Chapter 8 Test

Question 1

Education thrived in __________ colonies

Answer 1

English

Question 2

_________ __________ countries had more unrest after gaining independence than the United States did after its War for Independence.

Answer 2

South American

Question 3

This as the final agreement that determined where Spain and Portugal could explore and colonize

Answer 3

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 4

Brazil was colonized by the _________

Answer 4

Portuguese

Question 5

These were two important exports of colonial Latin America

Answer 5

Refined silver

Sugar

Question 6

This was the mother country of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 6

England

Question 7

Portugal is ________ than Brazil

Answer 7

larger

Question 8

Ecuador is part of the _______ World

Answer 8

New

Question 9

The Pilgrims separated from the ________ ___ _______

Answer 9

Church of England

Question 10

Established churches within the colonies ______ ___________ by the colonies’ government

Answer 10

were recognized

Question 11

__________ originated in Arabia and was later introduced to South America, where it became a major crop

Answer 11

Coffee

Question 12

The ______ ______ ___ __________ promised protection for Indians as a result of Las Casas’s efforts to stop the ill-treatment of the Indians

Answer 12

New Laws of 1542

Question 13

His strong leadership helped turn the Jamestown settlement into a thriving colony

Answer 13

Sir Thomas Dale

Question 14

The Constitution was produced by a convention ________ the US War for Independence

Answer 14

after

Question 15

This is the line that the pope used to differentiate the areas for Spanish and Portuguese exploration

Answer 15

Line of Demarcation

Question 16

This French explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River

Answer 16

Jacques Cartier

Question 17

This French explorer discovered three large lakes and became the Father of New France

Answer 17

Samual de Champlain

Question 18

This Venezuelan knew many languages and liberated both Venezuela and Colombia

Answer 18

Simon Bolivar

Question 19

This Portuguese nobleman once famously said, “Independence or death!”

Answer 19

Pedro I

Question 20

This Argentine lever from a prominent family liberated Chile and then Peru

Answer 20

Jose de San Martin

Question 21

Which nation colonized a majority of Latin America?

Answer 21

Spain

Question 22

What caused discontentment in the Spanish colonies?

Answer 22

• control by the mother country
• teachings of English philosophers
• teachings of French philosophers

Question 23

This Catholic order became rich and established industries until they were expelled from South America

Answer 23

Jesuits

Question 24

This nation began buying slaves in Africa and taking them to Europe as early as 1441.

Answer 24

Portugal

Question 25

The colonies of this country offered the most religious freedom

Answer 25

England

Question 26

The colony where the Puritans settled in 1630

Answer 26

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 27

English colonists were primarily __________, while the French were ________ ___________

Answer 27

Protestant; Roman Catholic

Question 28

Most of the English colonists came under _______ ______ rather than government sponsorships as the French did

Answer 28

private investors

Question 29

People with Indian and Spanish parents

Answer 29

Mestizos

Question 30

Revolutionaries who overthrew weak governments

Answer 30

caudillos

Question 31

Spanish rulers who answered to the Council of the Indies

Answer 31

viceroys

Question 32

Full-blooded Spaniards or Portuguese born in the Americas

Answer 32

Creoles

Question 33

Large country estates owned by the wealthy

Answer 33

haciendas

Question 34

Spaniards born in Spain

Answer 34

peninsulares

Question 35

Poor neighborhoods in colonial cities

Answer 35

barrios

Question 36

Nobles that ruled Portuguese colonies

Answer 36

donatarios

Question 37

Cowboys in Argentina

Answer 37

gauchos