Chapter 21 Quiz C with References

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

Lima and Mexico City.

Cuzco and Tenochtitlan.

Lima and Cartagena.

San Salvador and Cartagena.

. In Spanish America, viceroys _____.

Answered to the conquistador class.

Relied on the priesthood to control to population.

Stood in symbolically for the king.

Had total power over every aspect of the colonies.

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

True.

False.

. The majority of native and African-descended Spanish subjects fully accepted Catholicism.

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.

. Gold mining in Brazil had severe environmental consequences.

True.

False.

. The Brazilian mines were worked primarily by _____.

Portuguese men.

Creoles.

Native laborers.

Enslaved Africans.

. The word 'maroon' comes from the Spanish cimarrón, meaning _____.

Runaway.

Mixed race.

Slave.

Local.

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

True.

False.

. Sir Francis Drake was a famous _____.

Admiral.

Corsair.

Explorer.

All of the above.

. 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 Caribbean sugar colonies, racial mixing was seen as normal, and mixed race children were recognized by their European fathers.

True.

False.

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

True.

False.

. Northern European explorers searched in vain for a northwest passage _____.

To bypass Spanish control of the isthmus of Panama.

To establish trade with China.

Because of rumored gold mines.

None of the above.

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

True.

False.

. Throughout the British colonies, anti-miscegenation laws discouraged _____.

Black-white unions.

Mistreatment of slaves.

The slave trade.

Immigration.

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

True.

False.

. Maroon communities in the backlands of Suriname survived primarily due to _____.

Numbers.

Their powerful army.

The rugged geography they inhabited.

All of the above.

. Maroon culture remains very much alive in Suriname.

True.

False.

. To survive, maroons _____.

Raided plantations.

Relied on knowledge brought by their ancestors from Africa.

Developed new survival skills.

All of the above.

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