Chapter 2 Test (SS)

1.

1 point

What is a conquistador?

Priest

Explorer

Slave

Spanish Soldier

2.

1 point

What was the main reason a lot of Native Americans died after contact with the Europeans?

Starvation

Slavery

War

Diseases

3.

1 point

During the 1500's, Spanish conquistadors conquered Mexico and most of

South America

Louisiana

Canada

North America

4.

1 point

Ferdinand Magellan

conquered the Aztecs

conquered the Incas

was the first explorer to sail around the world

searched for a northwest passage, found a large bay and was left to die

5.

1 point

How did the interactions between Native Americans and Spanish improve their society?

Learned how to grow new crops

Learned to raise sheep for wool

Learned about new tools

All of the above

6.

1 point

After being taken over by the English in 1664, New Netherland was renamed

New York

New Jersey

New Hampshire

New England

7.

1 point

Why did the colony of New France fail to attract many settlers?

Crops grew really well

Relations were bad with Native Americans

Harsh climate

People weren't very nice there

8.

1 point

In New France, French fur traders made Native Americans their

captive slaves

business partners

hired servents

Catholic converts

9.

1 point

Christopher Columbus

discovered North America

conquered the Incas

conquered the Aztecs

was the first explorer to sail around the world

10.

1 point

The Dutch in New Netherland prospered by

Allowing Jews seeking religious freedom to settle in New Amsterdam

driving Native Americans from their homelands

Trading guns for furs with the powerful Iroquois Confederacy

Trading furs for tobacco with the English settlers in Jamestown

11.

1 point

Hernan Cortes

conquered the Incas

was the first explorer to sail around the world

discovered North America

conquered the Aztecs

12.

1 point

Pocahontas helped Jamestown to survive by

showing the colonists how to raise tobacco

bringing peace between the colonists and her people

teaching the colonists how to hunt and fish for food

telling the colonists that those who didn't work wouldn't eat

13.

1 point

Settlers in the Spanish borderlands were mostly

pirates and runaway slaves

soldiers and Catholic priests

farmers and cattle ranchers

miners and treasure seekers

14.

1 point

Henry Hudson

conquered the Aztecs

discovered North America

searched for a northwest passage, found a large bay and was left to die

conquered the Incas

15.

1 point

The time period where Native Americans refused to trade with the settlers was known as

The Starving Time

The Columbian Exchange

A Missionary

The Coronado Expedition

16.

1 point

Christopher Columbus's four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to

a race between Spain and India to claim large parts of the Americas

the introduction of slavery to Spain and other parts of Europe

a decline in Europe's population as a result of new diseases

an exchange of people, foods and germs between Europe and the Americans

17.

1 point

For what reasons did priests build missions?

Make them slaves

Spread Catholicism

Used by soldiers to protect villages

House the homeless

18.

1 point

The transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases is called?

The Starving Time

Columbian Exchange

Missionary

The Coronado Expedition

19.

1 point

What group of people did slave traders provide as laborers?

Europeans

Native Americans

Romans

Africans

20.

1 point

Francisco Pizarro

discovered North America

conquered the Incas

searched for a northwest passage, found a large bay and was left to die

conquered the Aztecs