grand Canyon.

b)

Coronado and his men encountered the Hopi.

c)

Coronado and his men saw herds of buffalo.

d)

Coronado and his men found gold.

31.

Which explorer had a river, strait, and bay named after him?

a)

John Cabot

b)

Henry Hudson

c)

Jacques Cartier

d)

Giovanni Da Verrazzano

32.

What was an encomienda?

a)

a tract of land to farm in the Caribbean islands

b)

a religious settlement to convert Native Americans to Catholicism

c)

a deed for trading with other countries who also had American colonies

d)

a grant to landowners of a certain number of Native American laborers

33.

Why did the Americas have different plants and animals than Europe, Asia, and Africa?

a)

A) Europe, Asia, and Africa developed extensive trade routes earlier.

b)

B) People in the Americas preferred different plants and animals.

c)

C) The two hemispheres developed in isolation from each other.

d)

D) People in the Eastern Hemisphere preferred trading to agriculture.

34.

How did chattel slavery begin?

a)

The English wanted an unlimited source of labor for the Americas.

b)

The French wanted enslaved people to work on their land in New France.

c)

The Spanish wanted reinforcements for their fight against the Aztec.

d)

The Portuguese wanted enslaved people to work on their sugar plantations.

35.

What happened during the first part of the triangular trade route?

a)

A) Europeans transferred plants and animals to the Americas.

b)

B) Europeans exchanged goods for enslaved Africans.

c)

C) Slave ships traveled from West Africa to the Americas.

d)

D) Europeans traveled to Europe with goods from the Americas.

36.

Why was the Middle Passage so difficult?

a)

Ten to fifteen percent of enslaved people died of disease or despair

b)

Slave ships were overloaded with cargo for the long journey to the Americas

c)

Europeans were inexperienced making the journey across the Atlantic Ocean

d)

Kingdoms such as Dahomey and Ashanti demanded African goods.

37.

By the 1500's how many enslaved Africans worked on Spanish plantations in the Caribbean?

a)

1600

b)

5000

c)

75000

d)

10 Million

38.

What is the African diaspora?

a)

the population of many Africans across the African continent

b)

the removal of many Africans from their homeland to the Americas

c)

the different groups of Africans living in the Spanish colonies

d)

the journey of Africans from the middle of the continent to West Africa

39.

When was slavery abolished in the United States?

a)

1500's

b)

1807

c)

1843

d)

1865