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  • October 17, 2023
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,CHAPTER 1: A New World


MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. In 1776, Adam Smith observed what fact about the Western Hemisphere?
a. There was not enough land.
b. There were not enough slaves.
c. There were too many contagious diseases transmitted back to Europe.
d. Colonies had done more harm than good for western Europe.
e. Its discovery was one of the two greatest events in history.
ANS: E DIF: Moderate REF: p. 2
OBJ: 3. Explain what impelled European explorers to look west across the Atlantic.
TOP: Global Awareness | Introduction: Columbian Exchange MSC: Understanding

2. A commonality shared between the Asians who crossed the Bering Strait and the Europeans who
crossed the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years later was:
a. the need to spread religion.
b. the desire to conquer new peoples.
c. the search for food items.
d. that neither was willing to take risks.
e. that both brought slaves from Africa.
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: p. 3
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Ethnicity | The Settling of America | The Expansion of Europe
MSC: Analyzing

3. Where did the first peoples to the Americas come from?
a. Iceland. d. Asia.
b. Greenland. e. Europe.
c. Africa.
ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: p. 3
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Global Awareness | The Settling of America
MSC: Remembering

4. In approximately 7000 BCE, agriculture developed in the Americas in:
a. the Mississippi Valley. d. the Chesapeake Bay.
b. Mexico and the Andes. e. Brazil.
c. the Yucatan Peninsula.
ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: p. 3
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Ethnicity | The Settling of America
MSC: Remembering

5. Pre-Columbian Native Americans lacked metal tools:
a. because no metal deposits existed in the Americas.
b. so Europeans felt they were superior.
c. resulting in no dams or irrigation.
d. because they saw these tools as contradicting their religion.
e. so they could not build large structures.

, ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: p. 5
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Economic Development | Indian Societies of the Americas
MSC: Analyzing

6. Both the Aztec and Inca empires were:
a. rural and poor.
b. small in population but sophisticated in infrastructure.
c. large, wealthy, and sophisticated.
d. large in geographic size but sparsely populated.
e. rural, with few impressive buildings.
ANS: C DIF: Easy REF: p. 8
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Ethnicity | Indian Societies of the Americas
MSC: Remembering

7. Where did early mound-building tribes flourish?
a. Near the Atlantic Ocean.
b. In the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys.
c. In present-day New Mexico.
d. In present-day south Florida.
e. Near the Hudson River.
ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: p. 5
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Ethnicity | Mound Builders of the Mississippi Valley
MSC: Remembering

8. Pueblo Indians lived in what is now:
a. the eastern United States. d. the northeastern United States.
b. the southwestern United States. e. Central America.
c. Mexico.
ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: p. 6
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Ethnicity | Western Indians MSC: Remembering

9. The Pueblo Indians encountered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century:
a. had engaged in settled village life only briefly before the Spanish arrived.
b. had been almost completely isolated from any other people before the Spanish arrived.
c. perfected techniques of desert farming.
d. were called mound builders because of the burial mounds they created.
e. created a vast empire that included control of the Incas.
ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: p. 6
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Ethnicity | Western Indians MSC: Remembering

10. Which indigenous group formed the Great League of Peace?
a. Choctaws. d. Chickasaws.
b. Iroquois. e. Cherokees.
c. Hurons.
ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: p. 7

, OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Ethnicity | Indians of Eastern North America
MSC: Remembering

11. When Europeans arrived, many Native Americans:
a. did not see themselves as a single unified people.
b. immediately opened treaty negotiations.
c. learned their languages.
d. hid in nearby cave dwellings.
e. simply attacked them.
ANS: A DIF: Easy REF: p. 7
OBJ: 4. Explain what happened when the peoples of the Americas came in contact with Europeans.
TOP: Ethnicity | Indians of Eastern North America MSC: Remembering

12. Native American religious ceremonies:
a. had nothing to do with farming or hunting.
b. were related to the Native American belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and
inanimate things.
c. were designed to show that supernatural forces must control man.
d. were the same in every community.
e. did not exist until arriving Europeans insisted on knowing about Native American
customs.
ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: p. 9
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Ethnicity | Cultural History | Native American Religion
MSC: Remembering

13. When European clergy read to Native Americans from the Bible about God creating the world in six
days, was there anything relatable for Native Americans?
a. Most Native Americans did not have any religion to compare with Christianity.
b. No Native American religions believed in creation myths.
c. Most Native Americans compared the Bible with their own written version of the Old
Testament.
d. Some Native Americans stated that they were a lost tribe of Israel.
e. Many Native Americans concurred with the idea of a single supreme being creating the
world.
ANS: E DIF: Moderate REF: p. 9
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Ethnicity | Native American Religion
MSC: Analyzing

14. How did Native Americans view the concept of land ownership?
a. Native Americans believed that land should be permanently preserved.
b. Individuals could own land outright.
c. Families had the right to use land, but they did not actually own the land.
d. Native Americans emphasized the dollar value of land.
e. A family could claim land for its descendants, but an individual could not.
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: p. 9
OBJ: 1. Describe the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans
arrived. TOP: Ethnicity | Land and Property MSC: Remembering

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