Indigenous Peoples and Early Colonization Answers

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How did the use of Spanish missions affect the spread of disease in the Americas?

Thousands of Indigenous people were exposed to diseases at Spanish missions.

Indigenous people found cures to diseases at Spanish missions.

Thousands of Europeans were exposed to diseases at Spanish missions.

Europeans would isolate themselves at Spanish missions during outbreaks of disease.

Which country began setting up missions in the American Southwest in the late 1500s?

France

Italy

England

Spain

What did Spanish missions promote to Indigenous people?

freedom from work

preservation of the cultures of Indigenous people

European-style settlements

freedom of religion

Unlike Spanish and French settlers, English settlers and Indigenous people in North America during the 1600s

rarely married each other.

had no interaction at all.

did not trade with each other.

had the same ideas about land ownership.

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