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The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards: Crash Course US History #1
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What can we say about the native peoples of North America which would later become the U.S.?
There were no classical (European) style civilizations.
Native North Americans had no metal work, wheels, or written language.
Native North Americans had no domesticated animals.
All of these
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following did Native North Americans have?
Farming
Complex political structures.
Wide spread trade networks.
All of these
- 3. Multiple Choice
As many ___ of 10 Native Americans were wiped out by the diseases brought by Europeans to the Americas?
5
6
7
8
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which civilizations of Canyon dwellers in the American Southwest peaked before European exploration of the Americas?
Zuni & Hopi Civilization
Aztec Civilization
Inca Civilization
All of the above
- 5. Multiple Choice
The best known confederacy of Native Americans was the
The Iroquois Confederacy
The Cherokee Confederacy
The Delaware Confederacy
The Confederacy
- 6. Multiple Choice
Most Native groups in most places organized as tribes, and their lives were dominated by the natural resources available where they lived
True
False
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which group would have viewed lands as "a common resource that village leaders could assign families to use, but not to own, and most land was seen as common to everyone."
Native Americans
Europeans
Spanish
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT a notable difference between European society and Native North Americans?
Natives were immune from greed and corruption.
Native society was much more egalitarian.
Native societies were often matrilineal
Woman played a greater role in society with fewer restrictions on them.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which group of Europeans were the first to explore what would later become part of the United States?
The Spanish
The English
The French
The Dutch
- 10. Multiple Choice
In what would become the United States where was Spain most successful in colonization?
The Southwest
Florida
The Gulf Coast
New England
- 11. Multiple Choice
Religion usually involved all of the following EXCEPT
a vibrant spiritual world, with ceremonies geared towards the tribe's lifestyle
a single creator god, who stood above all the other deities
monotheistic view similar to the Christians who came to the New World
- 12. Multiple Choice
Who is a notable proponent of better treatment for the Native American peoples by the Spanish
Bartolome de las Casas
de Sepulveda
Ignatius of Loyola
Charles V Holy Roman Emperor
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is the name of the myth that the Spanish unleashed increasable cruelty on the Native Americans compared to the English?
The Black Legend
El Dorado
Encomienda
Conquistador
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT a reason why the Spanish came to the Americas?
Find gold
Spread Christianity
Spread disease
- 15. Multiple Choice
The result of the Pueblo Revolt was
2000 warriors who killed 400 Spanish colonists and forced the rest to leave Santa Fe
Pueblos tore down all the Christian churches and replaced them with "kivas"
the Spanish were much more tolerant of indigenous religion and they also abandoned the forced labor practice called "encomienda"
all of these
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