The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 35

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"In 1564 approximately three hundred Huguenots - French Protestants - built a colony they called Fort de la Caroline in Timucua country,near present-day Jacksonville,Florida. This intrusion did not go unnoticed by the Spaniards who claimed la Florida.Within a year,adelantado [nobleman] Pedro Mendez de Aviles established a post at St.Augustine and marched his troops forty miles to the north to slaughter the Frenchmen,whom he regarded not only as trespassers but as vile heretics. Thus began a Spanish occupation of strategic spots in the southeast that would last for nearly two hundred years."
Daniel Richter,Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America,2001
-Which of the following resulted directly from events described in the excerpt?

• A) New crops harvested from the Americas led to increases in European populations.
• B) Improvements in commerce led to increased life expectancy among Native Americans.
• C) The French abandoned all attempts to plant colonies in the Americas.
• D) Spanish attempts to convert Native Americans ceased entirely.

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