Social Chapter Test (2.)

Question 1

Colony

Answer 1

an area settled and ruled the government of a distant island

Question 2

Turning Point

Answer 2

a moment in history that marks a decisive change

Question 3

to go completely around

Answer 3

Circumnavigate

Question 4

transfer of people and products between Eastern and Western Hemisphere

Answer 4

Columbian Exchange

Question 5

seafaring people from Scandinavia

Answer 5

Vikings

Question 6

Pope Alexander the 6th set up. It ran from the North Pole to the South Pole

Answer 6

Line of Demarcation

Question 7

moved the Line of Demarcation further West evening up the land distribution

Answer 7

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 8

Balboa

Answer 8

1510, he discovered the Pacific Ocean, he called it the South Sea

Question 9

Magellan

Answer 9

Portuguese explorer but he sailed for Spain. In 1519, he was the first to circumnavigate the globe

Question 10

Conquistador

Answer 10

Spanish conquerors. They gave ⅕ of their gold to the spanish crown

Question 11

Anasazi villages

Answer 11

Pueblo

Question 12

Spanish towns with fort military settlement

Answer 12

Presidio

Question 13

Mission

Answer 13

spanish towns that were run by Spanish priests

Question 14

upper class born in Spain, and had lots of land

Answer 14

Peninsulares

Question 15

Creoles

Answer 15

the children born in America to Spanish parents.

Question 16

Mestizos

Answer 16

mixed spanish and native americans

Question 17

Pizzaro

Answer 17

conquistador, he destroys the Incan empire

Question 18

Ponce De Leon

Answer 18

conquistador in 1513, he was looking for the “Fountain of Youth”, he never found it but he did discover St. Augustine in Florida. It was the first European settlement.

Question 19

Coronado

Answer 19

conquistador, he was looking for the “Seven Cities of Gold”, he never found it but he did discover the Grand Canyon

Question 20

Spanish priest who criticized the mistreatments of Indians. He founded Missions in Texas, and California.

Answer 20

Fr. De Las Casa

Question 21

Mulattoes

Answer 21

Spanish and African American

Question 22

Encomienda System

Answer 22

Spain granted to the Spaniards to come and settle in America.

Question 23

a direct water route way up North, it was never found, but a lot of other things were found.

Answer 23

Northwest Passage

Question 24

Coureur de bois

Answer 24

`French fur trappers, “runners of the woods”.

Question 25

Alliance

Answer 25

an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.

Question 26

a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

Answer 26

Charter

Question 27

a representative to the colonial Virginia government

Answer 27

Burgess

Question 28

a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

Answer 28

Representative Government

Question 29

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 29

a 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony’s government

Question 30

he spent a lot of time looking for the Northwest Passage. He was an Italian who explored England. Newfoundland and the Grand Banks

Answer 30

Cabot

Question 31

Verrazzano

Answer 31

An Italian who sailed for France. He explored all the way from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas.

Question 32

Cartier

Answer 32

explored St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence (and Montreal)

Question 33

Samuel de Champlain

Answer 33

he found New France and he established Quebec in Canada and Lake Champlain

Question 34

Marquette and Joliet

Answer 34

explored the Mississippi River

Question 35

he explored the Mount of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

Answer 35

LaSalle

Question 36

He purchased land from the Indians and called it New Amsterdam, He was the Dutch Governor

Answer 36

Peter Minuit

Question 37

Sir Walter Raliegh

Answer 37

founded Roanoke #1 in 1585

Question 38

John white

Answer 38

In 1587 Roanoke #2 is settled

Question 39

Joint Stock Co.

Answer 39

investors bought stock in a company (part ownership) and received profits if it was successful.

Question 40

John Rolfe

Answer 40

arrived with tobacco seeds and saved Jamestown

Question 41

Great Council

Answer 41

Parliament

Question 42

Mayflower

Answer 42

Pilgrim ship

Question 43

Mayflower Compact

Answer 43

A document that 41 men had to sign before getting off the ship

Question 44

Mercantilism

Answer 44

a nation’s power depends on its wealth