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Return to World in the Making Volume 2 Student Resources
Chapter 21 Quiz C with References
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The two viceregal capitals of Spanish America were at _____.
Lima and Mexico City.
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Cuzco and Tenochtitlan.
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Lima and Cartagena.
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San Salvador and Cartagena.
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In Spanish America, viceroys _____.
Answered to the conquistador class.
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Relied on the priesthood to control to population.
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Stood in symbolically for the king.
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Had total power over every aspect of the colonies.
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Legally, the Spanish colonies were divided between a "republic of Indians" and a "republic of Spaniards".
True.
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False.
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The majority of native and African-descended Spanish subjects fully accepted Catholicism.
True.
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False.
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The eighteenth century Brazilian economy was shaped by _____.
The launch of the slave trade.
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The discovery of gold and diamonds.
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The sugar trade.
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The razing of the Amazon.
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Gold mining in Brazil had severe environmental consequences.
True.
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False.
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The Brazilian mines were worked primarily by _____.
Portuguese men.
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Creoles.
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Native laborers.
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Enslaved Africans.
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The word 'maroon' comes from the Spanish cimarrón, meaning _____.
Runaway.
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Mixed race.
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Slave.
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Local.
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The Dutch, English, and French all independently developed unique methods of sugar cultivation.
True.
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False.
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Sir Francis Drake was a famous _____.
Admiral.
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Corsair.
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Explorer.
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All of the above.
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The Caribbean island that showed that the Brazilian sugar production model could be transferred to tiny islands was _____.
Jamaica.
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Barbados.
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Santo Domingo.
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San Salvador.
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In Caribbean sugar colonies, racial mixing was seen as normal, and mixed race children were recognized by their European fathers.
True.
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False.
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In Spanish, French, and English North America, natives were driven from their lands or annihilated in favor of European conquerors.
True.
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False.
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Northern European explorers searched in vain for a northwest passage _____.
To bypass Spanish control of the isthmus of Panama.
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To establish trade with China.
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Because of rumored gold mines.
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None of the above.
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Unlike the British colonies, missionaries made a strong effort to convert natives to Christianity in the French colonies.
True.
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False.
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Throughout the British colonies, anti-miscegenation laws discouraged _____.
Black-white unions.
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Mistreatment of slaves.
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The slave trade.
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Immigration.
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Maroon communities were free communities, primarily of escaped slaves.
True.
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False.
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Maroon communities in the backlands of Suriname survived primarily due to _____.
Numbers.
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Their powerful army.
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The rugged geography they inhabited.
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All of the above.
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Maroon culture remains very much alive in Suriname.
True.
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False.
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To survive, maroons _____.
Raided plantations.
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Relied on knowledge brought by their ancestors from Africa.
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Developed new survival skills.
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All of the above.
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