Why did some of the original colonists flee to the New World?

What vision did Americans come to embrace during the American Revolution?

Which of the following ideals became synonymous with American life according to the passage?

Most colonists who came to the New World were determined to create a society modeled on which customs?

According to the passage, what was a major difference between the New England colonies and the southern colonies?

Fill in the blank: The war that strengthened ties between the colonies and Britain by fighting together against the French and Indians was the ____________.

After 1763, what financial decision by the British government increased tensions with the American colonies?

By the 1770s, the main issue that brought the crisis of imperial authority to a head was the colonists' demand for more self-rule and opposition to new taxes.

According to the passage, what belief united Americans during the Revolution?

According to the passage, how many years ago did the earth, the fifth in size among the planets, come into being?

Who said the following in 1498: 'I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. . . . Your Highnesses have an Other World here.'?

Fill in the blank: Recorded history begins around ________.

Fill in the blank: Columbus's discovery occurred in the year ________.

Fill in the blank: Independence was declared in the year ________.

According to the passage, what major event happened about five hundred years ago that altered the future of both the Old and New Worlds?

According to the passage, about how many years ago did a single supercontinent contain all the world's dry land?

Which of the following mountain ranges is NOT mentioned as part of western North America in the passage?

The passage states that the existence of a single original continent has been proved in part by the discovery of nearly identical species of what?

True or False: The Appalachian mountains were probably formed after continental separation, perhaps 350 million years ago.

What was the name of the massive landform that anchored the northeastern corner of North America?

According to the passage, when did the Great Ice Age begin?

What happened to the Great Salt Lake as described in the passage?

According to the most plausible theory, how did the first Americans arrive in North America?

Fill in the blank: The Bering land bridge connected _______ with North America during the Ice Age.

The Bering land bridge was exposed because sea levels dropped during the Ice Age.

What happened to the Bering land bridge about 10,000 years ago?

Fill in the blank: By the time Europeans arrived in America in 1492, approximately _______ million people inhabited the two American continents.

Which of the following civilizations is NOT mentioned as having developed in the Americas?

The map offers further clues to the European mentality of the time. Which of the following best describes these clues?

Misconceptions about the geography of the Americas influenced further exploration and settlement patterns in which of the following ways?

What crop accounted for the size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America?

By about what year had corn planting reached the present-day American Southwest?

The Iroquois Confederacy developed political and organizational skills to sustain a robust military alliance that menaced its neighbors, Native American and European alike, for well over a century.

Which of the following Native American groups built an elaborate pueblo of more than six hundred interconnected rooms at Chaco Canyon?

What does the Spanish word 'Pueblo' mean?

Unlike the Europeans, what was the Native American view regarding humans and the earth?

A major limitation of representing Native American territories at the time of first contact with Europeans is:

The map accurately shows the exact original territory of each Native American group at the time of first contact with Europeans.

Fill in the blank: The Navajo and Apache peoples had migrated from present-day northern Canada to the American Southwest before the Spanish first encountered them in the ________.

Which Native American group is shown as inhabiting the Great Plains region on the map?

It is difficult to determine which Native American groups were originally in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic regions because:

According to the passage, what did Native Americans sometimes do to create better hunting habitats?

In the year 1492, probably no more than ______ million Native Americans paddled through the whispering, primeval forests and paddled across the sparkling, virgin waters of North America.

Who were the indirect discoverers of the New World according to the passage?

Which of the following was NOT a product that became popular in Europe as a result of the crusades?

The Norse settlements in North America were supported by a strong nation-state and lasted for many years.

According to the passage, why were the luxuries of the East prohibitively expensive in Europe?

Who was the Italian adventurer that returned to Europe in 1295 and began telling tales of his nearly twenty-year sojourn in China?

Muslim middlemen made it easy and cheap for European consumers to access goods from the East.

What breakthrough in the fifteenth century allowed European sailors to sail southward along the coast of West Africa?

What was the main reason European consumers and distributors were eager to find a new route to the riches of Asia?

Refer to the map titled 'The World Known to Europe, 1492.' Which of the following continents was NOT known to Europeans at that time?

According to the passage, what was the main reason Europeans did not have direct access to sub-Saharan Africa until the fifteenth century?

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to establish direct trade with sub-Saharan Africa in the fifteenth century.

What was one major consequence of the Portuguese involvement in the African slave trade?

Explain how the early African slave trade fostered the extinction of regional African cultures and tribal identities, according to the passage.

Which explorer rounded the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488?

In what year did Vasco da Gama reach India?

The marriage of which two sovereigns led to the unification of Spain in the late fifteenth century?

Refer to the passage below. The Portuguese controlled the African coast and thus controlled the ______ to the round-Africa water route to India.

The main motivation for Europeans to seek new trade routes to Asia was:

Who persuaded the Spanish monarchs to outfit him with three tiny but seaworthy ships and headed westward, eventually sighting an island in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492?

Columbus was at first so certain that he had skirted the rim of the 'Indies' that he called the native peoples ________, a gross geographical misnomer that somehow stuck.

Columbus's discovery would eventually convulse four continents. Which of the following was NOT one of those continents?

The introduction of New World foodstuffs like maize, manioc, and sweet potatoes may have fed an African population boom that offset the losses inflicted by the slave trade.

What was one of the most important Indian gifts to the Europeans and to the rest of the world, according to the passage?

What technological advancement, introduced about 1450, facilitated the spread of scientific knowledge and helped Columbus's voyage?

According to the passage and diagram, which of the following was brought from the Old World to the New World during the Columbian Exchange?

Fill in the blank: During the Columbian Exchange, ________ was introduced to the Old World from the New World, causing a significant impact on European diets.

Which of the following diseases was brought from the Old World to the New World during the Columbian Exchange?

Fill in the blank: The passage states that the lethal germs spread among the New World peoples with the speed and force of a ________.

According to the diagram, which of the following was NOT exchanged from the New World to the Old World?

Fill in the blank: The passage mentions that Columbus brought seedlings of ________ cane, which thrived in the warm Caribbean climate.

According to the passage, what percentage of Native Americans perished due to diseases after Columbus's landfall?

According to the passage, what disease did Indian slaves unintentionally transmit to early European explorers?

Who was hailed as the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean?

Which Spanish explorer started from Spain in 1519 with five tiny ships and completed the first circumnavigation of the globe?

Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote The Destruction of the Indies in 1542 to chronicle the awful fate of the Native Americans and to protest Spanish policies in the New World.

In the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), which country received compensating territory in Africa and Asia, as well as title to lands that one day would be Brazil?

Who was the Spanish explorer that traversed northern Texas and Oklahoma in search of golden cities between 1540-1542?

Which Spanish explorer discovered and crossed the Mississippi River during his expedition from 1539-1542?

What was the main economic impact of the influx of New World silver into Spain by 1600?

The encomienda system allowed the Spanish government to 'commend' Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to try to Christianize them.

In what year did the great Moorish city of Granada in Spain fall, marking the end of a ten-year siege?

What was the main goal of the Christian kingdoms of Spain for five centuries before the fall of Granada?

True or False: The Reconquista created a large class of men who regarded manual labor and commerce with respect.

Between 1519 and 1540, Spanish conquistadores swept across the Americas in two wide arcs of conquest. One arc went from Cuba through Mexico into what is now the southwestern United States. Where did the other arc start?

Which two great empires did the Spanish conquistadores extinguish in the Americas?

The territory claimed by the Spanish conquistadores extended from Colorado to Argentina, including much of what is now the continental United States.

According to the passage, how many men achieved the military conquest of this vast region?

Who were the conquistadores?

Fill in the blank: The conquistadores were mostly in their twenties and early thirties, and all knew how to wield a _____

What was one of the main motives for some conquistadores, according to the passage?

The passage states that most conquistadores received titles of nobility and large rewards for their efforts.

According to the passage, what term is used for the offspring of Spanish conquerors and Indian women?

Fill in the blank: The new race formed by the offspring of Spanish conquerors and Indian women was called _____

According to the passage 'The Conquest of Mexico', in what year did Hernán Cortés set sail from Cuba to Mexico?

According to the passage 'The Conquest of Mexico', who was the female Indian slave that helped Cortés by translating for him?