11/15 Chapter Test

Question 1

an area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land

Answer 1

colony

Question 2

a moment in history that marks a decisive change.

Answer 2

Turning Point

Question 3

to completely go around the globe

Answer 3

Circumnavigate

Question 4

a transfer of people and products between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

Answer 4

Colombian Exchange

Question 5

Seafaring people from Scandinavia - Norway, Sweden, and Finland.

Answer 5

Vikings

Question 6

a line that ran from the North Pole to the South Pole down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Spain received all the land WEST of the line and Portugal was given all the land EAST of the line.

Answer 6

Line of Demarcation

Question 7

The man who made the line of Demarcation

Answer 7

Pope alexander 6th

Question 8

in 1494 Spain and Portugal signed this, which moved the line of demarcation further West evening up the land distribution.

Answer 8

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 9

in 1510 he discovered the Pacific Ocean and called it the South Sea.

Answer 9

Balboa

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Magellan

Question 11

Spanish conquerors that would give ⅕ of their gold to the Spanish crown.

Answer 11

Conquistadors

Question 12

towns with a farming and trade center.

Answer 12

pueblos

Question 13

spanish towns with forts. They were military towns

Answer 13

Presidio

Question 14

spanish towns run by catholic preists

Answer 14

Missions

Question 15

upper class born in Spain (Europe) that had large amounts of land.

Answer 15

Peninsulares

Question 16

the children born in America to Spanish parents. They owned farms and ranches.

Answer 16

Creoles

Question 17

Mixed Spanish (Male) and Native American (Female). They worked on the farms

Answer 17

Mestizos

Question 18

a conquistador, he destroys the Incan Empire (1535)

Answer 18

Pizzaro

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Ponce De Leon

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Coronado

Question 21

Spanish priest who criticized the mistreatment of the Indians. He founded MISSIONS in Texas, and California. He converted the Indians to Catholic religion.

Answer 21

Fr. De Las Casa

Question 22

People who were Spanish and African

Answer 22

Mulattoes

Question 23

Spain granted land to the Spaniards to come and settle in America. They used the Native Americans to work on their land and even collected taxes from them.

Answer 23

Encomienda System

Question 24

a direct waterway through or around North America that was never found.

Answer 24

Northwest Passage

Question 25

a french colonist who lived in the lands beyond french settlements as a fur trapper runners of the woods

Answer 25

Coureur de bois

Question 26

an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.

Answer 26

Alliance

Question 27

a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.

Answer 27

Charter

Question 28

the first representative in the colonies.

Answer 28

Burgess

Question 29

a government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

Answer 29

Representative Government

Question 30

a rebellion led by a man who did not believe that the government couldn’t tell them not to go on Indian Land.

Answer 30

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 31

an explorer and navigation developed the idea of sailing west who was searching for the Northwest Passage but never found it instead he Found newfoundland and the grand banks

Answer 31

Cabot

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Verrazzano

Question 33

a man who explored St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Montreal.

Answer 33

Cartier

Question 34

the man who founded New France and he established Quebec in Canada and Lake Champlain

Answer 34

Samuel de Champlain

Question 35

two men who explored the Mississippi River.

Answer 35

Marquette and Joliet

Question 36

he explored the mouth of the mississippi river and the gulf of mexico and louisiana was named in honor of king Louis the XIV (14)

Answer 36

LaSalle

Question 37

the man who purchased land from the Manhattoe Indians and called it New Amsterdam. (the dutch governor)

Answer 37

Peter Minuit

Question 38

the man who founded Roanoke #1 in 1585

Answer 38

Sir Walter Raliegh

Question 39

the man who settled Roanoke #2 settled In 1587

Answer 39

John White

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Joint Stock Company

Question 41

he was the man who saved jamestown by bringing over tobacco seeds.

Answer 41

John Rolfe

Question 42

later on the great council became known as PARLIAMENT

Answer 42

Great Council

Question 43

the ship that the pilgrims came over on

Answer 43

Mayflower

Question 44

a contract that 41 pilgrims on the mayflower singed before they got of the ship promising to obey all laws and to meet regularly.

Answer 44

Mayflower Compact

Question 45

when a nation’s POWER depends on its wealth.

Answer 45

Mercantilisam

Question 46

Was Dutch but sailed for England. He founded the Hudson Bay and Hudson River and hudson Strait. His ship was called the “Half Moon”

Answer 46

Henry hudson

Question 47

Mixed Native Americans and Africans who were at the bottom of the rigid class system

Answer 47

Zamboes