Chapter 2-Colonizing America

Question 1

List four French explorers of America

Answer 1

Champlain
Cartier
Marquette
Joliet

Question 2

New France included ____ and ___.

Answer 2

Canada and Quebec

Question 3

French explorers were attempting to find a _____ through the American Continent.

Answer 3

Northwest Passage

Question 4

What river was the center of most French settlement in North America?

Answer 4

St. Lawrence River

Question 5

What cased a lack of land in England in the 1600s?

Answer 5

creation of large estates and the enclosure movment

Question 6

_____ was an English explorer in the 1500s but did not create an English settlement.

Answer 6

John Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

Question 7

What is a Privateer?

Answer 7

A pirate with a licence from a monarch

Question 8

What were Pirates looking for in the Caribbean?

Answer 8

Spanish gold shipments

Question 9

Martin Luther’s revolution against the Roman Catholic Pope was called the ____.

Answer 9

Reformation

Question 10

Lutherans were called ____ by the Pope.

Answer 10

Heretics

Question 11

The breaking of ties between the King and the church in Rome leads to an independent nation of _____.

Answer 11

England

Question 12

____ being arrested in the 1650s leads to a Civil War in England by the 1660s.

Answer 12

Puritans

Question 13

He led Parliament’s army during England’s Civil War.

Answer 13

Oliver Cromwell

Question 14

He led the king’s army of Cavaliers during England’s Civil War.

Answer 14

King Charles I

Question 15

After the death of Oliver Cromwell, English nobility ask for a Restoration of the monarchy under King ____.

Answer 15

King Charles II

Question 16

____ was the first attempt to have an English settlement on the coast of North America in the 1580s but it fails.

Answer 16

Roanoke Island

Question 17

This was the first permanent English colony in present day United States

Answer 17

Jamestown, Va.

Question 18

Native American Indian group in colonial Virginia

Answer 18

Powhatan

Question 19

Indians, diseases, starvation, work policies, gentlemen settlers were all troubles at ___.

Answer 19

Jamestown, Va.

Question 20

Maryland established a ____ act allowing all types of Christian beliefs to settle in the colony.

Answer 20

Toleration Act

Question 21

Maryland encouraged this religious group to settle within its boundaries.

Answer 21

Catholics

Question 22

In the 1670s, Charles Town became the primary settlement in this English colony.

Answer 22

South Carolina

Question 23

This colony was considered the backwater country of Virginia with few direct sea harbors.

Answer 23

North Carolina

Question 24

This colony was established by James Oglethorpe for debtors.

Answer 24

Georgia

Question 25

List the five New England territories.

Answer 25

``` Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New Hampshire Maine ```

Question 26

What company was established to found Jamestown in Virginia?

Answer 26

London Company

Question 27

What company was established to found a colony in New England?

Answer 27

Massachusetts Bay Company

Question 28

What Indian helped out the first settlers in Plymouth, Mass.

Answer 28

Squanto

Question 29

____ established a covenant community at Plymouth, Mass.

Answer 29

Mayflower Compact

Question 30

Boston was the primary settlement for the ____ in Massachusetts.

Answer 30

Puritans

Question 31

This war led to the ultimate annihilation of the Native American Indians in New England.

Answer 31

King Phillip's War

Question 32

Roger Williams establishes this colony for religious freedom from Puritan rules.

Answer 32

Rhode Island and Providence Plantation

Question 33

Who established the Connecticut colony

Answer 33

Thomas Hooker at Hartford, Conn.

Question 34

____ becomes the first official written constitution of any English colony.

Answer 34

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Question 35

List the four Middle Colonies.

Answer 35

New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware

Question 36

What European nation first settled in Manhattan?

Answer 36

The Netherlands or Dutch

Question 37

Who was the first significant leader of Dutch New Netherlands?

Answer 37

Peter Stuyvesant

Question 38

By the 1660s, New Netherlands is captured by the English and renamed ____.

Answer 38

New York

Question 39

William Penn established a treaty with the ____ in order to start his colony of Pennsylvania.

Answer 39

Leeni Lenape

Question 40

William Penn encouraged ____ to move to his Pennsylvania colnoly

Answer 40

Quakers

Question 41

This city becomes the center of William Penn's colony, the so called "City of Brotherly Love"

Answer 41

Phladelphia

Question 42

The "Lower Counties of Pennsylvania" becomes known as the colony of ____.

Answer 42

Delaware

Question 43

This was the first Spanish government in the Western Hemisphere.

Answer 43

Council of the Indies

Question 44

____ was the Spanish ruling classes in their colonies.

Answer 44

Hildalgos

Question 45

____ were established in Spanish colonies to Christianize native American Indians.

Answer 45

Catholic missions

Question 46

The ____ was the center of most Spanish settlements and provided protection from invading or warring enemies.

Answer 46

Presideos

Question 47

This was the royal road that stretched up the Pacific Coast in the Spanish colonies like California

Answer 47

El Camino Real

Question 48

He was the Spanish Conquistador of the Inca in Peru

Answer 48

Francisco Pizzaro

Question 49

He was the conqueror of the Aztec in Mexico.

Answer 49

Heran Cortez

Question 50

Tenochtitlan was the capital of the ___ empire.

Answer 50

Aztec Empire

Question 51

Weapons, strategy, tactics and ____ were all central to European domination over Native American Indian Empires.

Answer 51

diseases

Question 52

This is the title of Spanish commanders of the military expeditions to defeat Native American Indian Empires.

Answer 52

Conquistadors