AMERICA A CONCISE HISTORY VOLUME 1 6TH EDITION - TEST BANK

1.

By the time the Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere in the 1490s, most Native Americans lived in and along which of the following regions?

A)

The Caribbean islands

B)

Mesoamerica and the western coast of South America

C)

The area that is now the United States and Canada

D)

The land above the Arctic Circle, including present-day Alaska

2.

Which of the following describes the first ancestors of the Native American peoples?

A)

This group had always lived in the Western Hemisphere.

B)

The first Native Americans migrated by sea from Polynesia.

C)

The original group migrated by sea from China.

D)

They were migrants who came over land from northeastern Asia.

3.

Which of the following describes the first peoples who migrated to the Americas?

A)

The first Americans built large, permanent villages.

B)

The group consisted of bands of hunter-gatherers.

C)

They lived on large, permanent farms.

D)

They did little hunting and mostly gathered edible plants.

4.

What was the foundation for the prosperous Native American societies in Mexico, Peru, and the Mississippi River Valley?

A)

Bison hunting

B)

Gold and silver mining

C)

The cultivation of maize

D)

Large, well-fortified cities

5.

Which of the following statements describes the Maya peoples?

A)

The Maya derived their culture from the Spanish invaders.

B)

They lived under a democratic system of government without a ruling class.

C)

The Maya avoided any sort of decoration on their stone temples.

D)

They devised a calendar system that predicted solar and lunar eclipses accurately.

6.

The Aztecs lived in which of the following present-day locales?

A)

Florida

B)

Mexico

C)

California

D)

Cuba

7.

The Hohokams, Mogollon, and Anasazi peoples who lived in present-day Arizona and New Mexico around A.D. 1000

A)

evolved into the Navajo tribe.

B)

declined because of their failure to use irrigation.

C)

declined because of soil exhaustion and a long drought after A.D. 1150.

D)

employed irrigation to grow four or five crops a year.

8.

Which of the following was characteristic of both the Mississippian and Pueblo peoples?

A)

Small-scale communities of hunters and farmers

B)

Pyramids

C)

Hieroglyphic writing

D)

Elaborate ceremonial and urban sites

9.

Which of the Pueblo peoples built hundreds of miles of straight roads across the desert in the American Southwest to facilitate trade?

A)

Apaches

B)

Anasazis

C)

Mogollons

D)

Hohokams

10.

The Native American settlement known as Cahokia was a

A)

significant Mississippian city with more than one hundred temple mounds.

B)

Native American kingdom in Florida destroyed by Spanish invaders.

C)

village of large longhouses in the Pacific Northwest.

D)

southwestern cliff-dwelling community.

11.

Which of the following statements describes Native American peoples east of the Mississippi River?

A)

They had no single style of political organization.

B)

Men made all of the decisions regarding agriculture.

C)

They developed elaborate systems of water storage and irrigation.

D)

Their standard of living and populations increased dramatically in the century preceding the arrival of the Europeans.

12.

Which of the following was a characteristic of the Aztec, Mayan, and Iroquois civilizations?

A)

Written language

B)

Use of complex irrigation systems

C)

A hunter-gatherer economy

D)

Reliance on agriculture

13.

Which of the following describes family life among Native Americans?

A)

Kinship bonds were sometimes more important than nuclear families.

B)

The woman's role was to serve her husband.

C)

The acceptance of premarital sex led native couples to defer marriage.

D)

Kinship lines for both the Iroquois and the Pueblo passed through the father.