CHAPTER 24 TEST REVIEW
1. Dona Marina was a Mexican woman who aided Cortes in his conquest of the Aztecs.
2. When the Spanish invaded the Aztec empire many of the subject tribes formed alliances with the Spanish.
3. The term mestizo refers to an individual of indigenous and European parentage.
4. The first people of the Americas to come into contact with the Spanish were the Tainos.
5. The encomenderos were Spanish settlers.
6. The last emperor of the Aztec empire was Motecuzoma II
7. The conquistadore who conquered the Inca was Pizarro
8. The last emperor of the Inca empire was Atahualpa
9. The Chief Spanish royal administrators in the Americas were the viceroys.
10.The Treaty of Tordesillas split Central and South America between Spain and Portugal
11. Brazil was spotted in 1500 by the Portuguese mariner Cabral.
12. The Portuguese began to show much more interest in Brazil after the establishment of profitable sugar plantations.
13. The English French and Dutch were more interested in setting up permanent colonies that the Spanish were.
14. The English colony of Jamestown barely avoid starvation because of the help of the indigenous population.
15. North American Indians did not have a concept of land ownership
16. Spanish migrants who were born in Europe were known as peninsulares
17. The metis were individuals of French and indigenous parentage
18. By the seventeenth century the most prominent site of agriculture in Spanish America was the hacienda
19. The repatimiento system called for native laborers to work for limited periods of time and receive fair wages
20. In North America the Europeans initially found a profitable commodity when they bartered for fur.
21. The first great American cash crop exported first from Virginia was tobacco
22. The first plentiful labor force for North America were indentured servants.
23. The first recorded European sighting of Australia was made by the Dutch.
24. The area known as New Holland in the seventeenth century was Australia
25. The British initially made use of Australia as a penal colony
26. In the 1670’s and 1680’s the Spanish were interested in consolidating control in Guam because it lay directly on the route from Acapulco to Manila
27. In 1779 the English explorer Captain James Cook died during a violent confrontation in Hawaii.