Chapter 21 Student Quiz

. The two viceregal capitals of Spanish America were at _____.

Lima and Mexico City.

Cuzco and Tenochtitlan.

Lima and Cartagena.

San Salvador and Cartagena.

. Legally, the Spanish colonies were divided between a "republic of Indians" and a "republic of Spaniards".

True.

False.

. The eighteenth century Brazilian economy was shaped by _____.

The launch of the slave trade.

The discovery of gold and diamonds.

The sugar trade.

The razing of the Amazon.

. The Brazilian mines were worked primarily by _____.

Portuguese men.

Creoles.

Native laborers.

Enslaved Africans.

. The Dutch, English, and French all independently developed unique methods of sugar cultivation.

True.

False.

. The Caribbean island that showed that the Brazilian sugar production model could be transferred to tiny islands was _____.

Jamaica.

Barbados.

Santo Domingo.

San Salvador.

. In Spanish, French, and English North America, natives were driven from their lands or annihilated in favor of European conquerors.

True.

False.

. Unlike the British colonies, missionaries made a strong effort to convert natives to Christianity in the French colonies.

True.

False.

. Maroon communities were free communities, primarily of escaped slaves.

True.

False.

. Maroon culture remains very much alive in Suriname.

True.

False.

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