The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 30

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
-The events described in the excerpt most directly foreshadowed which of the following developments?

• A) The introduction of new crops and livestock in the American colonies
• B) The extermination of natives through warfare and disease
• C) The growth of the encomienda system and the use of Indians as slave labor
• D) Inter-imperial conflict over territory in the American northeast

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