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Question 1

______ made the rise of the first Mesoamerican civilizations possible

Answer 1

The Agricultural Revolution

Question 2

Where do many scientists believe the first people in North America came from?

Answer 2

Asia

Question 3

The first people to establish a civilization in Mesoamerican are believed to have been _____

Answer 3

the Olmec

Question 4

Which civilization arose in the Yucatan Peninsula and expanded into what is now Central America?

Answer 4

The Maya

Question 5

Why did Maya culture lack unification?

Answer 5

Their city-states were individualy controlled

Question 6

the Aztec created their empire by _____

Answer 6

conquering neighboring peoples

Question 7

What was the capital of the Aztec Empire?

Answer 7

Tenochtitlan

Question 8

______ allowed the Hohokam to thrive in the desert.

Answer 8

Irrigation systems

Question 9

What did the Spanish call the large multi-story buildings that the Anasazi constructed as homes?

Answer 9

pueblos

Question 10

The allience that brought peace to the fice nations of western New York in the 1500s was called _____

Answer 10

The Ironquois Confederation

Question 11

The collapse of the Roman Empire led to a period of fragmented political systems in Western Europe was called _____

Answer 11

The Middle ages

Question 12

In the 1300s, Europe was looking for a new trade route to Asia because the old routes were controlled by _____

Answer 12

Arab and Italian Merchants

Question 13

How did the Renaissance lead to advances in sea exploration?

Answer 13

It spurred a time of scientific innovation that resulted in new navigational technology.

Question 14

Arab navigators used the _____ to determine direction, latitude, and time using the sun

Answer 14

astrolabe

Question 15

Spanish and Portuguese acquisition of ______ eventually resulted in the purchase of enslaved West Africans in the 1400s

Answer 15

sugarcane plantations

Question 15

What was the driving force behind European exploration during the 1300s and 1400s?

Answer 15

a desire for wealth through trade

Question 16

The Treaty of Tordesillas established what?

Answer 16

That Spain would control everything west of a line of demarcation; Portugal would control everything to the east

Question 17

When Hernan Cortez invaded the Aztec Capital, he took _____ hostage

Answer 17

Montezuma

Question 18

Which explorer founded the city of Quebec?

Answer 18

Samuel de Champlain

Question 19

What distinguished the early French colonists from the Spanish colonists?

Answer 19

The Frech lived among the Native Americans and the Spanish didn’t respect them

Question 20

What spurred English settlers to begin colonizing North America in the 1500s?

Answer 20

religious and economic upheaval in England

Question 21

What was the first colony in America?

Answer 21

Roanoke

Question 22

What was the purpose of Maryland’s founder in establishing the colony?

Answer 22

to offer english catholics a refuge from persecution

Question 22

The Virginia Company tried to entice settlers to come to Jamestown by offering what?

Answer 22

free land

Question 23

In 1620, a group of Puritan Separatists, who later became known as _____, sailed to America.

Answer 23

Pilgrims

Question 24

In 1630, John Winthrop and a group of Puritans set out to establish _____, which was to be a haven for Puritans

Answer 24

Massachusetts Bay colony

Question 25

On what principal was the colony of Rhode Island founded?

Answer 25

complete religious freedom

Question 26

What event triggered King Phillip's war?

Answer 26

The execution of three Wampanoag men for murder

Question 27

In 1640, Massachussetts Bay required required all towns with at least 50 families to establish _____

Answer 27

an elementary school

Question 28

What colony did William Penn found?

Answer 28

Pennsylvania

Question 29

Why did John Oglethorp found Georgia?

Answer 29

to be a safe place for debtors

Question 30

Subsistence farming in the South was a practice in which farmers did what?

Answer 30

Grew only enough to feed their families

Question 31

King Charles II's charter to the Royal African Company resulted in what?

Answer 31

an increase of enslaved labor in the Southern Colonies

Question 32

What was the most profitable industry in New England?

Answer 32

fishing and shipping

Question 33

The suppression of Bacon's rebellion encouraged ______

Answer 33

the importation of enslaved Africans

Question 33

During Bacon's rebellions, the rebels _____

Answer 33

burned down Jamestown

Question 33

What was the primary economy of the Middle colonies?

Answer 33

cash crop farming

Question 34

Indigo was a valuable crop used to _____

Answer 34

make blue dye

Question 35

The triangle trade involved the trade between ______, ______, and ________.

Answer 35

the Caribbean, British North American colonies, and England

Question 35

Mercantilism believed that to become wealthy and powerful, a country had to aquire _____ and _____

Answer 35

gold and silver

Question 36

What industry took advantage of New Hampshire's many waterfalls?

Answer 36

lumber

Question 37

What event triggered the crisis that led to the Glorious Revolution?

Answer 37

the birth of King James II's son

Question 38

What did the Navigation Acts establish?

Answer 38

Many colonial products could only be sold to England or English countries

Question 39

Why did James II create the Dominion of New England?

Answer 39

because New England merchants were ignoring the Navigation Acts

Question 40

How did William and Mary grant rights to their English subjects?

Answer 40

The accepted the English Bill of Rights

Question 41

One hallmark of the Englishtenment was an attachment to reason and logic called ______

Answer 41

rationalism

Question 42

What theory did Enlightenment thinker John Locke propose?

Answer 42

the belief that people were born with Natural Rights

Question 43

What theory did Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jaques Rousseau propose?

Answer 43

the concept that the government is formed by the consent of the governed

Question 44

Resurgence in religious fervor that took place in the colonies is known as ___ _______ _________

Answer 44

the Great Awakening

Question 45

One important way that the Great Awakening affected American society was that it _______

Answer 45

led individuals to question traditional authority

Question 46

Thomas Hooker founded what New England colony?

Answer 46

Connecticut