Unit 1 - Test

Question 0

What happened to the colony of Roanoke?

Answer 0

It failed after two attempts to colonize

Question 1

The all sea route is a way of traveling by water from where to where?

Answer 1

From Europe to Asia

Question 2

What does the term balance of trade mean?

Answer 2

More exports than imports

Question 3

What is the name of the rebellion where a group of farmers, indentured servants and slaves revolted because of a lack of farm land and low tobacco prices?

Answer 3

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 4

What are the Navigation Acts of 1650?

Answer 4

Restricted products, Colonial goods had to be carried on English ships, and European goods had to be routed through England before going to the American colonies

Question 5

What are the Toleration Acts of 1649?

Answer 5

Granted a degree of religious freedom

Question 6

What market did the Iroquois Confederation monopolize?

Answer 6

Fur

Question 7

Who did Hernan Cortes conquer?

Answer 7

Aztecs

Question 8

Who did Francisco Pizarro conquer?

Answer 8

Incas

Question 9

What English Colony is known as the “holy experiment”?

Answer 9

Pennsylvania

Question 10

What territory caused the French and Indian war?

Answer 10

The Ohio River Valley

Question 11

What was the Bering Land Bridge?

Answer 11

A piece of land that was exposed during the ice age between Alaska and Siberia

Question 12

What was Prince Henry’s School?

Answer 12

A school to educate students to become better navigators, and encourage new ideas for sea travel

Question 13

What was Jamestown?

Answer 13

An agricultural based colony, the first successful British colony, and settled in the Chesapeake Bay region.

Question 14

What is the Great Awakening?

Answer 14

It was a series of religious revivals

Question 15

How did the English gain control of the New Netherland colony?

Answer 15

The colony surrendered to the British without firing a shot

Question 16

What is the crop that allowed the Carolina’s successful?

Answer 16

Rice

Question 17

Due to the skill and knowledge of WHAT helped make rice successful?

Answer 17

Slaves

Question 18

What is the name of the law that was passed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony that required towns to maintain schools?

Answer 18

The Old Deluder law

Question 19

Why did the Spanish Armada attack the British Navy?

Answer 19

Queen Elizabeth’s approval of pirating Spanish ships

Question 20

What colony is known as the “social experiment”?

Answer 20

Georgia

Question 21

Name the three Mesoamerican cultures?

Answer 21

Olmec, Aztec,Maya

Question 22

Why did the Pilgrims leave Europe and travel to America?

Answer 22

Economic opportunity and religious freedom

Question 23

What did Johannesburg Gutenberg invent?

Answer 23

The Printing Press

Question 24

What secular division of the purist it’s where the pilgrims?

Answer 24

Separatists

Question 25

What is the historical significance of the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 25

• It set up their own government
• they were self-governing
• majority rule of male church leaders
• they elected John Carver as their governor

Question 26

What was the Great Migration?

Answer 26

In 1630 - 40,000 people leave England for religious freedom. They migrated from England to the American colonies

Question 27

What was the religious dissent?

Answer 27

• Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts and went to Connecticut because of different religious views
• Roger Williams was banished from Rhode Island - because he granted religious freedom to colonist

Question 28

Who was John Smith?

Answer 28

• Was with Jamestown colony
• elected president of the council
• became friends with Pocahontas
• she became an ally to the colonies
• tobacco became a very prosperous crop