Unit 19: Paper 3 (HL) — History of the Americas
Topic 19.4: Religion in the New World (1500–1800) Questions
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The Pueblo Revolt, in which indigenous communities drove Spanish settlers and priests out of a region for over a decade, took place in which year and location?
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Choose the name indigenous peoples gave to the Jesuit missionaries in New France because of their long black cassocks.
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Which right gave the Spanish crown direct control over Church appointments and revenue in its American colonies?
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Choose the year in which Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay.
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Choose the term historians use to describe the blending of indigenous beliefs and Catholic practice in Spanish and Portuguese America.
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The cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a key example of religious syncretism, began in 1531 after an apparition to which individual?
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To what extent did indigenous peoples in Spanish America successfully resist Christianization?
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Choose the colony where William Penn's 1682 Frame of Government guaranteed liberty of conscience.
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Evaluate the impact of the Catholic Church on indigenous societies in the Americas between 1500 and 1800.
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Discuss the significance of religious syncretism in Spanish colonial society.
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Analyse the relationship between the Catholic Church and colonial political authority in Spanish America.
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Compare and contrast the methods used by the Jesuits and by the Franciscans and Dominicans to convert indigenous peoples in Spanish and Portuguese America.
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Examine the reasons for the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portuguese and Spanish America in the eighteenth century.
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Discuss the role of named individuals in shaping the religious history of Spanish and Portuguese America.
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Church campaigns in Peru during the 1600s that searched indigenous communities for hidden shrines and objects are known as:
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To what extent was the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1759 and 1767 a turning point in the religious history of Spanish and Portuguese America?
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Analyse the reasons why indigenous peoples in the Americas both resisted and adapted to Christianity rather than simply accepting or rejecting it outright.
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Which missionary order built self-sufficient mission communities in Paraguay and actively defended indigenous converts from enslavement by Portuguese slave-raiders?
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Choose the sermon delivered by Jonathan Edwards in 1741 that became a defining text of the Great Awakening.
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Evaluate the claim that the Jesuit missions in Paraguay represented a fundamentally different model of colonial religious organisation from that of other missionary orders in the Americas.
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