Unit 1 Module 1: European Colonization

Question 1

What technology did Europeans use to explore?

Answer 1

The astrolabe, the compass, and the Mercator projection map

Question 2

What did the astrolabe do?

Answer 2

It used math to find the time of the day and the time of sunset and sunrise

Question 3

What did the compass do?

Answer 3

It told them the direction they were travelling in

Question 4

What is this map?

Answer 4

A Mercator projection map from the 1400s

Question 5

What is this map?

Answer 5

A Mercator projection map from today

Question 6

What is a major weakness of the Mercator projection map?

Answer 6

It’s inaccurate to use it today because the closer you are to the equator, the smaller you are represented on the map.

Question 7

What is a missionary?

Answer 7

Someone who goes to another country to spread their religion

Question 8

What were the 3 big reasons for why European countries when to colonize?

Answer 8

Gold
God
Glory

Question 9

Why was gold a motivation for Europeans to colonize?

Answer 9

Because people in Europe were thirsty for gold since you could buy alot of luxury good (like spices) with gold.

Question 10

Why was glory a motivation for Europeans to colonize?

Answer 10

Because European countries were rivals with each other. Each European country wanted to be better than the other

Question 11

Why was god a motivation for Europeans to colonize?

Answer 11

Because Europeans, who were Christian, thought God wanted them to spread Christianity, even if it meant by force.

Question 12

What is a colonizer?

Answer 12

A powerful country that uses their power to attack weaker countries and steals their resources

Question 13

What is a colony?

Answer 13

A weakened country that becomes a servant to the mother country. The job of the colony is to feed the mother country and make the mother country rich

Question 14

What do you call the idea that the job of a colony is to make the mother country rich?

Answer 14

Mercantilism

Question 15

Who is Spain?

Answer 15

A country in Europe that is Catholic. Spain was created in the 1400s when the King of one country married the Queen of another country.

Question 16

What did Spain do when it was created?

Answer 16

It began what is called “the Reconquista”.

Question 17

What is The Reconquista?

Answer 17

When the Spanish kicked out Jews and Muslims out of Spain because they weren’t Catholic. The Reconquista was finished the same year Columbus went to the Americas in 1492

Question 18

Who is France?

Answer 18

A country in Europe that is Catholic. Unlike Spain, France has been around for a long time. France is also Catholic, and is controlled by a King in an absolute Monarchy.

Question 19

What is an absolute monarchy?

Answer 19

This is a dictatorship. What the King says is law. You upset the King here, and they will kill you

Question 20

Who is England?

Answer 20

A country in Europe that has been around for a long time and is no longer Catholic. They stopped being Catholic because the Pope, who is leader of the Catholics, didnt want to give King Henry a divorce. So King Henry started his own religion, called the Church of England.

Question 21

Who controls England?

Answer 21

England has a government called a constitutional monarchy. They have a King, and they have a Parliament. Both the King and Parliament share power.

Question 22

What is English Parliament?

Answer 22

Rich white males in England got to choose who represented them in government. All the representatives that were chosen would go to a building called Parliament

Question 23

Who are the Dutch?

Answer 23

They are from a country called The Netherlands. They are Protestant Christians, much like the people in England.

Question 24

What is the difference between a Protestant and a Catholic?

Answer 24

Protestants believe in Jesus Christ, just like Catholics, but they don’t think that the Catholic Pope should be listened to.

Question 25

How can I remember what a protestant is?

Answer 25

Protestants PROTEST the power of the Pope. To protest is to not agree with something. Like y'all like to protest a lot about the dress code.

Question 26

What is an indigenous person?

Answer 26

A Native American. Someone who was here before Europeans started colonizing in 1492

Question 27

What is the Columbian exchange?

Answer 27

The transfer of plants and animals from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas

Question 28

What is afro-Eurasia?

Answer 28

The word we used to describe the combined land of Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Question 29

How many indigenous people were enslaved by the Europeans, all the way until the late 1800s?

Answer 29

2.5 - 5 million

Question 30

What reason did Europeans give for colonizing indigenous people?

Answer 30

Europeans said they were smarter than indigenous people. Europeans said that their culture was better than indigenous culture, and did not let the indigenous practice their own culture

Question 31

What happened in 1607?

Answer 31

Jamestown was founded by the British

Question 32

Who paid for the people of Jamestown to go and colonize?

Answer 32

The Virginia Company

Question 33

What type of company was the Virginia Company?

Answer 33

A joint-stock company. This meant that several people owned a piece of the company, instead of just one person.

Question 34

What raw material was the Virginia Company looking to find in Jamestown?

Answer 34

Gold

Question 35

What was the name of the Indigenous group that the people of Jamestown stole land from?

Answer 35

The stole land from the Powhatan Confederacy

Question 36

What was the Virginia House of Burgesses?

Answer 36

a building where representatives from Jamestown met to vote on laws and stuff

Question 37

What type of people had the power in the Virginia House of Burgesses?

Answer 37

$$$$ Wealthy landowners

Question 38

Who was responsible for shifting the economic focus of Jamestown to tobacco?

Answer 38

John Rolfe

Question 39

What is an example of a cash crop?

Answer 39

Tobacco because you can sell it for a lot of money

Question 40

Why did the Pilgrims and Puritans come to America?

Answer 40

Because they were being attacked and persecuted for their religious beliefs

Question 41

What is a push factor?

Answer 41

Something that pushes you away. Like the dress code at school pushes you away from wanting to go to school

Question 42

What is a pull factor?

Answer 42

Something that pulls you in. Like having early release Fridays and brain breaks at school makes school slightly more fun

Question 43

What does economic opportunity have to do with Jamestown?

Answer 43

The people who settled Jamestown were chasing economic opportunity. Like the opportunity to find gold and get rich.

Question 44

What two things did the Mayflower compact signers agree to?

Answer 44

To stay loyal to the King and to keep being Christians

Question 45

Who did the Pilgrims and Puritans steal land from when they settled in Plymouth?

Answer 45

The stole land from the Wampanoag Confederacy