Chapter 2

Question 0

T or F: the Puritans were people who wanted to “purify” the Anglican Church of all Catholic Elements

Answer 0

True

Question 1

T or F: Walter Raleigh founded the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke

Answer 1

True

Question 2

T or F: The need to find new markets for their cotton convinced English merchants to begin searching for a northern water route through North American to Asia

Answer 2

False

Question 3

T or F: George Calvert, also known as Lord Baltimore, founded a colony in America where Protestants could practice their religion without persecution

Answer 3

False; Catholics

Question 4

T or F: According to Aztec prophecy, Quezacóatl - a fair-skinned, bearded deity - would someday return from the east to conquer the Aztecs

Answer 4

True

Question 5

T or F: The Pilgrims left England intending to settle in the area marked “Plymouth” on Captain John Smith’s map of New England

Answer 5

False

Question 6

T or F: the Dutch located their major settlement, called New Amsterdam, on Manhatten Island

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Puritans who broke away from the Anglican Church to form their own congregation

Answer 7

Seperatists

Question 8

Under the encomienda system, the Spanish encomendero was supposed to…

Answer 8

Protect the Native Americans and work to convert them to Christianity

Question 9

After the Restoration, the English government began to view the colonies as…

Answer 9

Sources of raw materials

Question 10

Which was NOT a Quaker belief?

Answer 10

The Bible was the supreme authority

Question 11

After displays of Spanish power, the Tlaxcala agreed to join Cortés against the ___

Answer 11

Aztec

Question 12

The Spanish built Mexico City on the ruins of the Aztec city of ____

Answer 12

Tenochtilán

Question 13

King Francis I of France sent explorers to North America to find the _______

Answer 13

Northwest Passage

Question 14

Martin Luther’s published attack on the Catholic Church in Europe marked the beginning of the ____

Answer 14

Protestant Reformation

Question 15

The first general assembly in Virginia was called the ____

Answer 15

House of Burgesses

Question 16

Intended to protect the Catholics from the Protestant majority

Answer 16

Maryland Toleration Act

Question 17

The Native American ____ helped the Pilgrim settlers survive by teaching them how to grow corn and where to catch fish.

Answer 17

Squanto

Question 18

In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, settlers who publicly challenged Puritan ideas could be charged with ____ and banished from the colony.

Answer 18

Heresy

Question 19

The English Civil War pitted the king against ____

Answer 19

Parliament

Question 20

William Penn was a ____, a member of a religious group King Charles had banned.

Answer 20

Quaker

Question 21

Forts established by the Spanish throughout New Mexico

Answer 21

Presidios

Question 22

System that granted land in Virginia to entice new settlers

Answer 22

Head rights

Question 23

Pooled money from many investors

Answer 23

Joint- stock companies

Question 24

Men who led the Spanish expeditions to take the rest of the region around New Spain

Answer 24

Conquistadors

Question 25

The Dutch increased their colony’s size by…

Answer 25

Allowing anyone to buy lands

Question 26

Men who bearded the cattle on huge ranches in Mexico

Answer 26

Vaqueros

Question 27

“Runners of the woods” - fur traders in Canada

Answer 27

Coureurs de bois

Question 28

Privately owned ships licensed to the government to attack ships of other countries

Answer 28

Privateers

Question 29

First written constitution in the American colonies

Answer 29

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut