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INSTRUCTOR MANUAL

American Destiny Narrative of a Nation (Combined Volume)

CONCISE FOURTH EDITION

Mark C. Carnes John A. Ga rraty Part 1:Test Bank: Pages 1-482 Part 2: Instructor Manual: Pages 483-8

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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 A) hoped to gain easier access to highly valued Asian goods.B) could help western Europe win the Crusades against the Muslims.

• could prove that the earth was round rather than flat.

D) thought Japan and China were rich 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 Gama

• 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 A) voyaging to the area of Brazil long before Columbus.B) sponsoring the slave trade which brought so much profit to his nation.C) discovering the southern tip of Africa.D) improving and codifying navigational knowledge i n 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 A) the ease with which the natives understood his language.B) his discovery of the place of the Grand Khan.C) his firm belief that he had sailed far enough westward to reach them.D) the plants there were similar to those in Asia.

Answer: C

(p. 16)

Topic: Columbus’s Great Triumph—and Error

Skill: Conceptual

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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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