DE United States History - Unit 1 Review

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Which of the following best describes the way Europeans treated Native Americans in the 1500's and 1600's?

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Native Americans were regarded as inferior people subject to Christian domination

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Which of the following was the LEAST important factor that caused European exploration and settlement in the 16th century?
- increase in scientific knowledge and technological change
- population increase
- development of nation-states
- competition for trade

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population increase

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The chief purpose of Mercantilist policies was to

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strengthen the economy and power of the parent country

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As a result of the Colombian Exchange, the New World gained...

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new animals as sources of food and to serve as beasts of burden

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European diseases that arrived in the New World were particularly deadly because...

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the Native Americans had no natural resistance to these diseases

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One significant impact of the Colombian Exchange on the Old World was...

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the growth of the food supply and subsequent population increase

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In the view of the encomienda system, Native Americans were seen primarily as...

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a source of labor

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What aspect of Spanish colonization did missionary Bartolome de Las Casas famously protest?

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the treatment of Native Americans as subhuman and expendable

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Which of the following best explains the impact of the introduction of horses to the New World? Options: It caused a decrease in agricultural productivity, It resulted in the extinction of native animal species, It transformed the hunting and warfare practices of many Native American groups, It led to the decline of European settlements

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It transformed the hunting and warfare practices of many Native American groups

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The given visual shows

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the Spanish Casta System