Module 2 Empires in the Americas

Question 1

What was the main product that the French traded for with the Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

Furs

Question 2

What was the main reason King Philip II of Spain launched the Armada against England?

Accepted Answer

He wanted to drive the Protestants out of England.

Question 3

The ____________ were the first Europeans to establish colonies in North America?

Accepted Answer

Vikings

Question 4

Which place was Coronado the first European to discover?

Accepted Answer

Grand Canyon

Question 5

Trading for _______________ led the settlers of New France to form trading alliances with the Native Americans.

Accepted Answer

Fur

Question 6

The movement of new plants, animals, people, and customs between Europe and the Americas is called the ___________

Accepted Answer

Columbian Exchange

Question 7

A conquistador is ________________?

Accepted Answer

Spanish Military Leader

Question 8

Bartolomé de Las Casas described the treatment of the Native American people by the Spaniards as _____________

Accepted Answer

Devilish

Question 9

Who was the first explorer to realize that the lands being discovered were not in Asia?

Accepted Answer

Vespucci

Question 10

What improvement to the caravel made it easier to steer than the older galleon?

Accepted Answer

rudder in back

Question 11

The Spanish crown controlled migration to the new lands it discovered. They required that only ____ be allowed to settle

Accepted Answer

Christians

Question 12

Why did the Europeans find it necessary to explore new lands?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 13

What is one reason the Europeans began importing slaves from Africa to work on their new lands?

Accepted Answer

Most of the Native Americans died from European diseases.

Question 14

What was one consequence of the Doctrine of Discovery?

Accepted Answer

Native peoples were no longer entitled to lands they had always occupied.

Question 15

Which explorer sailed under the flags of two different countries?

Accepted Answer

Henry Hudson

Question 16

Which items did the Europeans bring with them to the new world?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 17

What was a plantation?

Accepted Answer

a large farm

Question 18

Where was the first French colony in North America located?

Accepted Answer

Florida

Question 19

Columbus named the first new land he discovered ____________?

Accepted Answer

San Salvador

Question 20

What was El Camino Real?

Accepted Answer

a network of roads

Question 21

The Spanish Armada was launched to overthrow which of these?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth I

Question 22

French Protestants were known as ________________

Accepted Answer

Huguenots

Question 23

How did the men of Columbus’s expedition first know they were nearing land?

Accepted Answer

They saw birds and floating branches.

Question 24

__________ served as trading posts and sometimes as centers of government.

Accepted Answer

Pueblos

Question 25

What did Hernando de Soto discover in 1541?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi River

Module 2 Empires in the Americas

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