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The Portuguese and Spanish in the Americas

Multiple-Choice Quiz – ANSWER KEY

Directions: Select the best answer from the given options.

1. Which of the following ships was not part of the 6. Native Americans were forced to work for the fleet of Christopher Columbus in 1492? Spanish under the _____ system. a. Ana Lucia a. encomienda b. Nina b. mercantilism c. Pinta c. patron d. Santa Maria d. socialist

2. What was the capital city of the Aztec? 7. A person of mixed Native American and Spanish a. Chichen Itza descent: b. Guadalajara a. Americano c. Los Angeles b. Indian d. Tenochtitlan c. mestizo d. mulatto 3. Modern Mexico, and a portion of modern Guatemala, were once known as _____. 8. El Camino Real: a. Columbia a. The Real Country b. Los Lobos b. The Real Deal c. New Spain c. The Royal Casino d. Nueva America d. The Royal Road

4. What modern American state, located in the 9. What Aztec ruler was killed in 1520? southeast, was settled by the Spanish in the 16th a. Montezuma century? b. Sitting Bull a. Alabama c. Tupac b. Florida d. Yo Pe c. Georgia d. South Carolina 10. What Spanish explorer traveled into what is now the southwestern United States between 1540 5. A person of mixed African and Spanish descent: and 1542? a. Americano a. Cabrillo b. Indian b. Coronado c. mestizo c. Ponce de Leon d. mulatto d. Verrazzano

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11. Plantations in the Americas used African _____ to 16. Following their encounter with Europeans, replace declining native populations. millions of Native Americans quickly died from a. employees _____. b. indentured servants a. disease c. slaves b. drowning d. volunteers c. heart disease d. warfare 12. The number of Spanish _____ in the Americas increased following the Royal Orders of New 17. conquistador: Discoveries (1573). a. captain a. clubs b. conqueror b. conquistadors c. soldier c. missions d. warrior d. tourists 18. What Spanish explorer mapped the coast of 13. Base your answer to the question below on the modern Texas in 1519? excerpt from the “New Laws” quoted below and a. Alonso Alvarez de Pineda on your knowledge of social studies. b. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo c. Miguel Hidalgo Article 38. Lawsuits involving Indians are no d. Pedro de Peralta longer to be tried in the Indies, or by the Council of the Indies, but must be pleaded 19. Who was the first Spaniard to explore what is before the king himself… now the harbor of San Diego, California? a. Alonso Alvarez de Pineda - New Laws issued by Emperor b. Father Junipero Serra Charles V, 1542-1543 c. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo The “New Laws” were designed to _____ d. Pedro de Peralta Spanish power. a. centralize 20. In 1494, Portugal and Spain divided the Western b. decentralize Hemisphere between themselves in the _____. a. Columbian Exchange 14. What Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec? b. Navigation Acts a. Christopher Columbus c. Treaty of Guadalupe b. Francisco Pizarro d. Treaty of Tordesillas c. Hernan Cortes d. Prince Henry 21. The Age of Exploration led directly to the _____. a. establishment of European colonies in the 15. Who were the first people encountered by Americas Christopher Columbus on the island he named b. extinction of the Mayan language in the San Salvador? Yucatan a. Aztec c. failure of the Treaty of Tordesillas b. Maya d. settlement of English Puritans in North c. Olmec America d. Taino

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22. What Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca? 28. According to Spain and Portugal during the 16th a. Bartolome de las Casas century, the primary job of their colonies was to b. Francisco Pizarro _____. c. Hernan Cortes a. benefit the colonial powers d. John Cabot b. create independent democratic governments 23. Forts built near Spanish missions were called c. provide vacation spots for weary what? explorers a. encomiendas d. serve as a Utopia for European settlers b. padres c. presidios 29. What city, founded by the Spanish in 1565, is the d. pueblos oldest and longest-lasting European settlement in what is now the United States? 24. Seeking workers, the Spanish and Portuguese a. El Paso, Texas began importing slaves from _____. b. Los Angeles, California a. Africa c. New Orleans, Louisiana b. Asia d. St. Augustine, Florida c. Europe

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25. What economic system is posited on the belief a. Christopher Columbus that a nation’s true wealth should be measured b. Francisco Pizarro by its stores of gold and silver? c. Henry Hudson a. capitalism d. Hernan Cortes b. communism c. mercantilism 31. Which economic policy was used by the Spanish d. socialism over their Latin American colonies? a. free-market capitalism 26. Person of solely Spanish descent: b. laissez-faire a. Indian c. mercantilism b. mestizo d. tariffs c. mulatto d. peninsulare 32. Which of the following was a direct result of the 1521 conquest of Tenochtitlan by Hernan Cortes? 27. What city was built, under the leadership of a. extinction of the Maya Spanish governor Pedro de Peralta, as the capital b. fall of the Aztec empire of Spain’s New Mexico? c. fall of the Inca empire a. Los Angeles d. overthrow of the Spanish government © Student Handouts, Inc. Inc. Handouts, ©Student b. Mexico City c. San Jose d. Santa Fe

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