11/15 Chapter Test Review

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Colony

Question 2

What is a moment in history that marks a decisive change?

Answer 2

Turning Point

Question 3

What does it mean to travel all the way around the Earth?

Answer 3

Circumnavigate

Question 4

What is the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the Eastern and Western hemispheres?

Answer 4

Columbian Exchange

Question 5

Who were seafaring people from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, and Finland)?

Answer 5

Vikings

Question 6

What was the line that ran from the North Pole to the South Pole where 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

What was the treaty which moved the line of demarcation further west, evening up the land distribution?

Answer 7

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 8

Who discovered the Pacific Ocean, but originally called it the South Sea?

Answer 8

Balboa

Question 9

Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe?

Answer 9

Magellan

Question 10

What is a Spanish explorer who claims lands in America for Spain?

Answer 10

Conquistador

Question 11

What were towns in the Spanish colonies called?

Answer 11

Pueblos

Question 12

What were forts where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies?

Answer 12

Presidios

Question 13

What were religious settlements that aimed to spread a religion into a new area?

Answer 13

Missions

Question 14

What were people who were from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony?

Answer 14

Peninsulares

Question 15

What were people born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents?

Answer 15

Creoles

Question 16

What were people of mixed Spanish and Indian background?

Answer 16

Mestizos

Question 17

Who was the conquistador in which destroyed the Incan Empire?

Answer 17

Pizzaro

Question 18

Who was the conquistador that was looking for the Fountain of Youth, but found St. Augustne?

Answer 18

Ponce de Leon

Question 19

Who was the conquistador that was looking for the Seven Cities of Gold, but found the Grand Canyon?

Answer 19

Coronado

Question 20

Who was the Spanish priest who criticized the mistreatment of the Indians?

Answer 20

Fr. De Las Casa

Question 21

Who were people mixed of Spanish and African?

Answer 21

Mulattoes

Question 22

What was the system where Spain granted land to the Spaniards to come and settle in America?

Answer 22

Encomienda System

Question 23

What was the direct water route way up North that was never found?

Answer 23

Northwest Passage

Question 24

What were French fur trappers?

Answer 24

Coureur de bois

Question 25

What is an agreement between nation to aid and protect one another?

Answer 25

Alliance

Question 26

What is a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company?

Answer 26

Charter

Question 27

What is a representative to the colonial Virginia government?

Answer 27

Burgess

Question 28

What was the 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony’s government?

Answer 28

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 29

Who spent a lot of time looking for the Northwest Passage?

Answer 29

John Cabot

Question 30

Who was the Italian who sailed for France and explored all the way from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas?

Answer 30

Verrazzano

Question 31

Who explored the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence?

Answer 31

Cartier

Question 32

Who founded New France and established Quebec in Canada and Lake Champlain?

Answer 32

Samuel de Champlain

Question 33

Which 2 people explored the Mississippi River?

Answer 33

Marquette and Joliet

Question 34

Who explored the mouth of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico?

Answer 34

LaSalle

Question 35

Who purchased the land from the Indians and called it New Amsterdam?

Answer 35

Peter Minuit

Question 36

Who founded Roanoke 1?

Answer 36

Sir Walter Raliegh

Question 37

Who settled Roanoke 2?

Answer 37

John White

Question 38

What was the company where investors bought a stock in a company and received profits if it was successful?

Answer 38

Join Stock Company

Question 39

Who saved Jamestown with tobacco seeds?

Answer 39

John Rolfe

Question 40

What was the government of England in which was later called Parliament?

Answer 40

Great Council

Question 41

What was the ship in which the Pilgrims came over on?

Answer 41

Mayflower

Question 42

What was the 1620 agreement for the rulin of the Plymouth Colony?

Answer 42

Mayflower Compact

Question 43

What was the theory that a nation’s economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations?

Answer 43

Mercantilism

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Representative Government

Question 45

Describe the importance of the Jamestown settlement. List their hardships and how they survived. Be sure to include what type of colony it started out as and what it finally changed to.

Answer 45

Jamestown started off as a very unsuccessful settlement. One of the reasons it started off as unsuccessful was because it had poor farmland with mosquitoes which caused malaria. Captain John Smith and John Rolfe were the two main guides to Jamestown’s success. John Smith saved the colony from starvation by telling the colonists that they must work in order to eat. John Rolfe saved the colony by planting and harvesting tobacco which became a cash crop and was sold to Europe.

Question 46

Describe the importance of the Plymouth settlement. Provide a brief history and explain how ti was settled.

Answer 46

The Plymouth colony was America’s first permanent Puritan settlement. The Pilgrims left England to seek religious freedom or to simply find a better life. In late December, the Mayflower anchored at Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims formed the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England.