Chapter 1 - Part 1 Test

Question 1

What is the name of the land bridge in which the first people used to walk to America and the New World?

Answer 1

Beringia

Question 2

What are the names of the 4 nations that were primarily involved in exploring and colonizing the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 2

France
Portugal
England
Spain

Question 3

What was the FIRST group that came to the New World?

Answer 3

Asians

Question 4

What is the name of the 3 great migrations to the New World?

Answer 4

Africans
Asians
Europeans

Question 5

What are the classes in the Spanish colonial caste system?

Answer 5

Spaniard
Creoles
Mestizos

Question 6

What is the name of the water route that was searched by all European nations - - that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 6

Northwest Passage

Question 7

Which explorer sailed around the world?

Answer 7

Magellan

Question 8

When the big game began to die out - - the Indians began to domesticate and control the growth of plants. What period is this known as?

Answer 8

Urban revolution

Question 9

In what form did France find riches in North America?

Answer 9

Fur trade or animal fur

Question 10

Give the name of two French explorers?

Answer 10

Marquette and Joliet

Question 11

Did the French claim land in North America that included the area around the St. Lawrence River, Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico?

Answer 11

NO

Question 12

What are three key French city in ew France?

Answer 12

Montreal
Quebec
New Orleans

Question 13

What did the Spanish find in their colonies that helped them become a very powerful nation?

Answer 13

Gold and Silver

Question 14

What is the name of the powerful European nation that claimed land from southwest America, down through Mexico and into western sections of South America?

Answer 14

Spain

Question 15

What are the names of the 3 great civilizations at the time Colubus discovered the New World?

Answer 15

Aztecs
Incas
Maya’s