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American Destiny Narrative of a Nation (Combined Volume)

CONCISE FOURTH EDITION

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Chapter 1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas

1.1 Multiple Choice Questions 1) Columbus and other early explorers searched for a direct all-water route to Asia because they

• hoped to

gain easier access to highly valued Asian goods.

• could help western Europe win the Crusades agains

t the Muslims.

• could prove that the earth was round rather than flat.
• thought Japan and China were ri

ch and not the poor countries Marco Polo described.

Answer: A

(p. 14)

Topic: Columbus’s Great Triumph—and Error

Skill: Conceptual

2) The map “European Voyages of Discovery,” depicts the 1497–1499 journey around Africa by which of the following?A) da GamaB) Cabot

• Cartier
• Magellan

Answer: A

(p. 15)

Topic: Columbus’s Great Triumph—and Error

Skill: Factual

3) Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal was noted for

• vo

yaging to the area of Brazil long before Columbus.

• sponsorin

g the slave trade which brought so much profit to his nation.

• discovering the souther

n tip of Africa.

• im

proving and codifying navigational knowledge in order to find a route to Asia.

Answer: D

(pp. 15–16)

Topic: Columbus’s Great Triumph—and Error

Skill: Conceptual

4) When Columbus landed in America, the chief reason that he thought he had landed in “the Indies” was

• the ease with which the

natives understood his language.

• his discovery

of the place of the Grand Khan.

• his fir

m belief that he had sailed far enough westward to reach them.

• the plants there were

similar to those in Asia.

Answer: C

(p. 16)

Topic: Columbus’s Great Triumph—and Error

Skill: Conceptual 2 / 4

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5) By the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), Spain had authority to exploit all of

• North and South America except Brazil.
• Africa and the Middle East except Egypt.
• South America except Colombia.
• North America and Central America, but not South America.

Answer: A

(p. 17)

Topic: Spain’s American Empire

Skill: Factual

6) Your textbook describes Spain’s American empire as

• treating the Indians as equals by establishing joint ventures with them.
• seeing the Americas as lands of opportunity and freedom, yet fearing other countries might introduce

slavery.

• failing totally to transplant Spanish culture in the Americas.
• trying to implant Spanish civilization and introduce Christianity, but also committing unprovoked

aggression.

Answer: D

(p. 18)

Topic: Spain’s American Empire

Skill: Conceptual

7) In the 1670s thousands of Pueblo rebelled to drive the

• Spanish from New Mexico.
• Portuguese out of Brazil.
• Spanish from Florida.
• French out of Texas.

Answer: A

(p. 20)

Topic: Extending Spain’s Empire to the North

Skill: Factual

8) When discussing the question of the terrible decimation of the Native American peoples after 1500, your text concludes that most deaths resulted from

• European diseases.
• intertribal warfare.
• modern weaponry.
• extermination of traditional game.

Answer: A

(p. 20)

Topic: Disease and Population Losses

Skill: Conceptual

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9) The exploration and exploitation of the Americas in the sixteenth century was dominated by

• Holland.
• Spain.
• England.
• France.

Answer: B

(p. 24)

Topic: Spain’s European Rivals

Skill: Factual

10) One of the major reasons the Protestant Reformation succeeded was that

• Italian merchants realized it made fewer financial demands on them than Catholicism.
• political figures could use its challenge to Rome’s spiritual authority in order to increase their power.
• the Catholic church was beset by papal luxury and bureaucratic corruption.
• it encouraged democratic revolutions to overthrow monarchies throughout Europe.

Answer: C

(p. 24)

Topic: The Protestant Reformation

Skill: Conceptual

11) The king who brought the Protestant Reformation to England by declaring himself head of the English Church in order to divorce his first wife was

• Charles V.
• Henry VIII.
• James I.
• Richard III.

Answer: B

(p. 25)

Topic: The Protestant Reformation

Skill: Factual

12) The bold captain encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I to plunder Spanish merchant ships on the high seas was

• Martin Frobisher.
• Sir Walter Raleigh.
• Humphrey Gilbert.
• Francis Drake.

Answer: D

(p. 26)

Topic: English Beginnings in America

Skill: Factual

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